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Kimberly Zamora

Abstract and Content

Topic Proposal

In this paper I will be discussing the importance and objectives of why I decided to discuss specifically about gentrification being positive for Harlem, a neighborhood located in upper Manhattan. As well as discussing why June Jordan will be taking an important role in this research essay due to her concept “Sky Rise for Harlem”.

Annotated Bibliography

The annotated bibliography will focus on summarizing and analyzing the content in each of the articles, journals or books used as my evidence to support my argument. I managed to use a variety of text found in The CCNY library, which result helpful.

Language and Literacy Narrative Essay

In this narrative I focus on writing how language and literacy has been important to my life, and what event has impacted the most. I begin by talking about my background information, about how I come from a Mexican Heritage and lived in NYC until the age of ten, then moved to Mexico for almost eight year and now come back. The life I described has shaped and influenced me to be who I am now, a girl that can struggle in both languages, English and Spanish.

Research Essay

The objective of this essay was to discuss about gentrification but not as a general concept, I needed to show a specific neighborhood that was being rezoned. I chose Harlem, and throughout the essay I compare and contrast this with past historical events of neighborhoods that have gone through similar situations for example Hells Kitchen.

Summary and Response Essay Project

In this essay I used the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes where I focus on using rhetorical terms to analyze and summarize as well. Then I managed to use his poem to my advantage and recreate my own creative project which I enjoyed because it allowed me to use simplicity for any person of any age.

The Self Assessment Essay: Did I grow?

In the self-assessment essay I finally compare my growth in literacy and literature by writing whether or not I achieved my goals as a writer. I introduce two of my essays I have written through out the semester, one done at the beginning which is the Language and Literacy Narrative Essay compared to my last essay, my research essay on Gentrification in Harlem.

About June Jordan

June Jordan - WikipediaJUNE JORDAN

  • Jamaican-American
  • Bisexual
  • American Poet
  • essayist
  • Teacher
  • Activist

June Jordan dedicated to write about issues based on race, gender, representation and/or immigration. One of her most important commitments are “Skyrise for Harlem” in collaboration with June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller. Both planned an environmental and social urban planning where they wanted to develop the term “environmental quality and economic social health are mutually constitutive” meaning that they wanted affordable housing where culture displacement  would not be a side effect, this would be called “Skyrise for Harlem”. Both images wanted to eradicate the image of poor communities suffering discrimination. June Jordan being a poet and a Black English Advocator was able to not only draw this plan but also write it describing how this project would be conceptualized. The idea of this project consisted on building over 100 levels, building bridges that would cut through each tower in a way to connect them along with green areas, and as I agree with June Jordan she mentioned that this would “Account the psychological state of living in an area deemed a ghetto”, the Sky Rise would have avoid Homelessness and people being evicted from the neighborhood.

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