... when the Central Park Controversy was formed in the 1980's things began to look uphill for the well-being of the park. This plan to restore the park was a very long (15 year) process and was very costly as well. It all began with restoring the fields; re-planting the meadows, planting trees, and fixing the walking paths that surrounded it brought upon a vision of a new luscious Central Park. The Belvedere ... castle is a specific example of one of the major reconstructions ... that had to be taken inside of the park. The castle was crumbling down and was filled from top to bottom ... ...

• Word Count: 721
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... stress on your life, or if your children are beginning to be to much for you, and mabye even school is putting your life into overload mode. The best medicine to treat these kind of problems in your life is to take a vacation to somewhere where you can get a little rest and relaxation. There ... example. If you enjoy site seeing, this is the city to do it in. Alot of great sites here, such as, The Statue of Liberty is the top 10 sites to see in America. Another is Time Square or even Central Park is calming. You can walk on the park trails and clear you mind or just have fun ... taking...

• Word Count: 260
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... State from France to honor the friendship the two live through during the American Revolution. The represent of liberty is a woman, The Liberty represents freedom and opportunity for immigrants. It was built on September 1875. "Auguste Bartholdi was the French sculptor who designed the Statue of Liberty"(National Park). Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel was the following designer of the interior structural elements of the Statue of Liberty. He also created ... the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The French and U.S shared similar political views and situations in 1865, and France gave ... ...

• Word Count: 671
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... also be referred to as the international code. Morse ran for congress in 1854 but lost. By 1860 he was finally financially secure. He also became vise president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Morse got national praise and in 1871 when the telegraph industry honored him with a statue in central park in New York City. He also had the morse code named after him ... . The telegraph was such a huge success that tens of thousands of miles of telegraph wire ... was strung across the country. Morse became an honored person in the United States and Europe. I think that Morse's strongest ... ...

• Word Count: 642
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... their message board, otherwise known as Star Six. The board was the first place where I was actually able to meet people who were obsessed with the band just like I was. My first dispatch concert came about in 2001 when my friend and I traveled to Asbury Park in New Jersey to see them play. This concert ... changed my life forever. The opening band, The Lost Trailers, who are very good friends of Dispatch ... , were amazing. They had true raw passion for music and are determined to make it big. I had the honor after the show to talk to the drummer of The Lost Trailers ... out that thei...

• Word Count: 878
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... returning to his parents' Manhattan apartment. In New York, he succumbs to increasing feelings of loneliness and desperation; he feels increasingly tormented by the memory of his younger brother Allie's death, and his life is complicated by his sexuality. He wants to see his sister Phoebe and his ... Phoebe insists on going with him he stops, agreeing to go back home to protect his sister from the ugliness of the world. He takes her to the park, and watches her ride on the merry-go-round; he suddenly feels overwhelmed by an unexplainable, intense happiness. Holden concludes his story by...

• Word Count: 1065
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... York City. It is by far a wonder of man's creation, an impressive Beaux work of Art. Yet it is not the first creation of a railroad system neither in its place on Forty-second Street and Park Avenue nor with the name "Grand Central." In 1869, "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the property between Forty-second and Forty-eight streets to build a new train depot for ... the Hudson River Railroad, which he over took in 1863. It shared an East side terminal and named Grand Central Depot. This ... stone reaching measurements of 470ft long, 160ft wide and 150ft high. In the middle of th...

• Word Count: 611
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... In 1927 William Van Alen began that direction when William H. Reynolds, a real-estate speculator as famous as the impresario behind the Dreamland Park at Coney Island. Reynolds commissioned Alen to design a 40-story at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. . As Van Alen worked on the project Reynolds then sold the land to Walter P. Chrysler. Who then had Alen abandoned his original plans for ... the 40-story building. Instead Chrysler wanted the world's tallest skyscraper - a design that would spare no extravagance what so ever in catching the ... topped with a pyramid crown to a building B...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , "For decades, heroin was mostly found in the urban sections of the island's north, where the ferry docks from Manhattan and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge touches down from Brooklyn. It afflicted the borough's poorest areas, with sales concentrated in open-air markets at a few notorious housing developments like Stapleton and Park Hill." All in all, the open-air drug market has created a lot of sorrow ... in the streets of New York City. Crime will always increase due to the rapid trade of illegal substances. Although death is ... the last stage of a criminal act, the role that has to b...

