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Five Hundred Dollars Dreams Come True
2,481 words... his attempts to kiss her, he departs. Mama asks her daughter whether she had a nice time. Beneatha says that she thinks George is stupid. Mama tells her that she need not waste time with fools. Beneatha is glad that she is understanding. Mrs. Johnson, a neighbor, enters. She has come over to warn the Younger's of the dangers involved in moving into a white neighborhood. Her concern for their welfare does not seem very genuine; instead, she comes across as an interfering busybody, who gets in...
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Tammany Hall Political Machines
1,853 wordsDuring the 19 th century there was a rapid growth of American cities due to immigration and migration from rural areas. This rise in the population created enormous problems for city governments, which were often unable to provide for the people and lacked any type of structure. In these conditions we begin to see the emergence of political machines, such as Tammany Hall in New York City. These groups were able to build a loyal voter following, especially among immigrant groups, by performing su...
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South Bronx Alcohol Abuse
1,952 wordsAt first glance, it seems that the author is going to take us on yet another journalistic ride through the land of the poor. Similar to the ones you read about, or hear in the news. However, this is not the case; the real underlying theme is what is society doing about the plight of the poor? Kozol uses the views of children to emphasize that these reports on living conditions are not being obtained by disgruntled adults, but from innocent children whose only misfortune was being born to this pa...
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Spike Lee Real Life
1,065 wordsThe weather is sizzling hot and tensions are slowly coming to a boil in this Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn neighborhood. Slowly but surely we see the heat melt away the barriers that were keeping anger from rising to the surface. The Blacks and the Hispanics own the streets the Koreans own the corner store and of course the Italians own the pizzeria, the Cops who happen to be all Caucasian, prowl the streets inside out, looking for anyone to harass. Toes are then stepped on and apologies are not m...
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Assistant Chief Housing Assistance
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Latin Americans African Americans
1,342 wordsEthnicity and Community The problem of ethnicity and community becomes the issue of the day. As it s claimed by Roger Sanjer, the United States is undergoing the process called a majority minority transition, with the historic European-ancestry white majority projected to fall beneath 50 % of the population in the second half of the current century (Sanjer, 2001). Indeed, to a great extent, all the authors of the articles under study, such as Emily Rosenbaum in her article "The Constraints on Mi...
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Day Of Grieving Lisbon Sisters Suburban
900 wordsThe Depiction Of Suburban America In Contemporary Film Set in a Detroit suburb, the story of The Virgin Suicides resonate throughout typical suburban America. Despite the changes that occurred in the ' 60 s and the growth of the womens' movement, suburbs remain a place of the old patriarchic order. Men go to work, take care of the yard, lift heavy things and act as head of family, while women confine themselves to the home, cooking, cleaning and raising children. In the movie, things go alright ...
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The Jungle Is First Novel That Made Sinclair
991 wordsThe Jungle " is the first novel that made Sinclair famous. In 1904 the socialist newspaper " the Appeal to reason " has sent it to Chicago. " The Jungle ", result of this business trip, in 1905 began to appear in " the Appeal to reason " with continuation. As the modern critic writes, " this novel is the most successful attempt in the art form to represent the basic ideas which have been put forward by Charles Marx in "Capital" ." A plot of "The Jungle" is the history of family of the Lithuanian...
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Mcgraw Hill Unskilled Labor
1,617 wordsPoles and Italians in Detroit In the late 17 th century and early 18 th century Detroit was a hotbed for foreign immigration. The booming automobile industry and resulting growth of the city ensured that many jobs were available for those able to take them. Among these immigrants were distinct groups originating from many different countries. Two of these groups were the Poles and the Italians, who arrive to Detroit looking for a new beginning. Although many similarities can be found between the...
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Bell Hooks Black People
1,478 wordsThe movie, Do the Right Thing, by Spike Lee is a hard-hitting drama that deals with violence and racism in todays society. This film is set in a primarily black neighborhood in close to the present time. Right in the center of this neighborhood stands a pizza parlor that is owned and operated by one of the most important characters in the movie, Sal. In the beginning of the movie, Sal is shown arriving to work with his two sons Pino and Vito. This gives an appeal to Sal as a family man. Right fr...
