The Bronx Essays

due to budgets, allotted time for production, or even a director with a different vision. In the musical reimagining of A Bronx Tale, certain features of the movie changed to fit the stage. The most notable change between the movie and musical was the tone. The different tone of the musical influenced other aspects of the show. The different tone of the musical version of A Bronx Tale is due, in part, to the musical numbers.  The movie had a noticeable darker tone than the musical. The musical numbers

here are stark differences between the Bronx and Manhattan in the 1970s. People living in the Bronx faced very poor environmental and socioeconomic conditions. For example, the South Bronx was described as “a spectacular set of ruins, a mythical wasteland, an infectious disease.” (Chang, 2005, p. 32). This shows the unsafe environmental conditions that Black and Brown people in the Bronx had to deal with. It makes sense that poor environmental conditions lead to poor health conditions like a disease

A Bronx Tale Growing up in the Bronx, in an Italian American neighborhood, during the 1960’s a boy finds his way stumbling into manhood. He has two paths to choose the legitimate way or the illegitimate way. His father, Lorenzo, who is played by Robert DeNiro is a hardworking man who works for a living. He always told Calogero also known as C (Lillo Brancato), “that nothing in the world is worse than wasted talent.” He always tried to listen to his father. While learning from his father, he admired

The Life of Bronx As Jonathan Kozol talk about the life of the Bronx in New York in his book, Amazing Grace, he talked about a lot of many things going on in the Bronx, like crimes, poverty, health, the environment, and many more. In the book, Kozol mentioned a lot about crimes either a murder, robbery, rape, or shootings. Again, in the book, there was a part that popped out to me, it was about the police in South Bronx. And lastly, the poverty of The Bronx. Although many years have passed, have

The Bronx in the late 1970’s was a scene of corruption, crime, and disco music. A counterculture surrounded by hip-hop music, dance, art, and lifestyle emerged as a response. In the 2016 Netflix drama, The Get Down, created by Baz Luhrmann and a team of collaborators, the story of Ezekiel’s youth in the South Bronx unfolds with an adult Ezekiel, or Zeke, guiding the journey. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines a character as having “a set of qualities that make a place or thing different from other

before. Jeff Chang introduces the early life of DJ Kool Herc in the beginning of the chapter. He was born Clive Campbell and moved from Jamaica to the Bronx when he was 12 with his family. He got his musical influence by his dad who was a soundman for a local rhythm and blues band, and by his mom who brought him to house parties as a kid in the Bronx. Clive became a DJ soon after, where he got

with Parkinson’s disease at that time, to the patients with Encephalitis lethargica, Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro) and the other patients at the hospital awakened for the first time in their life. It’s a story of a doctor in 1969 who worked at Bronx hospital with catatonic patients, and speculated that their sickness have a similarity to Parkinsonism, and used L-Dopa to treat them, thus awakening them from their deep slumber, Awakenings main characters are Robin Williams as Malcolm Sayer and Robert

that covers a little girl who overcomes a life-threatening illness. The movie “Awakenings” is based on the memoir written by Dr. Oliver Sacks in 1973, with his name and other successors/acquaintances in the memoir changed. The movie is set in the Bronx of 1969, where researcher Dr. Malcolm Sayer applies at Bainbridge chronic hospital hoping to be a researcher but ends up getting hired as a neurologist to work with the chronic patients of the hospital. The day Dr. Sayer starts, he notices the hospitals

the Metropolitan Transportation Authority who still contributed to his family. The family resided by the Bronx Zoo, in a brick house on Prospect Avenue. Continuing, Browder was enrolled at New Day Academy in his early life. The young boy was a C average student and was well known by peers and teachers as the “clever guy” who they assumed was very gifted. Growing up Kalief enjoyed WWE, The Bronx Zoo and Pokémon. On the other hand, during his pre-adult years he most rejoiced in parks, parties and playing

both the first and smallest town in Westchester County. Small, yes, but there 's still lots to do here and its picturesque, small-town feel is part of its charm. Originally incorporating areas of the Bronx including City Island and Pelham Bay Park, the town is now nestled just along the border of the Bronx, less than a half hour from Manhattan on the Metro North. Pelham’s top-notch public schools, close proximity to NYC, CT and greater Westchester along with many recreational and cultural centers

arguably the most important characters in the story. Before becoming a neurologist, Dr. Sayer was formerly a doctor who specialized in research science unrelated to human life. After receiving the neurologist position at the hospital located in the Bronx, Sayer becomes both determined and passionate about finding the cure for the patients suffering from encephalitis. Although many other doctors were against the experimental use of L-dopa on the patients, he continued the fight to save the patient's

