... who have everything we fear, sickness, color, destitution-but it has been carried out in ways that seem compatible with humane principles(Kozol 137). Kozol quotes a woman from the South Bronx who acknowledges the evils. She says ""Evil exists? Yes I said that. People who let other people be destroyed do ... a small number of people are successfully trying to make a difference, yet on the whole, Kozol believes that society leaves much to be desired in our treatment of one another. Kozol believes that society is largely responsible for each citizen. Using the prisons again to transfer his ...

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... or made those participate in services for the Times Square community. By 1999 statistics showed positive results, Mayor Giuliani states, "Crime in our subway system has declined dramatically in the first four months of this year...robberies declined 17 percent from last year to this year grand ... 000 business, 10,000 residents, the 1.5 million people who pass through daily, and the 20 million tourist who come annually. We approach our jobs as community organizers trying to address the quality of life issues that have troubled Times Square in the past and continue to tarnish its ... is s...

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... be completely different than the path that they end up following. Well, it all depends on what our interpretations of fate are and wether or not 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 ... nD tommy see Miss Emily at the end of the book, she tells them,"Whatever else, we at least saw to it that all of you in our care, you grew up in wonderful surroundings. And we saw to it too, after you left us, you were kept away from the worst of those horrors. ... the first lie of ...

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... each more fantastic and outlandish than its predecessor. Because of this inundation of popularized crime and violence, those two highly negative parts of our society have moved from solely the realm of news, to the land of entertainment (Dowler 2006). Studies show that youth are also victims ... within the context of simplification and decontextualization of the news in order to provide sensationalistic accounts which sell newspapers." Those who control our media and those who report news are straying away from the reporting actual, and for argument purposes "boring" news, ... for the r...

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... , and ability to always ask "what if?" It was always a bitter-sweet phenomenon when the captain finally came to announce "we will be arriving at our destination in around fifteen minutes. The weather is partly sunny with a temperat-." I would always block him out. I had no care in the world about where we ... or about one another, and then we walk off the jet-bridge the same way we came on and go about the trajectory of the rest of our lives. Half of the battle is getting any one neighboring passenger to actually talk and engage in conversation. In any given plane ride, it is found ... ...

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... corruption would be intolerable and quickly unveiled from the inside. The people of the community are responsible for bringing about these kinds of changes in our society. Only with a system that awards bravery and honor will police officers be turned away from a life of corruption. Like it or ... its officers are tempted by money but whether there is an institutional culture that discourages them from succumbing. This is where Marxian theory really tackles our system. We find ourselves stuck in a culture that monetarily awards those who actively violate the law. Lawmen succumb to the ru...

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... and right brained people across the globe would have had a very skeptical response to the idea of computers and their involvement in our every day lives. Who would have ever thought that the combination of plastic, circuit boards and wiring would be the heart and soul ... both as a tool creating endless new possibilities, and as an organizational tool for the business aspect. As far back through the documented times of our society that we look, people have always argued the definition of art. Is the existence and quality of art determined by the creator? The viewer? ... each of which is...

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... that the theory of natural selection is not restricted to plants and animals, but is also applicable to human beings as well. If natural selection is the correct theory behind our existence, then it will obviously play an enormous role in determining the rationale behind the actions and motivations of human beings. According to this theory, the reason a human desires or ... alternative would be to have their genes live on forever and that requires fitness maximization. Effects of Natural Selection If fitness maximization is truly the underlying desire behind all of our motives and actio...

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... , the police would search for guns on anyone stopped for minor infractions. Such a program would seek to deter the illegal transfer of firearms on our streets. Still another program would be to impose harsher penalties for felons who use firearms in the course of their crime. In this paper it ... is not the answer. It is your constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Clearly we have seen that outlaw guns would not be in our best interest. We have seen that doing so would not reduce the number of innocent people killed each year. Criminals have misused firearms, often ... provide more ...

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... instead of spending time with family and friends. For some teens television becomes their social life. Even Saturday morning cartoons are impressing messages upon our children. They seem to illustrate that if you are a reasonable person, you must use violence if you are dealing with someone who ... These rates of violence are unacceptably high. During 1996-97, about 4,000 incidents of rape or other types of sexual battery were reported in our nation's public schools. There were about 11,000 incidents of physical attacks in which weapons were used and 7,000 robberies in schools that ... ...

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... the police would search for guns on anyone stopped for minor infractions. Such a program would seek to deter the illegal transfer of firearms on our streets. Still another program would be to impose harsher penalties for felons who use firearms in the course of their crime. Several times above it ... not the answer. It is one's constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Clearly we have seen that outlaw guns would not be in our best interest. We have seen that doing so would not reduce the number of innocent people killed each year. Criminals have misused firearms, often with ... more...

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... of the American soil," wrote Lange in the text that accompanies her photos. "They are a hardy stock. They are of the roots of our country. They inhabit our plains, our prairies, our deserts, our mountains, our valleys, and our country town. They are not our well-advertised women of beauty and fashion, nor are they a part of the well-advertised American style of living... They are of themselves ... a very great American style. They live with courage and purpose, a part of our tradition." In her final years, Dorothea Lange found her focus was shifting. Earlier she had photographed people ...

