People from New York City

It’s the era of prosperity and romantic. At six o’clock in the evening, New York City comes to life again. After ending the hard work in the store, I back home in a hurry and replace my overalls into my tailor-made dress. By the appointment with Jimmy last week, I come to the Board the cruise ship to the Coney Island. In the noisy crowd, I find a familiar shadow that looks genteelly. . . Mr. . . . . Jimmy! He is in here, standing on the deck, seems like waiting for a while. “Good evening, Mr.…

Janelle Monáe Robinson was born and grew up in Kansas City in which she idolized The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy as like her, she dreamed of a place over the rainbow somewhere. She later moved to New York so that she could study theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy as she planned to try to have a career on Broadway but she later changed her mind and went back to music as she said in her Atlantic Records biography: “There was a lot of confusion and nonsense where I grew up, so I…

used. Although the structure of the novel is significant in understanding the role of jazz music in the novel, it is also important to understand the role that jazz had in the characters’ lives. Jazz music is defined as a type of music originating from traditional black Americans that is characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and a…

A name is a designation of importance, whether that is positive or negative. When a discovery of new land is made a new name typically goes along with it. When a child is born they receive a name as a symbol of their parents commitment and love. Like a contract, a name seals the connection between the person who gives it and the person or place that is the recipient of it. Names can also be classifications which can elevate a person's status or take that status away. In Toni Morrison's novels…

In the mid-1800s, New York City had one million people living in it. This was the biggest city on the east coast of the United States of America. It was growing in both size and value; but as the city grew, the natural environment shrunk. And in today’s New York City with its 8.5 million citizens the only green that is left in the city are man-made parks. Frederick Olmstead, who created all 842 acres of Central Park, had amazing foresight into what the city would become. As Abraham Lincoln…

mail and when he checked it he saw a letter from the government. When he got in his house he opened the letter, and after he read it and looked through it, the government wanted him to boat across the Atlantic Ocean. They were going to fly him to Morocco and Bob was going to boat a small lifeboat across the Atlantic Ocean with twelve people. When Bob arrives in Morocco the FBI takes him to a port where all he sees is a small life boat and about twenty people surrounding it. They were going to…

Jonathan Timothy Su Professor Nina d’Alessandro Writing 1, Sect. 103 22 September 2014 Braving Bridges “Yet I had come here […] to bridge the things here to things there, to rewrite the present so as not to write off the past.” — André Aciman, Shadow Cities Bridges are structures connecting two separate entities, sometimes extending over vast abysses of things unknown: ravines and obstacles that often frighten the traveler. They provide the crosser with the thought of safety, connecting the…

day walking through New York City in the cool, crisp weather. Suddenly, a plane crashes into the North building of the Twin Towers. Your heart begins to break as innocent people are jumping off the South building, committing suicide, right in front of you. This perspective shows the agonizing pain of someone just walking by the Twin Towers at the time of the incident. The attacks on September 11, 2001 were so tragic and traumatizing that 14 years later people are still creating new things to…

arriving had to find a job to help support their families. One of the places teenage girls found a job was on the eighth and ninth floors of the Asch building in downtown New York; the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Many of the company’s employees were women and young female teenagers. One of the most deadly workplace incidents in New York took place at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on Saturday March 25, 1911. This Incident changed the American workplace, and provided laws…

Toni Cade Bambara’s short story, “The Lesson”, is about a young black girl named Sylvia and her neighborhood friends. Sylvia and her friends live in the projects of New York City. Miss. Moore, who is an educated black women, wants the children in the neighborhood to be more exposed to the life outside the projects. She takes on the role as their “teacher” to help educate them to the more cultural aspects of life. Just as the title suggests there is many lessons to be learned throughout this…