"A Ghetto Wedding" is a story by Abraham Cahan about Jewish immigrants in the late 1800's. It was set in the lower East Side of New York City, also known as the Yiddish Quarter. ... The prevailing theme, however, that I felt was most common to Cahan's "A Ghetto Wedding" and Henry James" "The American Scene" is that of poverty. ... Also Nathan, in "A Ghetto Wedding", because of the lack of work in his occupational trade, found himself peddling as a means of survival. ... I believe James is somewhat amazed as he observes that the immigrant, when taken away from their ol...

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Eager to combat and unable to ignore the devastating depression within the ghetto, Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker tells the tale of Jakob Heym who puts himself at danger by suggesting that he owns a radio, forbidden inside the ghetto. Fabricating news of German defeats, Jakob strives to keep hope and humor alive among the Jews held in the ghetto. And so the question may be asked, how can this little fib cause the inhabitants of the ghetto to resist death and endure so much distress? ... Soon these untruths, told primarily to prevent Mischa from jeopardizing his life, spread all over the ghet...

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Perhaps the most significant event in my life to date was my family's move from a small town in upstate New York to Philadelphia as I was entering my sophomore year of High School. The transition was very difficult as I was accustomed to life in Endwell, New York, population 13,000, a place where I knew everybody and everyone knew me. ... I visited the ghetto of Cracow, Poland and saw the abandoned synagogues there as well as the graves of many great rabbis. ...

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She grew up in New York in a Jewish ghetto, and then later worked menial jobs in laundries and sweatshops. ... The struggles Sara experiences in leaving the ghetto and getting an education are surely some of those the author faced in trying to become a "real" American." ... Shepard asserted in the New York Times that Yezierska's people did not want to find themselves. ...

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In Oakland he lived in the ghetto, a place called the Jungle. ... He was able to rap about a life about a young black man that lives in the ghetto. ... Since Tupac's mother was so involved in the organization she was unable to keep a job, there for they lived in a very low-income area, or some time no income, the Projects in New York. ... That hurt Tupac deeply; he needed to get his family out of the ghetto. ...

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When rap music began, it was sang in the streets of New York. ... To add to the new phenomenon, a group called "The Beastie Boys" which consisted of three Jewish kids from New York had sprung onto the scene with party anthems. ... They helped represent some of New York's finest rappers and introduced such acts as LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, and Davy D. ... Seeing as most rappers come from ghettoized urban centers, it seemed to be a dream to be picked up by some big label. ... Being brought out of the ghetto, and given ludicrous amounts of money to sing was what happened. ...

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The frog had been pulverized and the ashes mixed with oaten meal; it would supposedly protect her from fever during the voyage to New York. ... As Erin stepped off the boat in New York she probably wasn't sure what to do first. ... Coming from the country Erin probably found New York to be a fanciful place, a crowded mass of people moving in all directions, dodging waste thrown from windows and horses which crowded the streets. ... So why were there so many Irishmen in New York, as well as other major cities? ... The small number of farmers is attributed to the fact that the Irish lived...

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Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ... In virtually every ghetto there was a physical revolt. The most well noted is that of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland's capital. ... The Jews of the ghettos and of the camps fought against the odds to survive. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ...

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Leland also mentions that Biggie sold drugs and all of his raps involve sex, drugs and living in the ghetto. ... A rapper that made it out of the ghetto but was tragically killed in a drive by. ... The Jet magazine also states that before his death, " Notorious B.I.G, a popular, New- York rappper, was one of many in Los Angeles for the Soul Train Music Awards"(Jet 14). ... Although Jet does mention that he rapped about selling drugs and life in the ghetto, it also states that he was not proud of dealing drugs (Jet 15). ... However, in Jet he is portrayed as a rapper who made it out of the ghet...

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Different eras have often been defined by the type of music that is popular at that time. Certain songs or music genres are associated with various events in history. African spirituals were carried to America among the hearts of oppressed slaves in the 1600s. They were later used to help runaway sl...

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The Popularity of Rap Rap music has changed very much throughout the years. At first it was mainly underground, enjoyed in the black ghettos. Now it has developed into a very mainstream popular form of music. Everybody now enjoys rap music, regardless of age, race, or gender. Even white p...