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... of the American soil," wrote Lange in the text that accompanies her photos. "They are a hardy stock. They are of the roots of our country. They inhabit our plains, our prairies, our deserts, our mountains, our valleys, and our country town. They are not our well-advertised women of beauty and fashion, nor are they a part of the well-advertised American style of living... They are of themselves ... a very great American style. They live with courage and purpose, a part of our tradition." In her final years, Dorothea Lange found her focus was shifting. Earlier she had photographed people ...

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... resulting from that thinking. Other than telling the other body parts what to do, the brain acts as a giant animated filing cabinet. A single drawer of the 'filing cabinet' acts as our long term memory, another holds the short term. Another directs signals to the rest of the body to react to pleasure or pain. There is another drawer that directors emotions ... in circumstances that are more normal to them. For example, when people associate and form friendships their personalities are a match because they have characteristics that are compatible with our personality, which leads to our in...

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... "The city should withdraw from the stadium game by selling the Stadium back the Yankees or to another private party. Our public resources should be devoted to resolving conflict, promoting investments in the community that the market would miss, and caring for our neighbors when they cannot do so themselves. " (Sullivan 197). His point here was the most powerful in the book ... and most thought provoking. Why do we continue to allow our money go to these mega corporations when there are problems everywhere we look. The thought that the Yankees would go elsewhere is also preposterous, as...

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Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, ... 's 97,000 public schools, the Education Department found a pattern of inequality on a number of fronts, with race as the dividing factor. " It is a clear fact that inequality still exists withi...

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... , but in most cases completely unnoticed. "The Dead Kennedys" opened many young minds to the outrageous injustice and abuse of power that is perpetrated everywhere, all over the world, with our unwitting consent, on a daily basis. When punk arrived, San Francisco was one of the first cities in America to embrace it. The scene centered around a few clubs and hangouts including ... a voice in American counter-culture and it was screaming an anti-political message that the youth of the world was paying attention to the atrocities being committed not only within our borders but overseas. Peo...

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... as we know it is going through the biggest change mankind has ever seen. No longer do our societies have to be built around flowing water, farms, pastures, and all the other basic resources a human needs to survive. Cities have created an environment where everything is imported and ... anymore, everyone is relying on others to produce goods for them. On the other hand though the improvement in technology and the easy sufficient 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...

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... so by mustering support from a local church and the help of Archbishop John Ireland. With all of their committed assistance, Our Lady of the Rosary was started. The organization provided food, shelter and support to helpless, young, Irish female immigrants. Our Lady of the Rosary, located in New York City, assisted over 170,000 immigrant girls, and is still around today helping ... immigrant wrote home at the height of the potato famine exodus, "My master is a great tyrant, he treats me as badly as if I was a common Irishman." The writer further added, "Our position in America is one of...

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... country to implement -- in all of its major cities - individual strategies to strengthen urban economies by attracting private investment. Social investments, though well intended, did not solve the problems of our inner-cities. Investments based on economic self-interest can and will. Thirty years of efforts to address the problems of cities failed because approaches treated the cities as problems and ... 's cities will hinge on attracting companies that can actually benefit from an urban location. We are tailoring strategies to strengthen the business base in our cities by looking at t...

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... members of Congress are addressing issues of "Ending poverty, hunger, HIV/AIDS, homelessness, illiteracy, unemployment, police brutality, and many other life and death issues affecting the quality of life in our communities are more important than free speech"(Chavis-Muhammad and Simmons, 144). This association believes that increasing parental awareness of advisory labels on albums, is a more sensible alternative than the ... on to say, "Hip-hop is more powerful than any American cultural movement we've ever had, so why should it be used to convey violent and contravening images of our...

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... )". Marshall continues to elaborate on the large diversity of ethnicities abiding in tenement housing within the six wards of New York City during the early nineteenth century. "Whether our immigration laws be wise or foolish, this is their result, and it adds a new complication to the puzzle of the tenements. Nineteen languages and dialects are among the accomplishments of ... ...

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... changing what is considered acceptable and what should be strived towards. Whether it is race, size, life style or simply what people should buy. All this history brings us to our current era; The Social Age. Boundaries are still continuing to be pushed. Aimee Mullins walked down the runway for the first time in 1999. After her first birthday, because of ... ...

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... the highest quality emergency service at both fire and medical responses to the people of New York City. Instructional programs target operational efficiency with emphasis on safe operating procedures for our members in all aspects of fire and emergency operations. The Bureau of training accepts and enthusiastically anticipates the challenge of planning and designing the new fire academy at Fort Totten ... ...

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... asked if he thought Pop art was "despicable- Lichtenstien summed up Pop art overall: It is an involvement with what I think to be the most brazen and threatening characteristics of our culture, things we hate, but which are also powerful in their impingement on us. I think art since Cézanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art It has ... ...

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