... the NEA in 2009, concluded definitively that American theatre audiences continue to both age and decline, and that, theatergoers are "increasingly older than the average U.S. adult. Between 1982 and 2008, overall attendance for non-musical plays has dropped by 21%, and by 10% for ... on OOBR community, which, along with the Chicago "Storefront Theatre community, accounts for the majority of "independent theatre " in America. In the introduction to the overall NYIT report, the authors state that, "there exists virtually no statistical information about this vast and diverse community." ....

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... of years ago. The climatic change brought about the end of the Ice Age. It resulted in a number of physical environmental changes. The temperature of the earth grew increasingly warm, resulting in a greater difference in seasonal temperatures. The glaciers melted away, causing sea levels to rise and shore lines to recede. The general hypothesis of the climatic change theory is that a mixture of factors, such as ... ." (Ward, 1997 pp.155-156) If the climatic change ended the existence of the mega fauna, why did it not affect the smaller animals in such dramatic ways? The likely answer is ...

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John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839 in New York. He was among one of the richest people in the world. He was involved in various projects, including the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company, which monopolized the oil industry. His business tactics were of some controversy and form of organization, but that ... didn't stop him from doing great things. He still donated a total of $540 million dollars to charitable purposes. Rockefeller lived in a modest environment and attended Central High School in Cleveland. When he was 21 years old, he became a trustee of the Eucli...

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... Congress unconstitutional. Marshall's decision asserted the power of the judicial branch as an equal to the executive and legislative and displayed the idea of checks and balences(putting a check on a gov't branch to give equal powers to all branches). The court case Dartmouth College v. Woodward in 1819 drew a decision from John Marshall that would forever change the face of the American economy. Dartmouth College was ... . New Hampshire's state legislature passed ammendments that would change the private college into a public university. Officials and firends of Dartmouth college state...

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... Whatever it may be, these people are brainwashed and very hypocritical. I will never respect religion the way I used to. Even though I was brought up to be a Pentecostal I never really felt I fit in. Every time I would step into the sanctuary I felt very uncomfortable, as people would often stare at me for ... beliefs. In reality, they are killing each other and a lot of innocent people in the process. The best example so far is what happened in New York. How could a bunch of lunatics even think, that by killing the innocent 10,000 miles away, God is going to give them ... ten virgins o...

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... child of four, he was the only son to parents John Ernest II and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. He worked through Stanford University but left without a degree. He journeyed to New York to pursue his writing career. However he was unsuccessful in getting his work published so he returned to California. After publishing some novels and short stories John Steinbeck first became well known after the novel "Tortilla ... Flat" (1935). This was a turning point in Steinbeck's writing career. In WW2 he served as a correspondent for the New York ... ...

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... about 20,000 and was thought to have all types of nationalities. Also the main members in the Latin Kings Organization were their spouses, offspring, and bloodline family members. Like the Chicago you also have the New York Latin Kings society. Which sometimes but not always have to answer to the "ALKN". They are known as the number 2 of the factions but is better ... known as the King Manifesto and Constitution (KMC) which was founded by Luis Felipe in 1986. Also like the Latin Kings of Chicago, New York operate in 15 cities in 5 states and it has as many as 7,500 members ... physical...

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... is the speed he changes characters. he can shift from his deaf, gay uncle to a shouting Indian merchant to his father so flawlessly. He even does a really convincing woman but after a while, his women sound the same having a very Queens accent. John's father serves as the stereotypical Latino model in "Freak". His father gives him a very clear understanding of what he believes ... it is to be a man. He sees the way his father abuses women and prioritizes sex. He supports the idea that men ... need to be "tough, dominant, sexual, and a provider". He pushes John to push his morals aside ...

