Uptown

The Uptown Route, the Midtown Route, and the Waterfront Route currently generates roughly $15,300 a week while employing five full time employees and eight part time employees. All…

result, in the early 1900s, many blacks put pen to paper to record the heinous suffering inflicted on them and to leave memoirs for the coming generations. Essays like, On Being Crazy by W. E. B. Du Bois, Graduation by Maya Angelou and Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem by James Baldwin, instill in readers a disgusted feeling of hostility towards their own people for this inhumane wickedness.…

them died (Fink). She goes on to state many other scenarios where healthcare workers have been forced to make these tough decisions. In another article also written by Fink also addresses the challenge healthcare workers at Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans faced during Hurricane Katrina stating, “at least 17 patients were injected with morphine or the sedative midazolam, or both after a long awaited rescue effort was at last emptying the hospital” (Fink). Several of these patients…

the middle of the night, looking on the verge of collapse without a word on the matter - but Jack worried. He worried when Jasper loathed his touching; when he was stiff and soundless in the bed beside him; when he looked so out of place among the Uptowns, so unhappy-looking, still, with everything he could've wanted laid out before him like that. When Jack's every push and pull led him no deeper than he'd gone with any other boy from a faraway city he'd only seen in glossy photographs and…

As Martin Luther King Jr. Day passes, it is reasonable to ask ourselves whether America has progressed in race relations. For David Remnick, he asserts that people of color are still oppressed and are legitimately furious over the current mistreatment of blacks within America. . It is especially significant when an institution as highly regarded as the police are seen to be enablers of this racism with regard to Eric Garner and Michael Brown. As such, Remnick’s analysis of the NYPD’s actions in…

he term Gentrification is coined together by a British Sociologist Ruth Glass to describe the movement of middle class families into urban areas causing the property value to increase and displacing the older settlers. In the past decades, gentrification have been defined and refined depending on the neighborhood 's economic, social and political context. According to Davidson and Less definition, a gentrified area should include investment in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older…

Throughout the Fall 2016 semester, I visited several different courts uptown for my American Criminal Courts class. When I saw this assignment on the syllabus, I was very eager to complete it because I wanted expand my knowledge in the court system and how it works. I had previously observed in a courtroom for my Civics and Economics class in high school, but it was very basic. I went to the courthouse afterhours and completed a mock trial with other peers. Even though it was basic, I still had…

As recipient of the Schoch Endowed Scholarship for the fall semester of 2015 at Loyola University New Orleans, I simply wanted to thank you. Because of this scholarship, I can apply it to the cost of my tuition and finish my education here at Loyola. I wanted to let you know a little about myself so that you can see whom this generous donation is benefiting. I am a mass communication senior with a concentration in journalism within the College of Social Sciences. I grew up in the greater…

Advertisement plays a major role in American society. In these contemporary times, the same idea across the United States has been around since the 1600s. However, individuals do not acknowledge the effects that the “American Dream” causes among society. The American Dream perpetuates the idea that Americans must consume in order to have a utopian lifestyle, or possess power. Many Americans believe that the multimillion company Walt Disney communicates a positive image regarding a a…

Close the health gap presented by Michael Marmot discussed the implications of the social determinants of health on the life expectancy, overall health, and quality of health for those who are at greater risk of social determinants of health. Marmot discusses the implication of the social determinants of health in a variety of countries such as the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Canada. Although each country has its own unique culture and population, all are impacted by social…