... to new production techniques the automobile gained widespread use. Automobiles enabled rural residents to have greater contact with their neighbors. Also, this form of transportation linked rural and urban areas allowing rural residents to move, or shop in the big cities, and allowing city dwellers to go to ... social opportunities. During the 1920s, musical culture changed when jazz won a wide following. Jazz music was a blend of West African and Latin rhythms, African American spirituals and blues, and European harmonies. Joseph "King" Oliver helped to spread jazz northward with his cr...

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... Detailed strategies and action plans have been developed for inner-city business growth in New Britain's four key clusters: metal manufacturing; hospitality, tourism, and leisure; health care and medical devices; and education and knowledge creation. In less than one year, the New Britain Inner City Business Strategy Initiative has accomplished the following results: • More than 50 corporate, ... to inner-city economic development and ready to drive recommendations to implementation. • More than 50 interviews have been conducted with inner-city companies, providing in-depth knowledge...

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... cultures, other cultural offerings are also available in Flushing as well. Including Hindu Temple Society of North America,the Korean Performing Arts Center, the Binari-Korean American Cultural Troupe, the Korean-American Literary Association of New York Sunflower International and the Korean Calligraphy and Art Association of America. (Economic Dev of Flushing, Queens) Ultimately, gentrification has changed Flushing into a emerging neighborhood through cultural identity, increasing ... of socio-economic trends and its diversity. Flushing fits into the larger framework of New York City,...

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... way people thought, architecture was no exception to this rebirth. The technological advances in The Cathedral or Duomo of Florence as we see it today is the end result of years of work that covered over six centuries of history. This is just one of the examples that demonstrates the advancements in architectural structures during the Renaissance period, which prevailed until the last quarter ... of the sixteenth century, soon after the spiritual political and cultural uprisings provoked by the Counter Reformation propelled Renaissance architecture ... new theorists and architects that...

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... performance and an interview. The program itself entails seminars at corporations, interactive classroom lectures, and advanced courses in finance at my high school. One of the requirements of the program was to obtain a summer internship in the field of finance. This past summer, I interned at Citigroup in New York City. The particular division was called CGI Finance, which stands for Citigroup Global Investment ... Finance. CGI Finance is the place where Citigroup receives all the financial statements of Citigroup subsidiaries and analyzes it to make sure that there isn"t any fraudule...

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... writing, "They tell me you are wicked and I believe them." Following these lines, Sandburg completely shifts the mood and instead writes about some of the unpleasant features of the city such as the "painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys," the "gunman kill and go free to kill again," and ... the "faces of woman and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger." However, Sandburg uses the prejudices held for the people who reside Chicago to ironically exert his pride for the city's ... man, Hughes was familiar with the prejudice held for him and his people throughout ...

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... African American Neighborhoods. Hundreds fled the darkness to Loot and Vandalize as much as possible, which led to the city's chaos (The Myth of Blackout Looters). But when it was time for recovery the city indeed received financial support but it only showed the world how chaotic the ... city had become. The New York City Blackout of 1977 was said to have been caused by a super cell thunderstorm entering the area and with thunderstorms there is lightning, unfortunately lighting struck ... an electric substation on the Hudson River on the evening of July 13. This tripped major important...

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... . Because growing up her parents wanted to "fit in" with the other white children, they did not practice their Hispanic heritage much outside of the home. They decided that they were proud Puerto Rican Americans so they wanted to embrace their looks, language, and religion, but other than that, ... many years in the states at this point, wears typical American clothing, and eats American food. She hopes that her daughters will grow up proud of their dark complexion and dark hair, but pray that they will not suffer from discrimination just for looking this certain way, because as far as Ms...

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... workforce on their key values. These values include staying in touch with the customer base, using quality ingredients, maintaining profitability and maintaining social awareness and accountability.  Throughout the history of the company, its owners, Ben Cohen and  Jerry  Greenfield, have interacted with their customers, gaining knowledge on what people like and dislike about their  ice cream. Opening their ... new flavors either suggested or inspired by either regular individuals or well-known celebrities.    Ben and Jerry launched their "Cowmobile ", a modified mobile home used to...

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... bisexuals are still commonly defined as "other" in our society. Based soley on their sexual orientation, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are continually targetted by intolerance, ignorance, and segregation because of their role as an "other" in the dominant culture. This "otherness" is a departure in characteristics and behavior from the range expressed as the local, safe norm. It causes ... one's sexual orientation, but rather one's values and beliefs. Just as in the heterosexual community, some gay people are promiscuous, some are not. In a 1992 study, 55.5% of gay men and 71.2% of lesbi...

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... colors?" (Cather, 214) From there on, he decides that he is too fabulous for pitifull Pittsburgh and decides to move on to the high class society of New York City. But unlike what Paul seems to think, he doesn't come from such a poor environment. He describes his house as containing "his ugly ... switch to a third-person narrator, we discover that he lives in a honourable middle-class neighbourhood, on "a highly respectable street, where businessmen of moderate means begot and reared large families of children." (Cather, 215) The fact that later in the story his father is able to pay back...

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... those who are female, would not have the subject matter, critical support, or the opportunity for high-level commercial recognition that is now somewhat possible. The feminist art movement of the 1970's presented a challenge to the mainstream modernism and radically transformed the art world. Judy Chicago help start it by introducing the first feminist art education programs, and the ... legendary Womanhouse project. The development of the movement was seen in the various feminist organizations, networks, exhibitations, and publications it generated. Performance art, social protest, publ...

