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rose petals pulls you in. The delicate petals provide a warmth so sweet and gentle that even Grandma’s hugs might get a run for it’s money. Even the scent of the rose can tickle you pink! Like a rose, New York City is the perfect mix of beauty and pain. The weaknesses and strengths of the…

Movie Essay Anger, hostility, and control are the main elements in the movie I watched “Gangs of New York”. Even though the film was very complex to understand there were some connections from what was learned in class from lecture 19 mostly, that the film represents. The setting of the movie takes place in the 1860’s of New York. This film connects with lecture 19 “The Antebellum North” because what is being discussed in that chapter is how the Irish migrate to America due to the potato…

lot of people travel to New York and Florida personally; I travel to New York a lot because that's where I am originally from. I love traveling back and forward to New York and Florida and seeing the difference between the states. The weather, the fashion and the lifestyle are totally different when going from Florida to New York. I love the difference that we have from New York, I learn something new every time. People ask me all the time would I move back to New York and my answer will remain,…

There are two main reasons I want to be at NYU: New York City, and music technology. First, the city. I went to LaGuardia High School, and when I first applied to college, I was searching for something new. I figured it would be a nice change of pace to leave the hustle bustle of the city and head off to some place quiet. As the semesters went by, my upstate campus began to feel isolated. After a certain hour, the whole county shuts down and heads to bed. Quite a shock coming from the city that…

Alvin Cullum York was born in the hills of the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee near the city of Pall Mall on December 13, 1887. Alvin was born into a poor family of 13 people: Alvin's dad William Uriah York, Alvin's mom Mary Elizabeth York, and his 11 siblings. Living in an area where people though education wasn't important, York only received 9 months of schooling. After his father died when York was 24, he started working jobs to help his family out financially, and because of the stress, he…

Bass Fishing in New York Within the State of New York, there are over 165 species of fish and around 7,800 lakes and ponds just asking to be fished. Bass, one of the most popular species for game fishermen, including the largemouth bass and the smallmouth bass are both native to North America and these bass are abundant in the state of New York. These bass can be found in the numerous rivers, lakes and ponds throughout New York. The season for fishing bass in New York is from June to the end…

New York City From a New Yorker’s Point of View: A City Filled with Flaws New York City. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. These phrases always seem to catch the attention of many people. When New York comes up in a conversation, most people think about well-known locations like Grand Central Station where you can travel to upstate New York or other states near New York, or Times Square where the lights shine the brightest and there are so many different things to do like shopping,…

New York Burning book by Jill Lepore winner of the Bancroft prize, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2005. Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University. In this book she reconstructed the events that took place on the spring and summer of 1741 which have been called the New York Slave rebellion of 1741, New York conspiracy 1741 or The Negro Plot of 1741. Jill Lepore research, and reorganized into words the cultural, political context, population eighteen century Manhattan.…

New York City is one of the most exciting places to be born and raised. Having traveled to a few different states and countries, people always show interest when I tell them I’m from New York City. Being a NYC native gives me some bragging rights and I can truly say I am proud to be a New Yorker. One thing that excites me the most about living in NYC is the vast amount of diversity. Walking out in the streets, the sight and smell of diversity excites me. Growing up within a diverse community…

to data from the American FactFinder, the total number of housing units in New York City is estimated to be close to 3.5 million and 42%, almost half of these residential units, are located in buildings that were built in 1939 or earlier. Furthermore, more than half of the pre-1940 historic buildings are one or two family type houses. The Greening NYC’s historic buildings manual by the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) stated in their report that solid masonry walls such as layered brick…