... Young Center was success. Ragtime was the first play performed in the new black box theater. Ragtime takes you back to the early part of the twentieth century America when racism was very evident, immigration was happening at Ellis Island and immigrants were looking for ... I am not going to mention all of them. I was very impressed with the showing of Ragtime. I enjoyed the entire show. It was the first time I have ever seen what a black box theater looked like. The director used the entire theater to show everyone in the play. The use of the upper tier as a upstairs to the house in ....

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... Theater Community, "Guys and Dolls- was performed in the Murray Kahn Theater in Stuyvesant High School on Friday night. Set in Broadway, New York City and Havana, Cuba, "Guys and Dolls- is a musical fable based on the short story, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah ... an interesting plot, and the characters each has its own personality and distinguished mannerism. The setting of the streets of New York City in the 1950's was well established through the box offices playing films such as "Casablanca-. The cast wore tailored suits, torn rags, magnificent gowns and fur coats, ... displaying the dif...

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... problems will still not be solved. What needs to be increased is counseling services, and anti-violence idea's in the schools and media, not gun laws. The recent tragedy in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh is an example that mass crime can be committed without a gun. Four airplanes were used as mass fatal weapons to kill an innumerable amount of ... people. Should we ban airplanes? And box-cutters were used to hi-jack these airplanes, should we then ban box-cutters? As tragic as these examples are, they are excellent examples of showing that terrible acts of violence can cl...

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... Tony Chi: On the subtlety and substance of restaurant design. Author/s: Allison Perlik Issue : April 1, 2002 Synopsis: Tony Chi & Associates, his New York City design firm have been in high demand across the globe, putting his signature on restaurants from San Francisco to Singapore. Chi tries to make ... from aggressively seeking locations to proliferate a brand as chain-restaurant companies do. Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group opened a lavish high-end restaurant concept within New York's City's Plaza Hotel, in a space that previously had been the fabled Edwardian Room. The site was ...

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... to the radio in his spare time, because of his illness. Andy had a very creative imagination. He loved art growing up, he moved from Philadelphia to New York City, to pursue his dream and passion of becoming an artist. Warhol met tons of people with similar feelings and aspects on art. He found people ... with the same mindset as him, and he began to fit in with New Yorkers. Although he was still considered different, it was all portrayed in a good way. They loved him for his different ways, creativity, and love for ... personality shined and he was not closed off, like he was for most o...

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... other Italian families and took advantage of open housing as other groups began to spread out into other areas of Harlem. In the early 1900s, new development was brought to East Harlem. As the city cleared three blocks, Thomas Jefferson Park was created along First Avenue. At the beginning of 1911 ... have many varieties of architectural details. Most of them are simple structured with eyebrow or voissoired lintel, minimal door decorative metal cornice. New Law Tenement When the new Tenement House Act in 1901 was passed, a change in building it made sure people had more air and living sp...

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... for such a huge building. On average, they completed 4 ½ stories of framework per week. The cornerstone was placed by Alfred E. Smith, former governor of New York, September 17, 1930. The building cost $24,718,000. The Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931, by President Herbert Hoover, who ... holding this building up. When foundation was dug, and then a cast-iron sill was set into a base. A hollow, cylindrical column, were box columns with a core selection the heaviest rolled columns, was bolted perpendicular to the sill, When a pair of adjoining post was in place, a l...

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... starts to shake from the high speeds, but crosses the line victorious.""(Racer X, Kenneth Li) This is just an example of a normal street race in New York City. The racer of the black Nissan, 30 year old Rafael Estevez, challenges the Mitsubishi again, giving the Starion an 18 car lead, the Nissan ... beat my Honda, haha. J: Ha, bring it on, next Saturday, midnight, you know where. Some other reasons for racing are told by racers from Queens, New York who were asked by Li for his article. "It's about power. It's about the control of Power-(Shawn Rousseau, Racer X). " One group gets excit...

