... to find any influential supporters for her cause. She began to research books and other areas for information on contraception available to the public. But, even after searching in the library of the New York Academy of Medicine, she was unable to find anything on the subject. (Sanger 1931) Knowing that something had to be done so women would no longer ... of this.(Chesler 1992) Margaret Sanger moved out of her parent's house after her mother's death. She enrolled in a two year nursing program at the White Plains Hospital in Westchester County. After graduation from the two-year program...

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... history. George was commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution and first president of the United States of America (1789-1797). He was born in Westmoreland County, Va., on February 22, 1732, George Washington was the oldest son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington, who were Prosperous Virginia gentry of English descent. George ... an appointment to survey Lord Fairfax's lands in the Shenandoah Valley. He helped lay out the Virginia town of Belhaven (now Alexandria) in 1749 and was appointed surveyor for Culpeper County. George ...

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... a NYPD police officer Kenneth Eurell. On May 6, 1992, six New York City police officers and one retired NY police officer were arrested in a five-month undercover drug operation. The Suffolk county police dept. tapped the phone of a low level street dealer and soon found out that NYC police officers were involved in a multi-level drug operation. Suffolk ... County in cooperation with the NYPD internal affairs unit arrested all of the officers involved and 49 civilians. The probe that lasted five months included undercover drug buys and electronic surveillance. ... . Also seized was an ...

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... Day for Bananafish- introduced Seymour Glass and the Glass family, which come up frequently in Salinger's later writings such as "Franny and Zooey,"" written in 1961, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,"" written in 1963, and "Seymour: An Introduction,"" also written in 1963. After publishing twenty stories in Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and New Yorker between 1941 ... ...

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... experiences, appeared increasingly in the New Yorker. His entire literary output comprises 13 stories and novellas collected in Nine Stories (1953), Franny and Zooey (1961), and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction (1963) and the Catcher In The Rye (1951), a novel of adolescents anguish that won great critical and popular admiration, especially among college students. He retreated ... ...

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... (Hall 18). Shirley's first exposure to literature was with her grandmother who would read her Edgar Allan Poe stories. Shirley became interested in literature and started to go to the library quite often (Alessio 115). At the age of twelve, Shirley won a prize for her poem " The Pine Tree" which was entered into a contest for the "Junior Home Magazine". (Hall 18 ... unusual hobby: "she us perhaps the only contemporary writer who is a practicing amateur witch, specializing in small-scale black magic and fortune-telling with a tarot deck." She also owned a private library of books on the ...

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... mean pretensions, in short, a complete virtuoso". Irving spent the last years of his life in the town of Tarrytown. From 1848 to 1859 he was President of Astor Library, later New York Public Library. Irving's later publications include "Mahomet and His Successors," a careful presentation of the life, beliefs, and character of Mohammed (1850), and Wolfert's Roost (1855). According to a story, George Washington ... ...

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... New York, he conferred a military oversight by setting himself in an untenable position in Brooklyn, despite the fact that he spared his armed force by withdrawing from Manhattan into Westchester County and through New Jersey into Pennsylvania. In the most recent months of 1776, frantically short of men and supplies, Washington practically lost the fight. He had lost New York City ... , and others were leaving their positions. Non military personnel will was falling quickly; and Congress, confronted with the likelihood of a British assault on Philadelphia2. George Washington was conceive...

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... facilities under their jurisdiction. This included the New York City Penitentiary. New York's first inmate to be electrocuted was done in 1890 at the Auburn prison. Many more prisons and county jails were built in the upcoming years to house the overcrowding of inmates in Greenwich and Auburn. Virginia, from the time of the fist settlement at Jamestown had depended upon ... corporal and capital punishment for its penal measures. Gradually Virginia began to use small county jails for sentences of confinement. After the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson began to urge that Virginia const...

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... might not be seen as the only carpetbagger in the race," and including supporting comments by other people such as, " Democrats gleefully pointed out that a Giuliani press release misspelled "Niagara County."/"I'd rather vote for someone from Arkansas than someone from New York City," said Leroy Brown, 64, a former factory worker who now drives a cab in Binghamton. "That jerk Giuliani has been ... . They both acknowledge the opposing argument. In Grunwald's article, towards the end, plugs in Democrat comments like, Just last week, Democrats gleefully pointed out that a Giuliani press rel...

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... the devils" ("Malcolm X." UXL 1). "This religious group encouraged education" ( 'Malcolm X." 1). He begins to read all the books he can find in the prison library and copied the dictionary word for word. After malcolm's prison release, he refers to Malcolm X. He became a powerful individual for the Nation of Islam. "Malcolm eventually becomes a great speaker ... ...

