People from the Bronx Essays

  • How Did Jerry Uelsmann Contribute To Photography

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    much that when he was sixteen years of age his band, The Speedies, released their first single which was titled "Let Me Take Your Foto". Crewdson received a Bachelors degree from the State University of New York-Purchase College where his passion of photography became a career choice and his study. In 1988 he graduated from Yale University with a MFA in photography. As a photographer he put together these huge elaborate scenes that took days to create only to take photographs of them. He would utilize

  • Doubt: Comparing the Play and Movie

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    anything, which kind of makes you question how the heck she ended up as a nun. In the movie you can clearly see that she has a softer side and actually is hiding behind that tough façade she puts up. Another scene I believe is important that is missing from the play is the scene where sister James sees Father Flynn putting the white t-shirt back in the locker which is pivotal to the whole premise of the story, without Sister James seeing that she would have never brought it up to Sister Alyosius and we

  • Robert Moses

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    In order to ‘improve” the Bronx which had the largest amount of residents living in public housing in the nation, urban planners were hired to redevelop the area (CUNY Baruch). Robert Moses was an urban planner responsible for the Cross Bronx Expressway causing the deterioration and destruction affecting the Bronx forever (Congress for the New Urbanism). On the topic, Robert Moses stated, “You must concede that this Bronx slum is unrepairable [sic]. It is beyond rebuilding, tinkering and restoring

  • Analysis Of The Get Down

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    Back in the Bronx during the 1960’s and 1970’s it was common to see poverty, violence, gangs and drug dealers. This city was forgotten about and it was filled with poor people living inhumane places. Buildings were being burned to the ground by gangs hired by landlords, so they could collect insurance money. This lead to the evolution of music which changed society for years to come. In the episode of “The Get Down,” hope, violence and music is used illustrate the character lives and hardships they

  • Analysis Of The South Bronx

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    South Bronx, New York City: another northern portrait of racial divide that naturally occurred in the span of less than a century, or a gradual, but systematic reformation based on the mistaken ideology of white supremacy? A quick glance through contemporary articles on The Bronx borough convey a continuation of less-than-ideal conditions, though recently politicians and city planners have begun to take a renewed interest in revitalizing the Bronx. (HU, NYT) Some common conceptions of the Bronx remain

  • Amazing Grace Kozol Summary

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    In Jonathan Kozol’s Amazing Grace, he examines the lives and experiences of many children living in the Bronx. In all cases, they lived in run-down apartments surrounded by violence, drugs, and hopelessness. His main argument was that the poor people of this area were not treated well by the city, and the society tried to hide and forget about them. The second chapter of his book have several examples of this practice. The first point that was made in chapter two was that the children of this area

  • Drugs And Poverty In Amazing Grace, By Johnathan Kozol

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    conditions in the South Bronx, which has been left out in the cold and subjected to poverty and a lack of proper accommodations for its residents. The city became a refuge for the homeless that have been relocated from Manhattan in an effort to give the downtown area a more desirable appearance. With the residents of the Bronx struggling to survive in the environment they were born into, Johnathan Kozol gives us a glimpse into what life in the Bronx is like. Two major problems in the Bronx that have been

  • The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle

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    first-year teacher. Mr. Brown’s first teaching job was arguably one of the hardest jobs in the educational profession, as his students came from the Bronx borough of New York City. In the Bronx, there are approximately thirty percent of people living below the poverty line and that is almost twice the national average of fifteen percent (Bronx Borough QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau, 2014). As one might assume, there is a strong correlation between a student living in poverty and both misbehaving

  • Forgotten Children in Amazing Grace Amazing Grace Essays

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    United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is normal? For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution, the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them have ever known. In this book, the children speak openly and honestly about feeling 'abandoned', 'hidden' or 'forgotten' by our nation, one that is blind to their problems. Studying the people themselves would only

