... fire escapes, the non-fire retardant building materials and the lack of fire safety items such as an extinguishers or fire alarms. Kozol also lashes out at the press and media for making the many cases seem impersonal and the victims faceless. He writes, "The victims soon dissolve into a ... from the Daily News. "No Escape," reads a second headline. "Trapped Tot Killed In Apartment Blaze," reads a headline one day later. "Apartment Fire Kills Bronx Boy" is another. "Bronx Apartment Blaze Kills Mom and Son," reads one more vague description. The final headline was for a fire in which the ...

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... negative connotations of violence since its existence. Whether it is the controversial lyrics or the vicious murders of many artists, violence appears to be an everyday element of this "bad-boy" lifestyle. The recent death of Jam Master Jay (a hip-hop pioneer, disc jockey, and member of Run DMC), has garnished an everlasting question: When does violence and negativity cease to ... it was merely a few guys rhyming captivating words in the early nineteen eighties in Queens, New York. Rap artist Ice Cube says, "They"re pioneers. Run-DMC made rap emerge out of hip-hop to be the signature ar...

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... the Sons of Liberty organized a militia and seized control over NYC when word was heard that violence had occurred in Boston. They drove British soldiers out to ships on the harbor. People who became wealthy because of Great Britain did not want to sever the relationship. These people included: large property owners ... the transportation fares as low as they could keep them. When WWII started, German-Jews were free to leave Germany because Hitler wanted them out. They came to America because the immigrant quota system allowed great numbers of them to be accepted. Transportation was ano...

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... (with the hopes of taking part in the Erie Canal Project), Melville did not gain a post with the project and instead shipped out of America as a cabin boy on the St. Lawrence, bound for Liverpool. By this time, Melville had already started writing. In January of 1841 Melville undertook a ... imposing subject in his gold-laced uniform for the painter Gilbert Stuart. The portrait would appear in Melville's later novel,  Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background. Like the titular character in Pierre, Melville found satisfaction in his "double revolut...

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... As responsible Americans, we have let our freedom and security slip through our fingers and disappear forever. I advocate legislation that would take the handguns out of the criminals' hands and watch the government put these brutal killers into jail and let them stay there. If we could eliminate the nonsense ... that will hopefully open your eyes and give you a sense of how extremely troublesome violence is among our children. Please picture this: A 14 year old boy has moved to a new city in the middle of his school year. He is very upset because he has left all his friends behind and ...

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... have been recognized as presaging a number of postmodern art movements, including hard-edge painting, op art, conceptualism, and especially minimalism. But as the poet and critic John Ashbery has pointed out, Agnes Martin's "minimalism" is not merely reductive; it is the result of a slow, thoughtful distillation. Never purely mechanical (as the grid form would suggest) or impersonal, it is her form ... her works a mystical or spiritual quality, which she has vehemently denied. On the contrary, as she wrote in an autobiographical note for the catalogue of the "Coenties Slip" exhibition: ...

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... together due to the fact that in light of police corroboration, the majority of the arrested men hadn't actually broken the law; only one out of the original 103 men were found guilty, and even that conviction was ultimately overturned. During this gross execution of law and order, attorney ... well as the police department, with civil rights violations. The case took almost ten years to come to an end, but finally concluded in an out of court settlement. Doe v. McNiff was just the beginning for GLAD. Ward's special interest group took measures to protect the civil rights of ... a list ...

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... welfare system, and pretty much every system, invented a new, entirely original scene of dissidence, angst, and rebellious philosophy. The punk of the UK was born out of an anarchistic approach to an expression of frustration with, and objection to the government and the economic depression of the 1970's. Bands like "Nasty Nasty," ... transvestite screaming "I want to know what love is!"," with a syringe full of heroin sticking out of her arm was not something mom and dad wanted their daughter to go see on a Saturday night date with the boy from down the block, and the kids loved it. The...

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... loved ones before themselves; blood is thicker then virtually anything, as it very well should be. The problem one encounters is that there are a select group of philanthropic selfless individuals out there who do place the benefits and interests of complete strangers or non-family members before even the benefit of themselves. It would be impossible for this idea of fitness ... ...

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... we face. So how is our fate decided and how do we, as humans, choose wether or not to accept it? After all, often times people's dreams and aspirations turn out to 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 ... adulthood, but now after many encounters in the real world that have left him with nothing but problems, he is starting to realize that adulthood isn't what it was cut out to be. Holden is beginning to realize that he liked things better when they didn't change and ...

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... only race that was experiencing the inequality of education but as well as Latinos and American Indians. Since 1848, Latinos has been experiencing educational repression, which systematically has shut Latinos out of educational opportunities at all, levels (Kozol, 1991, p.7). The American Indians have also experienced the enforcement of missionary schools, which emphasized the assimilation into white culture and society. Throughout missionary ... more low score performing schools or high rates of suspension or bad test score. Education inequality is a serious issue that should be more l...

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... Rican immigrants had to adjust to these changes, which was very difficult for them. According to Bourgois (2002: 52), over the past two or three generations, Puerto Ricans emigrants started out as peasants in New York, to becoming agricultural laborers to factory workers, to sweatshop workers, to service employees, and then to underground economy entrepreneurs. These variations of ways Puerto Rican ... Bourgois has created a fascinating story about drug dealers and an insightful analysis of poverty, street culture and the drug trade. His method was to live in the community and hang out ...

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... Britain school system, which I am sure had, and still has, an effect on the quality of education received. The City has determined that they also 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 ... serve the Hartford and New Britain metropolitan areas, with connections to outlying towns. Offering better transportation services in the city should help the residents who are otherwise limited, to seek out better ...

