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Reb Saunders Zionist Movement
753 wordsThemes are literary tools used by authors to enhance their writings. When a similar theme exists in two different novels, parallels can often be drawn between the characters and structures of literary work. Such is the case for Bernard Malamuds The Assistant and Chaim Potoks The Chosen. Religion plays a major role in the shaping of both novels. Both books begin with the respective religious outcast (Frank and Rueven) befriending the respective character (Morris and Danny) as a result of an act o...
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Police Officers Police Commissioner
1,573 wordsCivil rights advocates in the city note, however, that there has been a cost to the new strategy, revealed by steady citizen complaints against more aggressive NYPD officers during the past several years and continuing impunity for many officers who commit human rights violations despite the recent reorganization of both the civilian review board and the police department's internal affairs bureau. In August 1997, after the alleged torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima by police officers mad...
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Asher Lev And His Ruling Passion
935 wordsA ruling passion in an individuals life has the ability to demonstrate an effect on a persons life including the atmosphere surrounding them. In the novel My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Photo, the author traces the making of a great painter from the time of Asher being an ordinary boy, to his response to his ruling passion, leading to his successful yet controversial exhibitions of being a distinguished painter. The book centers on the growing separation between Asher and his family and his commu...
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U S Army Jackie Robinson
1,218 wordsWhen youre in the military, youre presented a salute upon which respect and dignity imply. Unfortunately, this wasnt always the case. All of that was hastily forgotten. He barely missed a court-martial and was honorably discharged shortly thereafter (Davis 1). Would you believe that it was because he refused to move from a front seat to the rear seat of an army bus? He was a legitimate soldier in the U. S. Army. He enlisted after the Pearl Harbor bombing and was promoted to Lieutenant three year...
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Brother In Law Cosa Nostra
2,438 wordsIt was early evening on December 16, 1985. The sidewalks were jammed with people who had just flooded out of the many office buildings around East 46 th Street between Second and Third Avenue. Some rushed home from work, eager to get out of the wintry gloom; others were lured by the strings of brightly colored lights into the stores for some Christmas shopping. There in the midst of the mid-town bustle on 46 th was an elegant steakhouse called Sparks whose clientele were businessmen and diplomat...
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State Of Nature Brooklyn Museum
606 wordsGovernment is an interesting concept developed by humans in order to come together and form a better way of life. Government often times has stepped in to judge what this better way of life should be. In current times, there has been the near censorship of art and in the past theatrical world, the morals of a community are mandated by government. Ever since people came out of the state of nature and started forming governments, the role of that government has been always been debated. Early phil...
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Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers
1,097 wordsThere are those who defy the laws of time by immortalizing themselves by a single or numerous feats displaying selflessness and courage. Commenting on such individuals, Theodore Roosevelt said: The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high achie...
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Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru
1,172 wordsFrom cool jazz to Chicago blues, gospel to R&B, reggae, and gangsta rap. For a century, African-Americans, Blacks, Negro's and or Niggas, or (what ever label or category is decided this millennium), have been in the vanguard of recorded music in every style imaginable. Rap's origins stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has a more immediate predecessor in the spoken-word expressionism of 60 's activists like the Last Poets, or Le Roi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), who performed ac...
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Leaves Of Grass Walt Whitman
413 wordsWalt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Vendor, was descended from a long line of New York Dutch farmers; his father, Walt Whitman, was a Long Island farmer and carpenter. In 1823, the family moved to Brooklyn in search of work. One of nine children in an undistinguished family, Whitman received little in the way of formal education. At the age of 17, Whitman began teaching at various Long Island schools and continued to teach until he went to New Yo...
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Aunt Aggie Frank Mccourt People
1,248 wordsFrank McCourt was a little Irish Catholic boy, born in Brooklyn and lived in Ireland until he was nineteen. Angela's Ashes is the story of growing up in Ireland. His family was extremely poor. His father never had a steady job and if he worked a little, he spent most of the wages in the pubs. His mother stayed home with the children. The Irish Catholics do not believe in birth control, so they had seven children, although three died. Since there were so many mouths to feed and Malachy, Franks fa...
