The one group that has done that for me are the New York City firefighters and police officers. ... The thing that I remember the most is not just the attacks themselves, but also the men and women of New York City's finest risking their lives to protect and even save the lives of so may others. ... If it weren't for the determination of these few men and women from the city that never sleeps, America may have been down a little, or even much, longer than we were. ... The New York City fire fighters and police officers are men and women of distinguished valor. ... New York City&...

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In early years in New York racketeering was a big business. ... States Burton Turkus, " in 1945, New York City Investigations Commissioner Edgar Bromberger found that Erickson (New York Organized crime leader of the 30's and 40's) had made bank deposits of over $30,000,000 over a twelve year period- (http://www.thehistorychannel.com/1). ... Organized crime ran underground rackets in New York that made millions. ... Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. ... Soon cities like St. ...

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The New York Times of 1914 resembles the newspapers of today on face value. ... Promises of suburban life away from the city, but close enough to commute to work make the headlines of this section. ... Local events, show times, and just the general happenings around the city are featured in the articles. ... (New York Times, September 26, 1914 p.6) These are pretty bold claims for any advertisement. ... (New York Times September 26, 1914, p. 5) This advertisement is appalling. ...

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Sophisticated city dwellers began to look at their country cousins as hicks or bumpkins, while those in the farm belts viewed the cities as places of corruption, immorality and outside influences. For example, Prohibition was probably followed more in what was called the "Bible Belt" than in New York and Chicago, although moon shining prospered in the rural woods. ... The rural courts had a tendency to be much stricter than the city courts. The murder rates massively increased along with the corruption of city officials. ... By 1925, there were more than 100,000 speakeasies or Illegal clu...

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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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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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When my grandparents would take my sister and I to New York City to see a show we would have to drive through the primarily black and Puerto Rican communities of the Bronx. My grandparents would tell us not to stare because they might shoot us, and explained it was a bad section of the city. ...

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Imagine you are an Eastern European immigrant who has just arrived in New York City at the end of the 19th Century. You are perplexed by daily dilemmas, such as your daughter wanting to marry a non-Jew, which you consider a shanda. You want to study English in night school, which your husban...

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A day we will never forget is September 11th it was the most atrocious day. I know I will never forget it. I remember I was in Mrs. Lorewalds class we were doing a worksheet. When suddenly she runs into the room and turns the TV on. She was worried for what had happened and because I think her d...

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In the beginning a boy named Cliffie is going for a walk with a Reverend through some of the worse blocks of the city. He first brings him to a waste incinerator, which burns red- bag products such as amputated limbs, bedding, bandages and syringes that are transported from New York City hospitals. ... At the end of the walk the reverend says " Everyone is going to be burned to crispy cookies" I believe that this means that there are pockets of hell in our cities, and although an entire sector of America is condemned to burn in them, we insist on looking the other way and eventually it is a...

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"Mafia Towns" are found all over the United States there is a total of 26 but the largest is in New York City. ... During these times much was established and will stay established for a very long while in New York history. ... In New York the mafia is refereed to as La Cosa Nostra and is made up of fivefamilies. ... As each year goes by, the business of organized crime in New York declines. ... Similar trends happened all over the United States in the original 26 cities. ...

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Hip-hop culture was developed in New York City in the 1970's mainly by African Americans, first emerging from The Bronx; the lifestyle of Hip-hop culture has now spread to urban and suburban communities worldwide. ...

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I had never been to New York City, and I had only read and seen pictures of the "Twin Towers," so the idea of a plane crashing into a building was something that I could not even begin to comprehend. ...

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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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Then cities started to grow, and in the mid 1970s One million SROs were replaced with parking lots, buildings and apartments. ... A transient is a person who never settles down for more than a few weeks, but keeps moving throughout cities by means of walking and hitch hiking. ... This was in New York. ... Finding jobs, such as selling "Homeless Newspapers" such as Streetwise in Chicago, or Street News in New York. ... Surveys that have been done on the homeless in New York have differed my the tens of thousands. ...

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"Back, but not home" is an article which was appeared on the New York Times. The passage told us the author, Maria Muniz, her own experiences as a new immigrant's homesick feeling of her original country and culture conflict in the new country. In her passage, she said: "Like all immigrants, my ...

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... The man who built this canal was, a New York's gung ho governor DeWitt Clinton. ... Clinton wanted to be president, but instead he runs New York for 20 years. Clinton had a vision to make New York rich. ... Douglass made it to New York City and got freedom. ...

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Feeling overwhelmed and having alot of stress can really dampen your lifestyle, so why not take a long vacation from it all? For example, if your job is putting stress on your life, or if your children are beginning to be to much for you, and mabye even school is putting your life into overload...

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Voucher programs have been evaluated in San Antonio, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and New York City. The only instance in which a randomized field was selected for distribution of vouchers was New York City. ... New York City is perhaps the most reliant study we can look to for answers. ... To become eligible for this scholarship children had to be entering grades one through five, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families whose incomes allowed them to be eligible for the government's free school lunch program. ... If more ...

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The current examples of Americans who serve their country are the New York City firefighters and the New York City Police Department. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. and the New York City fleet have allowed America to be the place it is today. ...

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Judge Shira Scheindlin, discovered that the New York Police Department altered to a "policy of indirect racial profiling" (Goldstein, 2013). In the inner-cities the amount of stop and frisk are majority Blacks and Hispanics. New York City police have made it a procedure to stop "Blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white" (Goldstein, 2013). ... In New York police officers use race as a factor in stopping people on the streets, sometimes to scare them. ...

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Cities, Suburbs, and Country 1. People Flock to Cities a. ... The growth of cities changed leisure patterns. b. City life was different. c. ... Most Americans got their first real glimpse of the new European approach at a major art show at New York's 69th Infantry Regimental Armory in 1913. 3. ...

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It is a beautiful day in New York City. Autumn is setting in as golden leaves are blown to the ground by a gentle breeze. The warmth of the summer sun is desperately fighting bursts of cold in the air. However, this seemingly perfect day is ruled by mournful reflection. The one year anniversary ...

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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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