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... (Alessio 115) In the fall of 1933, Shirley's father received a promotion in which he became the President of his company's new western division in Rochester, New York (Hall 19). Shirley transferred into Brighton High School where she had struggled "between her individual expression and social acceptance". "Her ... in Macy's department store where she was inspired to write "My Life with R.H. Macy". The story became her first national publication in The New Republic. In 1942, her first child Laurence was born. Shirley's routine changed, but her writing did not. Her stories started to beco...

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... classic story of a sleazy con man named Ratso Rizzo and a Texas "cowboy" Joe Buck, and their adventures in just trying to survive off the streets of New York City. This film was made in 1969 and caused a tremendous awakening because of its graphic depictions and sexual innuendos. Despite all of this, and an ... early 1960's, with Joe Buck being an innocent country boy looking for the "American Dream" in the big city. However, unlike those movies, he comes to New York City to be a so-called "hustler" and make his money by being a stud, a male prostitute for men and women of the city. This...

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... cites statistics showing hospital admissions for asthma at six or more per thousand people in the South Bronx neighborhoods, and 1.8 per thousand statewide in New York. Although residents say they know the asthma epidemic's likely cause is the recently built incinerator nearby, Kozol explains that the assertion is both ... in world, has dumped all its toxic industries in the neighborhoods where poor black and Latino children live. The rich and powerful white folks in New York City need a place to put a big sewage plant."(Children's News Express Bureau) As he is discussing the underprivil...

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... South Bronx. Kozal focuses on the troubles of everyday life for children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, Mott Haven, in New York City's South Bronx. These young black and Hispanic children strive for survival while living in a community of violence and disease. Thousands of people were ... shot simply just walking in the lobby of your own building and then later someone will find out it was a mistake. Sound of gunshots is nothing new to the people of this urbanized community. When they hear a gunshot everyone knows to fall on there knees and crawl ov...

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Eight suspects have been arrested for a string of anti-gay hate crimes in New York, while a ninth suspect is being pursued. The Latin King Goonies gang, as they call themselves, tortured two teenage boys and one man after discovering a rumor that one of their ... Eagle). A ninth suspect, Rudy Vargas-Perez, is being searched for. Vargas-Perez is believed to have taken part in one of the torture sessions that involved slashing the victims with box cutters, burning them with cigarettes, sodomizing them, and forcing a victim to choose between a bat or a pipe to be beaten with. Despite rumors tha...

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... , "Every person will be world famous for fifteen minutes". During his life, he graduated from Carnegie Institute of technology in Pittsburg with a fine arts degree. After that he moved to New York City, where he found design jobs in advertising. Before long he had begun specializing in illustrations of shoes. His work appeared in Glamour Magazine and Vogue Magazine. In the ... motivation was just the opposite. The most famous of the paintings during it's time, was the paintings of thirty- two depictions of Campbell Soup cans. One in particular, "Campbell's Soup Box", is a good example of...

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The movie that I've decided to write a review about is called " How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days" two main actors of this romantic comedy are Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, which look absolutely adorable as a couple, and deliver an outstanding acting performance. The story uncovers in New York City, Kate Hudson plays a character by name Andie, and Matthew plays Ben. . Two business oriented people, who are both single, try to do their job or maybe something to improve their jobs. Which in Ben's case would be a nice bet to make any girl fall in love with him , and in Andy's case she is going t...

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... , "Every person will be world famous for fifteen minutes". During his life, he graduated from Carnegie Institute of technology in Pittsburg with a fine arts degree. After that he moved to New York City, where he found design jobs in advertising. Before long he had begun specializing in illustrations of shoes. His work appeared in Glamour Magazine and Vogue Magazine. In the ... motivation was just the opposite. The most famous of the paintings during it's time, was the paintings of thirty- two depictions of Campbell Soup cans. One in particular, "Campbell's Soup Box", is a good example of...

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... a number of other characters in the play. Sound could be used effectively at the start of the play before the character enters the stage. I would possibly have the "sounds of New York City" playing, for example the sound of traffic and people walking down the busy streets. This would accompany the set very well as it is meant to be a small ... apartment in the bustle of the city. For Alfieri's office I would not construct a box set. Instead I would use a circle of light around a single desk and chair and have Alfieri stand in the centre. I believe that this would create a sense intimacy...

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