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... after the Hurricane to restore their "normal" lives. A macro-level analysis is present in the following paper in order to help ensure that readers grasp a better understanding of how the hurricane affected individuals on a larger scale. The macro-level analysis used in this paper examines how individuals who were indirectly involved with Sandy were still affected. Analysis Direct ... to the nation's costliest disaster (Toro, 2013). The Canadian Red Cross foundation managed to fundraise a shocking $300 million after Hurricane Sandy occurred, in order to help rebuilt the lives of those wh...

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... . Two separate actions were filled in two different district courts against Clinton, and other federal officials challenged the cancelations. The original plaintiffs in the district court cases were the City of New York, two hospital associations, and two unions representing health care employees. The case was consolidated by the District Courts and ruled unconstitutional, then brought to the Supreme Court under ... Writ of Certiorari on expedited appeal. The history of the case started in April 1996 when the Line Veto Act was enacted in to the Constitution and became effective on Januar...

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... found an apartment for her and her daughter and paid the expenses, including medical for the illegitimate child. This relationship lasted for a period of time, until Jackson tired of the constant expense of child that was not his own, and the two began to fight on a regular basis, at which time Rosa decided to find a ... her child apartment in exchange for her services, which he represented to be office work, but in reality the services he required of Rosa were that of what a pimp would require of his girls. Rosa never completes her story because Guzman becomes extremely sleepy and goes...

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... cities" emerging worldwide to host and drive it. Global or world cities are the place where the local meets the global, and they are crucial actors and points of contact for the new networks of the 21st century. These global cities share several key cultural, social, economic, and political features that serve to differentiate them from other large cities. Throughout history, cities ... and multicultural aspects. Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, notes that "In New York I have always felt that I was at the center of the world, in a modern Babylon, a sort of Borgesian aleph with...

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... emergency preparedness and response, chemical, biological radiological, and nuclear countermeasures, and intelligence analysis and infrastructure protection (Swanson, Charles R., Territo, Leonard, Taylor, Robert W., 90). The Department of Homeland Security had also formed a division to analyze intelligence gathered by the FBI, CIA, and many other police agencies and military agencies (Swanson, Charles R., Territo, Leonard, Taylor, ... R., Territo, Leonard, Taylor, Robert W., 90). These fusion centers were originally launched in New York under Raymond Kelly in 2002 and the concept was t...

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... derived in 16th century Europe as a way to address a prostitute or harlot. Centuries later, the word became commonly used prisons, used when a male prisoner was perceived to be the property of another male prisoner; forced to acquiesce to dehumanizing demands put upon him, including submission to homosexual assaults and torture. In the 1970's the word "punk" became synonymous with unconventional behaviors ... prejudiced against nonconformity to a conservative standard. Punk rock was not so much a sub-culture as it was a counter-culture. It inadvertently and deliberately sought to undermin...

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... an 1836 proposal by the American statesmen John Plumbe and Robert John Walker (Railroads). Finally, in July 1862, Congress authorized the construc-tion of two railroads that together would provide the first railroad link between the Mis-sissippi Valley and the Pacific coast (Allen 57). One was the Union ... based on where the track was being laid, in mountains or plains, and there were land grants given in plots of one hundred and sixty acres on alter-nating sides of the track. Even with the government subsidies, the construction was slower than Congress had anticipated. The Union Pacifi...

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... classrooms and more advanced digital game-based learning, engages learners in high technological skills, especially regarding literacy, on many varied levels. Video games and devices are used as the core sources of the curriculum. One case study involving 14 students, in 20 different schools in New York City, showed extremely positive effects. These games offered opportunities to ... negative. There is foundation building, so that students have firm supports to continue to build on. The art of writing varied types of genres, is also a practice that should never be eliminated, or appear l...

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... " inherited needs and capabilities are basically intimately linked to resources available in their environment, giving those with greater fitness a better chance of survival and the ability to reproduce offspring. The driving force behind evolution is the struggle among entities for reproductive success. Every species ... were the correct motivation behind all of an individual's actions then an easy way to disprove this theory would be to bring certain cases where the motivation behind a person's actions does not appear to be fitness maximization. Examples of two types of these cases th...

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... Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance is a term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression. The area soon became a sophisticated ... literary and artistic center. Responding to the heady intellectual atmosphere of the time and place, writers and artists, many of whom lived in Harlem, began to ... productions, expressions, and s...

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... time with his public school friends and never appreciated the methods or curriculum the teachers used. Most of his significant educational experiences were self-taught from trips to museums, libraries, and lecture halls. Whitman did everything he could to enrich his mind with the literary arts while he was still developing mentally. He called it quits on formal education at the ... museums, and attend lectures; he even engaged his employers in debate when he had the chance. With these resources he forged a rough and unstructured, yet advanced curriculum that consisted of everything from ...

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... music historians, by the popular press, by the music industry and by the city itself for economic development and place marketing, 3 and the manner by which tradition and cultural forms of expression are documented and passed down within the community, 4 music's role in producing society, 5 how this community has embraced change, duality and contradiction, promoting a versatility that perhaps has ... setting. 6 Thruogh music, maybe an explanation of the intricate ethnic and class relations in New Orleans. 7 a further understanding of the many practices used by African-Americans to cope...

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... , dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. This African-American cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance elevated the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression. African-Americans were encouraged to ... celebrate their heritage. The main factors contributing to the development of the Harlem Renaissance were African-American urban migration, trends toward experimentation throughout the ... , both Afric...

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