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American abolitionist Jonh Brown was born on May 9,1800, in Torrington, Connecticut, to a deeply religious, antislavery farming couple named Owen and Ruth Brown. Soon after, the family moved to Ohio. He had devoted much time to reading and meditating on the Bible while moving to Ohio. Brown life was full of business failures in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York. John was an awkward, child who was close ... to his mother. She died after giving birth to a daughter, he felt very bad. He was just eight ... the reality of slavery into his mind and emotions in a way he would never fo...

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... of JFK's father, Joseph, an ambitious man who would achieve great success both in business and politics. The son of a Boston saloon owner, Joseph Kennedy had graduated from Harvard and married into Boston's Irish Catholic upper class in 1914 when he wed Rose, the daughter of the popular mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. At the time of JFK's birth, the United States had ... JFK his first taste of celebrity. With Harvard behind him, JFK briefly attended Stanford Business School, and, along with most Americans of his age, registered for the draft, in October 1940. His number was called, ...

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... 's music movies. The Beatles are still influencing many bands and musicians. Yesterday is the most covered song of all time, covered more than one thousand times and bands still try to have as many number one singles. There are also many tribute bands around for The Beatles, including the Chicago-based American English, who have even recorded ... 's death stunned the world and saddened the entire sixties generation. On December 14, 1980, a ten-minute silence was held at two p.m. in Central Park where 100,000 people gathered and the world said good-bye to John. Arthur O'Connor, the lieuten...

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... Divine Cathedral The place that I chose to visit was St. John the Divine Cathedral, located on 112th Street and Amsterdam Ave., in New York City. I chose to explore this church because of an Art class that I had taken here at BCC. The class explored ... support arched structures. Pointed arches can be considered as the intersection of two arcs. Unlike regular round arches, pointed arches can be raised to any height regardless of the distance between its two points. They are also more flexible when working with large structures. Beginning the Cathedral Although ... such an enormous struc...

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... became a stay-at-home mom and taught John how to read and write. John's father recognized his talents at a young age and both parents strongly encouraged him in his dream to become a writer. ("John Steinbeck-, -John Steinbeck Biography-) As a boy, John grew up in a middle class family. He had to earn all of his own money while in school. He worked on ranches during the summer ... unsuccessful. He then returned to California on a freighter. Upon his return to California, his first novel, "Cup of Gold-, was put in to print in 1929. This book was unsuccessful. In 1930 John married his first...

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... short report on John Steinbeck I am about to include all of the work that I have done in this class Including my full report on one of his books, a little background on Mr. Steinbeck and many other things, All out of the mind and the computer of Jeremy Slaven. An American author and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr ... ). He has remained popular principally, however, for his compassionate portrayal of America's forgotten poor.(griolers) The works of Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by U.S. novelist John Steinbeck is one of the most powerful chro...

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... a proper education instead of working 90-hour weeks just to stay alive. Capitalist Robber Barons ran rampant in large factory cities. Robber Barons were white males who were astronomically rich compared to the average citizen. They owned a considerable amount of assets, like land, oil, and factories. Two of most famous Robber Barons are John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Rockefeller was an oil tycoon who ... made the Standard Oil Co., a joint stock corporation, on January 10, 1870. He ... controlled a monopoly over the oil business and bought the oil wells, transportation to get the ...

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... their population being foreign born in 1890. Since then, immigration has continued to bring new population to the United States. In 2003, 33.5 million immigrants arrived in the United States, similar to the 30 million who arrived three years before in 2000. The actual percentage of the total foreign born population in the United States currently equates to only about 10 percent in 2000 and 11.7 percent in 2003, a small increase from ... degree rose by about 250,000. At the same time, the number of unemployed Americans increased by more than 900,000 to 2.8 million. These figures show a m...

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... and Grill and a black tavern owner on the other side of town. Twenty nine year old Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a prominent professional boxer, at the height of his career, along with John Artis was arrested and charged with triple murder. Despite the lack of credible witnesses, evidence, motive, and contradictory information presented by the Paterson Police department and Prosecutor, Carter and Artis ... state. There were enough incidents of police brutality against minorities during the 1960's to convene a Passaic County Grand Jury to investigate the charges." The two trials and appeals ...

