New York World

Jacob A. Riis’s informative book How The Other Half Lives overall summary is the exposing to readers the ignorance and disingenuous conditions endured in New York’s slums. He includes history about the tenements which belonged to the city’s wealthiest families and as industrialization increased it attracted many immigrants in the 19th century and the buildings were divided into overcrowded apartments for arrivals. Additionally, he mentions that cholera epidemics led people to desire reform.…

He played his final two seasons in 1972 and 1973 as a part-time first baseman for the New York Mets. He then worked as a part-time hitting coach with the Mets until 1979. He was the first ballplayer with more than 3,000 hits and 500 home runs in his career. Mays won two National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, ended his career…

I had never been to New York before this trip. It was a truly amazing experience in which I learned so much about art, culture, and history. I got to experience places that I have been waiting my whole life to see. Upon reflecting on the study-at-large as a whole, I think the most educational experiences I had were at the Museum of Modern Art, the United Nations, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. I was so excited to visit the Museum of Modern Art. It held some of my favorite works from some of my…

George Eastman, an American entrepreneur, was born July 12th 1854 in Waterville, New York. Two years after his father died the family moved to Rochester, New York where George dropped out of school aged 13 to work. He found a job at Rochester Savings Bank, earning the role of bookkeeper in 1877. Eastman was always careful around money, only spending it on his favourite hobby- photography. At age 24, George planned a trip to Santo Domingo, deciding to document it in pictures upon the suggestion…

Cultural development is always resistance, the degree of accepting new things in the cultures, depending on the degree of how people are interested in replacing old things with new things. In general, people are most likely to accept those interested small changes and little destruction would be made. Secondly, during the progress of solving social problems in the process…

As stated by Jay Parini, "We [the United States] are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors" (BrainyQuote). America is the culmination of peoples and cultures from all across the world. As a seamstress adds and moves pieces while making the American quilt, each change brings different challenges and excitement to the beautiful work. One such dynamic alteration to the fabric of America was the Great Migration, in which millions of African Americans moved north, driven by opportunity.…

singing and acting but most do not know the story behind the curtains you see. People wouldn't’ ever first think of Athens on a hill in the fifth century B.C.E. Musical Theatre started as a unpopular idea but over the years it started to grow into a world wide famous reputation. A musical is a well written play that makes living art forms in dialogues that include music and dancing. Musical shows are on more stages than plays and they make up more than half of broadway. It is also the setting…

Spring and New York City. Willow Spring is a mysterious place, an island that exists off the coast somewhere between Georgia and South Carolina, that no state claimed as its own. The island is characterized by an emphasis on the supernatural, nature, myths, community and imagination, a world controlled by supernatural forces. In contrast, New York is characterized by emphasis on science, culture, reality, a world controlled by modern rationality and logic. While the inhabitants of New York…

Broadway fans across the world will be flocking to New York City in the coming months to see the critically acclaimed musical Mama Mia one last time in the Broadhurst Theater before the show ends its fourteen year run in September. The musical is based around the discography of ABBA and includes some of their biggest hits including “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S.,” and the track from which the musical was named. The show debuted on Broadway in October of 2001 to rave reviews and rapidly amassed a…

It was the middle of November, my family and I took a road trip to New York City. As we arrived to the city, we had to wait a few minutes to cross the George Washington Bridge because there was a lot of traffic. After waiting for a while we drove across the bridge and as we made our way across I saw a lot of skyscrapers, including the New World Trade Center and the Empire State Building. We arrived to a place where we had to wait for more than an hour to get on a ferry boat that would take us…