Then cities started to grow, and in the mid 1970s One million SROs were replaced with parking lots, buildings and apartments. ... A transient is a person who never settles down for more than a few weeks, but keeps moving throughout cities by means of walking and hitch hiking. ... This was in New York. ... Finding jobs, such as selling "Homeless Newspapers" such as Streetwise in Chicago, or Street News in New York. ... Surveys that have been done on the homeless in New York have differed my the tens of thousands. ...

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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, responding to massive complaints from New York citizens, threatened to cut off all New York City funding for the Museum, unless the show was shut down. ... In addition, he cut off the annual funding from the City to the museum which was about $6-7 million, and directed various City agencies to have the Museum evicted from the City owned building in which it was housed" (Boyd). ... In November, 2000, federal judge Nina Gershon granted a preliminary injunction that bars Guiliani and other city officials from "taking steps to inflict any punishment, retaliat...

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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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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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Juan Gonzalez a reporter for the New York Daily News wrote about an incident that involved two Latinos and members of the New York police force. ... The fact that minorities are taken over blue collared cities is making America sick. ... "With minorities and immigrants now a majority in most of the nation's big cities, it is no surprise that the rise of law-and-order politicians parallels the coming to power, in both the Democratic and Republican parties, of anti-urban interests based in suburbia" (Gonzalez 495). ...

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New York City, for example, has very tight handgun restrictions. To buy a handgun, city residents must apply to the police for a permit. ... Hugh LaFollette, in his article "Gun Control: The Issues" says that because of these restrictions, as of April 1991 there were only 61,497 legally owned handguns in New York City, a city of nearly 8 million people. ... The BATF says that 96 percent of all handguns used for criminal purposes come from outside the city. This means that criminals still obtain handguns for illicit purposes despite New York's tough laws. ...

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Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City (Clark, 1995). ... Many believed, due to the media speculation, that the bombing had something to do with Islamic extremist like the Twin Tower bombing in New York, but they were wrong. ... The Oklahoma City bombing could be seen as a crime of accommodation. ... The Oklahoma City bombing certainly had a large level of victimization. ... All these factors made the Oklahoma City bombing the worst violent crime of the past decade. ...

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For the first time there was "organized" Crime developing throughout major cities. ... For example, in New York City police officers were personally Accepting bribes, gambling and bootlegging. ...

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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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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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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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The Patriot Act was passed during a period of unprecedented national unity after the terrorist attacks in 2001, which left an estimated 3,000 people dead in New York City, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. ...

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If that type of legislation were effective, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. should be the safest cities in our nation. ... All the cities that have banned guns totally, have become even more hostile and violent. ...

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Congress hoped that by doing this drugs would simply fade away, but millions of people still use drugs and drug-related crimes and killings continue to rise in major cities (Bender 16). ... A large part of New York City's 2,000 annual homicides are because of drug trafficking (Bender 30). ...

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Cities spend an average of 7.5 million dollars on prostitution control every year ranging from 1 million in Memphis to 23 million in New York. ... If we legalize prostitution now, cities can save millions and police can spend time needed on much more important tasks like murders, assaults, thefts, and drug violations. ...

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In towns where royalist mayors were still popular, bands of men invaded town halls and killed city magistrates. ... For opposing the Revolution, most of the city of Lyons was destroyed. ... The Revolutionary Communes had committees that watched everyone in the neighborhood and special passes were needed to travel from one city to another. ...

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Since the inception of the United States, and the founding fathers signed documents that all "men" were created equal, the United States has been able to advertise of the "Land of Opportunity". In this paper, I will show that since the early 1900s and elite few placed in key positions in the United States have been able to focus the attention of the majority of the population in a direction that was acceptable for the government. Some examples are overt and discreet while others will be factual and to the point. I will also show specific examples of how United States elected officials were ab...

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On May 4, 1984 a physician from Spokane, Washington said he had warned the distributor of an intravenous Vitamin E solution last January that the drug was thought to have contributed to the deaths of four babies in his city. ... In the first day of trading after the announcement of the merger, the Hasbro stock gained 1.125 dollars to 37.125 dollars on the American Stock Exchange and Milton Bradley stock jumped 2.625 dollars per share to 47.50 dollars on the New York Stock Exchange. ...

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Illegal Immigration Throughout its history, the United States has received more immigrants from more countries than any other nation. Unfortunately, a lot of them are illegal. Demographer Andrew Sum and his colleagues at Northeastern University, who are recognized by the Immigration & Naturaliza...

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In our century, and in earlier centuries, members of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender community have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. This has been a colossal dilemma in society for several years. As far back as Sapho and prior, humanity has been ill treated because o...

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New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and D.C. -- with very restrictive gun laws -- make up only 5% of the U.S. population, yet account for 16% of U.S. murders (Kleck, 225) Now there has been room left for misinterpretation. ...

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The New York City Fire Department arrived minutes later to be greeted by a sidewalk filled with the bodies of the helpless victims. ... Not only were they upset about the lack of evacuation by employees and the exit doors being locked, but that the city could not protect the hundreds of buildings that towered over seven floors. ... At these locations, corporations can pay a minimum wage much lower than the main land and still stamp the clothes with the "Made in the U.S.A." trademark and again avoid all taxes and tariffs.( New York Times, May 10, 2002) Although the factories in Guam, Saipan,...

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The Role of Women in Politics By failing to address the gender bias that discounts the contributions of women, many development policies and programs intended to alleviate impoverishment actually are making the problem worse. There are developmental groups in both the private and public sphere th...

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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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Name: Anonymous Submitted: 08.29.01 Word Count: 4987 "This site kicks-ass!!" The Ozone a Hole in the Theory The protective ozone layer around our world undergoes much thought and debate. The "Hole", however, only exists in the minds of environmental, self-serving scientists and politicians. It interests many to find all the faults in the publics consensus of the "ozone depletion." Most scientists do not believe in this "depletion", they think it is a natural phenomenon. ...

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