... a prostitute or harlot. Centuries later, the word became commonly used prisons, used when a male prisoner was perceived to be the property of another male prisoner; forced to acquiesce to dehumanizing demands put upon him, including submission to homosexual assaults and torture. In the 1970's the ... for another six or seven hours there would have been several hundred people inside. As it was, only a few people were killed that day when the Mercer Arts Center collapsed, and CBGB's subsequently became the center of the universe for the east coast punk rock world."(Beeber, ... "The Minute...

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... that umbrella, I think that it is a near certitude that anyone who tries to unravel the question what is art would venture writing as one of its manifestations. Art, in the most basic of senses, is imitation, imitation ultimately of nature. Regardless of the writer's style, be it naturalistic, surrealistic, absurd, symbolic, etc., a writer, whether hack or luminary, strives to portray to some degree how things ... is easier to spend roughly $40 on an ink cartridge, and $20 for a pack of Kodak photo quality paper to do the work at home. Initially purchasing all the proper equipment, such...

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... have been neglectful in reaching out to certain targeted groups; the youth, the disadvantaged and people with disabilities. It seems that group of citizens has fallen through the cracks. Although New Britain has plenty of parks, at one time no community center existed where public programs could be held. Municipal recreation activities were limited; playgrounds were unstructured and pools were ... city business growth in New Britain's four key clusters: metal manufacturing; hospitality, tourism, and leisure; health care and medical devices; and education and knowledge creation. In less th...

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... writing,  Moby-Dick  originates in his experiences as a common sailor and in the complex reactions of his lively mind to ageless spiritual questions and to the ebullient society of his time. One of the few American books recognized as a world classic, it has overshadowed the considerable achievement of his other work, which is diverse and experimental and, though sometimes flawed, often shows remarkable control. ... His narratives of adventure in the South Seas are small masterworks of the genre. His short tales, "Bartleby" and " ... year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely pas...

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... pushes them apart. Banishing Ellen and trapping Archer so that he cannot follow. The way Archer describes his life with May makes us think of their marriage as one long sacrifice on his part. The chapter is long and descriptive which shows us how he feels: "Archer had reverted to all his ... suppress Ellen's free spirit, to make her fit in. He tries to talk her out of divorcing Count Olenski: "New York society is a very small world compared to the one youve lived in. And it's ruled, in spite of appearances, by a few people with v/s well, rather old-fashioned ideas." Ellen eventually beco...

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... "On the Perfection Underlying Life." Over the years Agnes Martin can be seen as striving to open herself to happiness, which she has defined as the experiencing of one's deepest emotions. At least partly because of her occasionally cryptic remarks, some observers have discerned in her works a mystical or spiritual quality, which she has vehemently denied. On the contrary, as she wrote ... are a deliberate attempt to achieve clarity by means of precise, mechanically rendered gray lines, with all traces of the hand effaced. According to Riva Castleman, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art,...

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... hesitation in using Sandy's flying benefits. There were family reunions to attend, Thanksgiving turkeys to be cut, and endless beaches of white sand to be walked on. Of course, there is always anticipation of the idea of "going on vacation" in that one is simply getting away from home or leaving the "grind" for a few days. This was all well and ... we were taking off was when the airplane came to a complete stop - it was no longer gently treading pavement. In a single thrust of fiery combustion tied together with steel rivets, the world outside of my window turned into horizontal stripe...

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Massive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power, the rising of women, disobedience and sabotage, communes & marijuana: amongst this chaos, there was a generation of youths looking to set their own standard - to fight against the establishment, which was oppressing them, and leave their mark on history. These kids were ... hippy culture, but by no means a reason for it's occurrence. The previous pages cite the more relevant political and social ...

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... Street, which is the only street converging into the historic Five Points area that has kept its' original name,2 I am completely relaxed and in awe of its' simple beauty. This street is lined with quaint restaurants, one of a kind clothing shops and rough brick apartment buildings that I have gotten to know intimately in years past as a real estate rental agent. The sidewalk is ... renamed it New York in 1664, was the center trading post between the colonies of America and Europe. The British remained in control of New York for approximately two hundred years until they were forced out...

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... controlling inanimate objects; it is about controlling people. To extend gun controls would make the nation better for criminals and worse for the rest of us. 2 U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Lifetime Likelihood of Victimization," BJS Technical Report, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, March 1987. 3 Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence In ... them stay there. If we could eliminate the nonsense that happens constantly on Capital Hill, this dream would be a very real one. With the interests of political activist groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) ...

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... all products and their distributions. To this common understanding on global cities Sassen differs in one new element, "Focus is not the power of large multinationals to co-ordinate and control the global economy, but rather upon the practice of global control." She is talking about the production of the services the global cities produce. This is what she believes actually does the controlling ... changing place in the world because it is always trying to be the leader in the development of new products and ideas. This causes a constant flow of change. The main city that has seen this ...

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... , it added to the problems it was intended to solve" (Thorton). On January 16, 1920, one of the personal customs of most Americans suddenly came to a stop. The Eighteenth Amendment went into effect and all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor had to end. The use of alcohol for medicinal and sacramental purposes was allowed, but this act also set up guidelines ... in serious crimes, such as homicides. Assault and battery increased nearly 13 percent, while other crimes with victims increased 9 percent. Many people in favor of prohibition arg...

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... , it added to the problems it was intended to solve" (Thorton). On January 16, 1920, one of the personal customs of most Americans suddenly came to a stop. The Eighteenth Amendment went into effect and all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor had to end. The use of alcohol for medicinal and sacramental purposes was allowed, but this act also set up guidelines ... in serious crimes, such as homicides. Assault and battery increased nearly 13 percent, while other crimes with victims increased 9 percent. Many people in favor of prohibition arg...

