New York Islanders

Sometimes living at a certain community doesn’t make you a part of it. Part of the reason can be that one can be so isolated from it, it feels like one lives somewhere else. For example, I live in Riverdale, a quiet community in the Bronx. Not that I don't like the community, I feel like I live in a safe area, but nothing even remotely interesting seems to occur in the Dale. When I leave my apartment to catch the bus that takes me to college, I walk by a couple of newspaper racks and never even…

Where we live Does where someone live, shape who they are? How long they live? A person’s environment can affect the way they live and think because of the influences they are exposed to and the certain types of opportunities that are available. For example, the upper class may have different views than the working class. The way they do and think things make them complete opposites. As setting comes into play, characters in The Great Gatsby are characterized by their wealth, work, and location…

Helena came to the United States and opened her salon in New York City. After making a name for herself in America she started selling her products in department stores and opened other salons in San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The opening of these salons made her business bloom and Helena Rubinstein…

My favorite thing was the New York Style hot dog. The hot dog was big and juicy, topped with thick red ketchup, with giant circular sized pickles, and shreds of onions that anyone can smell down the street. I was very surprised to find my favorite dessert in Chicago as well. There…

Anna Duggar has been spending a bit of time with her parents in Florida since her husband Josh Duggar has been in rehab. Now it looks like Anna might be back in Arkansas once again with the rest of the Duggar family. So far she is avoiding her social networks and hasn’t posted in a while, but that doesn’t mean the rest of her family isn’t posting about what is going on. Actually Jessa Duggar went to her Instagram page today to share a few posts that make it appear that Anna is back considering…

Jazz is a genre of music that originated from the African-American community. It was introduced in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Jazz music became drastically popular during the 1920s and soon enough the genre had an impact on society. Literature and music united to create pieces of writing influenced by the new jazz age, both forms of art evolved simultaneously. Women’s fashion went from dull to glitz, flapper fashion was introduced to the decade.…

the Victorian era.” Women had fought for their freedom and their rights and they wanted to express themselves. They went from stylish wigs and Victorian hair up-dos to the new “bobbed” hairstyles and wearing shorter dresses and the fringed flapper dresses. “To popularize smoking among women, advertisers staged parades down New York's 5th Avenue, imitating the suffrage marches of the 1910s in which young women carried "torches of…

Pittsburgh is ranked 3rd in the Kid-friendly museums, 4th best City for Foodies, and in the top 10 of Budget friendly cities to travel to. It could be say that the City of Pittsburgh’s Marketing Department has done it job to aid in the economic recovery of this city. In 2004, Mayor Tom Murphy and council reviewed our City’s financials and requested to enter into Act 47, which is the Municipalities financial Recovery act, Act of 1987, P.L. 246, No. 47. Under Act 47, the Department of Community…

The 1920s was 10 years of energizing social changes and significant social clashes. For some Americans, the development of urban areas, the rise of a consuming, the increase of mass entertainment, and the alleged "transformation in ethics and behavior" spoke to liberation from the limitations of the nation's Victorian past. Gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed significantly during the 1920s. Be that as it may for some others, the United States appeared to be changing in undesirable…

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a person who is often compared to a modern day Shakespeare. He takes history and fine art and relates them in ways that are understandable to modern society through songs. He is the playwright of the two Tony award winning musicals In The Heights and Hamilton. His success is due to the family, time period, and area he was raised in. Miranda has not only spent countless hours on his works, but he has also been very lucky because of his surroundings. Lin-Manuel Miranda was…