... shipbuilding, but also a great deal of other items were being made such as clothing, boots, shoes, and printing. The population of NYC grew by about 3,000 people a year between 1798 and 1822. Another fire occurred in 1818, but the economy quickly recovered. From 1790 to 1800 the population grew from ... the California gold rush became popular. The Chinese occupied in area in Manhattan that became almost exclusively Chinese before the 1900s. Black people were an extremely small minority around this time (about 1.4 percent of the population). The Irish competed with the blacks for menial ...

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... discussion that "New York City, which is one of the most racist cities 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 ... cause of crime is clear because of his continuous focus on the negative effects of poverty. White rich neighborhoods are virtually crime free in comparison. A black man in New York is fourteen times as likely to be incarcerated as a white man. A hispanic man is twelve times as likely to be i...

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... of heroin sticking out of her arm was not something mom and dad wanted their daughter to go see on a Saturday night date with the boy from down the block, and the kids loved it. The New York City art scene magnanimously supported and embraced the punk rock movement because of ... blew her cookies when she was confronted by one of the clothes pin fetishists: a muscular, shirtless young man wearing smoked goggles, a leather aviator's cap and black elbow-length gloves - the ensemble topped off by two red plastic clothes pins clamped onto his nipples. "(Mc Cormack). Artistic endeavor was a ...

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... its existence. Whether it is the controversial lyrics or the vicious murders of many artists, violence appears to be an everyday element of this "bad-boy" lifestyle. The recent death of Jam Master Jay (a hip-hop pioneer, disc jockey, and member of Run DMC), has garnished an everlasting question ... space in the building" (Reid, MTV 2). Such newspapers as the New York Post have begun to speculate on the motive of Jay's murder. Black Entertainment Television reports that [The New York Post] speculates "Jam Master Jay may have been killed for a dispute over money, and fingered an individual...

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... inseparable from the design elements within it. Miss Martin's early grid drawings, which were almost always nine inches square, featured ruled lines done in red ink or colored pencil, or black or gray pencilings over a delicately tinged ground. Drawing, in any case, has remained basic to the artist's work, for in her paintings pencil lines of varying weight can often be ... grid appeals to her "except to speculate that the human mind enjoys the classical concept of a perfectly straight line, which does not exist in nature. She is clear, however, about the fact that her paintings "have n...

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... over, and gay bashing began again. (Ford) On the opposite side of the nation, citizens of Boston, Massachusetts were getting angered and complaining about gay men allegedly soliciting sexual acts and favors in the bathroom of the Boston Public Library. In response to citizen outcry, the Boston Police Department ... two brothers very successfully and building a happy and healthy family. Shortly after the children were placed with the couple, the Boston Globe ran an article about "community opposition" to them having the children. Within days the Department of Social Services (DSS) came in ...

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