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Camera Zooms Radio Station
851 wordsDo the Right Thing The first scene of the film begins with a zoom out of three things: Senor Love Daddy, a clock and a microphone. The microphone represents the lack of communication in the neighborhood, the clock shows that they are running out of time and that something bad will happen soon, and Senor Love Daddy is the voice of reason. The lighting in this scene is low-key, and there is a reddish color which is present in all four of the scenes, this shows the intense heat of the day. The firs...
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Bell Hooks Black People
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Mass Transit York City
1,206 wordsWhere a person was born or raised often plays an important role in their lives. There are often comparisons between a urban civilization to rural civilization. Humans adopt to different environments that would be the most suitable for their style of living. Society as a whole didnt tell us where civilization should take place. Choosing the right place for a living depends on the matters of self preference and comfort. Throughout the last decade, I was brought up in two different cities that are ...
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Ways Of Life Peer Pressure
1,390 wordsThe movie Friday is a comedy, but it also depicts many important social issues. The story is set in the city of Los Angelos, California, in what could be called a high class ghetto. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script this movie touches on everything from gan...
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Martin Luther King King And Malcolm X
1,082 wordsThe Reality of the Melting Pot Tempers explode, emotions take charge, and a Italian-run pizzeria in a black Brooklyn neighborhood becomes the center of a violent conflict on a hot summer day in Spike Lee s Do the Right Thing. The film is a day-in-the-life of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community and it is one of the hottest days of the summer. Much of the action takes place around or inside the Sal s Famous Pizzeria, owned and operated by Sal (Danny Aiello) and his sons Vito (Richard Edson) and Pino ...
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Nazi Soldiers Concentration Camps
2,673 wordsPEOPLE ARE WILLING TO FOLLOW ORDERS THAT GO AGAINST THEIR MORALS? Tearful day when, from ashes, man shall rise to be judged guilty. ? These are the last words written by the great composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his Requiem, or funeral mass. These words also describe the day that the Nazi soldiers were declared guilty and sentenced to death at Nuremberg. In the Nuremberg war crime trials, the Nazis pleaded not guilty to charges brought against them regarding the treatment of Jews in concent...
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Blind To The Truth Capitol Hill
1,132 wordsThe Need for Knowledge: The Choice To Be Blind While the bodies pile up in what we call our Nations Backyard, the rest of the country chooses to deny the facts and to remain blind to the truth. The gruesome statistics, and tales of violence in The Murder of Thirty of My Neighbors by Jim Myers has the ability to force just about anyone into understanding the severity of the situation the residents of service area 109, also known as eastern Capitol Hill, are facing. It isnt often that people see o...
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House On Mango Street Helps The Reader
1,911 wordsThe House on Mango Street The House on Mango Street is a very interesting book about a young Latino girl and her daily life. It is a look through a child? s eyes of the world around her. The story is written in short chapters, explaining different aspects of life from a child? s point of view. The story confronts poverty, physical abuse, discrimination and other issues that we? d never want our children to deal with. The House on Mango Street is truly a worthwhile book for children to read. It h...
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Real Estate Agent Past Experience
1,221 wordsGatekeepers and Home seekers: Institutional Patterns in Racial Steering, is an informative article that touches upon many of the key points gone over in class. This article deals with the difference in the way blacks and whites were and are treated, past and present, by real estate agents when shopping for a new home. In the study, one can see that blacks were not treated as fairly as white people in the real estate market were. Many times the potential black homebuyers were discouraged from pur...
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Fiber Optic Coaxial Cable
2,942 wordsISDN VS. cABLE MODEMS 1. 0 Introduction The Internet is a network of networks that interconnects computersaroundthe world, supporting both business and residential users. In 1994, a multimedia Internet application known as the World Wide Web became popular. The higher bandwidth needs of this application havehighlightedthe limited Internet access speeds available to residential users. Event 28. 8 Kilobits per second (Kbps) the fastest residential access commonly available at the time of this writ...
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