New York City

Introduction Beautician, Cosmetics pioneer and industry executive Estée Lauder, born in Queens, New York, in 1908, established a beauty company with a skin cream developed by her chemist uncle. After years of marketing products solitarily, she officially established Estée Lauder Cosmetics Inc. in 1946 that still bears her name today. Estée Lauder Cosmetics Inc. “No one ever became a success without taking chances… One must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay.” Estée…

went “Ring Ring”. It was Christmas break and my mom and I were heading to New York City. This year for Christmas to wanted to do something a little different because I seen bunch of my friends go away for Christmas so I decided that this year I would ask my mother can we spend Christmas in New York. We just got in the Big Apple and my mom was parking in the parking garage, and then we started walking to the Renaissance New York Times Square Hotel. When we got in our room, I threw my bags…

curiosity about that site. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, “… particular characteristics that make people feel curiosity about that site.” The place that is most significant for me and where I love to go is Inwood Hill Park. The place is far from the bustling city and getting there is already part of adventure. Inwood Hill park is very different from other parks in Manhattan, it is largely natural, being non-landscaped. Mostly area of the park consists of hills and mostly wooded. It is always…

Family Migration Growing up in New York, in my earlier years, I always wondered why my family was so distant. My family moved around a lot, so I expected this may have been the reason. I was always curious why everyone just didn 't live close together on one block, or why my aunt had to fly so far just to visit a few times a year. I would always ask My grandmother, Ethel Regina Walker, these questions, though she never seems to enjoy dredging up her past or where she might have lived as a…

spring break in high school me and a group of friends decided that we go on a road trip. At first we didn’t know where we were going to go but finally decided on going to Virginia Beach. We planned on staying for 5 days and then drove back up to New York. During this trip we had a lot of interesting things happen, especially to the car. So as I had said before me and a few friends planned on going on a road trip during one of our week long breaks. We had been planning on doing something like…

Not necessarily, I do maintain any order of my reading, neither do I control. There isn’t a clue what factor dominates the list of my readings! Lately, my fiction reading narrowed in a specific area, obviously the criteria of selections indicate my recent reading focal point. It’s Bengali Diaspora literature, not the whole, but a major portion of the chunk, which is available in the open market. I remember the instigation of this diasporas reading. It is Zadie Smith, who I consider the pioneer…

Clemens Center this week. Even though the show only has two productions, cast and crew members have been in the area for weeks - setting up their show's tour. "They are getting things honed right here in Elmira. It is great to have them here in the city. They are obviously using hotel accommodations and visiting out restaurants, doing laundry and so forth. So it's great to have that economic boost," said Clemens Center Executive Director, Karen Cromer. The Clemens Center has welcomed shows…

open field because they cant do that normally, due to the housing in the city where theres little to no room for a dog to run around an play in. In a dog park dogs can run free of leashes but anywhere else they MUST be on a leash, " Because it's against city ordinance for dogs to be off-leash in public areas...". There is also another pro in a dog park, the dogs can play with other dogs and learn to be friendly, when New York City started allowing no leashes in dog parks, the dog-bite reports…

The new plans for housing were to be called “Elysian Park Heights” according to Nathan Masters in the article “Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story”. The Ravine residents were told that they would get first choice when the new housing was made. Letters to the Chavez Ravine residents were sent out to notify them that they had to sell their homes to make way for low…

Carson McCullers was a famous American author with interesting works such as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. This paper will cover her early life, works as an author, and the toll of her adulthood leading all the way to her death. As an author, Carson had to overcome many challenges in her daily life, however, she was not recognized as an extraordinary author until after her death. What made her become recognizable, is the fact that she…