New York City

Qualitas of Life Foundation (Qualitas) is a non-profit organization that was established in New York City in July 2007. Qualita’s founder, Marcela Orvañanos de Rozvarin, is a Mexican philanthropist with a particular expertise in institutional development and capacity building for non-profits, foundations and other civil society institutions. Mrs. Marcela moved to New York City in 2004, and after seeing the critical living conditions of Latinos in NYC she was stunned and consulted with financial…

that the United States was attacked by a terrorists group consisting of nineteen Arab men. The men, who had been in the U.S. for some time, hijacked four commercial airplanes. Two of those airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, New York. One hit the first of the Twin Towers, later another flew into the second Tower. Approximately 3,000 people, from a number of different countries, were killed. Many more were injured including the firemen and women, the police, and…

residents living in a community built around industry and considered a rawer area of the city. As the hospital aged, its facilities declined and the level of care which could be provided for patients degraded to the point that the hospital was closed as the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center assumed and could better fulfill the responsibilities to the community. The opening of the new center incentivized the city to close Greenpoint, rather than restore it from it deterioration. Since…

Subj: Escape from New York on 9/11, a story that is, according to KlaPensee (2011), “was a respond to requests from families and friends to write a brief account of his experiences on September 11”. The story gave a firsthand account of the events that happened on the day of the World Trade Center attack. At about exactly 8:50am that faithful morning, the first jet that took off from Newark, N.J on routine cross-country flight to the West Coast with fully-loaded fuel tanks hit tower one of the…

The majority of the population assumes that the Harlem Renaissance was a period in which racial prejudice and segregation was tolerated. As some discriminatory activity did occur, several African Americans did not endure the same physical abuse from the caucasian race as before. This era originated the period in which African-American achievements in art, music, and literature flourished. As the diversity in the United States continued to expand, more and more African Americans were living…

In the article “Oh Brother,” which was first published in the Boston Globe in 2006, Jeff Jacoby raises a question about U.S. people’s liberty by illustrating an issue of banning trans fats from restaurants in New York City. He argues that, trans fats food is bad in some perspectives, such as it could raise the risk of heart disease and it is bad for people’s long-term health. However, trans-fats food also brings people immediate joy when dinning, and that makes trans fats food becomes a personal…

This photo was taken just outside of the main part of New York City on the 11th September 2001. The photo is of the infamous attack on the world trade centre in which suicide bombers crashed planes into the two buildings. This devastating event shocked the world all over. Many pictures were taken, some shocking others tragic, however one seems to stand out more than the others. This photo, taken by German photographer ‘Thomas Hoepker’, proved to be highly controversial and was actually banned by…

through the person 's outer clothing to check whether the individual is carrying a weapon or other forms of contraband. The search is done to most suspected individuals (Dale, 2011). Beginning in the 1970s, in an attempt to reducing crime, New York City started urging its officers to stop individuals they viewed suspicious, to question them, and, if there was sufficient reason to suspect unlawful activities, to pat them down for things like paraphernalia and weapons. This kind of police…

Gentrification is when the high and middle class population come into a poor neighborhoods and reclaim them. During this process an abundance of homes are rebuilt and the poorer class are being replace. Gentrification has extremely negative effects on inner city communities that are generally populated by African Americans. These communities suffer from the effects of gentrification for years by losing their homes and businesses to a higher class of people. Many areas that have and are being…

slavery had ended in 1827 due to the fact gradual emancipation in New York on July 4th, 1827. This land was settled by African Americans after slavery abolished in New York in 1827 and grew during and after the civil war. I will introduce the history, present and source of Weeksville because it is a community of self-determined people. Weeksville is named after a free African American who is James Week; he came from Virginia to New York in 1818. He purchased a plot of land by another free…