...Windward Commons: East side VS. West side Moving on from high school to college can be difficult for any teenager. College and high school are different for many reasons. College students are not only away from their parents but they are also able to make their own decisions and able to do what they want to do when they want to do it. The decisions they make in college usually have a bigger impact on their lives than the decisions they made in high school. Although, all these things are difficult for any new college student; being able to fit in socially is the hardest part of all according to many freshman. My job was to explore the freshman dorm at Armstrong, Windward Commons. Windward is split into two different sides, east and west. The reason for the observations is to see what side most people rather stay and visit. I decided to do this because many freshman claim that they are more social in the dorm than outside of it. Windward Commons is a beautifully designed building that houses around a thousand people. The co-ed dorm is for freshman only. The fact that it is co-ed may turn the heads of many parents. According to Sarah, “My parents didn’t like the fact that my next door neighbors on both sides are males. They thought the eastside was for males while the west side was for females until move in day. They claimed that if they didn’t already pay for me to live on campus then I wouldn’t because they are totally against co-ed dorms” (Sarah). After my interview with Sarah...
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...rental price for Manhattan rose by 6.7 percent. When it comes to sales, there is no longer a dramatic price difference between many Brooklyn neighborhoods and comparable areas of Manhattan. According to StreetEasy, the median asking price for a Brooklyn Heights apartment has risen 37.8 percent in the past five years to $792,500 while the median price in the West Village rose by only 4.34 percent during that same period, to $895,000. Additionally, Elliman’s data shows that in the first quarter, the median sales price for a Brooklyn apartment shot up 14 percent year-over-year, while the median price in Manhattan rose just 5.9 percent. And at least one popular Brooklyn neighborhood, Williamsburg, is now more expensive than the Lower East Side. The city’s current inventory shortage — available Manhattan listings fell by 34 percent year-over-year in the first quarter — has accelerated the shrinking price gap between the two boroughs, as would-be Manhattan buyers widen their search to include Brooklyn. That said, one area where there are still significant discounts...
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...Cultural Event Critique Professor Gonzalez November 24, 2015 November 30, 2015 The Young Lord in New York held by El Museo del Barrio By Steffany Estevez Steffany Estevez LAT 125 Cultural Event critique November 30, 2015 El Museo Del Barrio hosted an event of The Young Lords in New York in which explores the legacy of the Young Lords in East Harlem, the Bronx and the Lower East Side, focusing on specific political events that the Young Lords organized in these locations. I attended to this event on November 24, 2015, presented by the museum. El Museo’s exhibition draws from works in the museum’s own collection including copies of the Young Lords weekly newspaper,” Palante”. It also explores the legacy of the Young Lords and the relationship between art and activism. Images by photographer Hiram Maristany that feature the Young Lords’ Garbage Offensive, their takeover of the First Spanish Methodist Church of East Harlem (later renamed by the Young Lords as The People’s Church), their free morning breakfast program, the rerouting of a TB-testing truck and the funeral of Julio Roldán everything was highlighted in the exhibition. The Young Lords founded in Chicago in September 1968, the Young Lords Organization later developed a chapter in New York City in July 1969 when various groups came together in the interest of neighborhood improvement and Puerto Rican self-determination. The New York chapter...
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...a lot to Annie. Kid has a bad influence on Annie’s life. 4. If she carries on living her life the way she does, it will maybe kill her. 5. Kid’s parents were good Christians who were communicants at the parish church, and the whole family tried hard to keep Kid out of criminal activities. Annie’s father was a shoemaker, but he died when she was 6 years old. Annie and her mother then moved to the Lower East Side, because they couldn’t afford anything else. 6. Because of their father’s death the families had no money and it affected their way of living. They had to live an underdog life. 8. The environment was terrible for kids and it gave them no chance of going to school. Because of the poor conditions in the environment, they had to live their life in the best possible way. 9. The Lower East Side was a district in which there were a lot of social problems like prostitution, criminal gangs, drunkenness, drugs etc. Questions to” Katie and Leah” 1. D 2. Katie has the American lifestyle, accepts to live side by side with the Christians Leah has hold on in the traditional lifestyle. Leah wears a wig. A wig = a Jewish tradition for married...
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...contains immigrants from other parts of the world; there is Mr. Fong from China, Diego Torres from the Dominican Republic, Aldo Fabrizi from Sicily, and Stephan Paczkowski from Poland. What they all have in common is that they have immigrated in the search of a better life and a lot of them to be American Citizens as well. What indicates that the story takes place in New York is that Mrs. Hamma lives in Queens, that the student Mr. Fong says, that he has been in United States, New York City for almost a year is working in Chinatown, and that Lali says, that she has lived in New York City Lower East side since she got married. Mrs. Susan Hamma is a very tall, angular woman with large extremities. She is even the tallest person in the room with students. She lives in Queens and works there in the local junior high school, but every Thursday she drives all the way to the Lower East Side to teach the group. As she says: “If these people can make it to class after working all day at those miserable, dreary, uninteresting, and often revolting jobs, the least I can do is be there to serve them, making every lesson count toward improving their conditions!” (p. 34, l. 1-5) Mrs. Hamma is a very positive person; she encourages her students to go ahead with the English language and is very enthusiastic about them. When the students are doing presentations on themselves, she emphasize that everyone deserves applauses after...
