... Targeted City I have chosen the City of New Britain, the 7th largest municipality in Connecticut, as the subject for this paper. There is a population of 74,000, with a median income of $36,000. 38-percent of residents are between the ages of 25 and 44. People of all ... their cultural traditions, understand their ways of life, and speak their language, the tend to become secluded from the general population, and not try to become part of the American culture, and learn to speak English. This does limit their ability to find sufficient employment and other opportunities. I ... 6.61% rat...

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... political power. They employed millions of workers, a large percentage of whom populated the suburbs that were growing across the country. The changing American economy also experienced dramatic shifts in the composition of the work force. Fewer workers went into traditional fields such as manufacturing, agriculture, and ... the "good times" of the fifties, and the youth were looking for a niche to call their own. With the drastic change in child population after the Second World War, divorce became less taboo. As a result, single mothers were forced into the labor market, and with thes...

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... a cozy feel that was unique to Bronx. Therefore it made little sense to construct a major sports stadium in an area that had such a small population. There was also little unity in terms community pride as described by Sullivan and historian Lloyd Ultan "The area had little common identity. Lloyd Ultan, the ... 1940s and early 1950s saw a major influx in suburbs and automobiles. The mostly white middle class that had made up the majority of the population of New York was leaving the city for the suburbs in droves. With this white flight and influx in poverty all around New York, ... imp...

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... of the society from owning them. GUN CONTROL Since the days of the pioneers of the United States, firearms have been part of the American tradition as protection and a means of hunting or sport. As we near the end of the 20th century the use of guns has changed ... fewer firearms, armed robbers simply used other weapons. (5) The best available evidence, based on at least eight national surveys of the general adult population, indicates that guns are used about as often for defensive as for criminal Purposes.6 The experience of other nations also provides little support for the ... , thi...

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... led the minorities living in such bad neighborhoods, such as the streets of Spanish Harlem, to search for respect and dignity while the American Society is doing the opposite, segregating and separating them from the rest of the society causing ghettoization to take place. Even during the ... all kinds of law-breakers; there are nests of the narcotics, thieving, stealing, cheating and every conceivable kind of law breaking" (Bourgois, 48). Population of the so-called "Spanish Harlem" is mostly Hispanic, specifically Puerto Ricans who have emigrated from Puerto Rico throughout the 1900s. ...

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... out in the community's collective mind. To the average American, it would seem as if violent crimes are increasing at an alarming rate. In reality the number of violent crimes is decreasing, despite the fact that our prison population is growing rapidly (Wolfers 2014). There is also an ... to portray these offenders generally as minorities, minorities are disproportionately arrested, even though drug use is equal in proportion between races. Also, due to population size, whites use more drugs than any other group (Knafo 2014). When crime is highlighted on television the offenders are, ...

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... to save others. The fire department is one of the most important agencies and is considered very necessary in New York. The dense population and the massive structures in which we live and work in are fragile to the fact that fire can tear these structures down and ... ranking an exam must be taken. The Fire Department of New York consists of 11,495 uniformed firefighters and fire officers. Considering that NYC has a population of 8,008,278 and is 321.8 square miles (see figure 1.0) the amount of fighters and officers is just enough to cover New York's City's ... work force, made the c...

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... deal with (Marshall 1893, 754)". As you can imagine, focusing on the sixth ward where the infamous Five Points are, the large population of poverty stricken immigrants who came to New York looking for a better life were not excited to find themselves in worse conditions than they fled ... from. Many of these immigrants were German, Irish, Jewish and African American fleeing famine, religious persecution and slavery. These people were treated as trash by the middle class and others within the same low status they existed ... known to be part of Five Points. This was a significant site bec...

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