... 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, 45) The owner of CBGB's, an aspiring entrepreneur and supporter of artistic endeavor named Hilly Crystal, founded the club in 1973. The name CBGB's stands for ... California, there was a poetic genius from a little town called Austin, Texas attending the University of California at Santa Cruz. His stage name is Jello Biafra. Biafra was a small country in West Africa that in the late ...

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... begun in the late 1960's by Private Developers State and city government. Thanks to the "Dream Team Associates", this consisted on a number of conglomerates companies such as Tishman Urban Development Corp (UBC). The company started to plan the development of commercial, and the renovation of theaters in 42nd street. Mayor Koch's leniency in the zoning laws made way for the construction ... way for the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, AMC theaters and also the well-known Disney Shows such as Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King in Broadway. Walt Disney Corp was known as a very big part of...

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... . These murders stemmed from the media's insistency to provide oxygen to the flame of violence within the hip-hop nation. During the mid-nineties a bitter rap rivalry between the west coast and east coast gave way for the media to divide the country into two conflicting sides. Wallace and his recording label Bad Boy Entertainment, Inc. had strong influence in the eastern area ... ...

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... -Hispanic student who will be enrolled in one of the best performing high schools. Blacks and Hispanic have limited access to schools which are located in northeastern Queens, the Upper West Side, and downtown Manhattan, due to these schools having the highest performance score than the schools that are located in Harlem, the South Bronx, and central Brooklyn. Each borough in ... reduced over the past years. The budget cuts that were done for education equity undermined the ruling in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, which stated that it would give a "sound basic education " to all...

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... 's the point of going all out to do something special if no one notices and it doesn't seem to make a whit of difference?" Paul M. Cook, founder and CEO of Raychem Corp. based in Menlo Park, California, agrees with this belief: "The most important factor is individual recognition--more important than salaries, bonuses or promotions. Most people, whether they are engineers, business ... ...

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... and many lost a lot of money. In the chance that any smugglers made it across the ocean, they had to worry about getting caught by Federal run boats and the Coast Guard. The better smugglers had money and better equipment to make things easier. (Prohibition Era 1) Many could not keep up with the rising cost. This caused many American's to run ... the size and power of other government agencies. Employment at the Customs Service increased 45 percent between 1920 and 1930; also the annual budget increased 123 percent. Personnel of the Coast Guard increased 188 percent during the 1920s, an...

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... and many lost a lot of money. In the chance that any smugglers made it across the ocean, they had to worry about getting caught by Federal run boats and the Coast Guard. The better smugglers had money and better equipment to make things easier. (Prohibition Era 1) Many could not keep up with the rising cost. This caused many American's to run ... the size and power of other government agencies. Employment at the Customs Service increased 45 percent between 1920 and 1930; also the annual budget increased 123 percent. Personnel of the Coast Guard increased 188 percent during the 1920s, an...

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... and many lost a lot of money. In the chance that any smugglers made it across the ocean, they had to worry about getting caught by Federal run boats and the Coast Guard. The better smugglers had money and better equipment to make things easier. (Prohibition Era 1) Many could not keep up with the rising cost. This caused many American's to run ... the size and power of other government agencies. Employment at the Customs Service increased 45 percent between 1920 and 1930; also the annual budget increased 123 percent. Personnel of the Coast Guard increased 188 percent during the 1920s, an...

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... 's appointed designer. Very few exceptionally tall buildings are located in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick buildings with a longer east to west diameter than north to south, making each storefront quite narrow and seem as though one is intimately connected to the other. It is a relatively quiet ... the distance. The area I am now standing in was known as the Sixth Ward in the early 19th century, which was encompassed by West Street to the west, Reade Street to the south, Canal Street to the north and Broadway to the east1. It currently is host to numerous city offices ...

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... natives that he deemed, "Manates". Hudson went north to trade furs and other goods to Indians to were willing to trade. In 1624, the Dutch West India Company sent 110 people to the island that Hudson discovered. The thirty French-speaking Protestant families, called Walloons, were to set up a base for ... come to Manhattan Island earlier, which was made possible by the English Virginia Company. In 1626, the population of Manhattan Island was 270. The Dutch West India Company provided many incentives for people to come to their colony, but the colony still grew too slowly. To make up for ...

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... numerous occasions. (GLAAD Transgender Issues) In 2000, GLAD had the opportunity to argue the country's first case regarding discrimination of transgendered citizens and with it came another victory. Rosa v. Park West Bank involved Lucas Rosa, who was born biologically male, but had been identifying primarily as a woman since she was 15 years old. Rosa went to the Park ... West Bank for a loan for a new vehicle. She was dressed in black jeans and a beige sweater; not flashy but feminine. She provided the loan officer with the required three forms of ... ...

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... he wrote about this first voyage, he had his sailor-boy narrator think of himself as "a sort of Ishmael," a drifter and fatherless. He returned to try his fortune in the West. His Uncle Thomas Melville had moved to Galena, Illinois. With a friend, Eli Fly, Melville left Albany, following the Erie Canal to Buffalo, where he took a steamer. In the end he ... in  The Confidence-Man, but for the moment it appeared to serve no purpose. By the fall of 1840 he was back in New York but still unsettled. If going west had proved bootless, there was another possibility open to venturesome young m...

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... eventually took it to the local track where an import drag race was happening. After posting a quarter mile time of 11.36 seconds, Estevez set the record for fastest east coast Honda. After the race he is approached about sponsorships, and possibly the chance to go pro. Not all racers have the skill and luck of Estevez. For some, illegal street ... ...

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... a portrait photographer for an upscale studio on Third Avenue. Contented in her new occupation but bored with her surroundings, Dorothea decided to leave home. Along with a childhood friend, she traveled west, stopping in New Orleans, Louisiana; El Paso, Texas; and Los Angeles, California. She finally settled in San Francisco, California. There, Dorothea not only took on a new name--adopting her mother ... challenged Lange for the next two decades. Equally important, Dixon's aesthetic sensibilities directly influenced Lange's emerging perspective as a documentary photographer. As a pain...

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... a portrait photographer for an upscale studio on Third Avenue. Contented in her new occupation but bored with her surroundings, Dorothea decided to leave home. Along with a childhood friend, she traveled west, stopping in New Orleans, Louisiana; El Paso, Texas; and Los Angeles, California. She finally settled in San Francisco, California. There, Dorothea not only took on a new name--adopting her mother ... challenged Lange for the next two decades. Equally important, Dixon's aesthetic sensibilities directly influenced Lange's emerging perspective as a documentary photographer. As a pain...

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... was made the Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, who assisted O'Malley finding the proper area to play, had this to say about O'Malley "His warm Irish humor with his sound business judgment combined for the best in professional baseball. He is one in a million and can't be replaced. " (Hahn 1). When looking at the Dodger's move to Los Angeles there was ... ...

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... City. It has a 5.2 billion-gallon storage capacity. It has a seventy-six square mile watershed. The water quality is lower than average. Its threats are sewage and poorly planned development. The West Branch Reservoir's purpose is to receive pumped water from the Hudson River during drought seasons. It is located in Putnam County, thirty-five miles away from New York City. It ... ...

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... , including the Tate Gallery in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, and the Neue Galerie der Stadt in Aachen, West Germany. In North America, her works hang in the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim ... ...

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