... was overly impressed, and found myself heavily in agreement with Sullivan. Chronicling both the history of the New York Yankees and Yankee Stadium, the book looks to explore the connection of public funding to the building of sports stadiums. In his exploration Sullivan is critical of both team owners and ... at the time of the signing were in the middle of one of the greatest runs of success in baseball history, and with winning came gate receipts. The steady success and high attendance numbers gave little fodder for those opposed to integration, in terms of the Yankees. Sullivan goes on...

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... was 44. In 1992, the SPPA reported a median age of 42 for both plays and musicals, and in 1982 the median age for both was 39. This constitutes a steady median age incline between 1982 and 2008 of 8 years for non-musical plays, and 6 years for musicals. The 2008 SPPA ... of those who are attending is getting significantly older. According to the same NEA report, between 1982 and 2008 the median audience age rose from 39 to 47 for non-musical theater Some arts leaders have convinced themselves that fine arts audiences have always been gray, but that isn't true. ... are 60% female.14 Th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... demonstrate the vapidity and emptiness of the wealthy and socially connected crowd during that time. In contrast to the modern day woman, the traits shared by the women in Fitzgerald's book are somewhat disturbing, sometimes laughable, but more importantly, are indicative of Fitzgerald's view of what the consequences of achieving the American Dream held for Americans. The Great Gatsby is, in ... remainder of her life. Myrtle Wilson's sister, Catherine, declares that Myrtle was "crazy about [George, her husband] for a while" (p. 39). Myrtle Wilson vehemently denies being "crazy in love" ...

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... to a printer. Two years later he went to New York City to work in printing shops, but returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools. Between 1838-39 he edited a newspaper, the Long-Islander, at Huntington; becoming bored, he went back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist {Doren, 45}. There he enjoyed the theatre ... world, but regards everything about it with love, occasional amusement, and tender, tolerant pity. It is a poetry which literally begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem mak...

• Word Count: 3004
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• Grade Level: High School

... White, 13.48% African American, 0.42% Native American, 9.35% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 15.48% from other races, and 5.63% from two or more races. 39.76% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 230,546 households out of which 29.60% have children under the age of 18 living with ... them, 39.80% are married couples living together, 16.60% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 37.70% are non-families. 29.50% of ... males. The median income for a household in the city is $41,566, and the median income for a family is $52,413. Males have a median...

• Word Count: 4700
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• Grade Level: High School

... said Fortune magazine to be the 5th richest family on the planet. Billionaire Randolph Hearst and family, owns 14 daily newspapers, 6 TV stations, 7 radio stations and some book publishing companies. Lastly, Kenneth Irving and family of Canada, the world 8th richest billionaire has virtually monopolized ownership of all English speaking papers in Canada. Each of these media ... W. (1967 ) Who Rules America. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall ) Dumhoff, W. (1968 ) The Power Elite and Its Critics. Beacon Press Boston. Engler, A. (1995 ) Apostles of Greed. Pluto Press London, p. 3...

• Word Count: 5140
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... said Fortune magazine to be the 5th richest family on the planet. Billionaire Randolph Hearst and family, owns 14 daily newspapers, 6 TV stations, 7 radio stations and some book publishing companies. Lastly, Kenneth Irving and family of Canada, the world 8th richest billionaire has virtually monopolized ownership of all English speaking papers in Canada. Each of these media ... W. (1967 ) Who Rules America. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall ) Dumhoff, W. (1968 ) The Power Elite and Its Critics. Beacon Press Boston. Engler, A. (1995 ) Apostles of Greed. Pluto Press London, p. 3...

• Word Count: 5146
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a Ph.D from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is also a colonel in the US Air Force. He later flew on other space missions, including STS-61A (in 1985), STS-39 (in 1991), and STS-53 (in 1992). In total, Bluford logged over 688 hours in space. Dr. Bluford became a NASA astronaut in August 1979. Dr. Bluford is married and has ... Topeka, Kansas, and studied art at the University of Nebraska. He later moved to Harlem, New York, and soon became a preeminent artist. Douglas did many paintings, woodcut prints, murals, and book and magazine illustrations. Douglass, Frederick Frederick ...

• Word Count: 3305
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• Grade Level: High School

... scholars, are about that of the world and those things contained within them. "Characteristic of Shakespeare's conception of Hamlet's universalizing mind that he should make Hamlet think first . . . entirely." (Mack. 39) Hamlet has come to terms with the fact that the world, even including his mother, is nothing but an un-weeded garden filled with evil. Hamlet's one true problem is ... and feed? A best, no more. Sure he that mad us with such large discourse, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in us unused. (IV.IV.33-39) . Hamlet believes that life is useless if men d...

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... . Ventures had hired Van Loan to tow the booths in two days before the concert. The booths never made it because of traffic. Since the booths were not at the gate, organizers decided to take down the fence and have a free show; they would worry about the bills later. Late Friday morning three school buses, full of cops, arrived at Woodstock ... ...

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... . Ventures had hired Van Loan to tow the booths in two days before the concert. The booths never made it because of traffic. Since the booths were not at the gate, organizers decided to take down the fence and have a free show; they would worry about the bills later. Late Friday morning three school buses, full of cops, arrived at Woodstock ... ...

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... Rise of Communism, 1911-1949, New York, 1967. 2. Stephen Uhalley, Jr., A History of the Chinese Comunist Party, Stanford, California, Hoover Institution, 1988 (see chaps. 1-6, up to 1949). 3. Jonathan D. Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace. The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980, New York, 1981 4. Rhoads Murphey, A History of Asia, 3rd ed., New York, 2000. 5. William Morwood, Duel for the Middle Kingdom ... ...

