Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Samuel Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Kamianets-Podilskyi, then in the Russian Empire, in today's Ukraine. His mother, Rachel Molly Gruber, was a housewife from New York. Carl was named in honor of Rachel's biological mother, Chaiya Clara, in Sagan's words, he mother she never knew. He had a sister, Carol, and the family lived in a modest apartment near the Atlantic Ocean, in Bensonhurst, a Brooklyn neighborhood. According to Sagan
Love it or Hate it, There’s No in Between New York City. The greatest city in the world, they say! Times Square brings out it’s glory at night. Neon lights flash and city cars rush by honking horns. The skyline at sunset is breathtaking. The water is gloomy. The skyscrapers are immensely tall that they just hover over you creating an enclosed feeling. Chinatown smells delicious. Broadway holds multitude of plays each day. Cultural events take place in the beautiful Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall
the Irish with little to no money. As farmers, they had no choice but to leave Ireland and head to America for a better life. Not only did the potato crop fail but the grain crop did so as well. It is crazy that a natural disaster that occurred so far away from Ireland caused so many issues with crops and is astonishing that it took nearly a year for all the issues to occur. It was said that with all the harsh weather “an acre of wheat was hardly expected within 10 miles.” (“1816-The Year Without
My parents had divorced when I was a kid, and my father had “visitation rights.” He’d show up at our front door every other Sunday and take me out with him. Our destination might be the zoo, a park, a baseball game or, more usually, his house in Far Rockaway, a half-hour drive from my mother’s place in Brooklyn. But it wasn’t where we ended up that elated me. It was getting there that made it a thrill. He wasn’t like the resident fathers of my neighborhood friends. Some seemed accepting and resigned
Bernard “Bernie” Madoff was a business man who misused and took advantage of the trust of his clients in order to be personally benefited with money that would satisfy his greed. Bernard Lawrence Madoff better known as “Bernie” was born in Queens, New York on April 29, 1938. He comes from Polish, Romanian and Austrian ancestry. He grew up shortly after the great depression, with his father being a plumber and his mother not working at the time they lived with financial problems. His parents Ralph
In December 2008, one of the largest Ponzi scheme surfaced when Mark and Andrew Madoff reported the works of their father, Bernard Madoff to the federal authorities. A Ponzi scheme is an investing scam that promises high rates of return with little risk to investors. The operator generates returns for older investors by gaining new investors. Bernard was arrested on December 11, 2008 and charged with securities fraud. He pled guilty to 11 counts and was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison-the