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519 wordsNew York City is overpopulated, and the population needs to be cut in half. The first system proposed is called Operation Actually Thought About. Some of the most important fields of employment will receive a break in this plan. Teachers, doctors, lawyers, and politicians will only have their numbers cut by one-third. One-third may not seem like much of a break, but half of the population has to be cut. Citizens in the immediate families of these important employees will also be allowed to stay ...
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East India Company Rural Areas
1,737 wordsPoverty is defined as the deprivation with reference to socially accepted norms. Historically poverty has been a rural phenomenon. In the past cities for the most part housed society's elite whereas the poor were secluded to the rural areas. The industrial revolution saw a shift in this trend. People began to migrate to the great cities of the world in large numbers. Poverty that was once considered a rural phenomenon increasingly became an urban reality. Recent estimates reveal that by 2015, th...
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Standard Of Living Poverty Threshold
1,785 words... e same standard of living as the poor forty years ago, despite the general growth in income. Thus by the official definition of poverty, 14. 5 % of the population is poor. Conservatives though have long maintained a strong objection to both the official and relative measures of poverty. They make their case in that the poor today enjoy a standard living far beyond the wildest dreams of an eighteenth century aristocrat, such as television and convenience foods that no courtesan or prince coul...
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Addison Wesley Black Death
1,962 words... ges to pre-plague prices. These laws proved unenforceable which meant that as landlord's positions deteriorated, those of the peasants took a turn for the better. The decline in the number of peasants "accelerated the process of converting labor services to rents, freeing peasants form the obligations of servile tenure and weakening the system of manorialism" (Spielvogle 301). This allowed for peasant mobility and increased freedom, though they were still limited economically by newly implem...
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A Trip To The New York City
491 wordsThe trip took me to the New York City, what a wonderful place! Great City and Very Busy! I've seen busy people, busy street, towering buildings and a lot more. Great cultural diversity, wonderful food (of all varieties), anything you want and more. I had a wonderful experience. I enjoyed every minute of it. I was very impressed with what I saw. I passed through Times Square, then "the Empire State Building, a giant building. And I went straight to the very known Fifth Avenue to enjoy the excitem...
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York City Favorite Place
667 wordsNew York City is one of my favorite places to visit. Out there on the streets, it is possible to feel absolute freedom. Living in America is a fantastic privilege; living in New York City is something further even better. As you stagger up those stairs to the city streets and you capture that first breath of city air, you declare to yourself, this is freedom! The buildings are so astonishingly tall and eye-catching. These buildings encompass the most distinctive architecture ever invented. There...
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The Significance Of Imagery Rural Life In
2,650 wordsThe Significance of the Imagery of Rural Life in the Work of William Sydney Mount and His Contemporaries The imagery of rural life in the works of artist is a very interesting and challenging theme. This is because most of the societies were moving from rural to urban through the history and therefore this transitional period is usually very important. During this period many changes happen to the landscape as well as to life of people in the overall context. Artists make pretty good representat...
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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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Inequalities In Public Education Part 1
1,528 wordsInequalities in Public Education Funding Inequalities of the public school funding in the United States had become one of the most important social issues. It is very significant to offer to all the people equal rights in education. However, there are many vivid examples of inadequate funding of public education in different cities across the nation. This paper is aimed to discuss and to research the inequalities of education funding in the state of New York and especially in the New York City. ...
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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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York City Rental Housing
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Rental Housing York City
2,044 words/ 5, 8 New York Citys rent stabilization system In the following essay I am going to examine New York Citys rent stabilization system and make a statement that the abolishment of the given rent stabilization system would have mostly beneficial effects on the NY community as a whole. I will state that rent stabilization act of NY in fact benefits the rich (mostly affluent individuals in lower and mid-Manhattan districts) and is of no use to the majority middle-income and minority lower income NY ...
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Senior Citizen Rental Housing
2,041 words... modern system controls over 200, 000 apartments in New York City in 1999. The owner of these apartments cannot voluntarily raise the apartment price and to evict tenants. The rent control is losing it ground to the vacancy decontrol that seems to present a wonderful alternative to rent control since early 1980 s. The controlled apartment units in modern day New York are only 6. 4 % of the total apartment for rent figure in Big Apple. As a comparison in 1975, the city controlled over 2 millio...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
877 wordsCatcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Boston, Massachusetts Little, Brown Books July, 195 a. Catcher in the Rye takes place in New York during the 1950? s, first at haughty private school and then in New York City. This setting is important because the events that occur here could only happen in a large city, and if they didn? t, Holden wouldn? t be so compelled to go home. b. The protagonist of this novel is Holden Caulfield; a seventeen-year-old boy who got kicked out of yet another prep school fo...
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German Air Force World War Ii
2,168 wordsCharles Lindbergh Shortly after Charles Lindbergh landed, he was swarmed by 25, 000 Parisians who carried the wearied pilot on their shoulders. They were rejoicing that Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator who flew the first transatlantic flight, had just landed at Le Bourget field in France. Having just completed what some people called an impossible feat, he was instantly a well-known international hero. Despite his pro-German stance during World War II, Charles Lindbergh is also an America...
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Mass Transit York City
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York City Ballet School Of American Ballet Balanchine
948 wordsGeorge Balanchine, or originally Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, a Russian-born choreographer, is recognized as one of the foremost choreographers in the history of ballet. George was among a generation of dancers who spent the years of World War 1 at the Imperial school of ballet at the Mariinsky theatre. George was the son of a composer, and he also studied music from 1921 to 1924 at the Petrograd Conservatory in St. Petersburg. As a student Balanchine had already tried choreography. His fi...
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Law Enforcement Officials York City Police
1,713 wordsRacism and police brutality goes hand in hand, and causes a major concern in todays society, in the United States. On March 3, 1991 in California, Rodney King an African American, was pulled over after a high-speed chase, and after stopping was beaten by four white police officers (Worsnop 635). Tracy Brock also an African American was arrested in Manhattan in November of 1986. An officer smashed his head through a plate glass window, when Brock refused to go into the officer? s lunchroom (Polic...
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Internal Affairs Unit York Times P
3,297 wordsPolice corruption is a complex phenomenon, which does not readily submit to simple analysis. It is a problem that has and will continue to affect us all, whether we are civilians or law enforcement officers. Since its beginnings, may aspects of policing have changed; however, one aspect that has remained relatively unchanged is the existence of corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any police-related publication on any given day will have an article about a police officer that got b...
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