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Ice Cube Main Characters
1,454 wordsI have elected to take a closer look at movies that deal with the ghetto social institution. There have been several movies that attempt to depict the harshness of growing up in predominantly black urban neighborhoods. The three films that I have selected are what I believe to be the top three films in this genre. They are Boyz N Da Hood, Menace to Society, and Juice. All of these films try to send a message about what it is like to live in da hood. The first film, "Boyz N Da Hood" marked the di...
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Kung Fu Hip Hop
997 wordsBreak Dancing or B-being is a form of hip-hop dancing, which is popularly known as breaking. It consists of top or up rock, footwork, spinning moves (power moves), and freeze. B-being came from Bronx, NY. The term "B-boy" or "B-being" was created by Kool Herc who was a DJ spinning at block parties in Bronx back in the days. B-Boys means break boys and they were called so because they dance to the break part of music. Later, by repeating this break part done by DJ, "breakbeat's" was born. Althoug...
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Cup Of Coffee Starbucks Coffee
1,924 wordsThe Rise of Starbucks The Starbucks Corporation has enjoyed phenomenal growth since its early days in 1971 as a quaint coffee shop in Seattle, Washington. The rise of Starbucks can be directly attributed to the following factors; the emphasis placed on product quality, high employee standards, and creating the perfect cup of coffee. How a small idea became a huge business. Growing up in Brooklyn Howard Schultz had no aspirations. His only goal was to escape the struggles his working-class parent...
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Safety And Security University Of Wisconsin
1,380 wordsAbraham Harold Maslow was born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the oldest of seven children born to his parents, who were uneducated Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents, wanting the best for their children in the "new world", pushed him hard in his academic studies. He was smart but shy, and remembered his childhood as being lonely and rather unhappy. He sought refuge in his books and studies. His father hoped he would study as a lawyer, and Maslow enrolled in the City Coll...
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Major League Baseball World War Ii
2,017 wordsDesegregation in Major League Baseball? We are the Ship, All Else the Sea? -Negro National League motto Barely two years after the end of the Civil War? a war that was fought, in part, over the enslaving of black Americans- the first baseball teams compromised entirely of black players stepped up to the plate in Brooklyn, New York. The Philadelphia Excelsior's defeated the home team, the Brooklyn Uniques, in a contest that was billed as? the championship of colored clubs? (Dungee 7). Black Ameri...
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Rival Gang Capone Men
1,713 wordsThe Life and World Of Al Capone Written By, John Kepler Report By, Adam Monteverde Al Capone is Americas best known gangster and the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the 1920 s Prohibition era. Capone had a leading role in the illegal activities that lent Chicago its reputation as a lawless city. Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Baptized " Alphonsus Capone, " he grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a membe...
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Young Black Men Young Black Man
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Quot And Quot Selected Poems
1,827 wordsEdith Jarolim In his later poems, Blackburn came to wear his learning lightly; in his generally short early lyrics, his erudition is still on display. (Pounds example was not likely to have discouraged him in that regard. ) The young man who wrote the lovely " Center de Not" and satirical " For Mercury, Patron of Thieves: A Laurel" had clearly done his homework in Proven? al and Greek poetics. But he was also taking lessons from such American masters as William Carlos William...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Modern American Poetry
644 wordsTwo Poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are probably two of the most influential people in American poetry. They are regarded as the founders modern American poetry. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), for the time was breaking new ground with his diverse, energetic verse with regards to subject matter, form and style whether talking about overlooked objects in nature such as a single blade of grass or even our own hearing. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) while living a life of seclusion, never really...
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Comic Book Artist Comic Book Artist And Writer Berg
444 wordsDavid Berg For more than 40 years, the American comic-book artist and writer David Berg, who has died of cancer aged 81, worked on Mad magazine, satirizing the foibles of suburban America. He also produced numerous paperbacks. Berg began contributing to Mad in 1956. One evening, he screened some comedy home movies, starring his family and neighbours, for Mad editor Al Feldstein, who suggested he adapt the idea into what became the magazines Lighter Side feature. The cartoon explored a different ...
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