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War Of 1812 Fur Trade
578 wordsJohn Jacob Astor lived through 1763 - 1848. He was a fur trader, businessman, and real estate investor. Astor began life as one of twelve children of a poor German butcher and died the richest man in America. The making of a great fortune was the aim and purpose of Astor's life, and he accomplished it by dominating the American fur trade and investing his profits in the real estate of burgeoning New York City. Shortly before his death, Astor was asked if he would have done anything differently w...
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Andy Warhol Father Of Pop
1,497 wordsAndy Warhol has spewed forth in many examples of the modern style that is known as "Pop art, " in various mediums -spanning from silkscreen to a cable network. Not only has Warhol greatly contributed to this revolutionary style, but also in many ways, he has created it. Andy Warhol's style was certainly part of the select first that were even labeled as "Pop. " Warhol had also used the media, which captured his eccentricities, to his advantage and that aided in projecting Pop art to the public. ...
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Men And Women Amusement Parks
1,173 wordsDefying the traditional Victorian way of life, Coney Island at the beginning of the twentieth century had a profound impact on societal norms. Outside of Coney Island, women were often treated as inferior while men ruled the throne in nearly all aspects of life. However, within Coney Island the gender gap was equalized. Coney Island served as a catalyst to a change in the traditional mindset. In traditional society, women were resigned to the role of wife and homemaker. At Coney Island, however,...
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Thousand Six Hundred Type Atomic Bomb
1,027 wordsI read the book A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race written by Martin J. Sherwin. I thoroughly enjoyed reading on Hiroshima. Throughout many history classes at different schools I have learned a great deal on Hiroshima, but have found many things in this book that have struck my attention. I really overly enjoyed reading this book, I have learned many new things. I learned many things in this book that I will explain. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B- 29 bomber nam...
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Nuclear Chain Reaction Enrico Fermi
1,302 wordsTHE HISTORICAL CONTEXT WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB The New York Press reports: "New hope for releasing the enormous stores of energy within the atom has arisen from German scientists." World famous Niels Bohr of Copenhagen and Enrico Fermi of Rome, both Nobel prize winners, acclaim this experiment as one of the most important in recent years. Fermi now realized that his new element 93 had been a product of splitting the uranium atom. At this time the release of nuclea...
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The Atomic Bomb And Other Government Experiments
977 wordsThe atomic Bomb code named The Manhattan Project was the first atomic Bomb created by the United States. The United States supervised the development of the atomic bomb, under the code name Manhattan Project, during World War II. The first sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved in December 1942 at the University of Chicago under the direction of Arthur Holly Compton. Key members of the research team were Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Shortly after the first bomb test was complet...
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People Of Mott Haven Sparks Of Light Children
1,278 wordsThe Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Currently there are about 600, 000 people who live in the South Bronx and about 434, 000 who live in Washington Heights and Harlem. This area makes up one of the most racially segregated areas of poor people in the United States. In this book we focus on Mott Haven, a place where 48, 0000 of the poorest people in the South Bronx live. Two thirds of the people are Hispanic, one-third are black and thirty-five percent are children. There are nea...
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Six Months Drinking Water
357 wordsaquifer while rain falling onto the shoreline regions recharges the shallow aquifers system only. Earlier studies of the groundwater flow potentials at a Brookhaven landfill found that there was little to no, 1995). The town maintains a monitoring network in multi-well clusters in the vicinity of the landfill. The study concludes that there were differences found among the Upper Glacial aquifer ground water from two locals. Analysis of the data shows flow path from the Upper Glacial aquifer into...
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Attack On World Trade Center
688 wordsTerrorism is the bug of 21 century. Throughout history it has appeared in many various ways: hijacked planes, ships, trains. But never was terrorism committed in such a terrible way as on Tuesday, September 11 in New York City. This tragedy affected us all. It was nice Tuesday morning. Everybody were rushing to their jobs in the most beautiful and remarkable city of the world. Planes in the sky were usual routine of this city at this time. Manhattan was ready to welcome millions of its residents...
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Adrienne Rich Darker Side
958 wordsLit. of Love April 26, 2002 Response Paper # 4 XIX Can it be growing colder when I begin to touch myself again, adhesions pull away? When slowly the naked face turns from staring backward and looks into the present, the eye of winter, city, anger, poverty, and death and the lips part and say, I mean to go on living? Am I speaking coldly when I tell you in a dream or in this poem, There are no miracles? (I told you from the first I wanted daily life, this island of Manhatten was island enough for...