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... concern to some, are the increased surveillance powers granted by the Act. Another example is, records at libraries. Authorities may now see what books you check out at your local library. This is a provision granted by the Act. Some feel that you should be able to read without the FBI seeing what you are reading. Yet another concern is the surveillance ... ...

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... it can depict as well as those it can evoke simply by looking at it. "Her most familiar image, "Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California, 1936," now in the Library of Congress collection, was taken during this assignment. Of her work during this era Lange said: 'The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are ... ...

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... of his lifetime interpreting the history of American expansion through painting and mural painting . The most significant of his murals can still be found on the side of the Truman library depicting the decades from 1817 to 1847. Benton is best known, however, for his paintings of westward expansion. When the individual tries to picture this in their mind, they think ... ...

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... bondage and began his history of an abolitionist orator. Once again, literature changed his life. Ben Franklin, too, gained renown and attempted to give back to the lowly. He opened a library to encourage others to partake in literature and as a result, reading became fashionable. His idea of self-betterment stayed with him and he formulated his thirteen virtues and began a family ... ...

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... Jay Gatsby before committing suicide himself. Owl Eyes: The eccentric drunk, which Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby's mansion. Nick found Owl Eyes looking through Gatsby's library amazed that the books are real. He is one of the few people to attend Gatsby's funeral. Ewing Klipspringer: A good-for-nothing freeloader who almost lives at Gatsby's mansion, taking ... ...

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... , which was more schooling than either of his parents had received. Whitman got a job as an office boy for a prominent group of lawyers, who rewarded him with a subscription to a circulating library, with which he could further his self-education. Wanting more in life than to be a laborer, Whitman continued to read, visit museums, and attend lectures; he even engaged his employers ... ...

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... years in prison, compared to up to seven in labor trafficking. These new laws and guidelines clearly mapped out the offenses and their consequence. Michael E. Bongiorno, a District Attorney from Rockland County, explained that these new guidelines will give "local law enforcement and prosecutors the tools they need to successfully investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases" (Hakim par. 3-9). Despite these measures ... ...

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... as Spokane, Washington and Forth Worth, Texas; other articles found on www.abc.com report on accidents and coverage of events in Washington D.C., Boston and New York City. Los Angeles County is a big street racing scene however, was recently given a $200,000 state grant to crack down on the illegal street racing activity. Penalties for racing vary from state to state ... ...

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... never regained stability after the awful accusation. In 1959, Hurston suffered a stroke. With no money or connections, she was forced to accept public assistance and moved into the St. Lucie County Welfare Home in Florida. On 28 January 1960, a few weeks after her 69th birthday, Hurston died of heart disease at the welfare home. Her neighbors were able to raise enough ... ...

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... and the streets nearby on Tuesday and Friday nights to distribute food, supplies and clothing, and to offer companionship to homeless people. Volunteers from other churches and synagogues in Westchester County joined this effort, and by 1989 a dozen groups were participating. Until November of 1989, Midnight Run used the facilities of South Presbyterian Church in Dobb's Ferry as a base of operations ... ...

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... before. In the 1980s Philadelphia saw more than 30 officers convicted of taking part in a scheme to extort money from dealers. In Los Angeles an FBI investigate focusing on the L.A. County sheriff's department has so far resulted in 36 indictments and 19 convictions on charges related to enormous thefts of cash during drug raids. "The deputies were pursuing the money more ... ...

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... before. In the 1980s Philadelphia saw more than 30 officers convicted of taking part in a scheme to extort money from dealers. In Los Angeles an FBI investigate focusing on the L.A. County sheriff's department has so far resulted in 36 indictments and 19 convictions on charges related to enormous thefts of cash during drug raids. "The deputies were pursuing the money more ... ...

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... William Arthur, an Irish-born Baptist minister and schoolteacher, and Malvina Stone Arthur. The family lived in several towns in Vermont and northern New York before they moved to Saratoga County, New York, in 1839. Young Arthur attended an academy at Union Village, New York. After Arthur graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1848, he studied law and ... ...

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... , non-smokers and employees from unnecessary secondhand exposure in working places." Says Senator Charles Fuschillo, one of the members of the Legislature's leading proponents of a ban. (D and C 3/23/03 #1) "Monroe County was one of the leaders in the mid-1900's in establishing strict laws for smoking in public places. Restaurants can only allow smoking in bar areas, and restaurants that do ... ...

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