Population of the so-called "Spanish Harlem" is mostly Hispanic, specifically Puerto Ricans who have emigrated from Puerto Rico throughout the 1900s. Puerto Rico was a poor island since the day of its foundation by Christopher Columbus in 1493. ... Puerto Rico had never had a prosperous economy and was always easily controlled by other countries through the use of military force. ... Even Caesar believes that Puerto Rico has nothing, not even natural resources. The amount of Puerto Ricans that immigrated to New York from Puerto Rico was overwhelming. ...

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Gangs have been a problem for years in the big cities of the U.S. In Los Angeles, they account for about half of the city's murders. ... Now the presence of gangs has been seen in smaller cities. Violent street gangs are now operating in 94 percent of all medium and large-sized cities. ... After WW II, African-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American gained power, especially in the northern cities. ...

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Introduction In forming a government for the people, by the people, and of the people, our Founding Fathers developed the idea a bi-cameral legislature. This Congress, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate, thus became known as the people's branch of government. American children are ...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all to...

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The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. The years following the Civil War had seen a steady preparation for this. In 1867, for example, William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. ...

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