The Bronx

One Wes became a combat veteran and an author, while the other was sentenced to life in prison. The Wes Moores’ lives were molded by their experiences and how they adapted to their environments. The author Wes Moore and his family moved to the Bronx in aspiration for a better life after his father passed away. His father’s death had a huge impact on the young boy’s life. Without a father in the picture Wes Moore’s mother, Joy, feared Wes Moore would get into trouble at school. Her fear of…

What can the Democrats and Republican do to affect us? How will improve our lives? Federalist are people who have supported the Constitution and are for a strong national government. Anti-Federalist are an opponent of a strong central government. The Republican Party was a group of people who were against the Democrats. The Federalist political beliefs were that Union would fail without a strong central government. The Anti Feds political beliefs were that they wanted strong state government…

Island. Next to the highway was Harlem. We passed by a park where a baseball and basketball game were happening simultaneously; the majority of the park was either Black or Latinx. Then, again, across the Hudson River was the Yankee Stadium and the Bronx. The area looked worn down and not as well kept as the other areas I saw. When we got out of the FDR drive we drove through Washington Heights. The neighborhood reminded me of mine. The streets were loud, filled with a latinx population, and…

Popular culture is all of the ideas, thoughts, attitudes, and opinions established within a given culture and is targeted to influence the behaviors and trends within it. Being constantly surrounded with social media, pop culture is bound to affect our everyday lives and change how we view the world. Popular culture greatly reflects our societies values because it is made up of our beliefs and thoughts. While there are many things that American society values, individualism is definitely one of…

rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where his parents said he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous. It wasn't. Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where cops took the critter, determined it was a non-venomous California king snake. But how did it end up in Teddy's bed? A little sleuthing determined that the serpent had escaped two weeks ago from…

an individual were to act as a hero, they would present the characteristics of one – courageous, selfless, and caring. In the film, Raging Bull, Robert De Niro must exhibit the characteristics and emotions of a famous Italian boxer living in the Bronx going through his rise and fall. De Niro does not only portray this character in the movie, he also becomes Jake LaMotta in the Raging Bull. With much interest in LaMotta's story, De Niro spent time with Jake LaMotta himself to get a greater…

In the year of 1961 my Grandma immigrated at 20 years old from Galway, Ireland to the United States. She decided to immigrate to America when my Grandpa made the decision to move because of the better job opportunities available here. She loved him very much so she wanted to follow him here even though most of her family still lived in Ireland at the time. Before they both left for America, they had a very rough life in Ireland. They lived on a rural farm in the countryside and were unable to…

Jessica Florentino is; loud, honest, funny, and a city girl at heart. She grew up in the Bronx with her two brothers and sister, who she is very close to. Throughout her past academic career, she attended performing arts schools. Jessica had a passion for the arts and she knew this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. However; the odds of making a career for herself in this industry caused her to look other ways and go down a different path. One of the main reasons Jessica is came…

The first artwork featuring Virna Lisi represented the women’s movement that caught attention from the public. That particular movement wanted to get rid of women’s traditional roles and make them become more like their gender counterparts, men. I feel like this shouldn’t be a thing in today’s society. I believe men and women should be unique in their own genders as that’s how we were created to be. The second artwork to the right of that is a showing of Roy Cohn wearing a halo pinned on his…

of races came together in New York to listen to this particular type of music. I believe that hip-hop can be being good or bad, but it is meant to tell a story. McBride writes, through hip-hop they were able to come together as a community “ The Bronx became a music magnet for Puerto Ricans, Jamaican, Dominicans, and Black Americans from the surrounding areas.” In New York the teens use what we call graffiti to express themselves. The graffiti shows the art aspect of hip-hop. All races have…