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... brothers of the Andrew, Clark, & Company for $72,500 and gained complete control of the company. In 1866, John Rockefeller brought his brother, William Rockefeller into the partnership and they formed another refinery company called the Standard Works and then began to export oil from a New York based office. Some of the commodities from refining kerosene were gasoline, ... petrolatum, Benzine, paraffin, white petrolatum (which later became known as Vaseline, and Naphtha. In January of 1870, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Samuel Andrews, Stephen Harkness, and .....

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... first major changes in women's style was the cut of dresses. In the early 1920's, waistlines were loose, sometimes baggy around the waist. Some women wore suits with long hemlines and somewhat full skirts with belts at the waist of jackets. The silhouettes of most women in these first years was long, cylindrical, and curveless. The skirt fell to 7- to 10- below the knee ... . Most women's garments were proportional to the body in the early 1920's, however, around 1923, waistlines began to drop to a point in between the natural waist and the hips. In 1924, they were even lower; the waistli...

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... with passengers 10.9 percent of the time, and using their cell phones 1.5 percent of the time. A spokeswoman from the research department commented on the study, "Cell phones are absolutely a distraction. The question is, how often do they cause accidents? From our data, it seemed to cause a very small percentage of the crashes- (Drivers.com). This proves that when compared to a number of car-related ... with a risk on the scale of 4, which is the same for using a cell phone. But, driving with a blood alcohol level 50% above the legal limit is linked with a risk of 10 (McKnight). These ...

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... older brother Henry, my older sister Wendy and my mother Virginia. I was 10 years old at the time. My family and I came to the United States but my mother didn't have a place of her own. Therefore, we were staying in different places all over New York. This was our first home. This apartment ... Watson Ave and Evergreen Ave. It had a small garden and green area in front for the kids to play. On the main entrance door was the building's number in bright gold metal numbers that read 1474. Once you entered the premises, to the right were the golden mailboxes where the mailman deposited th...

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... epic poem, "Beowulf." He captures the reader by giving an interesting view of order and chaos, good and evil, hero and monster, allowing the monsters point of view to be seen. On July 21, 1933 John Gardner was born in Batavia, New York. He was the son of a preacher and his mother taught English. They were very fond of Shakespeare and loved ... also meet his fate (death) in the process and become a legend of his people . "Grendel," published in 1970, was the parallel to the epic poem "Beowulf" from the monsters point of view. It was his top novel that brought him to popular success. A pet...

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John Steinbeck was born in February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Salinas was an agricultural valley in California. The community was a comfortable environment for him to live in because of the encouragement of independence and initiative. His parents didn't want him to be a writer. They wanted him to have a true profession as a lawyer. His early interest in reading led him through school, with his main interest in science. At age 15 ... and personaly. He divorced his wife Carol in 1943. That same year he marred his second wife, Gwyndolyn Conger. With Gwyn, Steinbeck had two sons, Thom an...

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... meeting at school. When the meeting was over, I was walking to my ride when my basketball coach saw me walk by he ask me what time I was leaving, I told him "Later, like around 10:30am." He then told me to go lift weights. And I told him "But coach I'm leaving in like two hours." He said "No excuses Cesar." ... ; So then I went to the weight room and had a quick workout. I left the gym at around ... 10:00am and got on my mommas car. When we got home I ran into my room and I packed my stuff in a hurry. Then I went take a shower and got dressed, then my mom drove me to school. I got t...

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In this 1988 film, John Landis directs one of the most hilarious and well reviewed romantic comedies of that year. His ability to direct lead actor Eddie Murphy and co-star Arsineo Hall throughout their many different character performances was brilliant. Each scene performance was consistent from start to finish. What director in their right mind could even consider not directing this movie with ... an all star cast and support through out the industry? John's purpose was to create a cult comedy classic which is exactly what this movie is. Assortments of humorist Eddie Murphy's ... skills w...

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