People from New York City

From its birth, the United States of America has experienced a lot of changes and adaptations to its economy, especially when it comes to labor and who was working. Many northern leaders after the Revolutionary War had anti-slavery sentiments and states such as Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut had all passed gradual emancipation laws. New York happened to be the last state to do this, however, just because these black slaves were being free, it didn’t mean they…

The U.S plays a massive role on the immigration of people from southern nations in the 1900s. The typical behavior toward immigrants is strange because on one hand Business owners embrace them into jobs that Americans wouldn’t want to do such as blue collar occupations. Then there are Americans who simply despise these people and their traditions so they target them with help of the government system. In the film of West Side Story, it arguably portrays the ideas of race, immigration, and U.S…

Piper Grant Stoddard discusses his own home of New York rather than describing a travel experience. He is trying to show us as readers what to expect when traveling to New York. He takes a different route than others, which could be the “travel writing” in this piece. Stoddard shows us a side of New York that we otherwise would not have experienced without his input. It is interesting to see how well a local knows their home and how easy it is to show people around. He is able to show a group…

community the better benefits for the local schools and churches. In a middle-class community with a good mixture income from local revenue and individuals that work outside the community, it stands to reason that the pros outweigh the cons. The thing about the economic side of voluntary segregation is that it can extend outside the local community. When speaking of New York City, not only are there voluntary residential segregation areas, but also segregation of the business districts outside…

broken window left unrepaired it appears to show that no-one cares. Untended property becomes fair game for people up to no good even people who would not normally do such things. Wilson and Kelling stated in their article that because of the nature of community life in the Bronx, unkempt properties and abandoned cars the “no one cares” vandalism begins much more quickly than areas where people take care of private possessions. It was believed that if residents maintained and monitored their…

growing up in poverty, New York City obviously has a poverty problem (Cheney). Children that grow up in poverty are typically less healthy and drop out of school at higher rates than their wealthier peers (Children’s Defense Fund). As was noted in class, many families are plagued by generational poverty. They grow up in poverty, raise families of their own in poverty, and die in poverty, never breaking out of this vicious cycle. In light of this harsh reality, New York City has made fighting…

4.1 When I finally left home I realized how closed off I was to the rest of the world around me. With little diversity and culture represented in my Massachusetts home; it was a bit of a culture shock arriving in New York City. Here; different cultures are represented, various opinions are presented, and social norms are rejected. With this refreshing outlook on life, I believe it is necessary to get outside of your comfort zone and become aware of your surroundings. Back in my home town of…

himself. He has to survive for himself now, because one day he was on a hunting trip and when he returned back to the small settlement all the houses were burnt down, and a few of the people were lying there dead. With Samuel’s tracking skills, he finds out that his parents were not killed they were taking by the people. Samuel also found out that British soldiers escorted by Iroquois indians is who attacked his settlement. He also found out that the attack was because of the revolutionary…

the landscape of 1970s New York and this view is supported by Michael Lukas when he describes them as a “collection of conflicting voices” Within an urban landscape we are often interdependent on those around us and McCann explores this idea by having all the main narrators connected to each other in a Guare-esque six degrees of separation way. McCann allows an accurate exploration of the landscape by letting us see it through the eyes of eleven different narrators ranging from a prostitute…

as though the entirety of New York is devoid of emotion and its inhabitants will only work for the sake of money in his Here is New York. He expresses this through the tone in which he describes New Yorkers. However, White betrays this depiction by subtly introducing a human emotion that has the potential to bud and spread through New York and make it feel more like the New York that we are used to. White shows his respect for New York by showing the ability of the city to change no matter how…