The Bronx

“I’m afraid.” Is what Michael said when he was facing the best team in the league. Twelve-year-old Micheal Arroyo and his 17-year-old brother, Carlos, live in the South Bronx.. The Cuban immigrants love baseball, especially Michael. Michael uses his own strong pitching arm to stop purse-snatching attempt. He hits the robber with a ball and earns love from local authorities. Michael's arm is so good, rival Little League coaches begin asking for proof that he's only 12 and able to play. Michael…

of how hard it can be when you stand out, become the most apparent to me. In the beginning of Finding Forrester, Jamal Wallace does his best to fit in with his group of friends in the Bronx by maintaining a solid “C” average in school. His test scores, however, end up making him stand out. Growing up in the Bronx, Jamal was expected to be good at sports and maybe okay at school. That’s just how things were. If he actually tried in school he was bound to…

Courage, courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. Courage is a word commonly confused with fearless. Fearlessness is in ways the same thing as foolishness. If one is fearless, one lacks fear, one lacks the understanding of fear, of what is being put at risk. In today's world people are jumping off roofs to prove how courageous they are. These individuals are, however misguided, they are expressing fearlessness not courage. Courage is so much greater, courage is…

that I have an aptitude for this job. It was here where I found my desire to improve my knowledge of the law with the hopes to advance higher up at the firm. My new found confidence motivated me to pursue a higher education in paralegal studies at Bronx Community…

the Vanities is a novel that captures both the issues of race and class, demonstrating hopelessness of the problems in New York. The book is about Sherman Coy, a bond salesman on Wall Street, who is “involved in a hit-and-run accident in the South Bronx that leaves a black high school boy, [Lamb], fatally injured” (Lemann 1). Despite leaving the scene of crime, Sherman is found and loses everything that he had as a result (Lemann 1). Wolfe has two main objectives of the novel. The first one is…

MEDICAL CENTER Jacobi Medical Center, formerly known as Bronx Municipal Hospital Center was established in 1955 by the New York City department of hospitals. “The mission statement of the hospital has been to serve the Bronx community by providing high quality, cost effective healthcare, in a respectful way to all, regardless of ability to pay”. The hospital has a specialized care facilities and a teaching hospital located in the northeast part of Bronx. Jacobi Medical Center is part of New York…

Introduction For the purpose of this analysis, Terry Ramos was interviewed. Terry is a thirty five year old woman residing in the Bronx, NY. Terry is an expectant mother, girlfriend, stepmother, sister, aunt, niece, and family confidant. Terry is of Puerto-Rican decent but says that she has been heavily influenced by American culture as she does not speak Spanish and does not know much about her heritage. She is an employee of the city of New York and has worked in the educational system for…

It should be noted that caution should be taken when understanding the consequence of the test as evidence of officer bias against black individuals. The test conceals heterogeneity in arrest rates across the NYPD precincts. Persico (2013) found that precincts differ significantly in the likelihood that a police stop will lead to an arrest. This heterogeneity may lead to misconception when aggregated together. This misconception can be observed when NYPD precincts are set as distinct…

Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren was born in the Bronx, New York City on October 14, 1939, the third of four siblings. His parents Frieda and Frank were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants. At the age of 16, Ralph and his brother, Jerry, changed their last name to Lauren after being teased consistently at school. Ralph was known for his distinctive fashion knowledge as a teen, finding inspiration while having a taste for both classic preppy wear and vintage looks. He went on to attend Baruch College in…

crowd as “a self-described Nuyorican” and an “early and awesome achiever.” Since the beginning of Sotomayor’s speech, it is obvious that the most effective appeal for her speech was pathos. She catches her audience by expressing herself as a diehard Bronx fan when she said, “ suspect that having…