Williamsburg, Brooklyn

This is a case about 2 teenagers accused of killing one person’s mother, his sister and a family friend. In the information found, you will see how the police coerced the confessions but it was only after a family member asked if he really did it. When he finally told her he did not do it, it was only then that things turned around for them. It’s sad that justice was not served for these 2 men. The police saw an opportunity to deceive 2 young black males and they felt compelled or even tricked to

SHIRLY CHISHOLM A MARVICK IN HER TIME Table of Contents Introduction to Shirley Chisholm 3 Shirley’s rearing In Barbados 4 Retuning to Brooklyn 5 Shirley gets an Intro to Politics in College 6 Time for Shirley to Stop watching and get in the Mix 7 Shirley the Assemblywoman 8 Shirley the Congresswoman 10 Shirley fights for our basic Civil Rights 11 Shirley’s work in Congress reflected the Civil Rights Movement 12 Shirley’s Bid for the President

Every work of literature requires a theme for it to be worth reading. Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad” mainly presents the theme of ruin and redemption throughout the novel. This theme is present alongside with other minor themes like the shift of American culture, and how the characters self-centered ways are crush by time. All of the major characters will find themselves at some sort of low point in their lives throughout the novel. Jocelyn becomes addicted to drugs and spends a great

Jersey City, New Jersey is one of the largest cities within the state. With almost 250,000 people, the city is the seat of Hudson County, lying just south east of Manhattan. Jersey City is located on the Bergen Neck peninsula with the Hudson River and New York bay surrounding the east and west sides. The city is divided into six wards, with Historic Downtown, Bergen-Lafayette, and The Heights being its most populous parts. Of its inhabitants, 33% are white, 26% are black, 28% are Hispanic, and 24%

Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” was written before the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was originally published in 1856 and was titled “Sun Down Poem.” Whitman revised the poem and republished it in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass and under its final title, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” Whitman’s final version of the poem was completed in 1881. The Brooklyn Bridge would be completed three years later. The Brooklyn Ferry was how commuters would get from Manhattan to Brooklyn or vice versa before

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman, is a poem about a man who takes the Brooklyn ferry home after his work day. At first glance one may say “How can this long poem really be about a ferry?” Once you get reading you realized there is much more to it then riding the Brooklyn Ferry. This poem deals with the idea that all humans are united in the harmonies of life because we all share the same land. This poem describes the relationship between human beings. The poem is describing how he believes

The Squid and the Whale A Critical Analysis Written and directed by Noah Baumbach, this film is set in Brooklyn, New York City, 1986. Some critics claim that it is almost autobiographical of Baumbach’s life and the painful and confusing experience he went through when his own parents were in the process of divorce. The most obvious central theme of the movie is divorce and the crisis it causes within the family as each member is attempting to rearrange themselves, both inside their heads and in the

paper The Long Islander. He worked as an editor for several papers before moving to New Orleans to become the editor of The Crescent where he first experienced the reality of the slave trade. Returning to his hometown of Brooklyn in Long Island he founded the newspaper the Brooklyn Freeman and continued

DUMBO Travel Guide DUMBO, a catchy acronym for “down under the Manhattan bridge overpass”, references a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Stretching from the Manhattan bridge to the Brooklyn bridge, then further east to the Vinegar Hill region, originally DUMBO was known as Fulton Landing. During its industrial heyday, this area of New York was a port of call for ferries and steam boats. Immediately prior to the turn of the century, all of the buildings in the area were focused solely

The school, the observation was being conducted is called New Utrecht High School. This high school was established on 1915, and it serves the neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. Bensonhurst was once known as the Little Italy of Brooklyn because it used to have a big population of Italians, but now this populations of Italians were replaced by a population of Chinese people, and also this neighborhood has a very large number of Chinese people born in china than any of other neighborhood in New