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brother was also a so called peace activist. His brother was named Philip Berrigan. Phillip was the youngest in the family. At age 5, Berrigan's family moved to a town in New York. Once he got older, in 1946, Berrigan received a bachelor's degree from St. Andrew on Hudson. This is a Jesuit seminary located in New York, specifically Hyde Park. Eventually, in…

The unique democratic purpose of New York’s periodic constitutional convention referendum is to implement New Yorkers inalienable right to alter their constitution in cases where the interests of the legislature and people conflict. New York’s constitution allows the people to exercise this democratic purpose, a convention must be substantially independent of the legislative’s control. For example, New York’s constitution prohibits the legislative from directly limiting a convention’s agenda.…

Don McLean was born on October 2nd, 1945 in Rochester New York. As a young boy, McLean gained a love for all types of music and would spend long hours listening to his father’s radio. Having asthma as a child, McLean missed a lot of school but his love for music did not diminish. As a teenager his sister paid for opera lessons for him and along with spending a lot of time in a swimming pool his asthma improved. Around the same time, McLean bought his first guitar. By 1961, McLean’s focus was on…

When you affiliate anything with New York City it is typically the exceptional structures that penetrate the sky or the congested walkways with people anxious to shop in the acclaimed stores in which famous people abide. The voices of the ceaseless attractions get out and conceal you in their amazement. The lanes are loaded with a climate that is similar to a child on a shopping spree in Dylan’s Candy Bar. Despite the fact that your feet perspire from the nonstop strolling, you get yourself…

John Rutherford wrote this article about the Erie Canal to the people of New York informing them of the recent concerns about who is in control of the canal, who can transport goods by the canal, and how the canal will operate. He uses examples and details telling New York that some Citizens of the Western States will not use the canal because they believe it will be to be trafficked by the big cities’ trade instead. This causing them to continue using other waterways including the Welland canal…

century. In 1801, the settlers founded a town that they named Burrville in honor of the country's new vice-president, Aaron Burr. However, Burr fell into disgrace, resulting in the town being renamed in 1809; historians believe that the new name was to honor George Clinton, the vice-president who followed Burr, but the name could conceivably honored DeWitt Clinton, George's nephew and the mayor of New York City at the time. Regardless of how the name was chosen, life in Clinton was not without…

New York City's Graveyard Shift is an essay about everyday people having night jobs in New York City. The essay talks about some of the people’s experience and thoughts about their night jobs. It is the norm to have a 9 to 5 job in the city, coming home to having the rest of the day to yourself, or going home to cook dinner for your family. For the rest of the city, people are just getting up to prepare themselves for night of labor. My favorite photo from the essay has to be of Villavicencio a…

Driving west from New York City is a surreal experience. I went from the busy streets of Brooklyn to skyscrapers in Manhattan, to the suburbs of the outlying towns over the bridges. Around an hour into the trip, the road was submerged in a forest with hardly a house visible from the highway. Further down, was mountain chains, interspersed with agricultural lots and pastures. The climate was snowy in the winter by Lake Ontario, but some New Yorkers go there during the summer, if they can’t afford…

Manhattan, this neighborhood also includes places of interest such as Hotel Chelsea, the Highline, Chelsea Market, the Hudson River Park and, most notably, the commercial art galleries. These galleries are what causes Chelsea to be such a vast part of New York’s art scene. This neighborhood’s history began in 1750, when a British Major, named Thomas Clarke, bought 90 acres of land and naming his land after the manor of Chelsea in London. Chelsea has had countless owners and has been utilized for…

Flushing is the neighborhood located in northern part of Queens, New York. It is not a very diverse neighborhood. Flushing is a very residential and commercial area. For this paper I will be providing information based on my observations of neighborhood of flushing. I will be visiting one of the most occupied neighborhood in flushing, which is Main Street. I look forward to learn and explore this neighborhood through my two visits at different days of the week and at different times. According…