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    In-class Writing Assignment School code: 4784 8th April‚ 2013. What role does time and memory play in the work? “Time travelling” Who hasn’t dreamt of going back to their childhood? But who has actually made through it? In “A Distant Neighborhood” by Jiro Taniguchi‚ I would say that the main plot of the story began by the factor called Time travelling. Time travelling is a concept of moving between two different points or time. Time travelling could hypothetically involve moving or travelling

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    Neighborhoods on the west side are similar to any other in Chicago. The area always seem gloomy to me‚ but the sun always seems to shine brightest on Sundays. Playing in the backyard of my grandmother’s house while waiting for dinner was something to look forward to. Sunday dinner were always packed with people I barely knew from the neighborhood. There were days during the week that strangers would come to my grandmother’s house to eat and hangout. The block that I grew up on was very welcoming

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    to Opportunity Program”‚ looks at the long-term effects of children’s education progress in high-poverty neighbourhoods. A randomized mobility experiment in which a subset of low-income minority families living in public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were given vouchers to move to low-poverty neighbourhoods were used to evaluate 1 policy approach for improving children’s educational outcomes. Four hundred twenty-five New York City children were seen 2 1/2 and 5 years following relocation (mean

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    Thieves‚ Thugs‚ and Neighborhood Poverty David Bjerk Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Claremont McKenna College 500 East Ninth Street‚ Claremont CA 91711 Ph: 909-607-4471 david.bjerk@cmc.edu April 25‚ 2010 Abstract This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions‚ a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise

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    Currently‚ NYC is experimenting with an alternative to incarceration called Neighborhood Opportunity Networks (NeON). These centers are part of a new model of community centric corrections programs known as justice reinvestment. Reinvestment programs are intended to reduce recidivism and reroute the money that would have been spent on incarceration to crime prevention programs instead. (Clear‚ et al‚ 2012). The Department of Probation (DOP) has begun placing NeON facilities in communities with the

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    ASTD 322 February 23‚ 2009 Cultural Diversity within the Neighborhood Sitting in a dark theatre‚ an audience begins to rustle in their seats with excitement‚ anxiously awaiting the start of the show. The lights dim and the anticipation are diminished as the lights come up‚ the set of a street side unveils‚ and the beat begins. In one instant‚ the audience is transported from a simple theatre to the lively street-side of the neighborhood of Washington Heights‚ New York. This production is the

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    Opinion Piece Low-income Neighborhoods and Crime Michael Abdullahi 0770724 Wednesday‚ November 19th 2014 Professor: Jennifer Long SOAN 2290 On February 13th 2013 the family of Jarvis Montaque was in great despair. The family who lived in Jamestown Crescent‚ a local public housing projects were notified that the 15-year-old boy‚ had been shot on his own doorstep. The boy was not part of any gangs‚ rather an unfortunate casualty of local gang warfare. The Toronto

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    where everything is readily available although at times he mentioned that he does not like the new hipsters moving into this neighborhood who has nothing to offer aside from making the street smelling like marijuana. He enjoys the ethnic food this community has to offer which is not available where he grew up in the South. According to my participant 1‚ it is a safe neighborhood and he plans to remain in Bushwick for rest of his life since soon he will be buying an apartment with his

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    Description of a Mechanism Group III Group Leader: Maureen Bianca Cobilla Members: Erica Bulloso Catherine Gayle Cancio Tina Rose Capuli B.S in Psychology II-A Table of Contents 1 Description of Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Initial Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Organization of the Description . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Part by Part Description . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Conclusion

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    Purpose Writers in the workplace frequently have to describe things--objects‚ mechanisms‚ and spaces. Descriptions of things have several purposes: to enable readers to understand how something works‚ how it is made or what materials it contains‚ or to understand how to put something together‚ take it apart‚ repair it‚ etc. Choosing a subject Choose an object‚ mechanical device‚ or space with at least four distinct parts. The thing you describe can be any manufactured product‚ preferably one

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