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Architect Raymond Hood's Works

In five pages the New York City Skyline, Rockefeller Center, and the American Radiator Building are among the buildings which show...

Sanitation Issues on Staten Island

In five pages this paper considers Staten Island, New York's sanitation issues and the closing of the landfill known as Fresh Kill...

Philosophies of Anzia Yezierska and Frederick Douglass

In six pages the similar philosophies of Russian Jewish author Anzia Yezierska of New York's Lower East Side and freed slave Frede...

Wealthy Families in New York City History

The part played by New York's wealthiest families in the city's history is outlined and discussed. The writer describes how the Ro...

Mitchell Duneier's 'Sidewalk'

him with a direct window into their respective worlds. Stupidity, illiteracy or an absent work ethic has absolutely nothing to do...

US Complementary and Alternative Medicine Status

regulated. Herbs, for example, are not subject to Federal Drug Administration regulation ("St. Johns" 6). That is because they are...

Health Care Proxy for New York

In five pages this paper discusses New York's health care proxy regarding the wishes of incompetent patients passed in light of t...

Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

Organizational Structure and Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York

differs from HHC, it does not make that information readily accessible. The mission statement of the larger organization is in pa...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

New York City's World Trade Center

the firefighters coming up the stairs as we were going down," said one worker from the New York Daily News(Dispatch 2001,B9). So i...

Schools That Are Failing and How to Fix Them

better. In a study, voucher students had been compared with public school pupils and it was found that those who had the vouchers ...

Arguing for Urban Area Decentralization

can do. Community Board #6 is attached to Park Slope and is responsible for things like community services, sanitation matters, t...

The Art of Alice Neel

and the paintbrush she holds. Small touches of red in her face and in the shadows of her neck and legs, punch up the contrast of ...

21st Century Juvenile Justice System in America

a responsive juvenile justice system is critical (Briscoe, 1997). In Texas, for example, children as young as ten will fall und...

Long Island's Transportation History

to the multitude of choices of transport on Long Island. Finally, in a discussion of Long Island, it is important to define it. W...

Orange County, NY's Social Services Programs

In four pages this paper considers New York's Orange County and the city of Newburgh in a comparison of how each of these areas'...

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...

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...

New York Real Estate and the Impact of Dot.com Companies

In six pages this paper discusses how New York's real estate industry has been affected by dot.com businesses and sites. Six sour...

West Nile Virus Spraying and its Health Impacts

done with the safety of residents in mind. However, while the decision to spray was made to protect potential cases of encephaliti...

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Martin Shefter's Political Crisis Fiscal Crisis

success, at least in retrospect. However, the author tends to bash Moses for several actions. Koch however was also a successful m...

2003 New York Smoking Ban and its Constitutionality

there are a lot of other things that people do not like such as talking loud on cell phones or wearing an extraordinary amount of ...

New Deal and African Americans

The 'fairness' of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal on African Americans is assessed in seven pages with the conclusion reached tha...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

The Post Civil War South

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...