Brooklyn Essays

poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and Hart Crane’s proem “To Brooklyn Bridge” both highlight the beautiful sights they see in New York City but are drastically different because of the time that they wrote each of their pieces. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” was written before the Brooklyn Bridge was built but still addresses future generations with the idea that the ferry will not change, only the people taking it. “To Brooklyn Bridge” on the other hand just describes the beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge. And

Officially finished on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is one of America’s greatest achievements as it connected two very populous cities by land, allowing for better trade and travel. Though written differently, both “A Bridge for New York,” by Patricia Mayberry and “The Brooklyn Bridge,” from the Sun recognize the construction of the bridge as one of the most important engineering feats of the US. In “A Bridge for New York,” by Patricia Mayberry, the author elaborates more on the process of building

all or most of the original working class occupiers are displaced and the social character of the district is changed”. (Kissam 2) This epidemic has taken many urban neighborhoods by storm, From Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, and the most common Brooklyn. Between The year 2000 and 2010 the Percentage

Weeksville Heritage Center This semester I had the opportunity to visit the Weeksville Heritage Center located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The Weeksville Heritage Center is Brooklyn 's largest African-American cultural institution. Weeksville is both a museum and a preserved historical site where free black people formed a thriving community at the height of slavery in the United States. It is historically significant because Weeksville was one of the first free Black communities prior to the

Berlin, Germany The capital of Germany, Berlin is a cultural center that dates back to the 13th century. At one time it was a divided city and today it is well-known for its modern architecture, the art it offers and nightlife. Visitors can still see the graffiti covered remains of the Berlin Wall and one of its landmarks the Brandenburg Gate has become an iconic symbol of reunification. The Reichstag Building sits on the Mauerstreifen, the military zone that was between two sides of the Wall

There are few facts known to the common residents of modern Gravesend about the origins of their own local area. Gravesend is a neighborhood located in the most southern section of New York City in the borough of Brooklyn. Being one of the first colonial English towns in America, it holds a significant amount of historical content regarding the growth of America itself as a country, and the issues that it had once held in regards to equality. Women in particular, held limited rights that prevented

Lamont Harrison is a 36-year-old African American male from Chicago, IL living in Madison, WI, for the last ten years. He worked in the food service industry as a prep cook. Over the years, Lamont has spent about ten years in prison for drug possession, domestic violence, and a misdemeanor assault. Harrison often feels depressed due to his low income and few friends. Lamont's father passed away recently, and he began showing abnormal behavior. Fired from his job, Lamont faced arrest by local police

Remembering and forgetting are one of Alain Resnais themes along with troubled past and present, time, and personal and historical memory. Akira Kurosawa experiences disaster early at a young age. That catastrophe (the Great Kanto Earthquake) is horrible but, at the same time, important in his life, since recalling the emotions, experiences and memories of the calamity make Kurosawa’s works authentic. In Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour remembering can be seen on two levels: (1) the represented memories

A Narrative/Descriptive Essay Mclainn Diaz & Cara Obas BC12-MM March 2, 2016 “Banning smoking in public places” In our generation today, a lot of people now are engaging themselves in different kinds of things that can pleasure their own selves. Some use drugs to relieve stress; some drink alcohol to forget all the worries and problems which is really not a solution at all, and some smoke just to pleasure themselves. But for young people, they smoke for to look mature, to blend on what their

In The Bridges of Madison County shows how Francesca’s future is going to change when visitor causes her to rethink all the expectations she had from life. When her family goes to a state fair for a day but ends up staying the whole weekend due to an incoming storm a photographer named Robert just happened to end up at Francesca’s farm asking for directions towards Roseman Bridge. Francesca decides to take him to the bridge looking for attention, something her family was not giving, and it leads

Humans consider polar bears as one of the cutest animals on the planet. Not only are they adorable, but they are also going extinct because of the warming temperatures in the Arctic. But what the public does not know is that the warmer weather is not the only thing killing off these animals; it is truly cannibalism. Rod Sterling's story, "Monsters Are Due on Maple street," reveals this surprising truth in a similar way. The story takes place in an ordinary neighborhood that is supposedly being attacked

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH Brooklyn Connections uses materials from the Brooklyn Collection to illustrate the experience of living in Brooklyn through primary sources and to “connect history to self and make meaning” (B. Murphy, personal commun.). By focusing on the historical experience gleaned from newspaper articles, maps, photographs, and other materials, Brooklyn Connections teaches crucial research skills and demonstrates the “validity of experiential knowledge” among students, as highlighted by

The years leading up to Judy Chicago’s first series The Rejection Quintet in 1974 saw a great amount of effort in finding her true identity as a female artist during a time which men made up the majority of the art scene. During the 1971 Rap Weekend in Fresno, Chicago, together with Miriam Schapiro, showcased works that used the central format of abstracted flowers or folds of the vagina. Chicago later reflected on the showcase stating that she could not express her own feelings as she met other

Do you think Brooklyn College is using these two social media platforms in the best possible way? Explain why or why not. What recommendations would you make to Brooklyn College to improve their use of social media? Remember, you 're a highly paid consultant and want to show Brooklyn College how to improve their outreach so they 'll hire you for their next job. I do not feel that Brooklyn College I utilizing the two social media platforms to the best of their ability. As I research the way in which

The Brooklyn Farmer Dreams are the essence of what make us human. To dream is to be alive, and often times, we are afraid to take risks and pursue what truly makes us happy. Society has created this idea that in order to become successful, one must make a certain amount of money and land in a safe desk job. In order to find true happiness, the shackles of society’s expectations must be broken and we must be willing to follow what we feel passion for. In the short documentary, The Brooklyn Farmer

Brooklyn walked the halls of Concord High on his first day of school. As he walked into math class, he saw one thing on the board that made him freeze. Quiz today. It was a quiz because the math teacher only wanted to know how much you knew going into math class this year. That’s all that Brooklyn heard. The only thing he was thinking about was lacrosse tryouts after school. When school ended, Brooklyn went out to the lacrosse field where they were holding lacrosse tryouts for the team. The tryouts

There are many different cases about a wrongly convicted suspect. One of them was in the Brooklyn Murder. In the Brooklyn Murder, the victim was a drug dealer whose name was Darryl “Black” Rush. With this information, the detectives think that the suspect was the rival of the drug dealer with the name Jonathan Fleming. The detectives asked him whether or not he was the murderer. He said that he was 1100 miles away in Disney Land when the crime happened. Fleming also showed his passport and phone

what they are doing and that the college is there for them. Aside from her administrative duties, Wood loves to read, especially detective fiction. Some of her favorite novels include “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” by Betty Smith which is a story about a girl’s journey growing up as an immigrant in Brooklyn, Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” which follows the life of a high-society woman after WWI and “How Green was my Valley,” in which Richard Llewellyn tells a story about a mining family in

The setting of the bildungsroman novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith demonstrates the tremendous and continuous struggle of women’s rights and complications, poverty, and child labor. It opens by describing a tree, known as the Tree of Heaven, in Francie’s neighborhood in Williamsburg. The time period in which this novel takes place is in the early 1900s. This is shortly before the beginning of World War I and a time of gradual progression for women’s rights and suffrage. Katie, Francie’s

Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith is about a young girl named Francie and her family troubles. Her family troubles are very hard. Her father is a drunk and doesn't give her mother enough money to sustain them, so her mother also has to work. Her mother is beautiful and everyone in their neighborhood pity's her for have married Johnny Nolan (Francie father) and Francie has a lot going on with her family with just this, but there is more to the story. In A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Smith reveals