... small view into the whole story. The introduction also did a good job of introducing us to the author. This book was influenced strongly by the writer's perspectives and opinions. It was important to understand his history and were he came ... to his audience. The introduction told us of the importance of the advances in photography. Without the advances this book would not have been as powerful. The images presented give us visual representation and proof of tenement life. It ... , were any of them Riis's ideas? What is left of the legacy of tenement living? I understand that the book c...

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... year 2000. "It is my first day of high school, I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomach ache." Told in first person, are the first lines that Melinda says in the beginning of Speak. Melinda in this story is the protagonist. You may not see her as a hero, but in my ... because she was just scared to take anybody into her life because everyone had abandoned her after that night. Other people in the story that are mentioned and talked about are a group referred to as "The Martha's." They called themselves this because they were Martha Stewart girls. They were always lookin...

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... wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is well-known for the generous parties he throws every Saturday night, but none knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune. Later in the novel Nick finds out that Gatsby real name is James Gatz ... extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into New York City, where he confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel. Tom asserts that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand, and he announces ... a...

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... with a look of grim triumph on his face. He was dead before he hit the ground."" (page 162). The characters in the book, are not very heroic "they are just human "it is easy to believe that this is the way they should be. The characters in the plot give the reader ... them. The descriptions make the reader know the characters better and understand their actions. The physical description of Ponyboy can be found in the first page of the book, page 9: Quote "I have light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-grey eyes. I wish they were more grey, because I hate most guys that have ... (pag...

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... out a truce. The story occurs nowadays in two places: Manhattan (New York City) and Dellwood (the suburbs of New Jersey). The time and place are important to the story, because just nowadays girls can be so crazy about bands and singers, they can even break the law just to see them closer ... some peace of their clothes or stuff like this. The main characters in this story are Lola and Carla Santini. They are enemies, because both of them are strong persons and they don't like to give up. Lola and Carla actually are pretty the same. They both like to be in the centre of attention, they ...

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... isn't the only decision that people need to make. Saying "no" to being around people who smoke or even going to places where there will be smoking, is an important peer pressure decision that involves secondhand smoking. Just because your not smoking doesn't mean you"re ... smoke on workers. (D and C 1/16/03 #4) Peter Slocum, vice president for advocacy and government relations for the American Cancer Society say, "These are wonderful public 4 health measures that will protect New Yorkers from secondhand smoke!" (D and C 3/23/03 #2) The effect of secondhand smoke differs with infants ......

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... has a different way of explaining things. Three people can look at the same picture taken at a crime scene, but when writing a detailed report of what they are looking at, it would read as if they were looking at three different crime scene pictures. Describing a field of interest is much the ... the dictionary and just embellish. The encyclopedia is another useful means of getting brief, but concise information. When it comes to serious research and detailed explanations of a subject, we turn to books or articles written exclusively on a particular interest. Forensic psychology is one of...

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... and formed his architectural firm, and a partnership with another architect H.Craig Severance. In 1914 they completed the Standard Arcade. The Standard Arcade is a string of shops on the lower Broadway where the facade's was notable for windows set flush with walls, rather than a set back, a practice that would set a new standard. The firm was growing and bringing in commissions, and began ... were actually were a version of hood ornaments that Chrysler included on his line of cars. The material notably covers the terraced vertex that has been visible for years. The building detailed wi...

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... much smaller feel. Bronzino did very well with the detail in this painting. The portrait is of a young man standing between a table and a chair, holding a book. He has on a black doublet with a white shirt underneath. Around his waist he has a vivid blue belt, with gold tassels that match his hat. The ... table and chair in this painting are both typical for this time period but have very elaborate faces on them. On the table, it looks to be a stretched face of a man in a ... bulge out and where they begin to get tight again around the man's wrist. For this painting Bronzino used Oil pai...

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... her place on the FBI's top ten list Angela is apprehended in a New York City motel with a companion named David. At this point we see a comparison to where Angela found herself as a teenager and where she finds herself now. Angela states, "At age fifteen I accepted some of the myths surrounding prisoners. I did not quite see them quite as the criminals society said ... up in an environment such as this from a young age leaves no question as to the mindset Angela displays later in her life. It is clear that her future beliefs are a product of her surroundings as a child rather than an in...

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... enough she excelled and won a double victory including the horse sportsmanship award. When she grew older her love for horses never died. Jacqueline attended Miss Porter's school in Farmington, Connecticut, where many girls kept there own horses. She won many horse competitions and kept the great riding name for her family. Jacqueline was educated at the best of private schools. Her ... 1960. During John F. Kennedy's term as president, Jacqueline as the first lady was viewed as a woman with intelligence and class. She is still respected in America today. I don't recommend this book for ...

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... enough she excelled and won a double victory including the horse sportsmanship award. When she grew older her love for horses never died. Jacqueline attended Miss Porter's school in Farmington, Connecticut, where many girls kept there own horses. She won many horse competitions and kept the great riding name for her family. Jacqueline was educated at the best of private schools. Her ... 1960. During John F. Kennedy's term as president, Jacqueline as the first lady was viewed as a woman with intelligence and class. She is still respected in America today. I don't recommend this book for ...

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... detective bureau, which is still in existence today. Teddy Roosevelt, one of our U.S. Presidents is another man who was portrayed in this book. Roosevelt was the police commissioner of the NYPD until April of 1897, he left to become the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Section IV. This ... book provides insight into the world of New York City policemen. The authors examine specific men's lives throughout the past one hundred and fifty ... rank that any black had achieved in the NYPD at that time. Section V: In my opinion, NYPD, A City and its Police was a well documented book that took ...

