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Martin Luther King Jr Sense Of Community
1,222 wordsThe American dream is an idea that attracts many. The promises of opportunity, success, social equality, and fortune are very desirable. Though few have come to a consensus for the definition of the "American dream", many are reaching for this concept. In Martin Luther King Jr. s "I Have a Dream" speech he searches desperately for this ambiguous idea. In Witold Rybcaynski essay, "Tomorrowland, " he explains that Disney believes the dream can be constructed. Martin Luther King Jr. s attempt for t...
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Environmentally Friendly Natural Environment
1,030 words... as visitor with no camping gear and who would like to sojourn in comfort (due to it being the only resort on the Island). Because of the style of the resort it looks attractive people will come to stay down there. The location of the resort does not matter because there are beach buses that travel to the e) Provides employment for residents- Tangalooma has many of employment opportunities even though they are specialized what it does do is make the employers residents so therefor it is creat...
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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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Trials And Tribulations Amazing Grace
1,799 wordsIntroduction Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is normal? For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution, the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them have ever known. In this book...
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The Impact Of Leo Frank Case
703 wordsThe case of Leo Frank was one that had a huge impact on American society, and has lead to many changes in the United States legal system. The rape and murder of Mary Phagan, a thirteen-year-old girl who worked in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, was an event that terrified and enraged the citizens of the state. Leo Frank, superintendent of the pencil factory, was the man who was convicted of the heinous crime. Many factors led to the conviction, and later, the death of Frank. He ...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,602 wordsby Alejandro A. Alonso, M. S. In Los Angeles and other urban areas in the United States, the formation of street gangs increased at a steady pace through 1996. The Bloods and the Crips, the most well-known gangs of Los Angeles, are predominately African American[ 1 ] and they have steadily increased in number since their beginnings in 1969. In addition, there are over 600 active Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles County with a growing Asian gang population numbering approximately 20, 000 members. Sur...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,533 words... egotist strategies to combat white intimidation and violence, the effectiveness of whites to fight against integration and residential segregation began to fail. Eventually 'white flight' occurred, as white residents began to move into the growing suburban areas that flourished in the 1950 s, leaving the city areas of South Los Angeles behind. This left the central city of Los Angeles as a primarily black enclave, with blacks accounting for 71 percent of the inner-city population (Brunn et a...
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Hours Per Week Department Of Health
567 wordsThe ACGME currently has work-hour requirements that apply to all specialties. Residents must have at least one full day out of seven free of activities involved in patient care and must not be assigned on-call duty more often than every third night, both averaged over a four-week period. Otherwise, the standards vary widely among specialties. Five specialties (allergy and immunology, dermatology, internal medicine, ophthalmology, and preventive medicine) have a weekly limit of 80 hours of work, ...
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Find A Job Majority Of People
830 wordsTampa is Floridas third largest city with population of 334. 550. From year 2000 to year 2005, Tampa's population has increased by 10 %, because of this city is becoming increasingly attractive to the people who rely on social services, as the mean of obtaining income. Tampa's subtropical climate and the fact that state of Florida provides various social benefits to the people with income lower than average, is the reason why Tampa's population continues to grow rapidly. It its turn, this has an...
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Taking Place American Cities
2,050 wordsNowadays, it is quite impossible to be absolutely sure as what was the initial cause of Chicago Great Fire of 1871. However, it is most probably that this cause had accidental properties. Most historians agree that the fire was started in Patrick Olearys barn, when one of his cows kicked over a lantern. This seemingly a banal accident is associated with one of the worst artificially created disasters in the history of U. S. During the course of fire, three hundred people lost their life and hund...
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Level Of Violence Los Angeles
2,390 wordsKeeping Our Teenagers off the Streets In Leesville, LA, many parents and governmental agencies are concerned with the question of how to keep teenagers of the streets, just like in many other small communities in LA. The thing is, in LA the presence of youth gangs is one of the most heated social problems. To keep teenagers off the streets actually means to keep teenagers out of the youth gangs. (Harmon 73) Within the scope of this research, we will first provide background information on gangs ...
