Essays on The Bronx

Tourism comes in many different shapes and sizes. Tourism can be international or national; it can even be relatively close to one’s home, as tourism is not defined by how far an individual goes, but by the fact that he or she has traveled and the types of activities that he or she participates in while gone from home (Wurzburguer , Pattakos & Pratt, 2008). Tourism can be measured a number of different ways using a number of different metrics; however, from a practical standpoint, tourism is generally understood as being domestic tourism, inbound international tourism, or outbound international tourism ( ...

Improving Health Inequities

Health inequities refer to the systematic differences in the status of a given population. The youth population of the age between 6 and 12 present in the Bronx, District 4, faces various health inequities. Majority of the teens of the mentioned age tend to engage in premature sex, which leads them to encounter health inequalities relating to pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and obtaining sexually transmitted infections. Other inequalities include the huge variation in mortality rates between the youths and the elderly individuals in the Bronx. Reduced life expectancy among the youths of the mentioned age is also a pressing health inequality. ...

Citizenship and Instruction Program

Experience and Community Need BronxWorks, is a settlement house and multi-service organization with proven track record of leading immigration services since 1998. That year we first collaborated with SEEDCO to launch a series of initiatives that target low-income immigrants with limited English language proficiency. Our organization leveraged resources to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) services and civics classes from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to more than 250 participants in 2015 and over 600 participants since its inception. For over 18 years, we have provided citizenship and ESL instruction to New ...

Discussion and Application of “The Other Wes Moores”

Choice and expectations are among the factors that determine the path that a person takes in life. In everyday life, human beings have to make certain choices that determine the path they take from when they make the choices. A choice according to Wes Moores does not guarantee a good outcome; the credibility and how genuinely one makes the choices determine the direction it provides. In a lecture, Wes Moores said that the choice one makes greatly matters and in many cases, the second chance given is mainly the last chance. The author also added that the expectations make ...

Introduction

Hip-hop culture has proliferated to the extent that today, one may speak of it as a modern-day cultural phenomenon. Hip-hop emerged from the Bronx ghetto and found its way up to white suburbia in the United States as well as Europe over a period of the last thirty years. Hip-hop has had a socio-cultural impact that is so intense that it has affected youth culture all over the world, especially in the manner of speaking, values, dress codes, etc. Since it was birthed in 1974, it has evolved tremendously. Sociologically, the expressive ways of African Americans, Latinos and Caribbean-Americans has spread to ...

The text reading from the book presented in the book represents the process of learning as an active and constructive acquisition of knowledge through the emergent individual interactions with the personal experiences with people in significant, purposeful context. In a school setup, a curriculum is usually put in place to aid in maintaining the schooling structure and accountability systems that are put in place to ensure individual professional development and the generational community in overall.

The use of assessment approaches to assessments to assess student learning has both its advantages and disadvantages. One of the pros of assessments is that it ...

Culture has Influenced the World

How African American Culture has Influence the World Introduction It started as a cultural shock wave during the 1970s after its emergence in the African-American communities in the Bronx, a poverty stricken area in New York during that time. While hip hop culture is now an international phenomenon, it was once a small subculture of the African Americans that manifested a clearer picture of the life conditions, feelings and aspirations of the Black Americans. Most people attributed hip hop to rapping, a genre of music that was once unique to the black American youths, however, rap is only a part of the hip ...

EMPLOYEE TURNOVER QUESTIONNAIRE

Why do you think there is turnover in your department? Do you think the employees who are hired are qualified? Is turnover high on one shift or in one location but good in another? Are employees leaving after three to five years or during their first 12 months? Do you think there is a bad match between the employee's skills and the job? Do you think there is a lack of opportunity for advancement or growth? Do you think the employee feels that they are not being appreciated? Do you think there is an ...

The movie entitled Rumble in the Bronx is an action comedy featuring the story of a Chinese visitor in the Bronx, New York. The story revolves around Keung who visits his Uncle Bill in America in time for his wedding. Later, he got involved with a biker gang when he attempted to stop their bike race from destroying the car that his Uncle borrowed from his friend. During the course of the on-going brawls with the group, one of its member, Angelo stole a diamond from larger syndicate group led by White Tiger. Angelo escaped the syndicate and hid the diamonds on ...

- Pitch Perfect - Identify the Climax: The climax of the movie was the part wherein the protagonist, and the other members of her band, the Barden Bellas, made it into the intercollegiate a capella competition’s finals to fight once again after suffering from an embarrassing and devastating loss the previous year. In the climax, the Barden Bellas came in to fight, once again, their long-time rival, an all-male a capella singing group from the same university, in the competition’s finals. The outcome of the climax was a win for the Barden Bellas in the singing competition. - ...

Just like this decade, Hip Hop music has been very instrumental in expressing cultural aspects, political views, social perspectives and attitude towards a particular group in the 80’s. Criminal minded was widely considered to be the foundation of the hardcore rap, that announced its overall intentions with just a cover photo of its artists- Kris-One and Scott La Rock. These artists posed with weapons which was unheard musical gesture since the year 1987. Boogle Down production was a rap tailored to explain about the inner city violence and drugs. There existed no explicit mention of the real gangs who conducted the ...

Reggae music was born on the island of Jamaica in the late 1960s. It is a fairly recent music genre that has roots in mento, R&B and Ska music that were contemporary musical movements. Recorded music was relatively late in coming to Jamaica with the first recording studio opening in 1951 and recording “mento” music which was a fusion of European and African folk dance music. American R&B music also became widely available around that time. The genre of Reggae may have langered in obscurity and never achieved international status and recognition had it not been for it’s most iconic ...

A Critical Analysis of the Social Work Intervention Process

The term ‘empowerment’ is one which is used to designate the idea of giving control to an individual: if someone feels empowered, it means that they feel as though they can do something. In social work, this is no different: the empowerment approach is one which attempts to take control of a particular situation whilst giving those involved the skills and tools with which to manage their lives. Put succinctly, the empowerment process is “the process by which individuals and groups gain power, access to resources and control over their own lives. In doing so, they gain the ability to ...