The New York City Blackout of 1977 was a huge electricity blackout that had a huge economic, political and social effect on most of the city between July 13- July 14 1977. ... The New York City Blackout of 1977 was extremely memorable than any other blackouts we have had in the great city of New York only because it happened during a severe financial crisis which of course made things a lot worse in parts of the city that were already struggling, which was predominantly African American Neighborhoods. ... The New York City Blackout of 1977 was said to have been caused by a super cell thunderst...

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Take, for instance, the New York accent, which, much like some of New Yorks other famous landmarks, you have probably heard of even if you've never been to this city. ... While most people could do the same with a British accent or perhaps a French accent, these aren't cases in which the dialect is specific to the city, and, for that reason, among many others, New York City stands alone. ... And, because New York is such an important city, with about 8.4 million residents, making up about 2.6% of the Unites States population (nyc.gov, Population), many of its television shows and fil...

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The original plaintiffs in the district court cases were the City of New York, two hospital associations, and two unions representing health care employees. ... Appellees then filled out two separate actions against the president, with plaintiffs in the first case coming from the City of New York, two hospital associations, and two unions that represented health care workers. ... The decision was made by District Courts in favor of the City of New York, health care workers, hospitals, and farmer's association with 6 votes for, and 3 votes against. As stated above, the litigants involve...

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With New York City being known as the city where all cultures collides with one another, that collision impacts on the equality of the students education. ... Whether it is between a private New York City school or a public school, the demographics between race, or even the different resources that New York City gives to schools to certain neighborhood, education inequality is a major issue that keeps on growing here in New York City. ... Each borough in New York City is broken up into districts, and within these districts the resources of the schools are based on the district statistics. ......

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The Mayor of The City of New York Michael R. Bloomberg put in forward a plan to help curb the obesity crisis in New York. ... In fact, about "58% of New Yorkers – City wide are obese," stated Bloomberg. ... The smoking ban, signed by Bloomberg on February of 2011, prohibits smoking in restaurants, bars, parks, and beaches in the New York City area. ... The soda ban will not only benefit the New York City community but it can also persuade others to follow the City's example in leading a healthier lifestyle for all Americans. ...

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York Police Department have defended the method, however, claiming that it has helped get guns off the streets and decreased the number of homicides. ... A class-action lawsuit was filed against New York City for what plaintiffs called "unlawful stop and frisk practices and racial profiling by police officers". ... The City of New York et al. (1999) was brought to the Center for Constitutional Rights in the wake of the Diallo shooting and the City agreed to a settlement on December 12, 2003. ... Alluding back to my thesis question of ...

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Throughout the history of immigration, New York city has become a city which contains most various ethnic groups and immigrants around the world. Yet, New York City has formed various divisions of neighborhood due to its diversity. ... Flushing, a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens, is a large commercial and retail area and is the fourth largest central business district in New York City. ... The political stature of Flushing appears to be increasing significantly, with many Chinese from Flushing becoming New York City Council members. ... Flushing f...

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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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New York, for instance, has had more than a half dozen major scandals in its police department this century. ... However, in May 1992 Michael Dowd and four other New York officers and one former officer were arrested for drug trafficking by police in Long Island. ... Not only had some of their cops become robbers, but also the crimes had to be uncovered by a suburban police force, which proved to be very embracing to the City of New York. ... To find out, at the time, New York City mayor David Dinkins established the Mollen Commission, named for its chairman, Milton Mollen, a former New York j...

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I have always enjoyed the history of New York City; in particular that history which surrounds the Five Points in lower Manhattan. ... It currently is host to numerous city offices including the New York Supreme Court, The US District Court, The Office of the City Clerk, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and US Marshals Services. ... This assisted in the crumbling of a beautiful community into what became known as" America's first slum" (Peter Brightbill, Historian).3 In order to understand how this came to be, we must first strip away the layers of modern lower Man...

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Her father moved to the United States in 1831, and first established himself in business at New York. ... Upon applying for admission to the medical schools of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, she was uniformly refused. ... In the autumn of 1851 she returned, and commenced practice in New York city. ... Daniel Brainerd, of that city, and spending the summer vacations in such attendance as was permitted her at Bellevue Hospital, New York, and graduated at the Cleveland College in February, 1854. ... The "New York Infirmary for Women and Children," was the product of their united thought and...

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New York City is being transformed right before our eyes. ... Gentrification Gentrification the term used to describe neighborhoods that start off predominantly occupied by households of relatively low socioeconomic status, that experience an inflow of higher socioeconomic status households. [ CITATION NYU15 l 1033 ] The term Gentrification was first applied to New York City in the 1970s, but was not put into action until the year 1990. ... Non- Gentrifying neighborhoods are neighborhoods that also started off as low-income in the 1990s but took more of a modest growth like the south Bronx an...

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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 Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. ...

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President Toure had planned on resigning after the next scheduled presidential election at the end of April (New York Times). ... Additional rebel troops took advantage of the rioting in the capital and quickly seized several other cities, including Gao and Bamako, which have never fallen in any rebellions (New York Times). ... Although they vowed to restore order, they have so far been seen breaking into banks, local businesses, and buildings of government, while plastering the city with their rebel flag. "We are hearing heavy weapons going off, coming from the south and east of the cit...

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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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Bloomberg's heavy emphasis on eliminating gun trafficking, and New York's crack-down in general, eight of their own police force members were arrested and charged with accepting bribes in return for illegally transporting firearms into the state. The corrupt group was comprised of five officers currently on the force, three who previously retired, a New Jersey correction officer, a former New York City Sanitation Department police officer, and two other unidentified men. ... In October of 2010, Officer Masso's illegal operation began slowly with carting cigarettes into New Yor...

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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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City Hall: A Case Study The movie City Hall is primarily about the moral ambiguity of contemporary politics. ... These two contrasting values are further exemplified in the characters of New York City mayor John Pappas and his young deputy mayor from Louisiana, Kevin Calhoun. ... It focuses on the different means, ethical or not, legal or illegal, the city mayor employs in order to achieve his desired ends. ... This could be attributed to the fact that he was from Louisiana, a city very different from New York City. ... Of course, being the good mayor that he was, he also did not ...

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New York's Republican candidate for governor, Carl P. ... These comments along with other views he has espoused make it clear that he is way out of the mainstream and is unfit to represent New York" (Harris). ... Michael Silver, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, told the Daily News, "His words foster a climate of hatred and intolerance instead of helping heal the city of its wounds." ... Paladino's speech came at a time when New York governor, David Paterson, was passing DASA, Dignity for All Students Act. ...

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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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