... months to training the undisciplined 14,000 man army and trying to secure urgently needed power and other supplies. Early in March 1776, using cannon brought down from Ticonderoga by Henry Knox, Washington occupied Dorchester Heights, effectively commanding the city and forcing the British to evacuate on March 17. He moved to defeat New York City against the combined land and ... the British near Monmouth Courthouse, N.J., on their withdrawal from Philadelphia to New York. Although American General Charles Lee's lack of enterprise ruined Washington's plan to strike a major blow at Sir H...

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... he was young he began reading novels such as Robinson Crusoe, Sinbad the Sailor, and The World Displayed. As he became older he began studying law in the offices of Henry Masterson and briefly wrote for "The Morning Chronicle." Irving took his first tour of Europe from 1804-1806. When he returned home to the United States he was admitted to ... account of a journey, which extended from Fort Gibson, at that time a frontier post of the Far West, to the Cross Timbers in what is now Oklahoma. His fellow-travelers included Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (1791-1858), who also wrote an interesting na...

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... Effect of Life Experience's on the Works of Edgar Allan Poe I. Biography II. To Helen A. Summary B. Relation to life experience III. The Cask of Amontillado A. Summary B. Relation to life experience IV. The Raven A. Summary B. Relation to life experience Experiences during a lifetime can affect a person in numerous ways, such as did Edgar Allan Poe. Poe took his experiences, and transformed them into ... ...

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... , 1943, when he married Gwyndolen Conger. Soon after, he became a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1944, his first son, Tom, was born. His second son, John IV, followed two years later. In December of 1948, Steinbeck was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. On December 28, 1950, Steinbeck married his third wife, Elaine Anderson ... ...

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... such as AIDS were spreading around very rapidly in South Bronx. Nine out of ten children born with aids are black kids or Latinos, many of their mothers or fathers IV users. In a building on Boston Road, 27 people are diagnosed with aids and that is only in one section of the building. (Kozol-p.13) Children as young as 14 start ... ...

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... man who was portrayed in this book. Roosevelt was the police commissioner of the NYPD until April of 1897, he left to become the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Section IV. This book provides insight into the world of New York City policemen. The authors examine specific men's lives throughout the past one hundred and fifty years. These men helped to ... ...

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... is a sampling of the most significant titles: I. Outlaws arbitrary discrimination in voter registration and expedites voting rights suits; II. Bars discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and restaurants; III. & IV. Authorized the national government to bring suits to desegregate public facilities and schools; V. Extends the life and expands the power of the Civil Rights Commission; VI. Provides for federal financial ... ...

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... a favorable issue." The production of the Culper ring was the main reason Washington revealed the treason of American general Benedict Arnold and John Andre, chief intelligence officer beneath General Henry Clinton and commander of the British forced in New York. Benedict and Andre were scheduling to give the British control over the army fort at West Point. Andre and Benedicts ... ...

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... efforts to gain con-trol of the Erie Railroad proved unsuccessful, Vanderbilt vastly expanded his railroad empire and by 1873 connected Chicago with New York City by rail. A son, William Henry Vanderbilt, succeeded Cornelius Vanderbilt as president of the New York Central Railroad. The vast family fortune funded Vanderbilt University, the College of Physi-cians and Surgeons, and various other institutions ... ...

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... took a look into the racial profiling in her state. Sure enough, statistics revealed that nearly three in every four motorists stopped on the turnpike were members of minorities (Most 95). Henry Lee, the forensic scientist who re-created the New Jersey shooting for the state investigation, said, "It's a miracle nobody was killed,"" (Most 93). Reverend Al Sharpton got a group to protest ... ...

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... William C. Kingsley. Kingsley was a well known businessman out of Brooklyn with political connections. To say that Kingsley was excited was an understatement. He went out and recruited the support of Henry Murphy. Murphy brought to the table the power of a state senator and former mayor. He had been the mayor of Brooklyn previously. Murphy used his political sense to draft a bill ... ...

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... the many practices used by African-Americans to cope in a racially biased nation, and may shed some light on how processes of innovation have taken place in the Americas. Gates Henry Louis Gates has said that a literary tradition holds within it a way to study itself (1988). His work in African-American literary criticism inspired me to search for a way to look ... ...

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... . In June of 1869 John finished the design for the bridge. A bridge over the East River, joining the cities of New York and Brooklyn, was not unheard of. According to Henry R. Stiles, the idea for a bridge was exactly as old as the century. The first serious proposal was recorded in Brooklyn in 1800. It is said that this first proposal was ... ...

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... of Huxley and Hobbes. The two authors speculate that humans" actions are determined by how they will be benefit from their actions. De Waal "wrote that Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Henry Huxley...both preached that the original state of humankind...is one in which selfish goals are pursued without regard for others"(de Waal 658). In a setting like that of New ... ...

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... the South, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans migrated to the city in search of jobs. Manhattan Giovanni da VERRAZANO may have been the first European to explore the region, and Henry HUDSON visited it, but Dutch settlements truly began the city. In 1624 the town of New Amsterdam was established on lower Manhattan; Peter MINUIT supposedly bought the island from its ... ...

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