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Some black people use basketball as a way out of the ghetto, but the other half turns to basketball because that's all they know. Those who use basketball to get out of the ghetto are the ones who make it; they see basketball as a light. ... So what does that got to do with poor black people in the ghetto? ... About the author Brent Staples is an editorial writer for The New York Times and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago. ...

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Based on a year Kozol spent interviewing the poorest of New York's poor, Amazing Grace unveils the truth about squalid living conditions, gutted educational facilities, crime, disease, and pandemic depression that plague these neighborhoods where the city effectively conceals its underclass, keeping them out of sight and out of mind. ... Forced to turn to the state for assistance, minority families find themselves in a dead-end spiral that lands them permanently in the ghetto. ... But he does demonstrate that self-medication, hunger, fear, unemployment, and poor education in urban ghetto...

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It started in the early 1970s in the neighborhoods of the South Bronx located in New York. ... Hip-Hop spilled out of the ghetto and became a popular form of music. ... Clubs, house parties and block parties sprang up all over New Orleans ghettos, giving birth to the neighborhood DJ. ...

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It is the intentions of her feelings that proves her resourcive strength in her son's life The diction in the poem is the language of an uneducated black woman who probably emigrated from the south to the north, where she lives in a tenement building in a ghetto. ... Perhaps she worked in one of the glamorous hotels in New York where there is a crystal stairway, or maybe it represents the climb from the ghetto to the golden crown. ...

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He grew up in the ghettos and was involved with street gangs and drug dealers. The struggles of the ghetto life and his friends would influence his lyrics to come. ... From this young troubled life in the ghetto, Shakur became one of America's most beloved men. ... His family had to move from New York because his mother was a Black Panther and she wasn't able to keep a job. ... People don't care about children who grow up from the ghetto. ...

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Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ... In every ghetto and in every concentration camp there was some resistance, whether it be physical, moral, or spiritual. In virtually every ghetto there was a physical revolt. The most well noted is that of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland's capital. ... The Jews of the ghettos and of the camps fought against the odds to survive. ...

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Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ... In every ghetto and in every concentration camp there was some resistance, whether it be physical, moral, or spiritual. In virtually every ghetto there was a physical revolt. The most well noted is that of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland's capital. ... The Jews of the ghettos and of the camps fought against the odds to survive. ...

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Albany.edu/writers-inst/kozol.html11k) The book Amazing Grace takes place in the South Bronx of New York, the poorest congressional district of America. ... In the book Amazing Grace it gave us a completely realistic conditions of the most poor and rundown neighborhoods in New York City. ... A major point that this book made was telling us that these children have no opportunity fro education and the hope it can give them just does not live in the ghettos of the inner city. ... I only thing I had a problem with is that all the people that were talked to unfairly blamed the government, socie...

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During the early 70s, in New York's inner-city neighborhoods, of the Bronx and Brooklyn, mc's began rapping spoken rhymes about street life to the beat of dj-manipulated drum machines and turntables. ... Tupac Shakur, with his tales of "Thug Life" and street crime, and the Notorius B.I.G., with his bittersweet, dead-eye narratives of drugs and violence made the 90's a statement of how hard it was to grow up in the ghetto. ...

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JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE VS CHRIS EVERT DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN SPORT: SOCIAL CLASS ANALYSIS 1 While gro...

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This is important because since the 1920's Puerto Ricans have migrated to America, namely New York City, and have had a huge impact on the Latin music culture. ... After moving to America many Puerto Ricans were forced to live in the ghettos. ... Salsa then abandoned its portrayals of ghetto life for more sentimental love lyrics. ...

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Sylvia, at about ten years old has lived her short and sheltered life in a ghetto in New York City with that against her she is also a minority. ... Unfortunately being a black child brought up in the ghetto Sylvia is bursting with anger, shame and disillusionment. ...

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On the other hand, Broder was never taken to the ghetto or forced to do labor in the concentration camps as shown in the following quote. "Herman had hidden himself first in Tzivkev, then at Yadwiga's in Lipsk, and so avoided the forced labor of both ghetto and concentration camp"" (Singer 31). ... Herman thought that there were Nazi's in New York and sometimes even though he was in the concentration camps as shown in the following quote: in Tzivek, or in a German camp, he even imagined himself hiding in the hayloft in Lipsk. ...

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