American's come from every ethnicity, religion and culture and as a result of the mixed ethnicity in US, there are more from Irish ancestry than in Ireland, more Italians in New York than in Venice, as well more Polish, blacks, Jews than in their leading cities of their countries. ... The income in New York is almost double than in Mississippi regarding the same ethnic group; lifestyle differs also. ... Puerto Ricans and West Indians from and around New York chose this area because of shipping and air routes in the 20th century....

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It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. ... These were boom times for the United States, and jobs were abundant in cities, especially in the North. ... The Harlem section of New York City which covers just 3 sq mi, drew nearly 175,000 African Americans, turning the neighborhood into the largest concentration of black people in the world. ...

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As Angela gets older and attends high school in New York City she notices many differences between every day life in the south compared to that of the north. ... While attending Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York Davis joined a communist youth group. ...

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The Harlem Renaissance centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, and the movement had significant impacts throughout the United States. ... Van Vechten recommended Langston Hughes's work to Knopf that which is a New York publishing house, Knopf Published Hughes' s first volume of poems, the Weary Blues, in 1920, and many other Hughes's works later. ...

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Du Bois describes the relationship between a black man, Jim, and a white woman, Julia, after a comet hits New York City and kills everyone except them. ... In The Comet, Du Bois expends a lot of thought and attention on portraying the lifeless city after the disaster to emphasize the embedment of racism in society. ... Du Bois uses the careful description of this dire and silent post-apocalyptic city to underlie the characters' unvoiced fear and uncertainty about the future. ...

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The American eugenics movement was a major factor in Hitler's belief that he could create a superior race (Kelly). It is a bit daunting how so few Americans know about the American eugenics movement considering how consequential it was to the United States and the world. Eugenics reflects social and...

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African American literature is an extremely dense and rich form of literature that contains many types of similar tropes. These tropes can be seen throughout many of African American works of literature. A few that will be discussed thoroughly in this paper, that are majorly common in these types of works are: the idea of double consciousness, the question and search for identity, the Sankofa experience, the Great Migration, and lastly the return to the South. These tropes may seem very different but they all tie into the question of identity and the struggle that African Americans faced and ...

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"In most cities, police are breaking down doors without search warrants, stopping and searching anyone they choose on the sidewalk or street, harassing and arresting young people for wearing "gang colors" or for "drug loitering," threatening and abusing anyone who questions them, and refusing to supply their badge numbers upon request" (Dority, 178). ... The officers responsible for Diallo's death were part of New York Police Department's "elite" Street Crime Unit. ...

• Word Count: 3114
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate