... Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia, and by 1990, 2.3 million residents made Brooklyn the most heavily populated borough in New York City. "Coney Island is only another name for topsyturvydom" wrote U.S. art critic James Gibbons Huneker in 1915. By the turn of the century, this spilt of land ... combination of glamour and honky-tonk, drew gamblers and entrepreneurs, artisans and wax museum proprietors, old money and new immigrants"(Snyder-Grenier,167). Coney Island developed as an amusement area about the same time that Brooklyn itself was rising as a major urban center. Surrounded on thre...

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... the same geological makeup as Manhattan which sits on Granite rock. It would be much more difficult to try to dig out the sandy, often waterlogged soil that Long Island sits on. It would take years to dig out and fortify and even then there is no guarantee that soil won't shift of settle causing a problem down ... the road. Basically subways on Long Island are not an option. Another option would be to construct more north-south train lines on the Island but this would be a very expensive, time consuming project. And who would decide where these lines were put and ... added more north-sou...

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... at the turn of the century. Changes going on in American society at the turn of the century was reflected greatly through Coney Island and its amusements. This new mass culture that was brought on by the younger generation at the time demanded more opportunities outside of genteel ... portrayed at these earlier forms of recreation. The beginning of the 20th century presented many obstacles to overcome which included the new coming of Coney Island amusement and played out many changes which is looked at as a representation of American society at this time. Changes in society was becoming ...

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... hold of the prevailing American culture, and a major factor that contributed to these new changes was the advent of the amusement park. According to John F. Kassons" Amusing The Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the century, the amusement park (Coney Islands" amusement parks in particular) played a significant role in the shift of attitudes, morals and overall lifestyle of our society ... to the atmosphere in the amusement parks making it easier for the members of urban society to relate to this new type of entertainment". Coney Island, a small piece of land on the western end of Lon...

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Coney Island started out as an American dream, thousands of people visited everyday. It attracted all sorts of people, middle class, working class and high class. Coney was one of the first ... visitors a day. The White City was located in Chicago and its purpose was to amuse its visitors. This place had a Ferris Wheel, sideshows, and theatres to entertain its guests. Coney Island popularity declined because everybody wanted to get a taste of what it was like. In the end, the same things that made it famous ruined its reputation. The ... too accessible to the public; it was too easy to get ...

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... really have the image of New York City. I could hold whole city with my hands from this view. I could see the traffic system, buildings arrangement and even locate the Ellis Island with ease. I also loved seeing the Statue of Liberty. However, what amazed me most are the people who dressed like this statue and hang out to take photos with visitors ... images of places such as Brooklyn Bridge and Flea. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the singing of baboons at the Bronx Zoo Wildlife Conservation Society and a ride on the Coney Island Cyclone are among the places and activities I enjoyed m...

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... of the lounge room the ceiling was shining with a blue light for a show. After that we went to the M & M Factory, Rio, and Wet and Wild. Next off we went to Treasure Island Hotel and we stroll through their casino, and sat in the lounge and listen to the Caribbean band. As we started to leave they were putting on a show with pirates ... ...

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... Hudson River. New York City is made of five boroughs separated by various waterways. Brooklyn and Queens occupy the western portion of Long Island, while Staten Island and Manhattan are completely on their own land mass. Bronx, to the north, remains attached to the New York State mainland. Manhattan's ... but Dutch settlements truly began the city. In 1624 the town of New Amsterdam was established on lower Manhattan; Peter MINUIT supposedly bought the island from its Native American inhabitants for about $24 worth of trinkets. In 1664 the English seized the colony and renamed it; during ...

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... natives to the Wouter Van Twiller after purchasing it. He built a mansion and looked after his goat but later returned to Holland after being summoned due to incompetence where the island ownership was back to the public. It then switched ownership to the colonial governors, Dutch and then the British Lord Cornbury. Possession then passed to Continental Army after the Lord ... prison, then to the state of New York and finally to the coast Guard in 1966. The New York then bought the Island back in 2003 for a dollar (Paumgarten). The activities on the island also show significant change. ...

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... is situated in a prime location and has been drawing people from all over the world since its grassroots with the Pilgrims who settled Manhattan Island. New York City's business oriented leadership was enough was enough to draw people from all walks of life. The new people who entered the ... the future of the city when he stated that New York City "would become the emporium of commerce, the seat of manufactures and that whole island of Manhattan , replenished with dense population, would constitute one vast city." Just as Clinton predicted, New York City would become precisely what he ...

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... . The men had roughly six or seven wives who worked in the field while they hunted. Together the Spaniards and the Arawak Indians colonized the island and helped each other out. However in 1513 Ponce lost his job as governor and migrated to the states. After his departure the Spaniards conquered ... strong hold in this knew developing country. Though it was the British who constantly fought with Spain who desired the country the most. Though the island held its grounds in many of the British's attempts to try and capture it. The Puerto Ricans also helped the colonies gain their independe...

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... . They use soulful music and exotic drinks to express their love towards Puerto Rico . There are two main products that the Island is known to produce, which is Rum and Music. Rum is the National drink of Puerto Rico. People that live and visit the ... Island can buy it almost anywhere. The Island is also the worlds leading rum producer. Eighty-percent of rum consumed in the United States is from Puerto Rico. According to ... Historians believe that Ponce de Leon introduced the drink to Puerto Rico in the early 1500's during his governorship. As sugarcane plantations began to form aroun...

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... hardship, the Italian government wanted to force on political views such as anarchy and socialism and Italians wanted to escape from that. Most of the Italian immigrants came through Ellis Island. In the 1880's they numbered around 300,000 immigrants. In the 1890's they had about 600,000. A decade after that there were more than two million Italian immigrants that came ... send for their families to come to America. Most of the Italian immigrants went through New York's Ellis Island. It was America's largest and most active immigration station. It was an "Island of Hope." For some of th...

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... as poverty, religious persecution, and political unrest in their homelands, immigrants journeyed to the United States in search of freedom and opportunity. During their voyage from their homelands to Ellis Island, many immigrants suffered. Traveling by steamships, voyages lasted anywhere between seven days to a month. Many immigrants ate off of tin plates with only soup or bread to choose from. To ... and cultural differences among them. This instilled fear within these immigrants. Uncertain of their future, several immigrants saw America has an adventure and a "beacon of hope." Upon ar...

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... , daughter of a Protestant French Planter and physician. Her parents marriage was unhappy and they eventually separated. Rachel went with her mother to the Danish Island of Saint Croix. There she met John Lavien, and on the encouragement of her mother, who believed Lavien to be rich, married him. Lavien, ... and man's weakness. He showed this to a clergyman who was tutoring him and he had the prose published in the island's newspaper. The article attracted much attention and gave much influence to a plan to send Hamilton to college in the British Colonies. With the help ... from aristoc...

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... as poverty, religious persecution, and political unrest in their homelands, immigrants journeyed to the United States in search of freedom and opportunity. During their voyage from their homelands to Ellis Island, many immigrants suffered. Traveling by steamships, voyages lasted anywhere between seven days to a month. Many immigrants ate off of tin plates with only soup or bread to choose from. To ... and cultural differences among them. This instilled fear within these immigrants. Uncertain of their future, several immigrants saw America has an adventure and a "beacon of hope." Upon ar...

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Let The Snow Fall I remember growing up on Long Island, New York. Only now that I have recently lost my Mother, these memories come back to me. I have begun to examine why I decided to move to Pennsylvania ... was the best time I can remember- it was a weather phenomenon as I have read since. As I grew older and our family moved to other locations on Long Island, there was another big snowstorm in 1967. I was older now and able to go sledding on our block in Ronkonkoma. The hills were huge and safe as long as ... as it was in the earlier storm. We had lots of fun nonetheless. I moved off of L...

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... ." The state bird is the Bluebird. One of the major cities in New York is New York City, which has five boroughs. They are Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Manhattan has the most tourist attractions such as The Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Wall Street, Rockefeller Center and the empire state building. One major attraction was the Twin Towers ... theaters and fine restaurants. Albany is the city in New York where the laws are passed down. Albany is also the New York State Capital. Long Island has many towns and some attractions on long Island are the Beaches, Ligh...

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... death and back to life, and the passage from poet to reader via the medium (transportation) of poetry. Another of Whitman's favorite childhood experiences was visiting his grandparents on Long Island. Whitman didn't enjoy seeing his relatives so much as he did observing the rural countryside and, more influentially, the shore side of the ... contemplate the mystery of the adjunction of two states of matter: liquid and solid. His poem "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is reminiscent of his boyhood on the Long Island shore side, where his desire to be a poet flourished. Whitman never ...

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"A mad and reckless pursuit", that, is what people labeled the idea of linking New England, Long Island and New Jersey to the island of Manhattan. After several tedious and frustrating trips from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York City, Alexander Cassatt, a railroad engineer and the president of the largest railroad company, the Pennsylvania Railroad, ... the century. Eighteen million people utilized the train station that year. By 1945, 100 million people used the railroad station yearly. The Penn Station brought thousands of people from Long Island, New Jersey and New England to Manhat...

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... a long period of surveillance, officials were able to discover that the drug trade originated in Columbia, which worked its way to New York and later found its sources flooding Long Island. Another act of violence that reflected on the trade of heroin was stated in the NY Times. Over thirty-six deaths were totaled in the NYC area; many happening right ... in the borough of Staten Island. Overdose, Arguing disputes, which led to physical abuse and accusations, were all to blame. Todd Heisler of the NY Times reported, "For decades, heroin was mostly found in the ... urban sections of the...

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... a story to Guzman of her vast experiences in life and how she came to be in Salud. Rosa tells how she moved away from the island to New York City as a teenager and returned to the island only after the death of her mother, and only to claim the house which her mother had left to her. As a teenager, Rosa gave birth ... relates to these two lost woman because as they were, she is also lost in life. While she is of Puerto-Rican decent, she is no longer living on the island and she is being thrust into the life of a main land American. She lives caught between two cultures, her family resid...

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The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Number of pages: 189 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction in New York Copyright date: 1991 Setting: Around the summer of 1921or 1922 in Long Island and New York City Type of book: Classic novel The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway but he also implies that he is the author. Carraway narrates in both ... Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in the stylish East Egg district of Long Island. She is ironic and somewhat cynical, and behaves apparently to mask he...

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... is very mysterious and lives in a huge gothic mansion. Every Saturday night he throws extravagant parties. Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, live in East Egg Long Island. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to a friend of theirs named Jordan Baker. Tom and Daisy hint to Nick that they want him to start a relationship with her, which he does ... him. When Nick, Jordan, and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, however, they discover that Gatsby's car has struck and killed Myrtle, Tom's lover. They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy wa...

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... to the workers, the bridge was eventually completed. Connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn over the East River, the bridge is 3,460 feet. The final price tag was $18 million dollars. Coney Island is home to many landmarks. One of the most famous is the Wonder Wheel designed in 1920. It was constructed by Herald J Garms and the Eccentric Ferris Wheel Company. All ... . In order to keep its perfect safety record, the park dismantles its cars every year re-equips them with new parts. The wonder wheel was named a landmark in 1989. Coney Island is also home to an interior landmark, the Child's Re...

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