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People Of Mott Haven Sparks Of Light Children
1,278 wordsThe Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Currently there are about 600, 000 people who live in the South Bronx and about 434, 000 who live in Washington Heights and Harlem. This area makes up one of the most racially segregated areas of poor people in the United States. In this book we focus on Mott Haven, a place where 48, 0000 of the poorest people in the South Bronx live. Two thirds of the people are Hispanic, one-third are black and thirty-five percent are children. There are nea...
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Rap Music Break Dancing
3,653 wordsRap music is truly an American minority artist creation of which students need to be proud. Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad which they hope will soon fade away. One of my intentions with my unit is to show that rap music is not a fad, but a musical art form that has been around for over 20 years in the United States. In fact, one can trace the history of rap back to the West African professional singers / storytellers known as Griots. Howe...
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South Bronx Alcohol Abuse
1,952 wordsAt first glance, it seems that the author is going to take us on yet another journalistic ride through the land of the poor. Similar to the ones you read about, or hear in the news. However, this is not the case; the real underlying theme is what is society doing about the plight of the poor? Kozol uses the views of children to emphasize that these reports on living conditions are not being obtained by disgruntled adults, but from innocent children whose only misfortune was being born to this pa...
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Trials And Tribulations Amazing Grace
1,799 wordsIntroduction Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the 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...
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License Plate Gas Station
1,363 wordsOn a windy winter night in 1932, a kidnapper crept onto the estate of Charles A. Lindbergh, climbed a homemade ladder, placed a ransom note on the window, and left with the baby of the most famous man in the world. The ransom was paid, but the child was found months later, dead in the woods near the house. A two year hunt for the murderer ensued. Arrested and charged was 35 -year-old Bronx carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann. The purpose of this paper is to research what really went down during th...
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Gangster Biography Of Arthur Flegenheimer
1,314 wordsArthur Flegenheimer 1902 - 1935 Born: August 6, 1902 in New York, United States Died: October 24, 1935 Occupation: Gangster Flegenheimer, Arthur (Aug. 6, 1902 - Oct. 24, 1935), gangster, better known as Dutch Schultz, was born in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City, and was the only son and elder of two children of Herman and Emma (Neu) Flegenheimer. His parents were German-Jewish immigrants. He grew up in a slum section of the Bronx, and went no further than the sixth grade in school, thoug...
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The Origins Of Hip Hop And Rap
983 wordsIn the late 1970 s a new, popular form of urban youth culture emerged in the Bronx, New York that changed the face of popular music and American culture. Throughout its development, hip-hop has become a vastly commercialized, inextricable component of popular American culture; however, it took the efforts of many pioneers and innovators to shape modern hip-hop culture and music. By exploring hip-hops origins, one can better understand its evolution and its influence on different social groups th...
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Real Estate Long Term
1,052 wordsPersonal Finance Concepts - P 3 IP Dear daughter, before you make any decision is it very important to consider all options available. First, as you landed a great job making $ 50, 000 a year in New York, on the one hand, your salary is only a start-up, and youll certainly be earning much more in the future. However, on the other hand, as you are going to start your own adult life, you certainly want to live separately. I appreciate and respect your decision, and, the only thing I want to tell y...
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Trials And Tribulations Amazing Grace
1,825 wordsKozol's Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Kozols Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday Life Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life Introduction Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the 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 nor...
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Amadou Diallo Police Officers
2,884 wordsCraig H. Brockman Instructor: Eric Becker College Writing 221624 23 April 2000 The Diallo Incident; One Officers Perspective In the quiet post-midnight hours of February 4, 1999, 41 shots rang out in the entry vestibule of a South Bronx apartment house. Within seconds, a young man laid dead, four policemen standing over his lifeless body. A 22 -year-old immigrant from West Africa was the unfortunate victim. The police officers: four white men from the New York City Police Departments Street Crim...
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