Hunts Point, Bronx Essays

  • A Jail at Hunts Point in the South Bronx?

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    South Bronx An area associated with lots of social problems, with over half of the population living below the poverty line, the South Bronx has become a community that people associate with prostitution, crime, and poverty. With two (2) juvenile detention centers, fifteen (15) waste transfer stations, and four (4) jails, the plan of the government to build a new jail in Hunts Point is most strange and unwelcome at that. “The city’s Economic Development Corporation is negotiating with Oak Point Energy

  • My American Dream Is A Never-Ending Cycle Of Poverty

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    Field Project      To start off my discussion about inequality in the world I asked my sister four questions. 1) What is your American Dream? 2) Do you think there is an exit for children who live in poverty? 3) What is your idea of “makin it”? 4) As a citizen what do you feel you can do to help? I wanted to get an idea of her overall thought before telling her the brutal truth if she doesn’t already know.      Answers: 1) My American Dream is the

  • Korean Collective Action

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    Korean Collective Action Throughout the past two decades, boycotts and demonstrations against Korean-American grocers by African-Americans have become increasingly common. This Anti-Korean stance has been fueled by complaints of Koreans' rudeness and physical violence towards customers, shoplifting suspicions, and price discrimination. However, using these same grievances, Korean-Americans have also done their share of shaking up the system. By the early 1980's produce retail had become the

  • Italian American Mafia

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    different cities and states. The Cutaia crew operates in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction operates throughout New Jersey. The Tanglewood boys who were a "recruitment gang" that operated in Westchester County, The Bronx, and

  • The Role Of Media In Bonfire Of The Vanities

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    Vanities, slotted itself into a time of great racial unrest and tension. In the wake of the Tawana Brawley and Bernie Goetz affairs, Wolf’s novel seems to foresight the insanity that would befall all following cases of similar topic: the rampant witch-hunt by the media to find a ‘Great White Defendant ’in order to right the racial wrongs of America. Demonstrated by the fate of Sherman McCoy, it is evident that the press played a crucial role in fanning the fires of racism, sweeping all facts aside in

  • Prostitution

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    swept the nation. The article featured Barbara Terry, a fifty-two year old Bronx woman, mother of four and self-proclaimed devout Christian. Barbara attended college for two years, training to become a medical lab technician before she and her husband divorced at the age of 21. Stuck alone without a complete college education and four kids, Barbara turned to working the streets of Hunts Point, a neighborhood in the Bronx. Barbara has been in the profession for 31 years and throughout all those years

  • Art Of Rhetoric Essay

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    What is the Art of Rhetoric? The art of rhetoric is always used to persuade the audience to the speaker 's point of view. you can find the art of rhetoric in advertisements, documentaries, editorials, speeches from politicians, and teenagers trying to get out of trouble. The art of Rhetoric consists of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. First Ethos is the credibility of the speaker or author. We need to understand why we should believe what the author is trying to say. There are a variety of ways to show

  • Why the People Are Interested in Serial Killers

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    through a variety of factors. Whereas a spree killer will murder a number of victims at different places over a short period of time and a mass murderer will plan an endgame strategy in which he or she does not expect to survive, a serial killer will hunt humans primarily for sexual thrill that they derive from the act (14) It is not often that law enforcement officials and behavioral scientists are able to get a first hand glimpse into the worlds of a serial killer at the time that the attacks are

  • Hip-Hop: A Voice for the Chican@-Latin@ Community

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    “hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape” Hip-hop is a culture that emerged from the Bronx, New York, during the early 1970s. Hip-Hop was a result of African American and Latino youth redirecting their hardships brought by marginalization from society to creativity in the forms of MCing, DJing, aerosol art, and breakdancing. Hip-hop serves

  • David Berkowitz: A True Psychopath

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    abandon her if she kept the baby, so when David Falco was born, she gave him up for adoption. Three days after Berkowitz was born he was adopted by his adoptive parents Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. Berkowitz was raised in a middle-class home in the Bronx. He had what seemed to be a normal childhood but Berkowitz and his family knew there was something different about him from an early age and at the age of ten Berkowitz started seeing a therapist. Because of adoption policies Berkowitz’s family told