In early years in New York racketeering was a big business. ... States Burton Turkus, " in 1945, New York City Investigations Commissioner Edgar Bromberger found that Erickson (New York Organized crime leader of the 30's and 40's) had made bank deposits of over $30,000,000 over a twelve year period- (http://www.thehistorychannel.com/1). ... Organized crime ran underground rackets in New York that made millions. ... Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. ... Soon cities like St. ...

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In early years in New York racketeering was a big business. ... States Burton Turkus, " in 1945, New York City Investigations Commissioner Edgar Bromberger found that Erickson (New York Organized crime leader of the 30's and 40's) had made bank deposits of over $30,000,000 over a twelve year period- (91). ... New York is the most populated state and where many of the Italian immigrants lived. Organized crime ran underground rackets in New York that made millions. ... Soon cities like St. ...

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The New York Times of 1914 resembles the newspapers of today on face value. ... Promises of suburban life away from the city, but close enough to commute to work make the headlines of this section. ... Local events, show times, and just the general happenings around the city are featured in the articles. ... (New York Times, September 26, 1914 p.6) These are pretty bold claims for any advertisement. ... (New York Times September 26, 1914, p. 5) This advertisement is appalling. ...

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Today the Costa Nostra consists of 24 families based in various cities across the country. ... In the turn of the century in New York City, with the advent of Prohibition, financial opportunities became quite large for those willing to defy and soon organized crime activity spread. ... The increase of felonies was due to contributing fact of organized crime especially in larger cities. ... Large cities were the main location for organized gangs to flourish. ... By 1925, there were over 100,000 speak-easies in New York City alone. ...

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... The man who built this canal was, a New York's gung ho governor DeWitt Clinton. ... Clinton wanted to be president, but instead he runs New York for 20 years. Clinton had a vision to make New York rich. ... Douglass made it to New York City and got freedom. ...

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Voucher programs have been evaluated in San Antonio, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and New York City. The only instance in which a randomized field was selected for distribution of vouchers was New York City. ... New York City is perhaps the most reliant study we can look to for answers. ... To become eligible for this scholarship children had to be entering grades one through five, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families whose incomes allowed them to be eligible for the government's free school lunch program. ... If more ...

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Judge Shira Scheindlin, discovered that the New York Police Department altered to a "policy of indirect racial profiling" (Goldstein, 2013). In the inner-cities the amount of stop and frisk are majority Blacks and Hispanics. New York City police have made it a procedure to stop "Blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white" (Goldstein, 2013). ... In New York police officers use race as a factor in stopping people on the streets, sometimes to scare them. ...

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Cities, Suburbs, and Country 1. People Flock to Cities a. ... The growth of cities changed leisure patterns. b. City life was different. c. ... Most Americans got their first real glimpse of the new European approach at a major art show at New York's 69th Infantry Regimental Armory in 1913. 3. ...

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Fire approaches the great new city..." "In the city of york there will be a great collapse, 2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb third big war will begin when the big city is burning." ... New York is located at the forty-first degree of Latitude. ... The New York Times 21 September 2001: National Edition. ... The New York Times 21 S...

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The controversy over school prayer in the Engel versus Vitale case started over a prayer recited in the New York public school system, known as the Regent's Prayer. ... The New York public school system wanted to instill values into their students. ... Even in the New York public school district in which the prosecutor's children attended only twenty-nine of the four thousand five hundred students asked to be excused from the prayer (Haas 39). ... "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us our parents, our teachers, and our country," rec...

• Word Count: 1973
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Among the different groups of people that were speaking out about productions across the country, one thing was made clear by this group speaking out in New York. ... Years later, (approximately 93) a new, two-part play came into focus in the city called Angels in America. This new work by Tony Kushner examines the AIDS crisis in New York which included nude scenes and homosexual themes throughout both parts of the play. ... The fact that Angels premiered in New York is the reason for the attention it got and the manner it was received. If that show were to be premiered or even showed at the s...

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John explains, "The whites seemed far away, out there in their parts of the city. ... They would live on separate sides of the cities. ... New York World Book, 2002. 17 Mar. 2003. ... New York: Signet, 1960 Charlotte, Denny. ... New York: Columbia University, 1996. ...

