Monthly Archives: February 2008

Neighborhood Idol

I am from Wagner Projects,that is on 123rd Street on the eastside of harlem.The first thing that I would do is take my friend around my projects then show him 125 street so he can see all the stores and sites.I would show him the Apollo Theater,then to the Magic Johnson Movie theaters.After the movie [...]

ROCKERFELLER CENTER REFELCTION

The Rockefeller Center was named after James D. Rockefeller. I didn’t know alot about this trip before we went, but what I did know about the Rockerfeller Center is that its near 5th avenue and it is most famous for the huge Rockerfeller Center Christmas Tree. The Tree was all very colorful and vibrant [...]

Do The Right Thing Produced Spike Lee

    I think so many movies take place in NYC because new york is such a party city. It’s the city that never sleeps. New York is exciting and fun and there are so many things to do and explore. Five movies that take place in New York are American Gangster,Juice,The Godfather and Bronx Tale.My [...]

Native American Museum

Before we went to the museum I expected to see many artifacts such as clothing, tools and other things that the native Americans used. One thing I remember from the museum was this big mural on the wall with the bird spreading it’s wings. The title of the mural was Acrylic [...]

Alberto’s true story

An interesting story that happened in my neighborhood was that one day july 29, 1988 on of my dad’s friends passed by a random neighborhood and stole a BMW I 525.  he stold it and brought it back to my neighborhood which is 171st. 2 days later he came from chillin and parked the car [...]

NATIVE AMERICAN MUSEUM

BEFORE I WENT TO THE NATIVE AMERICAIN MUESEUM I  THOUGHT  I WOULD SEE
NAIVE AMERICAN STUFF LIKE OLD TEEPEES AND OLD CLOTHES AND RAGS THEY USED. 
ONE THING I LEARNED @ THE MUSEUM WAS THAT THE NATIVE AMERICANS WERE VERY SPIRITUAL.
MY FAVORITE OBJECT @ THE MUSEUM WOULD BE THE ACRYLIC ON CANVAS BECAUSE IT SHOWS HOW POLYTHEISTIC [...]

Do The Right Thing

 
I think a lot of movies are filmed in New York City because of it has a lot of famous sites. Also you can find many diverse communities. I honestly dont know many movies that were filmed in NY but one is Uptown Girls. During the movie i started to like the character named Buggin [...]

Socrates Sculpture Park

Before I went to the museum, which turned out to be a park, I expected to see sculpures of naked people doing graceful poses. The two sculpures that I liked were the “Mamma I wanna do the Damn thang B Fresh to death N let My Balls Hang.” It was wierd because the sculpture didn’t [...]

Water H2O=Life

I expected to see buckets of water. On this trip I learned that the average person in the United States 137 gallons. The trip I thought was interesting and fun but all that water made me go to the bathroom. In the past 50 years, the water demand has tripled. In some countries have to [...]

Do The Right Thing

On Friday, we we watched the movie “Do The Right Thing” by Spike Lee. The movie takes place in Brooklyn, in a small neighborhood. I think that so many movies are filmed in New York because of the landscape that NY has. All the tall buildings and skyscrapers are always [...]