Key Features of Global Cities Globalization appears to have a home, and that is the new "global cities" emerging worldwide to host and drive it. ... Cities continued to grow and spring up around the world. ... New York City, for example, is characterized by its" multiracial and multicultural aspects. Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, notes that "In New York I have always felt that I was at the center of the world, in a modern Babylon, a sort of Borgesian aleph with representation of all the languages, religions, and cultures of the planet, and from which there circulate to the g...

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The New York Times, The Star Tribune, The Twin Cities" City Pages, and the Asian Pages are examples of different types of newspapers with different styles of providing information. ... The Star Tribune is similar in some ways to the New York Times. ... The City Pages can be used as an example of an alternative paper, and the difference between the City Pages and the Star Tribune or New York Times can be seen immediately. ... The City Pages is quite simply a giant advertisement. ... The New York Times, The Star Tribune, The City Pages, and The Asian Pages are examples of different newspaper...

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Chicago was not the only city to experience significant organized crime from 1880- 1940 many other large cities became infested with Italian crime families. ... Through extensive research Nelli discovered during the early 1900's cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angles, Washington D.C., New Orleans, and Denver all experienced a rise in the Italian population and consequently a growing crime rate. ... The New York State crime commission estimated $200-$600 million had be gained a year through syndicates in New York. " The toll in Philadelph...

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With this movement New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world. ... This movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school. ... Not all the artists associated with the term produced either purely abstract, or purely Expressionist work: Harold Rosenburg preferred the phrase Action Painting, while Greenberg used the less specific 'American Type Painting', and because of the concentration of artists in New York, they are ...

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Moore is a new teacher that has moved to the poor neighborhood in New York City and is considered strange by her new students, because she speaks proper English and attended post secondary school in her past. She wanted to show the difference of reality between the wealthy and poor, so she takes her students on a field trip to a famous toy store in New York, which forces them to think critically about their life and their circumstances. ... Moore uses the same Freirean technique by taking her student's on a field trip to a wealthy toy store in New York, letting the children observe and ma...

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The novel "City of the Beasts," by Isabel Allende, is a mystical adventure about a terminally ill mother and the child who saves her from death. ... Although not as well known as many other fantasies about childhood adventurers such as the "Harry Potter" or "Artemis Fowl" series, "City of the Beasts" was written by a New York Times best-selling author, Isabel Allende. ... They are even abducted by the people of the mist and eventually visit the lost city of gold. ... In the end, I thought that City of the Beasts was an exciting and entertaining book that at certain points got too caught up in...

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Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second-largest urban area in the nation. ... Los Angeles County is the nation's largest manufacturing center, and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are second only to New York as the largest customs district in the United States. Los Angeles is by far larger than most cities, with a population of 3,598,252. ... Normally, when a police recruit graduates from the Police Academy, he/she is assigned to a geographic patrol division within the City and is considered as a probationary officer and placed under the supervision of a hi...

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Mark Twain's "A Ghost Story- The reading of this tale would be rather meaningless without the previous knowledge of the historical context of its time, specially the facts involving the Cardiff Giant statue, its creators and the profitable use they made out of it. The narrator of the tale descri...

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A Comparison of the representation of New York in the openings of The Sopranos and Manhattan New York is a city well represented in the world of film and television. ... The overall impression of New York given by The Sopranos is one of a city with a dark side. Unlike many images of New York, this does not emphasise the city's glamorous side. ... Manhattan, on the other hand, places far greater emphasis on the traditional, cool, sophisticated image of New York as a city of dreams, of bright lights and a spectacularly beautiful man made horizon. ... He narrates the opening sequence as a...

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Cardinal O"Connor, head of the New York City Catholic Diocese, holds heavy metal liable for the increase of Satanism followers in that city. ... The results of a survey of 2760 14- to 16-year-olds in ten different southeastern cities showed that they listened to music an average of 40 hours per week. ...

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The predominantly pure-play retailer will issue a catalog to more than 400,000 consumers and offer streetfront sales to New York City shoppers. ... In New York City, the retailer's distribution facilities double as shopping outlets, with terminals located in front of the store so customers can walk in, place an "on-line" order for instant fulfillment inside the store or for delivery within the hour to their destination of choice. Kozmo does not operate "storefront" retailing in most of its other cities because those distribution facilities are located in industrial settings as opposed t...

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Today the Costa Nostra consists of 24 families based in various cities across the country. ... In the turn of the century in New York City, with the advent of Prohibition, financial opportunities became quite large for those willing to defy and soon organized crime activity spread. ... The increase of felonies was due to contributing fact of organized crime especially in larger cities. ... Large cities were the main location for organized gangs to flourish. ... By 1925, there were over 100,000 speak-easies in New York City alone. ...