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Interstate Commerce Solid Waste
2,071 wordsWhen nine families on a back country road in rural Manor Township learned on one day of November 2000, that the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority wanted their homes for future expansion of the county landfill, they were shocked and saddened. But emotions among many of the residents quickly turned to anger when they found out how Manor Township, without their knowledge, had quietly rezoned their properties for the expansion some eight months ago. And, to their dismay, they learned...
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Long Term Care Nursing Homes
2,866 wordsThe Economics of Aging: Your Future is in Your Hands A nursing home is more often than not confused with retirement homes, which are two different entities. A nursing home is one that provides its residents with nursing care by trained professionals, rendering their services to individuals with certain illnesses and disabilities. These facilities, however, are almost always perceived to cater to senior individuals only. There are certain facilities that cater to younger individuals, who have spe...
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Oriented Policing Community Policing
2,254 wordsPolicing Models There is a remarkable historical, geographical, and organizational diversity in the activities of persons who are, or have been, counted as police. Within any one country the work of police today is very different from what it was 200 years ago. There are also major differences between countries policing New York City is bound to have little in common with policing the Solomon Islands. The diversity is so great that the onlooker may wonder if the different kinds of activity and o...
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Nursing Homes Senior Citizens
502 wordsThe Nursing Home: A Nice Place for the Elderly A. ) Security 1. ) Curfews 2. ) Lost faculties (No need to drive) 3. ) Away from con-artists B. ) Activities 1. ) Entertainment/Songs (Brownies example) 2. ) Activities/Crafts (Beta Club example) 3. ) People of similar age C. ) Health Care 1. ) Takes stress off of the family 2. ) Help with prescriptions and medicine 3. ) In case of emergency The Nursing Home: A Haven for the Elderly Todays nursing homes are excellent environments for our elderly. Th...
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Silicon Valley Asian Pacific
1,138 wordsCupertino (Homestead High) &# 038; Baldwin Park (Baldwin Hills) For our community profile presentation, we investigated Homestead High School in Cupertino, and Baldwin Park High School in Baldwin Hills, California. Cupertino is located about 40 miles south of San Francisco, and roughly 10 miles north of San Jose, in the Northern California Bay Area. Cupertino is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has experienced an income boom among working professionals in the last decade and a half, d...
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United States Citizens U S Citizens
2,124 wordsThere have been several regions of United States that have gone through cultural changes throughout time. The indigenous people on the East coast went through a cultural change when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. The people that lived in the North went through a cultural change when the French entered by the St. Lawrence River bringing their Roman Catholicism religion. The people that were living in what is now Alaska went through cultural change when the Russians entered the area with th...
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Environmental Protection Agency Hudson River
2,189 wordsFor the past year, the subject of polychlorinated biphenyls in the Hudson River and what should be done about them has been discussed by politicians and residents all over the capital region. Often the top story on the local news, the front page headline of the newspaper, the subject of a special on television, or the reason for a town meeting, dredging has become a much debated topic. With all the information being exchanged and opinions published, it is easy for the average person to become co...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Community Based Policing
2,535 wordsIt was Police Brutality Description: It was April 29, 1992 and it was my twelve birthday. My mom gave me a little chocolate cake with a plastic surfer riding a wave on top of it. We were watching television while I was getting ready to blow out my candles. There was a disturbance in South Central Los Angeles that the news helicopters were covering on every channel. There were crowds of people flooding the intersection of Florence and Normandy acting rowdy and getting aggressive toward passing ca...
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United States Of America Legal Residents
461 wordsOk, there are 3 types of people that live in the country, Residents (both legal and illegal), citizens of the U. S. , and Citizens of the United States of America. Residents are people who were born in another country, have not been naturalized, and have been domiciled here for 90 days. Legal Residents (also legal aliens) are the ones who came over on work, student, etc... visas. Illegal Residents are here without the approval of our government and are sometimes referred to as illegal aliens. A ...
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