... Richmond. The boroughs are divided into neighborhoods and each neighborhood has an individual ethnic character. The most interesting attractions of New York City are Times Square, Central Park and the Statue of Liberty which was a gift to the People of United States from France in 1886 to honor their friendship. ... Dakota. There are also two very famous sculptures: the Crazy Horse Monument and Mount Rushmore National Memorial which honors four presidents of the USA: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. Kansas is the largest state in the area. Its traditional industries are meat...

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... green oasis of Central Park. • 110th to 145th Street lies the village of Harlem • 145th to 220th Street has no special designation, but does contain the neighborhood of Washington Heights and the Cloisters The Bronx is the home of New York's two greatest landmarks, the Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium. The area was named after the Dutch settler Jonas ... 150 museums, 400 art galleries, more than 240 theaters, 60 clubs and 50 dance halls, 17000 restaurants and cafés, 1543 parks with playgrounds (among them Central Park with the square of 34 ha, covering 5 % of Manhattan's square; 65 bri...

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... over $43,565,135. The film American Gangster is decoded through an ethical view lens. American Gangster is a true story of a drug lord by the name of Frank Lucas. Denzel Washington portrays Frank Lucas in this film and the detective that eventually notices Frank Lucas is played by Russel Crowe. Frank is from South Carolina but finds his way to Harlem ... graffiti and they were unreliable. It seemed as if the entire infrastructure was in decay. Political corruption, sloppy accounting, and the cost of the war were killing the city. Times Square, the crossroads of the world, was seedy and ...

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... almost a decade. P.T. Barnum had his beginnings on the Bowery, with a cheap dime museum where he showed off an alleged 161-year-old women who he claimed was in fact George Washington's nurse. He eventually moved his institution to Broadway, expanding the attraction. After Barnum moved, other people imitated his idea on Bowery, bringing the circus back to its beginning's . Some dime ... shows done in their native tongue, and the non-Jewish a chance to experience something different. But Broadway was not to be outdone. A Russian Troupe set up stage at Broadway's Herald Square Theater, but...

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... , different-looking people, but as New York was a diverse place forty years ago, it was precursor of what our society would become. I also remember a huge sign that loomed over Times Square: "Be Suspicious." I think it might have been something about having discerning taste, but to me it was apocalyptic, because New York, with all its conviviality, could be a very cold place ... differently from me, but it was a slow and conscientious process." Recent national events reinforce what we are told from our earliest years. Sadly, the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the Washington sniper and th...

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... of this made her feel like more of a stranger to the city. Even after eight years in New York she still liked being there. She "Liked the bleak branches above Washington Square...the morning chromatic flatness of Second Avenue, the fire escapes and the grilled storefronts peculiar and empty in their perspective," (Didion 234). She begins to love the city in another ... ...

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