• Word Count: 949
• Approx Pages: 4

... must have been like and how it was the foundation of what things are like today in the present. Seeing the history of an area that I grew up around, yet not knowing much about, really was an eye opener. The Brooklyn Navy Yard is 300-acre industrial park is located between Williamsburg and the Manhattan Bridges and sits on Wallabout Bay. When I state that is represents ... the past, it is because of the different things that occurred for ... it to be such a success today. In the past, women working were not very common especially in a male ... ...

• Word Count: 1065
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... of all this I have taken a very long look at my life. Have I lived a good life? Was I a good Senator, secretary of Navy, and president? Was I good father, husband, son? Have I made the right decisions in life and for my family and country? These questions have been going through my head all day long. I started of thinking back to when I was a small boy ... growing up in Hyde Park, New York; this is in Dutchess County. I became extremely fascinated with birds. I loved to watch them and look at them in all their beautiful colors, and how each of their ... wonderful person. A person who I...

• Word Count: 1200
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... not be banned at all anywhere in the United States. The book's ideas relate to the majority of teenagers throughout the country. Many say because of the book's profanity and teenage sexual relations, that it is a bad influence on many young adults. However, many teenagers have the same feelings as Holden towards many aspects of life. Of course many teenagers don't wander the streets of New York City calling ... fit that certain novel's plot and ideas. If teenagers relate to this book more than adults do, why should it be banned in different high schools? The book certainly does show a b...

• Word Count: 350
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... and get what he was saying, but other than that it was clear. American Colossus is a good book, when it talks about how our economy grew after the Civil War, but by people who had more money and power than the people in our political offices. The book, describes how Morgan and his mastery in finance afforded him more power than any elected official save ... the president, and sometimes even more than the president and how no senator or governor so directly controlled so many lives as Carnegie. Rockefeller held whole regions hostage to ... of innovations that we think of as modern, such...

• Word Count: 740
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography

... great lengths to see it taken off library shelves, and out of classrooms. The reasons why the book should be banned vary, but the goal of the people against the book remains the same. The number one reason why "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is banned is because of the racism throughout the book. The constant use of the word "nigger", and the strong presence of slavery have thrown people into an uproar ever since it ... was published. African Americans and others, led by the NAACP, began to challenge the book in the 1950s ... ...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... is a work of fiction and a tragic-comedy. I came to choose it because I heard it is about a boy who is around my age. In this book, the main character, Holden Caulfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of a private prep school. Because he ... well, but I feel sorry for him because nobody can understand his dream, and it is not realistic. Holden seems to be too good a person to be in this corrupt world. The style of this book is unusual because it is told by a sixteen-year-old boy who appears to be ...

• Word Count: 859
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... proof of tenement life. It gives faces to the victims of these oppressive conditions. The writings of this book were based on and influenced by the photography done in the tenements by Riis. This book would not exist without flashlight powder and the detective camera. Photography of the time is the greatest influence on the book and the introduction makes the reader realize this. The introduction also told us why many of these conditions ... may have existed. He also points out the conflicting views of the cause of such poverty, the social Darwinists and the social conditions ... ...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... The book Speak is a non-fiction story. It is based on a true story and is based on what people like me (teens) go through. I feel that the story emphasizes on both the plot and the character because it's about what the character goes through and her struggling with this plot. The story takes place in the big city of New York City, New York. Melinda lives in the ... face him anymore and she doesn't have to be afraid of him attacking her again. I believe that the book was very well written and well worth reading! It tells about the bad things out there in the world and what people my age go...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... novel inspired by Andy Warhol. This book is about Warhol's life, and what led him to become the artist that we know today. Andy Warhol is known for creating the style of art called, "Pop Art." This is what brought Andy Warhol to fame beginning in the 1960's. Andy Warhol is a man ... who knows what to do to stand out, in ways that others just did not. One of the main themes of this book would be creativity. Everything that Andy Warhol does is based on his creative mind. Ever since Andy was a little kid he ... was always different from everyone, and looked upon as an outcast. He was diag...

