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Jonathan You

Jonathan You — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:11:10 +0000

Hi, my name is Jonathan. I live in Bayside, Queens. I go to Baruch College, and I'm planning to major in BioChem, as opposed to business. I'm half Chinese and half Taiwanese. My father came from Taipei, Taiwan. My mother came from a town near Shanghai called Ning Bo. I've never gone to Brighton Beach before, so this project allowed me to learn more about New York City. I felt quite like a tourist in Brighton Beach.

Avenue J

Jonathan You — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:47:39 +0000

Upon getting off the Q on Avenue J, we could already smell the sensational aroma of pizza with a hint of bakery cupcakes. We walked about five blocks total on J and could count one pizza store on each of the five blocks, not to mention the bakeries, candy stores, and ice cream trucks.

The Harlem Ghetto

Jonathan You — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:38:15 +0000

In The Harlem Ghetto, the author, James Baldwin shows how not only did African Americans live in the worse conditions while also being charged the most they prevented their own upward mobility by trying to be accepted by the white race. By assimilating to White America the African Americans within New York could only conform to the stereotypical views of them. Also during that time white people did very little to help Harlem over all, instead they focused more on trying to please the Harlem community with a few new parks and schools.

Hand in Hand

Jonathan You — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:04:22 +0000

Perceptions

Jonathan You — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:04:15 +0000

I've been to Chinatown before, so I am expecting the loud and bustling Chinatown I am always use to. But I have never gone to Brighton Beach, and for some reason when I think Brighton Beach I think of a combination of Coney Island and Miami Beach. In other words I am picturing a boardwalk with a giant clean and empty beach. I also keep picturing that all of Brighton Beach is along the boardwalk. Like something you see in movies, where all the stores are lined up on the boardwalk around the beach.

Harlem Riots

Jonathan You — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:52:25 +0000

In both "The Politics of Disorder: Re-examining Harlem's Riots of 1935 and 1943" by Cheryl Greenberg and “Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane” by Alain Locke, I felt that a reoccuring point they both talk about is the fact that the blacks in Harlem had no way to channel their unrest and anger. It was because of this that all of their anger combine was unleashed at once. While reading the piece I could not help but think of a wave.

Havard of the Poor?

Jonathan You — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:03:56 +0000

At first I was very surprised by the fact that City College was once called the "Harvard of the Poor," but after thinking about it for a while I was not surprised. As I have often heard, the CUNY system is considered one of the best systems in the country. After reading both articles I was amazed at how many radical thinkers there was in the past. It seems that presently noncomforming ideas are horrifying. I was also surprised by the number of publiclly known Intellectuals, and find it very depressing that there are no current day counterpart to these Intellectuals.