Park Slope Community.

Aripul Hoque

-Park Slope
· Park Slope is a neighborhood in the western section of Brooklyn.
· The benefits living in this place it is safe neighborhood, it has many shopping places.
· One of its famous cemeteries in Park Slope is the Greenwood cemetery.
· One of its famous parks is the Prospect Park.
· There are many apartments and condos in Park Slope.
· Park Slope is filled with all ethnicity of backgrounds.
· Park Slope is the largest district.
· It is an activist community.


-Maps

-Government
This is Bill DeBlasio, a council member of Park Slope.

-State (Assembly & Senator)

State Senator- Eric Adams

State Assembly- Joan. L Millman

-Congress

Rep.yvette Clarke

-Community Board
Park Slope

-Community Paper

My Stories
I lived in Park Slope all my life since i was borned and raised there.
Moved a couple of times, but still lived in Park Slope.
It is actually a safe neighborhood with many stores.
I visit Prospect Park in Park Slope when it is really hot.
Park Slope is filled with many ethnicities.

Parks

There are many features in Prospect Park. Like there is a west, east, south, and north side of prospect park.

Prospect Park has many places to visit.

In the south of prospect park there is a lake.

In the north there is a grassland to play and get picnics.

In the west there is the big playground where most people go to.

In the east there is a hike out leading to jungles.

Parks are a beautiful place in my neighborhood and community.

The most famous and beautiful park is the Prospect Park.

These parks in our neighborhood means a lot to us because at summer, all the parks are full house.

There are many small parks besides the Prospect Park like the 5th ave park, 7the ave park and more.

One problem that needs to be solved is the overcrowded playgrounds because of the Park Slopes populations.

The Park Slope Population is 62200, this is a lot for a small community. This is why the parks are full and the playgrounds on hot days.

This Prospect Park has sprinklers and a sand pit so children can have fun.

The famous place in Prospect Park is the west park because it has a big playground with sand pit, and water splashes.

I love to go to the parks in summer and play basketball, but sometimes the parks are full...

Prospect Park is a big place with 585 Acres.

There are Concerts in prospect park and admission are $3 each.

They are many people wanted to see these concert and has a mile line waiting to go in.

Some plays are music performance and dance performance.

Prospect Park is the best park!

Here is a link to a video and tour of Prospect Park

All My Work Here

Aripul Hoque's Blog spot Project

• Tavis Smiley and Dr. Henry Gates -Project
• The Liberians and The Martin Luther King (the Other America) -Project
• The Why question -Project
• Stokely Carmicheal -Black History Month Project
• Help Me Howard -Project/Info

*Note* The Mahalo Project can be found in my Profile.

Letters From A Birmingham Jail

Letters from a Birmingham jail~~

" While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statements in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. "

Now heres a quote from Martin Luther king...

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy-two-year-old woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses, and who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest." They will be the young high school and college students, the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders, courageously and nonviolently sitting in at lunch counters and willingly going to jail for conscience's sake. "

"If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me. "

"I hope this letter finds you strong in the faith. I also hope that circumstances will soon make it possible for me to meet each of you, not as an integrationist or a civil rights leader but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother. Let us. all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
Yours for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood, Martin Luther King, Jr. "

-April 16, 1963

My opinion to this speech is that i strongly agree to this piece. He acts strong in his letter and acts kind. He was in jail but acts strong and says that he is critisized of his work not for himself but for others. It shows that he dosent act mean in his letter eventhough he is in jail.

"If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me."

This quote shows that if anyone was offended he was sorry.

"all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities"

I also love what he uses the metaphors and how he wants to stop racial prejeduce and just everyone to be the same...

Questions:

1.Where is Birmingham located at?

2.What was the main purpose of the speech?

3.Why did Martin Luther King Jr. make this letter for us?