... are brownfields that the city is considering acquiring through tax foreclosure - the South Street vacant factory, the Veterans Drive Triangle, and two abandoned dry cleaning sites. According to Governor Rowland, "Connecticut is the first state in the country to implement -- in all of its major cities - individual strategies to strengthen urban economies by attracting private investment. Social investments, though well intended, did ... out better employment opportunities. The proposed corridor follows an abandoned rail line in the southern portion of the corridor, and runs within active...

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... 134 stores were broken into and cleaned out; about 50 were just burnt down. (Mahler 200, 204 & 205). A lot of the times men and women looted for fun and some did it because they needed something and felt it was the right time to get it. It seemed like only the criminals were stealing during this historic blackout, it didn't really have ... the streets. It seems like when disasters strike not just in America but everywhere we as people have a difficult time finding our morals it's like a survival mode type of concept to many people. This particular blackout that happened in the summer of...

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... on Economic Priorities, presented by Joanne Woodward at a reception in New York City, by donating 7.5 percent of its pre-tax income to non-profit organizations through the Ben & Jerry's Foundation. That same year, President Reagan named Ben and Jerry U.S. Small Business Persons of the Year in a White House Rose Garden ceremony.   Ben and Jerry's efforts ranged from environmental issues ... "Most Reputable " companies, placing #5 overall while earning the top spot in the "Social Responsibility " category. Ben and Jerry's continues to support worthwhile causes by teaming up with non-profi...

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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 ... with her dark wavy hair, dark brown eyes, and tan skin, she identifies as white or Caucasian because she is more Americanized that some of her European American friends. She barely understands Spanish, let alone speak it, she dresses in typical western clothing, and enjoys listening to indie folk ...

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... the kids loved it. The New York City art scene magnanimously supported and embraced the punk rock movement because of the new and original aspects of creativity. In the 1970's, bands such as "Dead Boys," the "Voidoids," and "The Ramones," were right at the core of punk, and poets and authors like Patti Smith and Jim Carroll composed prose and verse that critiqued society ... in any and every way possible. There are many different factions of punk rock, and an extensive number of bands with a wide variety of messages, but the main attitude was born of an anarchistic disposition and it carr...

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... neighborhood was dominated by mostly white middle income such as Jewish, Irish, Italian, and German ancestry, nonwhites were not welcome in Flushing. In the 1960, 97 percent of the population was non-Hispanic white. The downtown Flushing, especially the blocks that near to subway station and Long Island Railroad station was mostly surrounding by multifamily apartment buildings and single and two ... -family houses where most middle-income residents were living. Although, nowadays Flushing referred as the second Chinatown, yet Flushing is not dominated by only one single ethnic group. Flu...

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... 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 fraudulent numbers, if they met up with their earning forecast, etc. I was very nervous on my first day ... designed to teach me a new concept like how to use different corporate programs to gather or input information. My most interesting project was obtaining and analyzing balance sheets for a number of worldwide C...

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... country, and President Bill Clinton. The case was over the President's right to only veto a certain portion of a bill and pass the remaining part of the bill. The goal during the time of President Bill Clinton was to legally nullify certain provisions or parts of a Balanced Budget Act in 1997. President Clinton used the right to do this through the Line Item Veto Act. 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,...

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... As the automobile industry prospered due 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 the country. Family life transformed as ... , while big bands, both black and white popularized it for dancing. Quite possibly the greatest cultural changes came about with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in Harlem, New York, of Afr...

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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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... 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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... like Frank Lloyd Right and Le Corbusier display the way current architects are able to incorporate technological advances and personal styles in the process of designing a structure. The Renaissance was a rebirth of learning that had been lost after the demise of Classical Roman and Greek Empires. The Rapid Development of science began in the renaissance because of the growth of trade. One of the most important ... many new theorists and architects that now published their work, or were published about, as was the case with Filippo Brunelleschi. "A sculptor and a goldsmith; in 1401, Bru...

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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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... her family when she was approximately 12 years old, Lange developed polio. The virus in fact left Lange with a slightly weaker right leg, therefore giving her a perpetual limp for the rest of her life. Dorothea Lange continued on to study the art of photography at Columbia University in New York City and actually took a class taught by Clarence White, another famous photographer. After being ... bright at all; she was putting up with low wages and exhausting days for her children and their future. Motherhood and the relationships between the members of families have always been motifs i...

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... to stop anyone who seems suspicious. The law is usually disproportionally enforced on people of color ("Crime in new york city" 2014). Although only a very small percentage of stops result in finding anything, like an illegal gun or drugs, the practice is still being used as a form of crime deterrence. Another group in our society that is targeted unfairly by the media ... King and the racist remarks of Mark Fuhrman elevated racism and police brutality into national issues." The disparities of news coverage and the narratives used are furthered by over-representation of minorities as cr...

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New York City is being transformed right before our eyes. The places that we once called home are being transformed into places we can no longer afford. Many of us are just now recognizing the effects of "Gentrification" the term coined for the redevelopment or as some may ... income in the 1990's but have experienced growth. An example of gentrifying neighborhoods are neighborhoods concentrated in or near Manhattan. Non- Gentrifying neighborhoods are neighborhoods that also started off as low-income in the 1990s but took more of a modest growth like the south Bronx and East New York ... dow...

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... ). Funding gaps will be a great benefit in creating a equality in education because a school that has sufficient funds are able to teach their students with the proper materials, and the right environment. One of the nation's largest school systems is New York City who on a average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood where a child lives, than ... in New York City. New York City students who are labeled as black or Hispanic have a high chance of being enrolled in one of the city's poorest performing high schools compared to an Asian, whi...

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... Postrel stood behind a podium to deliver the speech to her audience, which numbered about 100 people seated around circular dining tables. A member of the Harvard Club spent 10 minutes introducing the speaker, Ms Postrel delivered her speech for 30 minutes, and afterwards took questions from the audience ... . Communication Strengths and Weaknesses Ms Postrel opened her speech with the use of props; demonstrating that a $4.99 trash can from a mass merchandiser has the same functionality as the natty looking metal can with a lid, ... more due to aesthetical emotional factors. In addition t...

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... He is most known for his films such as: Malcolm X, She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing and School Daze which made Lee famous, making him one of the most, if not the most, important Black filmmakers of today. Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At ... New wave in Wave by Raging Bull being entirely shot in black and white enhances the overall efficacy of the film and gives it a documentary-like feel, particularly in the non-boxing scenes, in doing so creates a somber atmosphere, which parallels the boxer's life. Another Spike Lee Joint that ....

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