Philadelphia Phillies

Philadelphia is proud of the reputation of being “the city of brotherly love”, with the LOVE park and sign right in Center City. However, Philly has gained a reputation for something else in recent years that have brought this nickname into a question; this city has become an example of rising gun violence, with constant shootings and multiple deaths. Every day and night, people are shot and often even killed for various and sometimes mysterious reasons. The city of brotherly love is in…

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Michelle Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was an only child. Although at first, she seemed to be a normal baby but as the days went on her parents starting observing that she seemed to have some sort of super power. Some examples of this includes, dogs always would come to her no matter what the occasion, she was able to communicate with dogs, and even in her earliest days she would always smile when she saw something dog related. As she got older, her friends at school started…

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive the price sky-high and sell it for astonishing profits. On that Friday in September, the conspiracy finally unraveled, sending the stock market into free-fall…

On the day of November 6th, 1869 the first game regarded as a game of football was played. The two collegiate teams participating in the game were Rutgers and Princeton, two Ivy League rivals trying to revolutionize collegiate sports (www.nfl.com). Although if a person were to have watched this game they would have a hard time believing this was football at all. This is because the game played on that day very closely resembled the game of rugby. Teams still consisted of 20 players on each side,…

In the TED Talk, “How Painting Can Transform Communities” Haas and Hahn, discuss the significant impact of art on deteriorating cities. Around the world, cities such as Vila Cruzeiro are known for issues such as poverty, crime, and war between the police and drug gangs. Haas and Hahn decided to transform the vapid houses by painting an image on them. For example, as stated by Haas at 2:08, “We made a few designs,and everybody liked this design of a boy flying a kite the best.” The men painted a…

One of the most recognized Baseball players is Jackie Robinson. Robinson became the first African American to play in the major pledge under the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie starts off with Jackie Robinson traveling with The Kansas City Monarchs, a team that was apart of the Negro League. When they stop, they are discriminated against based on their skin color. The attendant refuses at first but after being threatened with the loss of business, he gives in. A scout for the Dodgers sees Robinson…

city of Philadelphia, I grew up in a not so great environment meaning that there was a lot of negative activities going around where I lived. As a kid, my Father was really strict about my surroundings, he never wanted me out late because he worried that one day I would get my head twisted in these streets. I never understood why I had to come in so early and all of my friends were out. I’d always be quick to pick a fight with him. I began to start playing football for the North Philly…

latest Twitter feed. While I continue to scroll through I see several posts of my fellow peers announcing their acceptance into colleges. I’ve been waiting months to receive my letter back from Philadelphia University, my dream college, but it seems as if they have left me in the, rotting alone. Philadelphia University has been a dream of mine ever since sophomore year, attending school there fulfill the dreams of my hopefully exciting future. I stare at the clock and it appears in my mind…

During the early 20th century, many exciting things were going on in Philadelphia, such as the construction of steel and concrete skyscrapers, the wiring of buildings for electricity, the founding of the city’s first commercial radio station, and the construction of the first subway. All of these things created jobs for many people in the city, but there was more opportunity than just this. There was also a Ford manufacturing plant in the city. Ford manufacturing plants were a great place to…