I have always enjoyed the history of New York City; in particular that history which surrounds the Five Points in lower Manhattan. ... It currently is host to numerous city offices including the New York Supreme Court, The US District Court, The Office of the City Clerk, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and US Marshals Services. ... This assisted in the crumbling of a beautiful community into what became known as" America's first slum" (Peter Brightbill, Historian).3 In order to understand how this came to be, we must first strip away the layers of modern lower Man...

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The Irish Immigration to America " the reversal breaks with previous decades of Irish immigration to the United States, one of the oldest, largest, most sustained and most culturally influential migration flows of American history -- reaching nearly a million in the 1850's after the Irish potato famine, but dwindling lately to just a few thousand a year" (Allen, The New York Times, May 31, 1998). ... Our Lady of the Rosary, located in New York City, assisted over 170,000 immigrant girls, and is still around today helping thousands obtain jobs and the training skills needed to make a ...

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New York City alone had about 30,00 people earning a living from gambling in the 1890's. ... Squeaky clean owners, such as Steve Wynn and Donald Trump, own numerous casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. ... CEO and President of Claridge's Casino in Atlantic City, Bob Renneissen, said, Our goal is not to get more out of a customer in three hours but to get him to stay for four hours.21 In lotteries and horse racing the house earns the same percentage from the wagers, no matter what the outcome is. ...

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Baby boomers Our children are our future; our seniors are our foundation (Wissel L. 2000). Fifty five million Americans are age fifty five and older, according to the United States Census Bureau, of that number, thirty five million are age sixty five and older. By the year 2030, the sixty five and older population will double to seventy million, and the fastest growing segment of the older population is age eighty five and older. The baby boomer generation will soon reach the retirement age, and expected to redefine old age. Just as they have redefine every stage of their lives because b...

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Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have escalated the warfare in cities between long established loosely knit gangs. ... For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and killed. ... On balance, they show that there is nothing to be gained from reducing the general level of gun ownership. (3) A thorough review of 18 studies of the effects of gun availability among potential victims and criminals found that the ove...

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For example in New York City Chinatown many Asian immigrants still work in sweat shops, work long hours, paid the minimum wage , and are sexually harassed. ... He attended City College of New York from 1895 to 1897, and in 1897 he graduated with an A.B. degree. ... Sinclair's early years in Baltimore had his college and university experiences in New York City provided a background for the development of his social consciousness and his rejection of capitalism. ... Some of the worst abuses of labor conditions took place in the big cities like New York and Chicago, and it was in Chicago, ...

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On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ... On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev. ... Steven Wise, the head rabbi of New York in this time period, received the minutes of the Wannsee Conference. ...

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;0) Key Concepts Love, Prejudice, Despair, Hope, Poverty, Sacrifice, Selfishness, Church Summary The film is a true story portraying the McCourt family battling unemployment, their father's alcoholism, poverty, prejudice and infant mortality over a 15 year period, from 1935 to 1950, initially in New York and then for most of that time in Limerick. ... Detailed Summary: This is just the story basically Ab ;0) The film opens in Brooklyn, New York 1935, where Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt and their four children are celebrating the birth of their fifth child, and fi...

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Of the 13 colonies, 9 voted in favor of the Declaration, 2 - Pennsylvania and South Carolina voted No, Delaware undecided and New York abstained. ... And although fireworks have been banned in most places because of their danger, most towns and cities usually have big firework displays for all to see and enjoy. ...

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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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I can remember seeing Beat Street for the first time, and actually getting a glimpse of the some of New York's most famous B-boying crews on the big screen. ... "There was a meeting when Sugar Pop came to New York in like 1980. ... And then he called us up and said, Hey I got three friends coming to New York with Lionel Richie, they got a big hit record. ...

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When developing my research I came across this cartoon from the New York Times in 1949.8 The message is clearly that coming from an American point of view it has to hold up the world through a globalisation of its ideas and way of life, in order to keep the world out of the hands of the USSR and Stalin. ... Heralding John Winthrop's famous metaphor as the new state being a "City upon a hill"9 the puritan founders have implemented an idea that the New England community would grow to become a model for the rest of humanity. ...

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As a part of a larger movement towards school choice, the school voucher systems have been proposed in several states and cities across the nation including Milwaukee, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, however, the motion was not passed in all cities into which they were introduced. ... Supporters argue that school voucher systems are the only reasonable answer to aiding children who are trapped within the system of failing inner-city schools by introducing the possibility of choice in education. ...

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The Vicious Circle of Homelessness Who are the homeless? They range from children to adults and even in some cases, families. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always someone less fortunate than you, some places more than others. Homeless people come from all walks of life. Anyone can become homeless; you could be born to a rich and end up under a bridge across town. ...

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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. ...

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Tsarnaev is one of two "Marathon Monday" bombers whom had single-handedly shut down the city of Boston and several of its suburbs, within which Boston College is located, for nearly 24 hours, as a manhunt ensued after a shootout between bombers Jahar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev with the Boston Police force. ...

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In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, one of the key characters Madame Defarge embodies the fury and wrath of the French Revolution. ... Lady Liberty over looked tall skyscrapers, beautiful parks, and millions of happy people in many US citizen's eyes, but now she over looks rubble, dirty, narrow streets, poverty stricken families, and a hurting city. ... More than three hundred firefighters and paramedics, twenty-three New York police officers, and thirty-seven Port Authority police officers died at the World Trade Center bombing. ...

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Ironically, it was not the godless, evil communists that had used a nuclear weapon, rather the Democratic peace- loving nation that bombed the two civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using atomic bombs. ...

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Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. Davis, Angela, et al. If They Come in the Morning Voices of Resistance. The Third Press: New Yor...

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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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Apple would agree with this for he believes that if students aren't well educated now, then how is making them, say, studying in history class the exact same thing in Texas and in New York about New York state history? ...

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As New York Times reporter John Kifner wrote, "In a part of the world where news has always been the news the government wants, true or not, Al-Jazeera is truly a phenomenon." ... For many American's and most of the world, anti-Americanism came to a head on September 11th 2001 when terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center's in New York City, when terrorists flew a plane into the nations defense headquarters, the Pentagon, and when terrorists caused a plane to crash in the Pennsylvania countryside. ...

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This paper outlines the differences in the cultures of the United States versus Asian Indian and Vietnamese cultures. I will look at these countries and make not only a comparison based on cultures, but also comparisons from a business perspective. Although there are many differences in general so...

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This essay is about the conservations surrounding the raw food movement through juicing that has swept America. It will start from the origins of raw foodism to the fad some of us are aware of today. Lots of researchers, nutritionists, and dietitians debate whether going on a raw food diet is benefi...

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We hear almost everyday about ethnic groups, minority groups and racism on the news. We hear people call themselves African American, German American, Asian American, and any number of other country slash American. People say it helps them identify with their roots and their culture. I suppose I could call myself Irish or Norwegian American, but I doubt it would help me identify with a family culture that I know nothing about. So why do people identify themselves as one thing or another and American? ...

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