... 93,295 fire apparatus responses to 449,296 fires, non- fires emergency and medical calls- (FDNY.com). Firefighters are like warriors that must go into battle. Brave as they are, firefighters continue to risk their lives to save others. The fire department is one of the most important ... 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 terrain. There are 2,677 EMTs and paramedics that are considered ... (Un...

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... her revolver. Hit by bullets from both guns the burglar died. Jason's mother, like Jason, was defending her house against an intruder. There are about 645,000 defensive uses of handguns each year, according to Gary Kleck, a professor at Florida State University. He bases his figure on several surveys ... in the number of rapes over a twelve - month period from 12.8 per 100,000 to 35.9 per100,000. Women in Orlando were afraid to go out alone, even in the daytime. Citizens of Orlando demanded that something be done. Something was done. the Orlando Police Department set up a program ... has...

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... her revolver. Hit by bullets from both guns the burglar died. Jason's mother, like Jason, was defending her house against an intruder. There are about 645,000 defensive uses of handguns each year, according to Gary Kleck, a professor at Florida State University. He bases his figure on several surveys ... in the number of rapes over a twelve - month period from 12.8 per 100,000 to 35.9 per100,000. Women in Orlando were afraid to go out alone, even in the daytime. Citizens of Orlando demanded that something be done. Something was done. the Orlando Police Department set up a program ... has...

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... etc. a certain amount of confusion is expected. The comprehension of the psychological and sociological actions taking place in the brain is a mystery. The actions that go on in the human mind in a single day are so complex that scientists still don't have all the answers as to how the process works. We can ... our choices. If a male desires sex with a certain female he has to make a choice of how he will fulfill his desire. He can go the usual route of dating and lead up to intercourse or he will just rape a woman. Some people have control issues which are also directed through ... case...

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... ways of distributing goods has changed our planet to a no boundaries land. People in every town almost everywhere in the world can order something by telephone or the Internet daily. This idea of a global city has created a new feeling on cities and their purposes. Global cities have the ... Global cities that continue to tax and have their own policies usually find themselves with many angry people because the money generated by the city continues to go to the prosperity of the global city not to the needed help for the people. This leads to polarization. Polarization causes ... with ...

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... enough to complete his thoughts and send them from his vision to the reader's vision. He attempts to go after the prison and correction programs of the city. He comes out with an alarming figure that the city spends, fifty-eight thousand dollars a year on each adult inmate and seventy thousand on ... or something of that sort, but because of their economic condition. Only in the United States, it seems, do we question whether poverty is caused by lack of money. There's almost a sense here that we can't conceive the presence of economic injustice in our own society-only in other societie...

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... had dramatically improved: his brother Gansevoort had become the secretary for U.S. legation in London under the Polk Administration. Melville could now support himself solely by writing, and his first two novels were notorious successes. In August 1847 Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and ... of the Boston Tea Party whose refusal to change the style of his clothing or his manners to fit the times made him an emblematic figure in  Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem "The Last Leaf." Herman would visit him in Boston and his father would turn to h...

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... source to the city. Next, an engineer used either a groma or dioptra for alignments. Once the line was decided on, the engineers would have to figure out how to get the water from the source to the city using covered trenches, tunnels, pressurized pipes, walls and arcades. Furthermore, the location of ... throughout the city. The water from the castella first went to the two secondary reservoirs publica and privita. If there were excess water it would go to the ponds and also flush out the sewers. Some water went to the emperor. A portion of the water was sold to the rich ... system h...

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... for subjective, abstract landscape forms that gradually became more geometric and discrete "simplified forms in a light-filled space, the effect provided by pale, translucent background washes. As the references to landscape diminished, the effect of impersonal objectivity increased, and the flatness and frontality of the ... exhibition: "I paint out of joy of experience." I paint beauty without idealism, the new beauty that needs very much to be defined by modern philosophers. (I consider idealism, mysticism, and conventions interferences in occasions of real beauty.)" In none of her w...

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... then if two non related people where to produce offspring. So thus the reason behind avoiding incest is fitness maximization. The two species go about avoiding this issue in two very diverse ways. Insects when they are quite young are dispersed throughout the world. They are born ... a woman while wearing a condom is actually an act that minimizes one's fitness instead of the desired notion of maximizing it. Let us even go a step beyond these cases. What about men who are impotent or women that are barren? What is the motivation behind the actions of people ... step beyond, it would seem...

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... may have been killed for a dispute over money, and fingered an individual named Curtis Scoon as the prime suspect in the investigation, and the man wanted by police for questioning" (Creekmur, BET). However, exact details remain unclear. Some believe that the murder was apart of a bitter rap rivalry, and others believe ... up!" "Protect me Devil, think the Lord is tryin' to kill me It's vica versa" -Pastor Troy ("Vica Versa") Heaven or Hell, where do we go? When we die, eternal fire or the street of gold Only God knows, vica versa. -Peter the Disciple (Vice Versa) "Vica Versa" is all abo...

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... selling of guns. What person who plans on using a gun for illegal purposes would go through the legal process of having the gun registered to them? Not too many. Most guns obtained by criminals are not obtained through the lawful purchase and sell transaction. The government is aware ... In 1988 there were 9000 handgun-related murders in America. Metropolitan Centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington, D.C. there was an estima...