  • Spectacle Ota Benga Summary

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    at the Bronx Zoo during the early 1900s. He was initially purchased by a white missionary, Samuel Phillips Verner, from his home in the Congo during the brutal reign of King Leopold II. Once in the Americas, he was put in various shelters with unhygienic environments to live in, such as an orangutan cage in the Bronx Zoo where feces, urine, and musk were present. The horrible atrocities committed towards Benga is inexcusable and still has not been taken responsibility for. Present day Bronx Zoo should

  • Amazing Grace

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    States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is normal? For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution, the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them have ever known. In this book, the children speak openly and honestly about feeling 'abandoned', 'hidden' or 'forgotten' by our nation, one that is blind to their problems. Studying the people themselves would only

  • Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol

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    lives of the people living in the dilapidated district of South Bronx, New York. Kozol spends time touring the streets with children, talking to parents, and discussing the appalling living conditions and safety concerns that plague the residents in the inner cities of New York. In great detail, he describes the harsh lifestyles that the poverty stricken families are forced into; day in and day out. Disease, hunger, crime, and drugs are of the few everyday problems that the people in Kozol's book

  • Hip Hop Subculture

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    Hip hop is a subculture and global movement that started in the South Bronx, New York City during the late 1970s. In a post-civil rights era, where deindustrialization dominated, where racism and discrimination still existed, hip hop gave discriminated youths a chance to voice their opinions, and address their struggles in America. It created jobs for African-Americans and has forever transformed America’s politics and culture. Since then, it has only spread worldwide. The culture of hip hop has

  • A Jail at Hunts Point in the South Bronx?

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    The Gory State of the South Bronx An area associated with lots of social problems, with over half of the population living below the poverty line, the South Bronx has become a community that people associate with prostitution, crime, and poverty. With two (2) juvenile detention centers, fifteen (15) waste transfer stations, and four (4) jails, the plan of the government to build a new jail in Hunts Point is most strange and unwelcome at that. “The city’s Economic Development Corporation is negotiating

  • Hip Hop: The History And History Of Hip-Hop

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    and lifestyle known as hip-hop began in the Bronx in New York City in the years 1970’s. At house parties and community centers DJs mixed songs from different records together. They started extending short drum breaks into longer dance mixes by switching between record decks. Bronx DJs experimented with touching

  • Mexican Coalition Case Study

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    Jairo Guzmán, 47, lives in Queens but commutes daily to the South Bronx. Four years ago he founded the Mexican Coalition, an organization that look to empower the Mexican and Latino community through self-development. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and migrated with his family to the US in 1978. He became a legal resident in 1986 thanks to a federal amnesty. What is the purpose of the Mexican Coalition, the organization that you founded four years ago? The mission of the organization is to empower

  • Amazing Grace

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    emphasize that these reports on living conditions are not being obtained by “disgruntled” adults, but from innocent, learning children whose only misfortune was being born to this particular area. The author takes us from the seventh richest congressional district in the nation (being E 59th Street in New York City) to the poorest in the nation. A mere eighteen-minute ride by subway to the South Bronx, to a little place called Mott Haven; where the median family income for the 48000 residents is only

  • Hip-Hop as a Cultural Movement

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    Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that emerged from the dilapidated South Bronx, New York in the early 1970’s. The area’s mostly African American and Puerto Rican residents originated this uniquely American musical genre and culture that over the past four decades has developed into a global sensation impacting the formation of youth culture around the world. The South Bronx was a whirlpool of political, social, and economic upheaval in the years leading up to the inception of Hip-Hop. The early part

  • Masculinity In The Other Wes Moore

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    a man when he becomes an exceptional leader and responsible for others lives. These concepts both tie into the constructs of masculinity in the United States where men are supposed to be protectors of society. The two Wes’ notions of manhood derive from

  • 1970s Mafia Crime

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    crime. Crimes were starting to slowly fade out in neighborhoods after police and Giuliani took action. 1970s Mafia leader Joseph Colombo was sealed in a war with Joey Gallo a member of the mafia. Gallo associated himself with black gangsters from Brooklyn while serving time in prison. For conspiracy and attempted extortion and was released early. Colombo got shot in the head and died by Jerome Johnson who fired the shots. In New York City a flood of low cost heroin washes over the city