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... it related magnificently to the piece of work I had chosen. When an artist works on his/her piece, the process is simple. Their work starts from the inside, when they are energizing themselves by delving into their soul and getting their mind ready to portray what they see into the picture they want to create, and the process ends on the ... were many works; many of which were cartoon drawings, but also many larger paintings. One can tell that his style is very detailed and thorough. There was one piece that I found to be very interesting because it was extremely detailed oriented and w...

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... He graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in 1954. While in college he married his first wife Mary E. Pennington and after graduation they moved to England where John art at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and fine art. While in England John's first daughter was born. After his exploration of England, He and ... in Manhattan, New York City. After the birth of his son he and his family moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts where he settled down and started to focus on his novels. Updike received a national book award for his novel the centaur it was inspired by his childhood growing up in Pen...

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... think. The term "Knickerbocker" later became a term frequently used in New York, referring to someone who could trace their family to the Dutch Dynasty. Some of the facts in this book were false and dates were off, but Irving was pleased with the outcome of the work that he had published at the young age of twenty-six. In 1814 Irving ... volumes were published in New York and in early 1820, Irving arranged for a complete London edition, done at his own expense. In 1822 Irving published a somewhat sequel to "The Sketch Book." It was titled "Bracebridge Hall" and contained fifty-one sketc...

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... seeting lets you know why the main character acts and thinks the way she does. Where: This book took place in New York City at Albert Einstein High School. Throughout the book it jumps from place to place. A large portion of the book was at her house in Greenwich Village. And lastly her "Princess Lessons- were held at the Plaza Hotel. * Characters: The protagonist ... have kids and that he is flying in from Genovia to talk to her about it. Mia didn't think that it was a big deal until she got to the hotel where her dad was staying and they talked. She found out that her dad is the princ...

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... of the World. Charles P. Graves is the author and Garrard Publishing Company was in charge of publishing the book. It was published in Champaign, Illinois in the year of 1966. The book deals with the life and impact of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her childhood, teenage years and adulthood as well as ... the positive impact she had on America on a troubled and much needed time. The book also deals with the relationship between her and her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the way she assumed a role of leadership within the ... Eleanor and FDR were married." (Graves 27) President R...

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... which was entered into a contest for the "Junior Home Magazine". (Hall 18) When Shirley was in junior high, she began to keep a diary where she kept all of her writing's (Burn 378). "She wrote about her daily activities, including time spent playing the piano and with her best friend, ... 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 grades were unremarkable, but she wrote regularly and even compl...

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... shocked middle and upper class Americans when it was published in 1890. Riis created a sensation when he revealed to the world, combining detailed written descriptions with graphic photographs, the horrific conditions of New York City's tenement housing. How the Other Half Lives raised many questions, such as ... of New York City's population lived in the tenements. Population was so concentrated and overcrowded in the tenements that New York's East side (where the tenements were located) had the highest population density in the world! Jacob Riis recognized that the ever-increasing lowe...

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... he did. When he was around 9 or 10 years old he would give his pocket money to the residents of his hometown. He reported about the slums in the city where immigrants stayed and it was not clean and the streets were full of garbage. Therefore in his articles Riis tried to tell everything and allow his audiences to see through ... everywhere in the cities. As a young adult he immigrated to America in 1870. He got on a to the U.S. and later settled in Iowa and became a police reporter and then wrote a book called "How The Other Half Lives". Eventually Jacob Riis was the photographer and o...

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... death in 1918 when Cullen was 15 Reverend Frederick Cullen and Carolyn Cullen unofficially adopted him. The Reverend lived in Harlem, New York where he was the minister of Salem M.L. Church one of the biggest congregations of Harlem. The Reverend Cullen had helped formed the National Urban ... style and celebrated black beauty but denounced the effects of racism. This book also included "Heritage" which was one of his most famous poems. While attending Harvard he worked as an assistant editor for Opportunity magazine where his column, The Dark Tower, boosted his literacy reputation. Oth...

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... class. Coney was one of the first parks in America designed to bring amusement to the public. The thesis of this book states, "The new amusement parks and their patrons attracted the attention of a variety of critics, artists, and reformers (9)." This book was successful in showing its readers this particular time frame. It does a good job showing how these parks attracted a new ... mass culture into amusement. In latter 19th century there were two forms of amusement that Kasson discusses in the book, Central Park and the White City. Central Park was designed Frederick Law Olmsted and w...

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Robert Frank was born November 9, 1924. He is an important figure in American photography and film. (Those were his occupations) His most notable work was his book, titled, "The Americans", published in Paris, 1958, which expresses his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of american society. Frank was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and came to New York later ... , suburbs, public parks, cemeteries, and juke-boxes. Frank inserted blank pages in-between to give the viewer a chance to reflect on the previous images, this helped the viewer of the book to be more of an active viewer rather than just f...

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... Sean Wilentz also provide background information of major aspects of human life affected by the market revolution including family life, sexuality, and social class. We are then introduced to Elijah Pierson and Robert Matthews. Each man has a chapter devoted to their childhood, growing up, and events leading to their ... a religious "cult" and then imminent end discussed in the downfall. Throughout the story, there are numerous references to sources of information. The 35 pages of notes at the end of the book show how detailed and at the same time, wide array of informational sources us...

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