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... we believe it can be changed. Some people are under the impression that our fate is inescapable. For example, in the book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, the main character Kathy lives in a world where she is destined to one day donate her vital organs and subsequently die or, as ... "I was talking to one of my donors a few days ago who was complaining about how memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading. I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won't lose my memories of them ....

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... 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 borough's notable historian, writes that, in the 1890s, Bronx residents ... and worked until the evening, making it difficult to find time to see a game. Night games however opened up the opportunity for fans to go to the game after they were finished with work. Major League Baseball games were now becoming an entertainment option for not just the...

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... to the year before (Sivak). Walking into the airport, for me, had its visions of optimism and inquisition halted by the fear that at any moment, something could go wrong. If I were to be honest, for a short while, the whole sequence of events dissuaded me from wanting to ... go to the airport or on vacations at all. Of course, this reluctance faded with the passage of time as I grew older, but the general American attitude toward traveling by air was still distorted. Even five years after the September 11th ... in an airplane actually was. Among whatever social conditions happened to ...

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... separation in schools between white and blacks, even though the schools were supposed to receive equal resources there were still an inequality. 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 ... experienced the enforcement of missionary schools, which emphasized the assimilation into white culture and society. Throughout missionary schools, the American Indians experienced discrimination in t...

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... them. A transvestite screaming "I want to know what love is!"," with a syringe full 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 ... band, the Dead Kennedy's were performing to crowds of disgruntled youth at clubs like the Mabuhay Gardens, in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. "The Dead Kennedys'" lyrics, composed by Biafra, were socio-political commentaries on the go...

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... also illegal. So why street race? "Tokyo Hardcore: Night Warriors- is a documentary focused on the street racing scene in Tokyo, Japan. Many of the answers given by these street racers were often very similar. "I love the challenge, the speed and situation change every time, making it more of a challenge."" "I love the feeling of ... have this need to street race, and why not do it in a controlled environment like a track? J: Its just something that I love, being able to go that fast, the competition from other cars makes it even more amazing. And about that whole track thing, it just se...

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... and Archer Her treatment of the influential characters who make up the collective voice of that society. "If things go on at this pace, Lefferts thundered, looking like a young prophet dressed by Poole and who had not yet been stoned, we shall see our children fighting for invitations to swindlers' houses ... . He believes that marrying Beauforts bastards' is something unquestionably bad. Reading this novel now, I see it as something perfectly normal. Lefferts is disgusted by this prospect, but fails to see that it is the future and he is powerless to stop it. Society in 1870s New York wa...

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... a real estate rental agent. The sidewalk is narrow, however manicured and every few feet a tree is growing in its' allotted space as designated by the neighborhood's appointed designer. Very few exceptionally tall buildings are located in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick buildings with a longer ... of a spring fed fresh water pond that was a great source for water in the 17th to the early 19th century and later on was polluted by waste from "noxious industry" (Alyssa Loorya, Archaeologist)2. This assisted in the crumbling of a beautiful community into what became known a...

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... the public mind. The media has the power to construct any type of idea by simply putting it on the air. There is a saying that goes something like, "If black people don't want to go to jail, then they shouldn't commit crimes." It seems now to encompass ... The common thought is that playing violent video games gives people, especially youths, the propensity to commit delinquent acts of violence. The study by Ferguson and Olson (2014) did an intensive study on the aggression and delinquency in videogames with youths already problematic symptoms and found that, ... racist remarks of Mar...

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... Society) Another important organization that popped up, in part thanks to the Mattachine Society, was the Metropolitan Community Church, founded in 1968 by Baptist Reverend Troy Perry. This was the only mainstream church that allowed homosexuals as leaders or members, in a time where most churches ... oppressions they faced daily. However, most gays and lesbians felt the worst form of maltreatment came through gay bashing, especially when done by public officials. Unending detainments, physical beatings, rapes and sexual assaults were quite prevalent, often committed inside the police p...

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... anyone involved in such crimes or near the area these crimes were committed. Unfortunately when the officers would leave these zones crime would just go back up. Police officers were known to be too aggressive. Having no distinct effect the policy was changed to try a better approach on ... a struggle for women who were not prostitutes. Men believed any woman in the area who was just walking, was a prostitute. They'd go and make scary advances at these women. The interviewee hated living there but couldn't leave the community because of her financial circumstances. So she ... further int...

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... gone into competition with street criminals.'' (Newsweek,Oct 21,1992:p.18) For cops as for anyone else, money works age for crooked police. Gambling syndicates in the 1950s were protected by a payoff system more elaborate than the Internal Revenue Service. Pervasive corruption may have lessened in recent years, as many experts believe, but individual examples seem to have grown more ... , at the time, Raymond Kelly announced a series of organizational changes, including a larger staff and better coordinated field investigations, intended to improve internal affairs. His critics say those...

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... 's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) promoted the use of public education for the cause of temperance. They were very successful with that. By 1902 every state and territory except for Arizona had a law requiring temperance instruction in public schools. They argued that immigrants were inferior ... and distribution industries. This also allowed some enterprising brewers to build very large firms capable of large production volumes and wide distribution. Led by Pabst of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Annheuser Busch of St. Louis, Missouri, these so-called "shipping brewers" sought to expand th...

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