The most visible evidence of this is the rapid rise in the number of brothels and "bawdy houses" in New York during the 1820's. ... Within days the incident turned into a national cause celebrity, much like the case of Casey Anthony of the 21st century, her murder proved to be the city's most intensely covered story of the decade. It is said that Jewett was the glamorous, seductive, youthful and celebrated prostitute in New York's popular brothels. Jewett was found murdered in her bed by the land lady of the brothel in which she worked and lived in New York City (Gilfo...

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Emma Sulkowicz alleges that a classmate sexually assaulted her on the first day of her sophomore year in August 12 on Columbia University campus in New York. ... Sulkowicz's protest has garnered her awards from the New York City Chapter of the National Organization for Women and the Feminist Majority Foundation. ... As mentioned in The New York Times article written by Ross Douthat, "Stopping Campus Rape", "neither anti-rape activists, nor their criticism nor the administrators caught in between – seem to have clear and compelling idea of what to do about it....

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Upon receiving this report, the CDC placed calls to facilities in New York and San Francisco discovering similar cases in these areas. ... They also identified that most of the contact occurred in the bathhouses of SanFranciso and other cities. ...

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Another tennis legend, Martina Navratilova admitted she was gay during an interview with the New York Daily News. ... Paul Priore, a former New York Yankee clubhouse assistant made the unfortunate mistake of coming out, and in 1998 filed a lawsuit against Yankee pitchers, Mariano Rivera, Jeff Nelson, and Bob Wickman. ... Along similar lines, New York Giants rookie sensation, Jeremy Shockey told Howard Stern that if he played with a gay teammate in college not only would he have not known, but he also "Probably wouldn't stand for it". ...

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During the nineteenth century, the "nuclear family" structure dominated in American cities; with husbands working in factories and businesses to earn income and women remaining at home to raise children and attend to household duties. ... The growth of the manufacturing and retail sectors of the economy created a great demand for labor in the cities. ... During her years working as a nurse in poor New York neighborhoods, Sanger had been horrified by the misery of impoverished women who gave birth to numerous children, sometimes at great risk to their own health. ... After the charges agains...

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For example he says, "In New York, the City board of education narrowly won (4-3) the passage of a resolution requiring the inclusion of teaching abstinence in the AIDS education program in the spring of 1992." ...

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In that article, James Roman, an assistant professor of communications at Hunter College of the City University of New York, found merit in a proposal to "cluster" commercials and make them appear together instead of in the shows (Roman, 1980, pp. 62-64). ...

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For example he says, "In New York, the City board of education narrowly won (4-3) the passage of a resolution requiring the inclusion of teaching abstinence in the AIDS education program in the spring of 1992." ...

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Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side. ... In an article in the New York Times, author Alessandra Stanley states, "Parents matter on Gossip Girl, and their negligence veins the narrative as if to explain their children's excesses" (2). ...

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It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful source of information we have, and nothing else in today's world influences public perception quite as heavily. Unfortunatel...

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