New York City

Dear Cousin Angela, Cousin Angela this place is beautiful.It feels great to be a free women in New York. Although the journey here was rough, it was well worth it. I miss you and the family dearly. I would like the tell you about my endeavor from Italy to Ellis Island. After living in poverty in Italy, I knew it was time to start my journey to Ellis Island. By train I rode hundreds of miles until I found a seaport. There I boarded a steamship, where I was put in the steerage. Many people…

Contract with God, explores several topics that are not usually associated with the comic medium. In this half semi-autobiographical work, Eisner illustrates and describes what 1930s New York City tenement life was like. While most of the short stories place the characters in the fictional 55 Dropsie Ave tenement or in the city itself, two stories, “Cookalein” and “A Contract with God,” are either set in natural spaces, or the outdoors play an important role in the construction and understanding…

places in all of America. It can accommodate throngs of people of all types of ethnic backgrounds. There is no surprise why Times Square is nicknamed The Crossroad of the World. It is almost impossible to capture the atmosphere of such an eclectic city into a single word, phrase, or picture. Yet, artist Gregory Christie captures such tone like no other. Christie’s picture “The Subway Soiree” is a cultural reflection on the way music unites people of different races. Music is a universal…

A Party down at the Square is a story of a young boy who witness a lynching. The young boy is staying over at a family member house. When a group of man came and told our narrator uncle that there was going to be a party down in the square. Our narrator was told by his uncle to come. Like most people I thought that it was an actually party. We learn that when the narrator should up there was no music and people where angry. During all this they had a storm going on outside. That cause an…

My vision of an absolutely perfect day takes place in New York, NY. This day would be a breezy, crisp fall day. It starts off by waking, and getting ready for the exciting day ahead of me. I would take the subway to my rehearsals for “Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway. After I get out of my rehearsal for lunch break, I would go to Tony’s Di Napoli Italian Restaurant. My meal would be composed of scrumptious mushroom ravioli for my entrée, and cherry tartufo for dessert. Subsequently, I would…

Parella 1 James Parella Mrs. McGuinness ILA 8 April 11, 2017 THE VERRAZANO-NARROWS BRIDGE Just over 58 years ago, one of the world’s most iconic bridges was just being born. After five long years, it grew up and became the world’s longest bridge at the time it opened. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is one of the greatest and largest bridges in the entire world. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, or more well-known as the Verrazano Bridge, is the longest suspension bridge in the United States and is now…

getting to New York. THe blockade on the bridge had the results that Vanderbilt intended. It caused a massive sell of his rival companies stocks, which left Vanderbilt with the open opportunity to buy controlling amounts of stocks at rock bottom prices. With this he began to build his railroad monopoly. Shortly after buying all of these stocks, he built the New York City Central Railroad Depot, currently known as Grand Central Station. Not only was it the largest building in New York, but it was…

of New York and Vice-President of the United States. David, was chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank. Winthrop was elected governor of Arkansas and Abby was involved in research for cancer. The Rockefeller family transformed America building institutions that later will define the 20th century. Places like the Rockefeller Center built in 1930 giving to New York a new vision of art. (Rockefeller Center | The History of Rockefeller Center, n.d.),the Museum of Modern Art also called MOMA in New York…

She did so in New York, naming it the Women’s Medical College of New York Infirmary. This college held a very competitive, yet very comprehensive and well-structured program. Many women that attended the Women’s Medical College of New York Infirmary were very successful in completion. One woman that stood out most was Sophia Jex-Blake because she established her own Women’s Medical…

Klinenberg asserts that the American people need to decrease their dependency on air conditioning. Klinenberg defends his bold assertion by employing the logos appeal and the rhetorical device of antithesis. Written after a heat wave passed through New York City during the summer of 2013, Eric Klinenberg condemns the American habit of cranking up the air conditioning during heat waves for its horrendous effect on the environment. Due to the boldness of his assertion, Klinenberg by acknowledging…