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... , it added to the problems it was intended to solve" (Thorton). On January 16, 1920, one of the personal customs of most Americans suddenly came to a stop. The Eighteenth Amendment went into effect and all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor had to end. The use of alcohol for medicinal and sacramental purposes was allowed, but this act also set up guidelines ... in serious crimes, such as homicides. Assault and battery increased nearly 13 percent, while other crimes with victims increased 9 percent. Many people in favor of prohibition arg...

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For over four-hundred years, New York City has been a thriving city sought out by those wishing to better their lives. New York City is situated in a prime location and has ... funds to finish these projects. During the Great Depression, many workers lost their jobs and kept their children in school so that they would one day get office jobs. The Great Depression also raised levels of racial bigotry between different ethnic groups. Blacks lived in Harlem where they experienced the Harlem Renaissance. Much housing discrimination was at work where ... in run-down neighborhoods at high prices; i...

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... 't until the last several hundred years that it became a problem for certain members of society. During the mid to late 1800's, European public officials took note of a trend of some citizens focusing less on intercourse for family propagation and more as a form of simple pleasure. Historians feel this ... demographics presenting with the same illness such as Haitian immigrants, IV drug users, hemophiliacs, blood transfusion recipients and children or female lovers of GRID patients. At this point, the illness was renamed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), but the damage had been ...

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... Puerto Ricans who have emigrated from Puerto Rico throughout the 1900s. Puerto Rico was a poor island since the day of its foundation by Christopher Columbus in 1493. "Puerto Rico's residents have arbitrarily distorted the political and economic administration of the Island for almost five hundred years" (Bourgois, 48). Puerto Rico had never had a prosperous economy and was always easily controlled by other countries ... through the use of military force. According to Bourgois (2002: 49), "in 1992, more than 50 percent of the Puerto Rican population qualified for food stamps." Even Caes...

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... the greatest aqueduct builders in ancient history, they were not the first. Hundreds of years before the Romans built their first aqueduct, many middle-eastern countries such as Persia, Egypt and India had aqueducts. The Assyrians built one similar to the Roman ones in 691 B.C. However, over a period of five hundred years, the Romans built eleven aqueducts spanning over 260 miles. It was a feat ... unparalleled by any other civilization. Over a long period of time, about 500 years, Rome had eleven aqueducts supplying it with water. The ancient ... the city. The Catskill System has two ...

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... . Similar programs in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, and Montgomery, Alabama saw impressive reductions in crimes against women, including both rape and robbery. One woman victim decided on her own that she had enough. A fifty - one year old woman of Los Angeles, California, twice raped by the same man, purchased a handgun and took lesions to learn how to use it. When the man ... there are at least 750,000 hand guns in the city and gun - related crime remains high. In 1989, 70 percent of the city's twenty - two hundred homicides were caused by gunfire according to LaFollette. The BA...

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... America grow up and don't know any white people."(Children's News Express Bureau) Kozol stated in that same 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 ... to most readers. He gives them names and families so that they stick in the reader's mind and don't become a faceless mass to be forgotten. One example of this is Ebony Williams, a little girl who is incinerated in a pampers box near the Bruckner Expressway. Most readers could n...

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... . Similar programs in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, and Montgomery, Alabama saw impressive reductions in crimes against women, including both rape and robbery. One woman victim decided on her own that she had enough. A fifty - one year old woman of Los Angeles, California, twice raped by the same man, purchased a handgun and took lesions to learn how to use it. When the man ... there are at least 750,000 hand guns in the city and gun - related crime remains high. In 1989, 70 percent of the city's twenty - two hundred homicides were caused by gunfire according to LaFollette. The BA...

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... in children with either clinically elevated depressive or attention deficit symptoms" (p.132). These results are just one of many that oppose the idea that violence in video games cause violence in those who play them. Another study confirmed the same results ... outrageous hypotheses behind the teenager's actions ranging from the music they listened to virtual video game violence (Frymer 2009). A study was done of a very popular series known as the "Twilight Saga" to see the interactions between the characters and their relationships, from physical ... also evidence to show how media...

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... "Two assailants were buzzed in to the building, located at 90-10 Merrick Blvd. in Jay's hometown of Queens. But police don't know if the perpetrators were allowed in from the studio or from one of two other businesses that share 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] ... mystery. The notion that hip-hop is simply a culture plagued with violence and negative connotations, is a tremendous outrage. Hip-hop has been the power tool of...

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... at her craft were two activities that Dorothea Lange devoted her life toward. Throughout her life she overcame odds, with her childhood serving as a training ground for her role as one of the nation's first and finest documentary photographers. When telling about her youth, Dorothea Lange commented wistfully, "Nobody knew who I was, what the color ... darkroom. A gifted budding photographer and personable young woman, Lange was soon offered the opportunity to start her own portrait studio by one of the camera club's wealthy members. Lange opened her studio at 540 Sutter Street, behind a...

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... at her craft were two activities that Dorothea Lange devoted her life toward. Throughout her life she overcame odds, with her childhood serving as a training ground for her role as one of the nation's first and finest documentary photographers. When telling about her youth, Dorothea Lange commented wistfully, "Nobody knew who I was, what the color ... darkroom. A gifted budding photographer and personable young woman, Lange was soon offered the opportunity to start her own portrait studio by one of the camera club's wealthy members. Lange opened her studio at 540 Sutter Street, behind a...

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