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... one is intimately connected to the other. It is a relatively quiet stretch of street with many affluent people walking along the sidewalk or in and out of buildings. A few homeless people also are taking up space near the basketball court to the east of Mulberry. As I am enjoying this ... 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 by the Americans in 1776 near the end of the Revolutionary War. After the battles of the American Revolution ceased it was time to ... the "kissing bridg...

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... Columbine there is an increase in coverage of school shootings, making it seem commonplace in our communities. As the media continues to over represent these crimes, the crimes still stick out in the community's collective mind. To the average American, it would seem as if violent crimes are increasing at an alarming rate. In reality the number of violent crimes is ... be used to envelope a large portion of the population with a negative stigma. If youths being thought of and told they are delinquents or vandals, it can cause them to act out these titles. There is a theme that crimes co...

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... the community issues will always shift. Working together and doing what need to be done is necessary to lower crime. Mayor Giuliani combined community policing to the area to clean out the rest of the pornography. He also started initiatives to get rid of prostitution, and drugs which became a great success, he's known for lowering the quality-of-life crimes in ... in New York City. Drug dealers were selling drugs more often on corners, these dealers would also confront passers by offering numerous types of drugs. Drug addicts were doing drugs out in the open add prostitution into the m...

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... the crimes had to be uncovered by a suburban police force. Politicians and the media started asking what had happened to the system for rooting out police corruption established 21 years ago at the urging of the Knapp Commission, the investigatory body that heard Officer Frank Serpico and other police describe ... a citywide network of rogue cops. (New York Times, March 29,1993:p8) To find out, at the time, New York City mayor David Dinkins established the Mollen Commission, named for its chairman, Milton Mollen, a former New York judge. ... But that may not be the case anymore. Police...

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... soldiers who took away their property whenever they desired to do so. Wealthy Protestant landowners evicted the Irish from their homes and forced them out on the streets. They struggled dearly to stay alive. They had nothing to depend on "no land, no food and no rights ... to have a better life after death. In 1850 at the crest of the Potato Famine immigration, Orestes Brownson, a celebrated convert to Catholicism, stated: "Out of these narrow lanes, dirty streets, damp cellars, and suffocating garrets, will come forth some of the noblest sons of our country, whom she will ... the St.Pat...

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... ). Rap music did serve to bond, in some ways, two groups that have historically endured many prejudices by the dominant culture. The music, with its social and political messages, lashes out at the society. At the same time, fairly, the genre is not the first to do this. Most rock music has done so. While the grunge movement was typically whiny ... commercialism. Huey says that the use of pop music as a merchandising tool has become so rampant that signs of minor backlashes are emerging (Huey, 1991). Bands are beginning to speak out which has served to heighten their sales. The Black Cro...

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... . He also told her that in his life as a photographer he never had a dull moment, which was enough to fortify Dorothea's determination to enter the occupation. Within a year, she dropped out of the teacher's college and found a job as a portrait photographer for an upscale studio on Third Avenue. Contented in her new occupation but bored with her surroundings, Dorothea decided to ... embarked on the career she would become most noted for, documentary photographer. Hoping to accomplish more than simply taking photographs that displayed the human toll of the depression, Lange set out to ef...

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... . He also told her that in his life as a photographer he never had a dull moment, which was enough to fortify Dorothea's determination to enter the occupation. Within a year, she dropped out of the teacher's college and found a job as a portrait photographer for an upscale studio on Third Avenue. Contented in her new occupation but bored with her surroundings, Dorothea decided to ... embarked on the career she would become most noted for, documentary photographer. Hoping to accomplish more than simply taking photographs that displayed the human toll of the depression, Lange set out to ef...

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... you are dealing with an exceptionally intelligent, yet mentally disturbed individual. The fuel that feeds his fire must be found. The forensic psychologist has to figure out the offender's motivation. This process is like the old cliché: "looking for a needle in a haystack." Trying to learn the thought processes of ... over the situation and person, are the most important part of their psychopathic behaviors. There is no way of knowing exactly why these serial killers act out theses unusual behaviors. It could be genetics, or a particularly disturbing childhood environment. No matter th...

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... Agency (Johnrobertpowers.net, 2013). From that point on the modeling industry has grown in importance and demand. This industry has changed heavily through out the decades. The women being paid to model set standards for what is considered to be ideal woman of the time period. The encouraged ... to purchase what these women are promoting. An extremely successful photographer at the time was Man Ray. His models general consisted of his lovers through out his career. In 1924 he produced one of his most famous photographs entitled "Violin d'Ingres (Biography.com, 2015). This particular pie...

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... perspective. Bavasi recalled a meeting he had in O'Malley's office, where O'Malley asked "Look down there. What do you see? " (Sullivan 111). Bavasi looked out to the welfare office, which was across the street from the office and replied "I see a long line of poor Puerto Rican people getting their welfare checks, ... (Sullivan 111). Bavasi continued with "The Puerto Rican part did not bother Walter. What did bother him was the word ˜poor'. By looking out the window, he could see the future. And the future he saw involved too many people without enough money to adequately support the D...

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... replaced by an unfathomable amount of intricate streets, rivers, trails, pastures, and neighborhoods. If my eyes were sharp that day, I could make out small flows of traffic on interstates; red blood cells slowly trekking through an artery. After a while, I always thought to myself how land ... the middle of the troposphere to learn it. In between admiring the Earth's landscape and relentlessly consuming airplane-grade pretzels, I would often look out the window and contemplate the most ridiculous hypothetical situations. Thoughts like "What if a bird flies into the engine?" or "What .....

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