Raf Simons was born in a small industrial town in Belgium in 1968. He grew up in a poor family, his mother was a house cleaner and his father was an army night watcher. The surrounding was not creative at all, that is why Simons chose industrial design as his career. In 1991 he was graduated in Industrial Design and Furniture Design and started to work as a furniture designer. At that time, one of his colleagues Walter Van Beirendonck invited him to Paris Fashion Week, where young Raf was affected

Joseph Saddler, also known as Grandmaster Flash, was born in Bridgetown Barbados and grew up in Bronx New York. In his earlier days, Joseph Saddler was a very talented electrician who used his skills to evolve DJ’ing. He improved the turntable to create specific sounds that were uncommon at his time and changed hip hop forever by becoming the industry standard. Grandmaster Flash changed hip hop by using turntables to create new DJ techniques and inventions that produced new and distinct sounds that

Fanta Kamara Ralph Lauren On October 14,1939 in Bronx, New York a fashion mogul is born. His name is Ralph Lifshitz, now known as Ralph Lauren. He was born into a Jewish immigrant working class family, and is the youngest out of four children. He was constantly bullied when he younger and that is why he changed his last name. Lauren was into expensive and extravagant clothes , so when he was twelve he got a job after school so he could afford the clothes he desired. He also sold handmade

I have chosen two personal experiences that will relate to Industry versus Inferiority and Identity versus role confusion of the stages of Erikson’s Theory. This will be investigated in the essay as well the attachment styles and parenting techniques that I have experienced in my life. The strengths and weaknesses and the criticism of The Erikson Theory will be discussed. The first experience that I went through was when I was 5 years old and I was currently in grade 0, my birthday is in December

The two main issues in this movie were patient treatment and experimental drug use. Both topics are very important when it comes into conversation. These are sensitive topics to talk about especially when talking about psychology or even psychiatric centers. In relation to the movie “Awakenings” these were two key situations. Throughout watching the movie I found that the patient treatment was unfair. Most of the doctors didn’t want to treat the patients the way Dr. Sayer did. Leonard, one of the

Awakenings (1990), a nonfictional film directed by Penny Marshall, showed the situation of patients suffering from a disorder identified as Encephalitis lethargica and its on-going search for a suitable and effective drug. It presented an unfamiliar disease towards the audience which appeared to be more of an awareness rather than a basic part of the storyline. The media is not so much aware of the existence and characteristics exhibited by the disease. This paper will be presenting the value of

WorldstarHiphop has been a staple in the hip-hop industry since its inception back in 2005. Sadly, its founder and CEO, Lee “Q” O’Denat, passed away at age 43 due to heart attack while asleep on January 23. The site started as platform to promote underground mixtapes, but grew to show music videos, fight videos and other outlandish footage. Though Worldstar faced criticism for a lot of the videos they posted, no one can deny the impact Q had on the community. In an interview with New York Times

Awakenings: A Review Summary: This 1990 film is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’ and his story. The movie is based on two main characters, Dr. Malcolm Sayer and Leonard Lowe. The main basis for the film is that Dr. Sayer has gotten a new job at a clinic with human patients, however, he is used to working in labs with non-living subjects. At this clinic, he is faced with many patients who were apart of an encephalitis epidemic years, and years ago, and have been in a catatonic state ever since

"MY FAMILY" MOVIE REVIEW Introduction The Sanchez family is a Mexican family whose father leaves his homeland in search of the American dream. The family members include, Mrs. Sanchez, two daughters and four sons. The movie directed by Gregory Nava, is dramatic and comical, yet it tell a good story of the struggles, determination, and happiness of a Mexican family. Mr. Sanchez, the father leaves his homeland on foot estimating it will take him no more than two weeks to get to his uncle's house