The movie "Empire" is a dramatization of the life in the shoes of one of four heroin dealers in the New York City area known as South Bronx. It is a story told by Victor Rosa, the main character referred to by many as Vic, as the viewer follows him around the city. ... An idea that first began with television depicting families leaving the city to live in the quaint suburbs. ...

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An article from 1873 about the sanitary conditions of New York City and its effects on children quoted Spencer saying "that the savage habit of exposing superfluous to parish from starvation, repulsive as it seems to the modern mind, was one method by which the human race was perfected....

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His essay "The Stranger" examines the city as a place for these interactions, a place that "excites and alienates;" a place that leads to "the atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture...

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