• Word Count: 548
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Khalil hates all Americans and why he went psycho and killed over 200 people. Throughout the book there are many racist remarks made. Whether the FBI, CIA, or NYPD makes it. The greatest amount of racism came from the cops towards the Muslim and Libyan community, and especially by John Corey. John Corey: "Well, the Muslims don't drink, I can't spell their f-ing names on my reports, and ... 'you don't get around much'. (13) However, John is not the only one making such statements. The CIA makes fun of the FBI saying that the are 'Wendell wasp from west wheat-field, Iowa.'(8) They, as in ...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

* Setting: When: This book was written in the latter part of the 90's which was the time frame for this book. The seeting lets you know why the main character acts and thinks the way she does. Where: This book took place in New York City at Albert Einstein High School. Throughout the book it jumps from place to place. A large portion of the book was at her house in Greenwich Village. And lastly ... her "Princess Lessons- were held at the Plaza ... Hotel. * Characters: The protagonist ... ...

• Word Count: 1090
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... their lifetime. John Updike spent his later years in Beverly farms, Massachusetts where he died of lung cancer at the age of 76. Rabbit Run Published November 12, 1960 Rabbit run was the novel that started off the Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom series of book by John Updike. Rabbit run was about a young man that finds himself in a lot of complications and instead ... explicit content. Couples is a novel about a group of married couples all with kids pets and a profession (the model American household) having their norms altered when a couple moves into the community and stir up some trouble. A...

• Word Count: 899
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... own racial identity. James's childhood was spent in a chaotic home with 12 children while his mother, Ruth was working hard just to put enough food on the table. Ruth came to America when she was a young girl from a family of Polish Jewish immigrants. While growing up, Ruth lived in Suffolk, Virginia ... Shilsky was racist towards blacks while Ruth wanted to befriend them. Ruth eventually married two black men, converted to Christianity, and had 12 kids between the both of them. While growing up, James often questioned his mother about her background and her past. She always told him to s...

• Word Count: 512
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... well and they like drama. Also they have mastery over other people. Lola's character traits: • stubborn - even when her mother did not let her go to the concert, Lola decided to lie and to go; • confident - she always know what to do; • witty - she always know what to say; & ... drama talent ("We had ten curtain calls and standing ovation"); • eccentric - instead of her words "You got no right to touch me" (the old version of the book), she decided to make American version like this "Keep your f-in" hands of me" (of course it was a joke). Carla's character traits: • dishonest ...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... , Pencey Prep. His roommate there, Stradlater, and another boy they live next to, Ackley, stress Holden out a lot. Holden doesn't enjoy the company of many people, only his younger sister, Phoebe. He once had another very strong connection with his brother, Allie, but he had died ... run away again, but his connection with his sister holds him back. Holden's final destination in the book is some sort of mental care facility, from where he is telling his story. Throughout the book, The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, Holden suffers from an emotional, mental, and physical disintegrat...

• Word Count: 840
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... and writing. Years passed, and his dream was still immutable, he wanted to achieve the ultimate goal of his life. Furthermore, at the age of 12, he purchased a book called The Columbian Orator. This book helped him to understand and acknowledge how spoken and written words can bring a positive change ... . One of the biggest disappointments that Fredrick had to face was not knowing his age. He wrote" ... a want of information concerning my age was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. The ... others to seek for justice. I learned that no matter how hard it gets, just bel...

• Word Count: 897
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School