Suffolk County

During my time at home celebrating my Thanksgiving break away from college, I decided to conduct my research in an area about an hour and 30 minutes away from my home known as Sag Harbor in Southampton. Southampton is an area of Suffolk County Long Island known for beautiful homes and wonderful living conditions, including many communities/villages of wealthy, upper class citizens. Many people who are unfamiliar with the hamptons location have probably heard about its wealthy society and…

In Europe, from 1450 to 1700 about half of the population were labeled as poor. To be considered poor one must have the bare minimum to be able to maintain life. The amount of people living in poverty increased, during times of war, famine, and plagues, up to eighty percent of a region’s population. In Europe between 1450 to 1700, the poor were approached in many different ways, based on other’s sympathy or disdains; these included compassion, intolerance, and appealing for disciplinary actions…

a person has being raised in two different locations such as Stony Brook, and Patchogue Village. The characteristic’s a majority of people in a community possess involving social or economic, can explain a persons different life chances. In Suffolk County, there are significant differences within certain towns that result in a persons life chances. Two of these towns that are not far from each other express many social characteristics…

As the leaves change color, the pumpkin spice latteslatte’s flow from the machines at Dunkin Donuts, and the students of Southold High School return to another year of academia., Settlers fall sports are once again in full swing. It’s a season of young teams, veteran squads, and championship aspirations. As our athletes look to achieve victory on the field, Tthe Sentinel has been keeping a close watch on their performance. Over at neighboring Greenport, the football team attempts to rebound…

My Role As A Mother To My Sister As a young child, I was told that I would be responsible to take care of my older sister Lorraine when “that time” comes. Growing up, “that time” was so far away, I thought it would never come. “That time” has arrived. My family consists of my parents who both immigrated from other countries. My mom was born in Italy and my father from Spain. They married very young. I was explained that my mother who at the age of 16 had an arranged marriage planned in Italy.…

These women that were accused did not fit into the norm of society due to their independence from patriarchal norms, specifically elderly women that lived outside the parameters of the patriarchal family. The suspect issue that surrounded these women were that they often never gave birth or married, leading them to create a sub-set of English social hierarchy that was unable to mesh into the traditional, male-dominated, immediate family unit that was so prominent in English society. Another…

James “Whitey” Bulger could just be considered another troubled soul caught up in the wrong things, but he is one of America's most notorious and ruthless mob bosses. Hailing from South Boston, Whitey entered a lifetime of crime a young age and had become a prominent figure in Boston's organized crime scene by the late 1970s. From 1975 to 1990, he served as an informant, tipping off the police and giving information about the Patriarca Crime Family while building his own crime network. After…

The war destroyed regions of New York, Nova Scotia, and Quebec. Refugees were sent, fleeing from the destruction, into the county of Essex and Salem village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, present day Danvers, Massachusetts. These shifted people put a strain on Salem’s resources. Controversy was brought about over Reverend Samuel Parris, who was disliked for his rigid ways…

laws: state laws and federal laws. While many different states have different opinions on how their local governments should be run, they all follow federal laws. For example, in New York, you must be 21 years old if you want to buy cigarettes in Suffolk County. But in Onondaga, you only have to be 19. But that’s a state law only. The federal law on the other hand states that you must be at least 18 years old to purchase cigarettes. The states can decide for themselves if they want to raise this…

My Prison Experience I am a convicted felon; it defines my circumstances, not my character. Being a convicted felon brings with it a seemingly insurmountable stigmatization within society, of which I battle through daily. I am not proud of the choices I have made yet I am distressed by the lifetime of consequences I have and will continually endure. Despite these consequences I have not given up hope of a better life to come. With seven years of personal experience, I can assert with confidence…