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Legalized Slavery in Colonial Times

Slavery in America was held in place by a complicated network of legal precedents. This paper analyzes the history of the practice...

Celebrations of the Chinese New Year

flowers such as chrysanthemums, cherry blossoms and narcissus to bloom on New Years Day. Decorations are done in red, for good luc...

Amsterdam and Its Culture

In five pages this city in the Netherlands is culturally examined in terms of its lifestyle, family structure, history, climate, l...

Business Plan; Groovy Rags

Groovy Rags has the aim of filling the gap with a highly differentiated, but fashionable, range of clothes and accessories for me...

Post 1900 History of the New York Yankees

the first time on April 22, 1903, losing to Washington (The Official Site of the New York Yankees, 2007). However, with a never s...

The Biological, Psychological, and Social Obstacles to Understanding Transsexuality

the treatise Feminization of males and masculinization of females (Meyerowitz, 2002). Meyerowitz (2002) claims Steinachs research...

The History of the New York Fire Department

Part I). They were put into place to further regulate any homes which would be newly erected in and around the city (Young Chapter...

Kelo v. New London

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

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 ...

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...

The Corning Glass Building

up the vast majority of a skyscrapers outer structure with glass serving only as a compulsory component that equaled but a fourth ...

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

Jazz and New Orleans

ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

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...

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...

New York's Orange County and Farming

people make a living there. However, about 10.5% of the community lives below the poverty line (2005). Also, it should be noted t...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Push Novel by Sapphire and the New York Public School System

this novel is located in the inner city of New York, within Harlem, where the education is not up to the standards of the rest of ...

New York's Penn Station

the age of the train, this was still the attitude of society. As a result, when we consider this monumental trains station...

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...

Middle Schools of South Bronx

In eleven pages this paper discusses the environmental conditions associated with South Bronx, New York's middle schools. Sixteen...

Lower Manhattan's African Burial Ground

In ten pages this paper discusses the archaeological discovery of the African burial ground in New York's lower Manhattan. Seven ...

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...