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Fire’s Wrath

Posted on December 24, 2011 by joshua90

Prof. Gold ENG 1101 City Tech Fall 2011 Joshua M. `                                     Fire’s Wrath Throughout time fire has devastated many countries and societies all over the world. There have been many great fires throughout time an important one being the Brooklyn theater … Continue reading →

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Learning from the past

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Isaias G.

Isaías Garcia Final Project English 1101- Prof. Gold 12/20/11     History can teach us many things. For scientists, it can show them how not to repeat a mistake done in an experiment, or further enhance an existing product. For … Continue reading →

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Final Project – Building Construction and Fire

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Adam Elkhouly

Adam E. Final Project English 1101 – Prof. Gold 12/17/11 This English class is the first course I have taken where English, reading and research have actually had a practical use for me. Before this course, I always saw English … Continue reading →

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Final Project: My Final Thoughts

Posted on December 18, 2011 by hmoller

Horacio M City Tech ENG 1101 December 17, 2011 Final Project As school begun and we were introduced to the Brooklyn Historical Society I never would’ve thought it might have interested me like it did. The BHS has very special … Continue reading →

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Freddy H. – Final Project: Today’s Well Known Brooklyn

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Freddy H

Freddy H. ENG 1101 Prof. Gold 11 Dec 2011 Today’s Well Known Brooklyn Whether you realize it or not the Brooklyn we know and love today is not nearly the same as Brooklyn over a hundred years ago. Throughout the … Continue reading →

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Time Repeats Itself – Final Project

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Eliza B.

Eliza B. English 1101 Prof. Gold December 2011 Final Project As a person raised in Queens, I didn’t know much of Brooklyn’s history, so in the beginning of the semester when I found out my English class would visit the … Continue reading →

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Final BHS Visit

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Freddy H

On my final visit to the Brooklyn Historical Society my group viewed the Gabriel Furman papers. These papers were pretty interesting being it was sort of similar to our online blog post, however, during his time period he did not … Continue reading →

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Last Visit To The BHS

Posted on December 4, 2011 by darlinhd

On our last visit to the BHS, my group read a little bit of the many pieces of writing that Gabriel Furman did during his time. He wrote a lot about what he saw happening around the world at any … Continue reading →

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A look into the past: Gabriel Furman’s View of Brooklyn

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Isaias G.

Gabriel Furman was man who paid careful attention to detail. In his journals, Furman chronicled New York’s first experience with the Cholera virus in 1832. In it he goes on to detail the death toll which the city faced at … Continue reading →

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United We All Can Stand

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Sheily F.

The first time I heard the theme Occupy Wall Street it captured my attention because I had studied an entire semester in high school about the still current recession that started in 2008. One day I was reading in AlJazeera News … Continue reading →

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