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'Pox Americana' by Elizabeth Fenn

for my country. I want to first let you know that I thoroughly enjoy working for such a prestigious agency, but we are living in...

New York State Standards and English Language Arts

which all students and staff members are learners who continually improve their performance" (NYCPDS, 2004). According to Spark...

NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

2012 Olympics' Proposal Evaluation

zoo or park, and his influence made the difference between a deteriorating city to one that would be a tourist magnet. Within the ...

NYC's PE Programs

Fay and Doolittle (2002) recount how in the early 1990s concern over standards-based reform in academic subjects actually generate...

WTC Towers' Rebuilding Proposal

of north and south sections and the verticle structures that are central to the overall construction. Procopius wrote: "And In th...

Rudolph Guiliani's Leadership

this sort of preparation that is important in respect to leadership in a very general sense and the author brings this out in the ...

A Sample Appellate Brief Case Study

In six pages this paper presents an appellate brief sample that is based upon a student supplied New York case study of search and...

What Would Life Without Illegal Immigrants Be Like?

could be catastrophic for many of the larger states in the nation. The fact that there are only fifteen of fifty states that emplo...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

July 1863 NY Draft Riots

immigrated to America during the potato famine of the 1840s (Man, 1951). They found employment as dock laborers and longshoremen ...

Theoretical Analysis of 2004 and 2004 Stock Market Decline in the UK and US

NASDAQ, where the high tech shares are listed, and are separated out form the more traditional businesses. In figure 2 this differ...

Summary of John Ashcroft's Consideration of Granting Abused Women Asylum

she were to return to her native Togo her clitoris would be cut off(Swarns 2004). Lastly, there is the case of Mrs. Alvarado who i...

Discussing Rockefeller Drug Laws

the twentieth century, extremists outlawed alcohol, but that was something that just never worked. People would drink anyway and t...

New York Dwelling Dominicans and Educational Progress

In five pages this paper examines the lack of educational progress the Dominicans who live in New York have had over the past four...

The Power Broker by Robert Caro

In five pages this paper examines the biography of Robert Moses by considering his New York City and State contributions as presen...

Growing Up Bilingual by Anna Celia Zentella

In six pages this paper reveals the author's detailed linguistic study of New York Spanish Harlem's Puerto Rican children. Eleven...

'Original Understanding,' Positivism, Legal Realism, and Natural Law

In five pages this report examines civil liberties and the concept of 'original understanding' as it applies to natural law, legal...

NYC Crime and the Amadou Diallo Case

shooting has disturbed those who believed Diallo had been killed due to the color of his skin and emphasized the uncertainty peopl...

Presidential Primaries of 1996 and 2000 and the Media's Coverage of Them

22). Four years later, as we stand on the verge of electing the candidate who will lead America into the 21st century, Clinton ha...

Special Education and Gender Bias

and the majority of attention deficit disorders (1998). Delayed speech, dyslexia, stuttering, and learning disabilities as well as...

Global Poverty and Solutions According to Peter Singer

progress. We should at least be open to the possibility that we are today witnessing not moral progress but a dramatic moral regre...

Academic Test Scores in NYC

In five pages this paper examines plummeting New York City school testing scores in a consideration of scandals and Rudy Crew's 19...

An Analysis of The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman expertly illuminates his knowledge of globalization in the captivating bo...

Non English Welfare System Applicants

In five pages this paper discusses the US welfare system problems particularly as they pertain to deaf or non English speaking app...

A Look at Bowery Street

The writer describes the Bowery section of New York City from the early 1600s to the present, and discusses the character of the n...

Analyzing an International Monetary Fund Editorial

the International Monetary Fund has shown that its decisions have been questionable. Therefore, decisions have, over time, been s...

Society and American Pop Art

In five pages this paper examines pop art as featured at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in terms of history and th...

Homelessness Featured in 4 Articles of The New York Times

it is a realistic view of how corporate Americas downsizing and cutbacks are affecting the very core of the working population. L...

US Media and the Holocaust

person 1. On March 20, 1933, in the same month that Roosevelt became president of the United States, the first concentration ca...