Bronx Zoo

In the Bronx, there are countless of unsolved crime at the police department precinct, just waiting to be solved. However, due to the shortage of policeman power in the precincts located in the Bronx, and with many detectives with a caseload of about 300 to 400 cases per year, it’s impossible for the detectives to keep-up. According to the deployment analysis obtained by The New York Times most of the detective have a caseload of twice as the recommended for precincts with such high violence rate

Spaces Didn’t Carry Brand Names?” (1998). Eric Liu is a second generation chinese American that writes autobiographies. He claims that the Yankee Stadium changed in a way that he regrets. The Yankee’s have planned to sell “naming rights” to their Bronx homestead. There has been many memories because that was his childhood. It was disconnecting part of his life. In the Yankee Stadium is where Joe DiMaggio played and that's where his history began. Many things are yet to come to the stadium. Brading

Awakenings is a 1973 nonfiction book by Oliver Sacks later on in 1990 became a film directed by Penny Marshall. The movie is based on Oliver Sacks's memoir which tells the story of encephalitic lethargica survivors as they undergo treatment with Dr.Sacks. He treated his patients with the then-new drug L-DOPA which was being used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Dr.Sacks believed that the encephalitic lethargica patients had suffered from a form of Parkinson’s that was so advanced which caused them to

In my opinion, Mr. Polk should be allowed to wear dreadlocks based on his religious beliefs. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating in employment based on race, religion, skin color, sex, or national origin (Bernardin & Russell, 2013). For this reason Mr. Polk should be allowed to wear his dreadlocks based on his religious beliefs. As long as Mr. Polk’s dreadlocks are clean and neat I do not see a need to require him to not wear them. The policy seems

In the movie, Awakenings, Dr. Sayer is a neurologist who begins studying the patients in his hospital that have survived the epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. Because of the encephalitis lethargica, the patients have become catatonic and unresponsive. After much studying, Dr. Sayer sees that the patients are responsive to certain stimuli such as catching a ball or listening to music. Dr. Sayer decides to conduct an experiment where he gives his catatonic patients the drug L-Dopa, which is an

The film based on the book Awakenings by Oliver Sacks accurately portrays the disease, Encephalitis Lethargica as shown in many patients of the Bainbridge psychiatric hospital. Awakenings begins with a depiction of a typical eleven-year-old child, Leonard Lowe who eventually becomes one of the many victims of the disease, Encephalitis Lethargica. The young, innocent life of Leonard becomes entirely wrapped around this disease, as he no longer spends time with friends or engages in any childhood activities

Everybody’s been to the zoo; they’ve either enjoyed a dolphin show, or fed the penguins. Zoos have been a part of American culture for centuries. At first, a zoo could be seen as nothing more than a jail cell for animals, but today, zoos are being completely transformed. What used to be confined cages are now being revolutionized into acres of land for different species to reside in. The opponents of zoos feel that they are inhumane and harmful to animals. However, zoos are beneficial for several

“The House that Ruth Built” has seen many history-making moments in its 85 years in the Bronx: twenty-six World Series titles, four Major League Baseball All-Star games, two papal visits by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Now that the Bronx Bombers have ended their 2008 season 8 games out of first place, finishing third behind the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays, the old Yankee Stadium will shut its doors (M.L.B. Advanced Media, “2008 Regular Season Standings”). The start of next season will

in the Bronx. Drawing upon Chang, as well as videos (Bronx is Burning, Flying Cut Sleeves etc.), discuss the sociological roots of rap. Specifically, what social forces (for example: state policies, global economic trends, technological advancements, community characteristics as well as race, class, gender politics) were present and facilitated the development of Hip-Hop? Hip-Hop is an extensive and a broad conglomerate of various artistic forms that ultimately originated in the South Bronx and then

The Get Down establishes inherent norms over time, creating rules that viewers internalize as defining the show’s storytelling strategies. For example, how each episode starts off with Zeke’s older self rapping a recap of the prior episode in a front of full audience at Madison Square Garden in New York. Being defined as a musical comedy and gritty prestige drama , if there was an episode in The Get Down where Shaolin Fantastic is not spinning turntables, Zeke is not rapping, or Mylene isn’t singing