Rockefeller Center

Empire State Building, and the Rockefeller Center were all colossal structures that were built that transformed the

1934 when Diego Rivera’s commissioned painting, Man at the Crossroads, was destroyed for its controversial content. This piece, originally commissioned by the Rockefellers to place on the ground floor of Rockefeller Center, representing hope and a new future. Rivera’s depiction of this began with painting a man controlling a machine at the center of the mural, surrounded by what Rivera called “elongated ellipses” that were filled alternately with cell patterns and cosmological explosions (qtd. In Social

Being born with a creativity is a grace of God, but utilizing the potential of it is the true face of mankind. It takes courage to present creativity and art has always required belief. Diego Rivera was the kind of person who had courage, belief and resources to become an Artist. Being born in Guanajuato City to a well-off family, Rivera claimed to be descended, on his mother's side, from Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism, and, on his father's side, from Spanish nobility. Rivera began drawing

In October 1928, John D. Rockefeller Jr. signed a lease for a large amount of land in Manhattan to build a new metropolitan opera house. The stock market crash of 1929 put the opera house plans at a halt. Rockefeller then decided to build a city within a city, today known as Rockefeller Center. He took one undesired strip on land that ran along Sixth Avenue and turned it into Theatre No. 10, which later became Radio City Music Hall. This grand theatre featured a block-long, six-story Grand Foyer

After hours of shopping, eating, and sightseeing we started searching for our final destination- the Rockefeller Tree. I’d never seen it, and didn’t plan on missing one of the great staples of the New York holiday tradition. We had not a single inkling of where it was, or how to get there. We found ourselves at a crosswalk surrounded by congregations of other

The Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theatre located on 44th street. It was opened in October 1907 by David Belasco. When the theater originally opened, it was named the Stuyvesant theater. But it was renamed the Belasco after David Belasco himself in 1910 when he gave up his other theater which was then called the Belasco (now called the New Victory). After Belasco’s unfortunate death in 1931, the theater was bought by Katharine Cornell Productions, Incorporation. Later in 1949, the Shuberts bought

A Fair City I could speak of Joan Didion's use of rhetorical devices. I could describe every subtle simile she imposes and preach of her incredible use of personification, but I think the most important piece of the essay would, then, be neglected. In "Goodbye to All That," Didion compares her experiences in New York to the occurrences at a fair. This metaphor is discussed in a very roundabout way. Ultimately, though, Didion (like anybody) grew tired and dissatisfied with the fair (in her case

North Korean Missile Launch After reading the articles about the North Korean missile launch on August 29th of 2017, Both news sources portray bias in their own particular ways but Fox news seems to side. Fox states a quote from Trump talking about all options are on the table due to the fact that North korea just shot a missile over Japan. He talks about how the world is getting the message from North korea is threatening. The misle showed that it could reach Guam if it really wanted to. Where

trying to squeeze orange juice from the rind. Individual employees and managers could not keep up and the company was quickly digging a deeper hole. By 1988 the problem could no longer be ignored. Jim Baughman, the head of GE’s management development center was charged with the task of correcting the problem. “In a memorable conversation, Welch and Baughman said to each other, ‘Let’s find a way to get work out of the system.’” (Ashkenas, 2002) The innovative system seemed clear: Teams. Teams would help

Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation While the Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation requires organizations to be pre-selected in order to receive a grant, the not-for-profits that they currently support have similar goals and objectives as Breakthrough New York. In 2015 according to the Foundation Directory Online, the Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation gave to Urban Assembly New York City, Bottom Line Massachusetts’s and the POSSE Foundation. As all of these organizations are working towards achieving