... working on forming collaborative partnerships between parks and recreation departments and the school system to address this issue. As in the cities that we studied in this course, many of the residents are low income, and do not own vehicles, and therefore, are not able to travel to the suburbs to find work, and therefore, need to find work within the city. Most ... of the available jobs in the city are lower paying service positions. There are still some manufacturing type jobs, but not like there ... that the city is considering acquiring through tax foreclosure - the South Street v...

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... the period from the mid-1950s through the 1960s known as the Civil Rights Era. During these years racial tensions in large cities across the U.S. increased while equality of opportunity for all people seemed to be on the decline. Two political leaders with substantial influence over minority politics and civil rights legislation during the Civil Rights Era were Congressmen Adam Clayton Powell Jr ... well as the voting public. "Powell had a reputation for not always honoring commitments and misstating facts in a particular situation" (Hamilton 404). Powell, elected to Congress from Harle...

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... caused by the cultural exchanges that happened between Manhattan and New York were also significant. The bridge helped to foster cooperation between the residents of Manhattan and New York and also helped in the development and consolidation of the two cities. In the book, The Complete History of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, it stated, "A few years ago Brooklyn was regarded only as "a dormitory ... of New York." But lately the state of things thus described are rapidly changing. Manufactories have sprung up on every hand, and the steam whistle, the hum ... tremendous in the develo...

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... York City stands alone. New York has always been a notoriously cosmopolitan city, with people coming, going, and oftentimes staying from other countries and cities within the United States, and, it is for this reason that both the accent originated and why it is so identifiable around the world. ... " in the New York City accent that is unseen in many other styles of speaking in the United States, with the exception of cities like Boston and Philadelphia (Becker, Wing-mei Wong, The Short-a System of New York City English: An Update). For this reason, linguists have concurred that this .....

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... individual gangs. For instance, African American gangs tend to confine their activities to their own communities, although the Bloods and the Crips, two gangs originating in Los Angeles, now have members nationwide. In contrast, Asian gangs often travel hundreds of miles from home in order to conduct their activities (Bodinger-deUriarte, 1993). In addition, African American and Hispanic gangs are much ... States, gangs have taken on a different character and have moved into areas unimagined by Dickens. Most significantly, they are spreading from inner cities to "edge cities" cities at th...

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... a half dozen major scandals in its police department this century. It was the Knapp Commission in 1972 that first brought awareness to the NYPD when they released the results of a two-year investigation of alleged corruption. The findings were that bribery, especially among narcotics officers, was extremely high. As a result many officers were prosecuted and many more lost their jobs. A massive re-structuring ... during drug raids. "The deputies were pursuing the money more aggressively than they were pursuing drugs," says Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Bauer (Castaneda 11). When cities...

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... able to be recycled as well as implemented for other parts of the site. The development committee also has partnered to create a state of the art environmentally friendly cooling system that is 25% more efficient and uses two million less gasoline. The concept of Atlantic Station is to remove the social dependency of ... of Atlantic Station had their concept of an urban utopian paradise, everything anyone could ever want and need all placed within this attractive encasement. To the naked eye Atlantic Station seems to be the paradise the city of Atlanta is looking for. But does it really a...

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... they were apparently following NYPD procedure. Controversies over police brutality and racial profiling were finally brought to light after the event as the circumstances of the shooting incited outrage across the United States. A class-action lawsuit was filed against New York City for what plaintiffs called " ... New York City that minorities had long awaited. It seemed as if the heated controversies from the previous two decades had proven to damper the racially profiling and brutal culture of the police force in our nation by the late 2000's. However, in 2008 New York City Council Spe...

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... . African-American students in the South began to go to universal secondary education in 1968. In 1980 the federal courts succeeded in eliminating the system of legalized segregation in the southern schools, and investigated many of the northern cities, and demanded that the school districts include minorities to create an education equal between districts (Kozol, 1991, p. 3). African-American weren't the only race that ... potential to provide students with quality education but at the same time have the potential not to. With these two different public school systems the chances of ach...

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... streets and maintain order. Progression in the middle ages led to "watchmen", in cities in Europe. These watchmen were put there by local government to provide order. These men carried a pointed or bladed staff as a sign of authority, lantern to see in the night, and a horn or bell to ... investigating accidents and many more responsibilities. Supervisors will teach these officers what they need to know before beginning their patrol duties. The goals of training are to teach customer service, encourage individual achievement and teamwork. It is essential for any officer to receive in-cla...

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