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...distributor located on New York’s lower east side. I was asked evaluate their system of internal controls because they are planning togo public in the near future. The president of the company wants to be aware of any new regulations required of his company if they go public, so he met with my colleague at a local restaurant. The president of the company explained the current system of internal controls to my colleague. She has since been promoted to a tax position so she has passed on the information below so I can generate recommendations for the partner at the accounting firm to share with the president of LJB Company. Based on the information I was able to collect from the LJB company, in order to go public there are some internal control that needs to be in place (Control environment, Risk Assessment, Control Activities, Information and Communication monitoring). These are done to prevent any fraudulent action and abuse and to be in compliance of the law. I find that operations at LJB are going very well. Keeping checks locked in a separate location is great safety measure. This prevents access to LJB funds protecting them from potential theft. Having pre-numbered checks in my opinion is a good safety measure as well. I would also recommend purchasing the indelible ink machine for the purpose of running checks. The use of the ink machine applies to physical control. Using the ink press will prevent signature forgery. The down side of my evaluation is that I have found...
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...Historical figures that contributed to the evolution of nursing. * Two important figures that changed the evolution of the history on nursing. Linda Richards considered the first trained nurse and Lillian Wald considered the precursor of public health nursing. * * Linda Richards, who's the actual name, was Melinda Ann Judson Richards, was born on July 27, 1841, in Potsdam, New York. Linda was the daughter of Sanford Richards and Betsy (Sinclair) Richards. * Considered the first trained nurse in the United States. * 1873, she graduate of New England Hospital for Women and Children nursing school and started working at Boston Training School until 1877, later called Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing. In the same year, she traveled to England to observe at the training school set up by Florence Nightingale. * * 1878 she opened a training school for nursing at Boston City Hospital, where she was the matron and superintendent of the school. * 1866 volunteered at America Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and she was sent to Japan, where she founded the first Japanese school of nursing at Doshisha Hospital in Kyoto. * 1892 In Philadelphia founded a school at Methodist Episcopal Hospital. * * Headed nurses' training schools at New England Hospital for Women and Children, Taunton Insane Hospital in Massachusetts, Michigan Insane Asylum in Kalamazoo. * Also worked at Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospital, Hartford Hospital...
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...Information Management Systems The Second Life Strategy of American Apparel 1. This was not a failure for American Apparel because this was a learning experience. This learning experience helped them identify with their customer base. This helped them start up the MTV’s virtual Lower East Side. This was a great benfit for the company. 2. This has supported American Apparels business strategy greatly. It has allowed American Apparel to come to the market, helped sales and building customer relationships. 3. The second life store helped American Apparel’s business strategy by providing to the market. This helped American Apparel understand their consumer market and to learn from their consumers. 4. I think it’s really cool. I would play that game. I also feel like it’s a lot like Sims the game. The only difference you do not have to pay for clothes and you do not fly. I would play this game but I do not like spending my money something that is not real. 5. Yes I do think its very effective. Many companies do game advertising. When a person plays any kind of sport game there is usually advertising. This is a very effective way of advertising because it’s cheap and it still gets the word out of what that company is doing. 6. Yes I do beieave that this increases customer loyalty. People can go online and look at the clothes on their avatar then go to the store and buy the same clothes. This keeps customers to keep coming back. The avatar represents the...
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...1. Why does Sandel assert that "A 700 SAT score from a student who attended poor public schools in the South Bronx means more than the same score from for a graduate of an elite private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan"? a. Studies show that Blacks and Hispanics students as a whole score lower than whites students on standardized testing. Sandel mentions that for whatever reason there is a testing gap. To utilize standardized testing to predict academic success would require the interpretation of the students’ academic scores and to include the family’s social, culture and educational background. Sandel states that the A 700 score for a student who attended poor public schools in the South Bronx has more meaning than that of a student from an Upper East Side of Manhattan. 2. What is the essence of Richard Dworkin's argument in support of affirmative action university admissions policies? b. Dworkin’s idea of the supporting argument on affirmative action in relations to the universities admission policies is stated that possibly the right at stake should be based according to academic criteria alone. The fact of being good at football, or coming from Idaho, or having volunteered in a soup kitchen. Dworkin views the facts of grades, test scores, and other measures of academic promise land me in the top group of applicants, therefore I should be admitted. One should be considered based on academic merit alone. 3. What does it mean to sever the...
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... “Edward Fella is an American born 1938 in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in the city and worked as a “commercial artist, illustrator, and designer while attending Cass Technical High School” (Edfella). from 1957-1987 until going to graduate school” (Fella 9). “During 1985 he got a BFA at the Center for Creative Studies. He got his MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987” (Edfella). “There he learned his ‘trade,’ which at that time was called ‘Commercial Art.’ He studied twentieth century Modernism, especially the Bauhaus idea and ideal” (Dooley). “In 1987 he joined the faculty at the California Institute of Arts in Valencia, California and continues to live and teach there” (Fella 9). “In 1997 he received the Chrysler award and in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and MOMA in New York. He won the National Design Awards 2001 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum NYC” (Edfella). “Edward sees himself at the ‘exit level’ of design and has no desire or need to work to someone else’s brief” (Fella 9). After working for 30 years in the commercial industry Edward finally has the time to work on personal projects. Most of his work now consists of sketchbook pages and other personal projects. While teaching at Calarts he is against this idea of ‘do as I do.’ He doesn’t offer any kind of a model to emulate or copy. At Calarts they don't say ‘This is the way to work. He teaches students to find their own voice”...
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