After the March on Washington, Rustin had turned his focus to the 1968 New York City School Boycott that resulted in Jewish teachers being forced out and also adding to the fact that despite the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that forced the desegregation of public facilities, the schools in New York City was still segregated racially9. ...
While Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda that put limits on big, sugary drinks has been caught up in controversy in New York City, another ban on drink in Chicago is now controversially underway. ... In this paper, I will build up the story of an energy drink ban in the city of Chicago and analyze how this political issue has aroused and why it is currently being ended up stalemate, primarily focusing on political theories in pluralist model. ... However, Alderman Edward Burke – the city's longest serving and, "most powerful Council member," – wielded a bigger sti...
The Archaic Period was a predominantly agrarian society, with trade occurring between communities and cities that had been geographically connected for centuries. ... A newspaper article published in the Evening Post in New York, 1817, depicted a line of vessels that would sail between New York and Liverpool every month for the purpose of conveyancing goods and passengers. ...
The visit also allowed me to understand how lucky I am to live in a city that "serves as an immigrant gateway," a perfect depiction of the forces of globalization, which are "stretching and shaping religions and religious practices" (Guest 610). With an increase in immigration, new communities and their beliefs, religious architecture, religious leaders and gods "relocate across national boundaries," such as here in New York, where people are able to live in communities of diverse religions and learn from them. ...
