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    Making the Move Overpopulation is a major crisis in the Brooklyn Jewish sector of New York. The current‚ cramped living conditions in the common Jewish neighborhoods has forced families to seek housing elsewhere. However‚ a lot of thought is needed in making a decision to relocate an entire family and ensuring that all the participants will benefit from the move. Since the overcrowdedness in Brooklyn is so extreme‚ uprooting to newer and more spacious neighborhoods is the best solution. At the

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    Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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    Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Breakout Comedy of 2013 (888) Brooklyn Nine-Nine‚ the new and hilarious series airing on Fox‚ Tuesday nights at 9:30‚ has quickly become one of America’s most popular sitcoms. The show has only been on since September and has already won not one‚ but two Golden Globe awards- one for Best TV Comedy Series‚ and one for Best Actor in a TV Comedy Series which went to Andy Samberg. Set in the 99th Precinct of New York City Police Department‚ a single camera follows the comical

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    A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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    Jazmin Jupiter Language and Literature 9 112/01 Sept. 14‚ 2012 Essay No. 1 In the book‚ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ Francie Nolan lives in a world where she has trouble finding who she is‚ but eventually finds a way of discovering who she wants to be. Francie is an eleven-year-old girl living in Williamsburg‚ Brooklyn. You can find Francie sitting on her fire escape reading book‚ while imagining that she lives in the Tree of Heaven. The narrator says: “An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this

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    Brooklyn Museum Visit

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    Temple for Assignment 1 William Liang Professor Crawford Art 100: Introduction to World Art Visit to the Brooklyn Museum of Art Introduction For the first assignment in Dr. Crawford’s Art 100 class‚ the students have to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s Egypt Exhibit. From which we pick a artifact we thought was interesting and write a paper about the artifact; the artifact that I have chose is the Kneeling Statue of Senemut. The reason I found this artifact interesting‚ is because Senemut isn’t

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    II. The setting of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ is the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn‚ NY between 1900-1918. In the exposition‚ 11-year-old Francie Nolan is introduced as the protagonist‚ of the coming of age novel. Her family lives in the poor areas of Brooklyn where she is raised and has a close connection to the “Tree of Heaven”. The text illustrates‚ “For Francie‚ Saturday started with a trip to the junkie. She and her brother‚ Neeley‚ like other Brooklyn kids‚ collected rags‚ paper‚ metal‚ rubber

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    become.” Both novels‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ by Mark Twain‚ and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ by Betty Smith‚ have become beloved novels for people of all ages. Betty Smith uses honesty to cast on the experiences of people from around the world and all different circumstances‚ while Mark Twain adds the humor of children and their intelligence. Although in the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ the setting‚ such as the city life or the tenement building‚ tells the reader a

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    Urban Sprawl In Brooklyn

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    describe if the metro area are sprawl and how it impacts the people who live in that area. I’m from the small Ukrainian town and this study will not be applicable to analyze it in the same way. However‚ I lived in the Brooklyn for the 8 years and will talk about NYC in this assignment. Brooklyn‚ as the one of the boroughs of the NYC will not be classified as the “sprawling”. At least when it compared to the other cities in the US. According to the authors NYC considered as an outlier compared to the other

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    Violence destroys the soul in a community‚ consisting of diverse humanity. Brutal and negative events have an increasingly large impact on a human’s personal‚ ordinary life. In the novel‚ “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”‚ Francie‚ the protagonist‚ faces a traumatizing event at the age of 14: an attempt of rape‚ witnessing a murder and loss. These traumatic events can impact someone’s innocent life intensely‚ as fear‚ sorrow‚ and trauma develops over a certain time period. Violent events she faces‚ illustrates

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    One of the main conflicts of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is person (Francie) vs. society. Poverty and judgment runs down the streets of Williamsburg‚ Brooklyn‚ New York. Francie dives head on into conflicts concerning gender‚ economic state‚ and religion. “She put the penny in her dress pocket and turned the rest of the money over to him. Neeley was ten‚ a year younger than Francie. But he was the boy; he handled the money” (Smith 8). In essence‚ this shows females were not trusted to

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    population at 13% and increase in the White population at 12% followed by Crown Heights / Park Place with 13% decrease in the Black population and 11% increase in the White population. Critical Analysis What are the causes of gentrification in Harlem & Brooklyn? Gentrification results from the flow of people and capital. Different neighborhood contexts determine the extent to which gentrification is linked to racial transition. Although neighborhoods change slowly‚ overtime they are becoming more segregated

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