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The Manhattan Project Of World War Ii History
796 wordsThroughout the course of history, especially in past wars, one can decipher a single point that led to the end of that event / war . All thought World War II had many events transpire which led to its completion, one of the most prominent and immediate effects which brought about the end of the war was the development of the Atomic Bomb. Developed through the research and funding of the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Bomb was used to cause Japan to surrender World War II and thereby effectively e...
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Economic Self Sufficiency Senior Vice President
1,370 wordsPR Newswire Sept 13, 2000 A Single Parent With Two Children in New York City Needs an Income of More Than $ 44, 000 to Make It Out of Poverty, Says New Report. United Way of NYC in Partnership with The Women's Center for Education and Career Advancement & Wider Opportunities for Women Collaborate to Raise Awareness NEW YORK, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- In order for a single parent in Brooklyn, New York with one pre-schooler and one school-age child to make it out of poverty, he or she must earn a m...
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Valley Forge Military Academy Holden Caulfield
1,777 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after its first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former Beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did it could have been any book that he...
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E L Doctorow E L Doctorow The Waterworks Mcilvaine
847 wordsCITY OF THE LIVING DEAD E. L. Doctorow's The Waterworks mixes a bizarre horror story with the sights and sounds of 19 th-century Manhattan BY PAUL GRAY A beautiful widow left destitute by the will of her plutocrat husband. The surreptitious exhumation of a corpse while fog swirls in the phosphorescent light of early dawn. A treasure chest crammed with cash. Innocent children falling victim to a mad scientist in pursuit of the secret of eternal life. A brilliant, tormented young hero who says thi...
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Harlem Renaissance African Americans
615 wordsWhat Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. There was, also, a not so well known renaissance that occurred in the United States from the 1920 s to the 1930 s in Manhattan. This renaissance was called The New Negro Movement, but was later called the Harlem Renaissan...
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Green Light At The End Love For Daisy
2,846 wordsIn Fitzgerald s Gatsby, Gatsby is not great and not Gatsby (his real name is Get). He is a criminal who has involved himself with Wolfsheim. He has committed crimes in order to buy the possessions he feels he needs to win the woman he loves, who is another mans wife. Thus a central question for us, as the reader is, why is Gatsby a hero? Why, does Fitzgerald invite us to cry out with Nick, Theyre a rotten crowd. Youre worth the whole damn bunch put together. In Gatsby, Gatsby is a hero because o...
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J Robert Oppenheimer World War Ii
822 wordsJ. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer, a pioneer in the field of nuclear science. He worked with Albert Einstein on the atomic bomb and headed the Manhattan Project in November 1942. J. Robert was born to Ella and Robert Oppenheimer who were both Jewish and emigrated from Germany in 1888. Robert was always interested in science and helped his grandfather study geology. He excelled through school but had a difficult time in other parts of his life due to not being around people his own age ...
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Gun Possession Hip Hop
606 wordsA jury acquitted Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Sean Puffy Combs and bodyguard Anthony Wolf Jones on all charges brought against them, after a 1999 shooting in a nightclub in Midtown Manhattan that injured three people. The verdicts finally ended a seven-week trial that produced the spectacle of two worlds in conflict: the gray bureaucracy of State Supreme Court in Manhattan and the flashy world of Mr. Combs, whose supporters filled the benches day after day. Before the verdict was read, Puffy stared...
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Leaseholder Larry Silverstein World Trade Centre Towers
1,186 wordsReach for the sky One day last November I spent a long sad afternoon prowling around the perimeter of the smoking ruins of the World Trade Centre, trying to take in the horror of what I was seeing, exchanging numb civilities with equally shell-shocked strangers. I saw my own bewilderment's reflected in the eyes of those who had gathered at the site not, I believe, as voyeurs, but out of a graver, more honourable compulsion to bear witness. In the rather different aspect of those who came here ev...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Play A Role
974 wordsRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt WhitmansRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Recurring Images and Motifs in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry In the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman, there are many recurring images and motifs that can be seen. Whitman develops these images throughout the course of the poem. The most dominant of these are the linear notion of time, playing roles, and nature. By examining these motifs and tracing their development, ones unde...
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