The Bronx

Billy Joel Many musicians in the world are extremely talented, but Billy Joel is one of a kind. Joel has inspired people for forty years. He has managed to live on his legendary music career for just about 47 years. Joel, born on May 9, 1949, in the Bronx. He displayed an early aptitude on the piano and started taking lessons at the age of four. At the age of sixteen, Joel was already a veteran of three bands. In 1967, Joel joined a band known as the Hassles. The Hassles were a popular group in…

Throughout history New York City has been perceive as the city of opportunity. New York City is an astonishing city with luxurious skyscrapers, home of the latest fashion, having one of the biggest public transportation system in the country as many other things such as Broadway theatres, cinemas and the famous Time Square electronic billboards. All these perceptions motivate many people from all over the world to migrate to New York City with hopes of fulfilling their dream of living a better…

Every morning on my way to school, I see poor people. I see people in each two corners asking for help, the majorities of them had slept in those corners. They are homeless and they experience hunger, cold, and have to face horrible conditions. Homelessness life is very sad and inhuman. They go through their days not knowing if they are going to eat, be able to take a shower, to survive that day, don’t even knowing where they are going to sleep. I understand that the action, to solve the problem…

Hip hop is a subcultural movement that originated in the early 1970’s by groups of young African-American, Latino, and Caribbean teenagers living in South Bronx, New York City. Though it made its way towards the western coast of the United States of America, Hip hop did not gain popularity until the 1980’s. It can be divided into four sub-groups. Each of these groups represent hip hop in a unique way. In terms of orality, hip hop heavily relies on rap music, which involves speech, writing, and…

appointed a Supreme Court justice in 2009 and became the first woman of Latin origin at the highest level of judicial hierarchy in the United States. Sonia Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. Her parents were both born in Puerto Rico but moved to New York during World War II (Biography 2016). In Bronx, Sonia was raised in poor catholic Puerto Rican community and was speaking mostly Spanish (Lewis 2016). At age seven, she was diagnosed with type I diabetes that in some way…

Chapter 10 does this by discussing a more psychological way that animals assist humans. In a similar way to the D-Bronx program a big part of the chapter is about the idea of Animal-assisted therapy (AAT). The use of a physical connection with animals to create a calmer person through therapeutic/psychological means. Chapter 14 uses the human-animal psychological connection…

Historically, education in America has been far from equal between the races. Before the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves were never deemed deserving of the same education as their masters. After slaves were legally freed, white racists still made it difficult for blacks to receive an education with the introduction of Jim Crow laws. The fear of violence prevented blacks from seeking what they legally had a right to access. Even though segregation is illegal now, schools that are blatantly…

I come from a harsh neighborhood in the Bronx, I didn’t have the best education there, then I moved to the wealthiest town in Westchester and fell into a depression. I didn’t like that I was different from the people in my new town but I didn’t want to be miserable so because of this I am a convert optimist. Meaning I learnt to accept my situation and try to make it better so I won’t specify on why I was miserable or what I could have done to be less miserable, I can’t change my past. Instead I…

Malcolm Gladwell's novel The Outliers has provoked many different feelings including liberation, curiosity, and even helplessness. However, after reading this novel, the feeling of inspiration trumps all others. Throughout Gladwell’s book, he used a variety of different people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and education levels to show how they became or did not become successful. In the end, if a person was born at the right time, had the correct background, were in a specific…

I anxiously looked out the window at the familiar sites: cows grazing, tractors roaring, and palmetto bushes gently swaying in the summer breeze. Then, the classroom door squeaked. A statuesque woman walked in, Mrs. Able, our new teacher. She smiled and immediately announced: “You can do anything in life, as long as you want to learn and care about others!” Mrs. Able, while not the last teacher to inspire me, was the first. She embodies a true educator: one who cares deeply about every student.…