People from New York City

The Triangle fire was a fire that happen in 1911. It killed 145 people. Max blanck and Isaac Harris were owners of the factory. The triangle fire had a strong impact on women and children. The fire happened because The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. There was not a lot of space in the factory and the fire mainly happened because of the poor working conditions for example there was no exit signs and the fire escape was very narrow so it would have taking all the worker a…

attack of terrorism. It was a day that changed our nation forever. It was also a day that changed the lives of millions of people forever. September 11th was the day that 19 militants who were trained by al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airline planes that contained fuel to do a cross country flight. Two of those planes targeted the World Trade Towers in New York City. The third plane hit the Pentagon which is located outside of Washington D.C. A fourth plane went down in a field in…

experienced church camp with my best friend. I had the greatest experience there. The best part was when I had gotten to go zip-lining. I was doing my daily activities and when we got to go swimming in the lake. I viewed a humongous zip-line. I was with the new…

extraordinary decade that brought major changes in the way citizens traveled by rails, on roads, and in the air.”(15). As transportation is vital to the 21st century, the changes from then to now are extraordinary. Buses, Trains, Cars, and Planes and a few others; are all ways of transportation before the 1920s. But the 20’s added new technology to them, at a cost that everyone could afford. So the question is, what was transportation like before and in the 1920’s. In 1662…

New York City, the City That Never Sleeps, the Big Apple, the Capital of the World, or Gotham City. Gotham City, at least for me, has more than one meaning. Taking the subway without a defined destination can be exciting, especially with good company. Considering that my friends and I had quite an eventful subway ride, I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of things the subway has been a witness of or will never be a witness of. The subway is full of ghosts, ghosts of the things that could…

man-made flaming hell. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. Running from the incinerator, many stuffed themselves into the two freight elevators, operated by Gaspar Mortillaro and Joseph Zito who both returned to the inferno over and over, saving a hundred and fifty people. Still, many could not fit on the elevator, and thus, they tried to slide down the cable or jump down the shaft, meeting their deaths. Ergo, the…

In the documentary called Seven Five, is about a big scandal that occur in Brooklyn about a corrupt police officer known as Mike Dowd. The precinct for which Mike Dowd worked for was the 75 precinct located in East New York, Brooklyn which was known to have the highest murder rate in the states. When Mike Dowd first became a police officer he did not know, he would be choosing the wrong path until he made his first arrest. As Mike Dowd made his first arrest he see’s that the suspect has a lot…

Born in 1929, New York City, Milton Glaser has become a recognised designer in putting your mind in a state of readiness. He brings a complexity of understanding and conceptual thinking, which is combined with a varied richness of visual language, to his highly creative and individualistic work (Miltonglaser.com). At the age of thirteen, Glaser started taking life-drawing classes that subsequently led him onto studying at the high School of music and Art. Glaser went on to study painting,…

that sided with them. At the cost of many innocent people, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire sparked a pivotal moment in history moving towards fundamental changes as demonstrated by the new deal,…

How the the other half lives written by Jacob Riis provides a very conflicted but rational scene upon which the development and state of living conditions were on the lower east side in the 19th century. Riis provided photographs of the streets, people, and tenement apartments he encountered, using black and white slides to coincide the text, his powerful images brought public attention to urban conditions giving us a visual understanding of his writing upon how the lower class lived.…