(Rolling Stone Magazine) Afeni Shakur, born Alice Faye Williams, gave birth to Lesane Parish Crooks while serving time in a Bronx, New York, prison on June 16, 1971. ... She would go on to lose her job as a paralegal after people found out who she was and how she was involved with the Black Panther community, and they would be homeless in the heart of New York, and Afeni grew addicted to drugs. ... Looking for a better life Afeni packed up their bags and moved the family to Marin City, California where right away Tupac encountered death and drugs just as he did in New York and Baltimore. ...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth in February 1863 by Massachusetts governor John A. ... We encamped in the city that night, and destroyed the depot, together with three locomotives and a train of thirty-five cars. ... Vols., 32d and I02d U.S.C.T., and for the 25th Ohio Vols., the I07th Ohio Vols., I5th and 56th N.Y. vols., and the 4th Mass., and the 3d New York Artillery, and for General [Edward E.] ...

• Word Count: 1626
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The story leads up to the events of Paul's suicide, after a brief fling in New York. ... Paul loses his job at Carnegie hall and soon escaped to New York City; "when they had taken away his bone, the whole thing was virtually determined" (Cather 208). Paul stole some $3,000 that he was supposed to have deposited into the bank, but instead Paul took off for a high class fling in New York. ... One short fling in New York is all he really had. ...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the second part of the novel we see Holden escape top New York three days before he is due to return home. Holden's new surroundings are important in that it is in New York that Holden no longer is able to carry on with his miserable and confusing life, and his mental inability to understand his troubles alone becomes too overwhelming. ... As Holden leaves pencey prep and goes to New York on a journey into self discovery Holden interacts with people of low moral standards and are rude with little with or no respect for anybody but themselves. ... Holden finds himself in one of the worl...

• Word Count: 1661
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Knowledge and the Descent into Darkness At the dawning of the 21st century, the term "forbidden knowledge" seems almost quaint. In an age that we can unlock and utilize the power of the atom, read and write the code of life and look into the heavens to see literally billions of years down the r...

• Word Count: 2372
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in Harlem, New York. ... One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. ... (www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm) Brooks Atkinson, a writer for the New York Times, wrote "Langston Hughes has succeeded in giving us in Not Without Laughter an intimate picture of that type of Negro life which has been so popular with white writers in the recent decades."" ...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The band's packed touring schedule in 1978 included a sold-out show at New York City's Madison Square Garden, which was recorded and released as the highly acclaimed live album Babylon By Bus. ... In 1980, Marley collapsed while jogging in New York's Central Park. ...

• Word Count: 1251
• Approx Pages: 5

On September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, a young anarchist guns down President William McKinley. ... Teddy's birth took place in the Roosevelt's house, located on East Twentieth Street, in New York City. ... When Teddy was seven, and back in New York City, he began to write down his observations on the environment. ... Upon return to New York, Teddy's adolescence began (30). ...

• Word Count: 2441
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Jerry lives with a group of people who New York doesn't want the world to see: "The room beyond mine is occupied by a coloured queen There's someone living in the front room, but I've never seen who-. They are much happier to let people see the towering skyscrapers and bustling city streets, yet these citizens are kept out of sight. ...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Even though Holden was not receiving treatments while he was in New York City, he still views himself as that way while telling the story because that is how he feels like he is supposed to be, pessimistic and sarcastic towards himself. ...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6