Essays on 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 ( ...

The site and situation of any area determine the settlement and development of the place. New York is sited on the Coast while bordering by various rivers that divide it into five boroughs. The five boroughs are Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens. Staten and Manhattan are sole islands, Queens and Brooklyn are on Long Island, while the Bronx is on the mainland of New York (Wong, 34). People settled in New York from Europe because of the natural harbors and the coastal location. The nearby Hudson River provided fresh water as well as the small creeks. The ...

Marketing Plan

Involved in multi-manufacturing of Fast Moving Consumer Goods such as non-alcoholic soft drinks and snacks, Marc Inc. is an American-based multinational food and beverage corporation with its headquarter at Bronx, New York. The company was established on March 2011 targeting the population of the Bronx to supply with very good quality of soft drinks and snacks. The company has a healthy pool of approx. 1350 employees managed very well by a very capable team of management. Blackcurrant Knight is a blackcurrant juice; the company is manufacturing and supplying and now intends to penetrate further. This paper renders the marketing ...

Crime analysis is made up of five stages: data collection, collation, analysis, dissemination, and the receipt of feedback. Trying to determine which stage is most important is a very subjective process since every step is critical in crime analysis. Failure to complete any of the five stages can lead to incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading conclusions. However, from the most objective of perspectives, it can be concluded that data collection represents the most important stage in crime analysis. The main rationale behind this reasoning is that the rest of the steps are solely dependent on the accuracy of data collection. ...

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. ...

3rd of May 2016.

The purpose of this essay is to discuss one of the most influential movements in the United States. We are going to discuss its rise, expansion, its decline as well as its offensive acts that were performed to deliver particular messages. Let`s take a closer look on how it all started.

Origins, Expansion & Downfall.

The Young Lords is a Puerto Rican political movement that was remarkably active during the 1960s era in the mainland (United States). It was initially categorized as a gang, yet Jose Cha Cha Jimenez managed to lead the transition of the former gang to a legitimate political ...

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 ...

Abstract

The study has focused on the topic of substance abuse among African American teen residing in Mott Haven area of Bronx United States. The paper has started by giving an overview that entails defining the topic’s key terms. Also, the study has highlighted and discussed the statistics showing the frequency of drug and substance abuse among the African American youngsters. As the report has indicated, the teens fall under the age bracket of 12 to 17 years. The paper has explained the drugs abused most by the youngsters with alcohol taking the lead, followed by marijuana, inhalants as ...