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... rates soared as a result of these measures. As for Roosevelt the man, there were many rumors. They mostly took place before he was stricken with polio at the age of 39. According to many, including Roosevelt's own son, he had an affair with Lucy Mercer, who was the social secretary of Eleanor. Eleanor found out about the affair when she found ... ...

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... This novel centers on a country boy who, after prey to drink in the big city, eventually causes the death of three women. However, this book sold more copies than anything else Whitman published in his lifetime. During the time Whitman was writing fiction, he remained a successful journalist. He worked in ... rights and expression and also of individualism, emphasizing in his writings the word "I". That "I" became the main character of Leaves of Grass, the explosive book of twelve untitled poems that he wrote in the early years of the 1850s. For now on he would add, delete, separate and ...

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... ; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire-(McCourt 11). The first chapter discusses Angela, Frank McCourt's mother and who the book is based upon, and her life before she had children. When I read this part of the memoir, it became a reality of how life was ... coming to America, especially by themselves as Angela did. As I continued to read the memoir and as I came to the halfway point of the book, reality hit me even harder to see Frank's family struggle to simply get milk for his brothers and sister. It also felt heartbreaking to watch Frank ......

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... his bosom" (Douglass Speeches 8-9). In 1845, Douglass published his autobiography, Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass. He feared that his identity as a runaway slave would be revealed when the book was published, so he went to England. England welcomed his continued speeches against slavery. His newfound friends there raised money to buy his freedom (Filler 194). Douglass returned to the ... binding, was a war measure that could be reversed later. Therefore, in 1865, Lincoln helped push through Congress the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery throughout ...

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... American, except possibly Thomas Jefferson, has done so many things so well. During his long and useful life, Franklin concerned himself with such different matters as statesmanship and soap making, book printing and cabbage growing, and the rise of tides and the fall of empires. He also invented an efficient heating stove and proved that lightning is electricity. As a statesman, Franklin ... tells how he built his house, paid his bills, and spent his time. It also tells about his visitors and reports what he read and thought. On a deeper level, the book is a celebration of people livin...

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... Beat philosophy" (amazon.com-#1). Also, Library Journal writes: "Undoubtedly one of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement" (barnesandnoble.com-#1). The purpose of this research paper is to find out why ... it is bound to contain several elements of suspense, besides the thrill, it is filled with comedy. Some of the most suspenseful parts of the book are these: when Sal lives with Remi Boncoeur in the barracks and works as a guard, they are on duty alone and Remi is ...

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... reaches its limits, and as youthful ideals finally find fruition. Angela's ashes do not actually feature in the film, although they do in the book. The ashes are the remains of a coal fire, since expired, in the family kitchen. Angela, the mother, after years of disappointments and ... his parental homeland, the oldest child of a father whose background in "the North" engenders continual suspicion, and a mother (Angela of the book's title) who had never known her father and whose own mother is as miserly with her affections as with offers of economic assistance. The ... " 'T. is." Co...

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... Laden and his band of terrorists. He believes that United Airlines flight's 93 and 175 were flown into the towers by remote control. His book instantly became number three on the "non-fiction" best-seller list. Along with Bulow's propaganda, Germany's government-run WDR television broadcasted a "documentary ... like all conspiracy theorists, he too has ignored the obvious facts contradicting his claims and he "conveniently" left out all of them in his book. Most conspiracy theorists rarely have a vast amount of evidence confirming the conspiracy and only a little detail or two that doesn...

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... Filipinos on America, which he co-edited. His latest novel, My Sad Republic, was recently awarded with the Philippine Centennial Prize for Fiction. A book of poems, Zero Gravity, was awarded the New York/New England Selection by Alice James Books, and was recently published. He teaches at the ... already been colonized from within by the Marcos regime. A misunderstanding between the first lady and the Beatles in the first pages of the book already sparks attention to the fact that the nation of the Philippines has been colonized from within. The miscommunication leads to the cancellation ...

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... for "his ability to make his readers feel intensely his! view of the damage that racial prejudice inflicts on both whites and blacks" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Notes of a Native Son marked the formal entry of Baldwin into the literary tradition of the personal essay. The essay ... strong opinions and, even more to the point, deep-rooted feelings" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 2, pg. 31). Baldwin finished his long-awaited first book, Go Tell It On The Mountain, during a stay in his companion's Swiss hometown, and published it in 1953. The novel, a largely autobiographic...

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... clothes are out of style, and our partners don't respect us enough. The only logical explanation is that personal improvement is only a mere purchase away (Baran 296). In her book, Are They Selling Her Lips? Advertising and Identity, Dr. Carol Moog states thatconsumers buy the product unconsciously hoping that they will win the admiration they covet, but since they?re ... ,advertisers began to notice this growing wave of feminist objections and major efforts were made to gauge just how influential their ideas were becoming? (Craig 3-4). As a result of her book and its charges towards the ...

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... challenge brought upon him. This being my first read work by Anthony Burgess, it has inspired me to read more of his literature. I originally picked out this book after a recommendation from a fellow schoolmate. It has the conflicts Man verses Society, Man versus Man, and Man verses Himself, which make a great combination for this ... large audience to prove that the treatment really worked. Finally, Alex is no longer able to do evil, or think it. The final section of the book is about young Alex, now 17 years old, and out of prison. He stops to grab a bite to eat, and looks at the newspa...

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... . With financial success came political involvement. In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. Later, his support for some of Roosevelt's more radical fiscal policies cooled, but he remained an enthusiastic Democrat and a famous, if controversial, national figure, holding ... necessary for our survival," Profiles in Courage cemented JFK's reputation as an intellectual, a thinking man's politician, and made him a darling of the New York and...

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• Grade Level: High School