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When reading this article about how flood insurance is so heavily subsidized and the notion that "New York City wants the Obama administration to use up to $400 million in storm relief money to buy out homeowners"" (187), I was appalled, and immediately angered as a taxpayer. ... New York City, for instance, is at great risk of a catastrophe. ... As a taxpayer not living in New York, I am more inclined for national income to go towards protecting the city and other similar metropolises throughout the country, than other coastal developed areas. Populations in these areas are more compact, an...

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In 1787, several prominent Anti-Federalists published editorials in the New York Times under pen names such as Cato and Brutus. ... They, too, were published in the New York Times under a pen name-- Publius-- and appeared between 1787 and1788. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay wrote a series of 85 essays that appeared in New York newspapers. ... In the end, even some of the most outspoken Antifederalists, like Melancton Smith of New York, ultimately voted for the Constitution. ... City Problems Crowded, unsanitary living conditions for workers and corrupt city politics. ...

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Tammany Hall was a democratic organization in New York City headed by William Tweed. Taking advantage of the urbanization of major cities, this organization employed 12,000 men jobs through patronage. Eventually Tweed was convicted and arrested dieing in jail but not before his political machine provided the city with leadership that help built education and infrastructure (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p. 104). ...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North (1914-18), many who came to New York settled in Harlem, as did a good number of black New Yorkers moved from other areas of the city. ... The Harlem Renaissance is a term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. ... Grant'...

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By 1960, hundreds of slum clearance programs were in progress nationwide and Robert Moses took the opportunity to become the pacesetter of the movement in New York City. ... He was strongly committed to the survival of New York City and noticed that the slums would be the downfall of the city if nothing were done properly. ... Corbusier's approach was more of a utopian society that could only be achieved if a city had been destroyed by war or a completely new city had been created. ... Moses did however have the same top-down approach in New York as Haussmann did in Paris. ... He believed...

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Two political leaders with substantial influence over minority politics and civil rights legislation during the Civil Rights Era were Congressmen Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a democrat from New York City, and William L. ... Unfortunately, Powell was unable to establish good relationships with the political leadership in New York City. Mayor La Guardia and the black political leadership in New York City during the Civil Rights Era were totally ineffective and counterproductive to the idea of black power according to Congressman Powell. ... Through religion and teaching he was able to earn the loya...

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"Playing," goes far beyond the sandbox of childhood days, and has a place in the learning environments of all ages, and developmental levels. Neuroscience findings show that play contributes to brain development, in which neural pathways are influenced in their development through exploration, think...

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Spike Lee's, "Do the Right Thing" is centered in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, New York City in the later 1980s, early 90's. ... Outside of the film, in 1989 New York, racial tensions were defined, exposing elements of race, justice, crime, and power. ... New York City seemed to have many ongoing racial disputes that Lee hoped to address in the film, presenting a deeper reality not only for New York, but also on a national level. Essentially, Lee hoped to investigate the polarities of the inner city. ... It was evident that New York in the 1980's was a ...

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Washington Irving was born in New York City on 1783 and went to become the first story teller of America, and was best known for his two famous stories, Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. This last one is the story of a professor making his way in a town, Sleepy Hollow, in the outside of New York. ... Therefore teachers had to come from the city. The entry of Ichabod Crane represents the intrusion of the city. ... The use of these stereotypes improved the split between city and country in this story (Victor 2). ...

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Stated in the New York Post, Brooklyn College Education Professor David Bloomfield predicted, a" huge increase" in enrollment if Congress passed the plan, but warns that "many may not be ready for college work." Nearly "80 percent of city high-school grads applying to CUNY flunk admissions test, and need remedial courses." Stated in an article from the New York Post, the average completion rate at CUNY's six Community Colleges in New York City is "Overall, just 4.1 percent of first-time enrollees, about 16 percent graduate in three years, and 23.5 perce...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... The movement centered in the vast black ghetto of Harlem, in New York City, where aspiring black artists, writers, and musicians gathered, sharing their experiences and provided encouragement to each other. ... Many cities like to take credit for the formation of Jazz, but historians have concluded that Jazz was most influential during the Harlem Renaissance. The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers an...

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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, responding to massive complaints from New York citizens, threatened to cut off all New York City funding for the Museum, unless the show was shut down. ... In addition, he cut off the annual funding from the City to the museum which was about $6-7 million, and directed various City agencies to have the Museum evicted from the City owned building in which it was housed" (Boyd). ... In November, 2000, federal judge Nina Gershon granted a preliminary injunction that bars Guiliani and other city officials from "taking steps to inflict any punishment, retaliat...

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According to a study by the New York Civil Liberties Union, New York residents are secretly being videotaped on public streets, housing projects, outside buildings, and even in their backyards, through the use of hidden surveillance cameras. New York Police Commission Howard Safir believes the use of surveillance cameras will reduce the crime rate. ... New York and the District of Columbia are not the only jurisdictions to institute the use of surveillance cameras in their proposals to reduce crime. Officials in Portland, Oregon have installed surveillance cameras on city transit buses. .....

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