Descriptive Essay About New York

The first stanza clearly shows that the poem is written in first person, when “I” is referring to the speaker, and demonstrates

Epoka University Faculty of Architecture and Engineering Department of Architecture ARCH IV ARCH418 PhD. Ernest Shtepani Shasivar Rada ID:02021120 Delirious New York Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Rem Koolhaas Our role is not to retreat back to the catacombs, but to became more human in skyscraper Manhattan is the theatre for the terminal stage of western civilization... A mountain range of evidence without manifesto.

Delirious New York – Rem Koolhaas In a celebration of New York, Koolhaas’s delirious New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible diversity in human behavior. He suggests that the city holds infinite possibilities for material and fictional activities and events and that the ‘culture of congestion’ is ultimately the essence of a metropolitan lifestyle. He pays homage to Coney Island, "the laboratory", highlighting the vital role it played in the building philosophies that would emerge later in Manhattan.

“The King of Pop”, better known as Michael Jackson, released “Smooth Criminal on October 21st, 1988. Jackson recorded the song at Epic Records, which is located in New York City. Michael Jackson had written two versions of this song in 1985. Then he “recorded a demo in 1986, calling it “Chicago 1945”. Then Michael changed the name and called it “Al Capone”, this version was released later on the 25th anniversary edition of the album Bad.”

In 1968 King would deliver his famous “I have a Dream Speech” in front of thousands in Washington Memorial. His speech was based off of a speech that Philip Randolph wrote in 1941 showing how prolonged the civil rights movement was. It was there at Washington Memorial where the advocate of Civil Rights was assassinated.

(Spark 2008:147) Philip Johnson (1906-2005) built The Glass House and its counterpart, the Guest House, in a piece of land of his property in New Cannan (Connecticut), as his own residence. It was finished in 1949. The house was the result of his final dissertation project for his architecture studies and it is considered as a high Modernist masterpiece (Melchionne 2998:191). Nevertheless, the house was only intended to be a primary residence but a weekend refuge to escape the New York stressed and overwhelming way of life. The Glass House was used as a place for the gathering of architects and other artists, in order to discuss Modernist architecture (Huppatz 2011).

The actual remains of Albert Pike in 1944 were placed within the ( House of the Temple ) at the corner of Sixteenth and S street, Washington DC. This massive stone structure is a symbolic reference directing attention towards the current Freemasonery agenda about the birth of a New World Order. The roots of Freemasonery date back to King Solomon 's Temple, with a single indivi- dual named Hiram Abiff the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. Hiram Abiff is the symbolic martyr of Freemasonery; Hiram was a special craftsman who did distinctive work in bronze for King Solomon during the building of his Temple. Hiram Abiff would be considered a valid answer to the question by other men with they privately associate in Masonic Lodges, studing Masonic teachings they have embraced the death, burial, and resurrection of Hiram in their rituals, that would cause others to doubt their own Christianity.

Washington Becomes U.S. Capitol- In November of 1800, president John Adams became the first of the United States Presidents to live in the White House, previously on June 11, 1800 the Federal Government decided to move the nations capitol from Philadelphia Pennsylvania, to the city of Washington in the District of Colombia (Milli Canter). When Adams first moved into the White House it was still under construction by the French engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant chosen by George Washington. Overall the location of the capitol was a compromise between the northern states who wanted to pay off the national debt, and the southern states who wanted the Capitol's location to support agriculture and the slave trade (Washington). This decision had a significant impact on the culture and social structure of the United States.

Also, the lunchroom of Carlos Third became his personal office. In the famous reforms he made, we can highlight the introduction of the Mora Army as his personal guard. Life in the palace was very complicated, people think living in a palace is a luxury and a place where you can just avoid everyday problems. However, this is not true at all, my grandfather had a very hard childhood in the palace, with constant guards, armed, walking around the place and no time to see his family in privacy. Related with the architecture, the place was very cold and every single object of furniture had a massive value, so my grandfather and granduncles had to be very careful walking around the place.

Today, the main mansion is a private residence but there are guest rooms in the Carriage House rented out to anybody interested. Back in time, in 1843, a rich merchant built it. However, he never got a chance to enjoy life in his dream home as the civil War started soon afterwards. A canon as part of the city’s defense was parked just across the road. It made the man flee in panic.

According to the History Channel, “By the late 19th century, the first monument built to honor those who died on prison ships-on Hudson Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood known as Vinegar Hill-had fallen into disrepair, and plans were made to build a new memorial in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park, a new public space designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Funds were raised by the end of the century, and the architectural firm of McKim, Meade and White were commissioned to design the monument itself”In 1908, President William Howard Taft dedicated the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, an obelisk standing some 150 feet high at the center of Fort Greene Park, on the former site of the Revolutionary War-era Fort Putnam. Beneath the monument was a crypt with 20 coffins containing bone fragments from the thousands who died on the Jersey and other prison

There are many movies and books that portray traveling through time using a time machine or finding a time capsule. In 1938, the first time capsule was recorded in reference to the one “deemed capable of resisting the effects of time for five thousand years preserving an account of universal achievements embedded in the grounds of the New York World’s fair.” Jones (archaeologist of A.D. 5139) potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a “Time Capsule.” Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic

In 1947, a contest to design a structure that represented the western expansion of America was created by the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association. The winner of the contest was architect Eero Saarinen, who designed a stainless steel arch that is now known as the Gateway Arch. The arch is located in St. Louis, Missouri and is 60 feet tall and was completed in 1965. (US National Park Services) Like many national landmarks, the arch is a symbol of our country and its growth.

c) On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and damaging the socialist state. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the spokesman of the East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. The 9th of November 1989 was the date that was considered to be the night the wall “fell”, however it took weeks to eventually get the whole wall down. People began to chip away at the wall and cranes and bulldozers pulled down sections.

My historical novel is titled Sunrise over Fallujah. The Author 's name is Walter Dean Myers. This book is a sequel to his earlier book Fallen Angels. This book centers on Robin “Birdy” Perry and his new life joining the United States army. Robin is from Harlem, NY and was living a normal life until the 9/11 terrorist attacks.