• Word Count: 1860
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Along with the increase in manufacturing came the movement of thousands into large cities. The new found industrialization provided a growing need for more workers, leading to the population spike in the large cities such as New York and Chicago. ... Along with development in the economic sector of these thriving cities came political reforms. ... Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and finally New York City all had populations over half a million people. ... The biggest cities were often home to these migrants. ...

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This flight was from L.A.X. to New York (J.F.K.), and was about six hours long. ... It was about ten thirty New York time Thursday morning. ... We got to Nizhny Novgorod early in the morning, got a quick tour of the city, and then got shown the hotel that we were staying at. ... The weeks leading up to "the Americans coming," there were numerous threats involving us, so the city assigned us security guards. ...

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Some city officials believe that the homeless choose not to work ("Introduction"). ... Bitter cities have turned to eviction to try to solve their ever-growing homeless problem (Cohen, 28). Where are almost thirty-five million people to go when the only home they have known has been a box underneath a bridge that is being fenced off because the city is "tired" of dealing with the problem? ... This is seen in a New York shelter where a single bed will accommodate as many as six different people in one year ("Homeless"). ...

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At this time in American history, mass production evolved, and people flocked to large cities such as New York and Chicago. ... From this, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the cities to work in factories. ... European immigrants flocked to New York, Chicago, and Boston, and Asian immigrants settled up and down the West Coast. ... The child workers, ages five to fifteen, made up about thirty-four percent of the labor force in New York. ... Capitalist Robber Barons ran rampant in large factory cities. ...

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The largest concentration of Italian immigrants was in New York. ... The larger cities offered more job opportunities for them. If we look at the top five cities chosen you will see they are all large urban areas. The top Italian populated city in 1900 was New York City with 145,433 this is by far much higher than the other cities (Lord, 1905). New York is followed by Philadelphia with 17,830. ...

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The decade of the 1930s can be defined in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the American economy. America was shaken by Stock Market Crash of 1929. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped in with his New Deal in hopes of bringing the US into more prosperous times. He promised to ...

• Word Count: 1986
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While in school on the morning of September 11, 2001, I heard over the loudspeaker that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. ... Later in September of 2001 a group of today's superstar artists joined together in New York City for a nonprofit fundraiser. ...

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One of the major dilemmas in the United States" legislation is the war against drugs. The War on Drugs has struggled since it was launched in 1968 by Republican Richard Nixon. "Nixon singled out "the problem of narcotics" as "the modern curse of the youth" of the country. He blamed an increase in cr...

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In October of 1999 Mayor Giuliani, of New York created a policy, which obligate the homeless to work in return for shelter. ... According to Stacey Chambers the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty discovered that laws have been passed to make many of the activities that are associated with homelessness illegal in forty-two cities. ... New York University did a study that concluded that low-income housing projects are ultimately the best solution for getting families off the streets. The Christian Science monitor reports that a builder in Columbus Ohio is erecting 800 housing units ...

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New York and New Jersey resisted acting against slavery initially. But by 1799 in New York and 1804 in New Jersey, the states had enacted gradual emancipation laws. ... Many slaves moved to the city others stayed in the countryside. ...

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Even within the South, New Orleans, Louisiana developed into one of the most civilly diverse cities. ... As these evils continued to multiply, however, the glorious Harlem Renaissance was being born in New York. At this time, New York was one of the segregated areas, but African-Americans used the isolation to their advantage. ...

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In October of 1999 Mayor Giuliani, of New York created a policy, which obligate the homeless to work in return for shelter. ... According to Stacey Chambers the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty discovered that laws have been passed to make many of the activities that are associated with homelessness illegal in forty-two cities. ... New York University did a study that concluded that low-income housing projects are ultimately the best solution for getting families off the streets. The Christian Science monitor reports that a builder in Columbus Ohio is erecting 80...

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When they arrived in Boston, as in other cities, they were forced to stay "with there own kind". ... Then in 1915 he was elected sheriff of New York, after two terms he was elected the Board of Alderman, then finally governor of New York in 1920. While governor he changed the city around to be more "Irish friendly". ...

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