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    My First Visit to New York City Few years before‚ I visited New York City for the first time‚ so before I went there‚ I studied a travel guide for a long time. My cousin told me New York City is a beautiful city‚ especially during the Christmas season. She said I would see Christmas decorations everywhere. Therefore‚ I said to myself that I had to visit the city during the Christmas season. My cousin lives in Long Island City‚ so when I left from there to go to downtown Manhattan‚ I took an MIA

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    Audience Analysis This encomium‚ praising New York Fashion Week is one of the most well known events in the fashion industry. I have chosen fashion week to show my audience of inspiring designers as well as many opinionated “Vogue” readers and everyday people who crave high end fashion. It will show the dedication and hard work a designer much out forth in order to make not just a simple outfit but a mesmerizing and breathe taking design. An inspiring designer should be serious about their

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    stops? I wanted to show you one way of realizing that trip‚ which I’m planning to do soon. Thesis Statement: Route from New York to Florida with amazing stops on the way‚ such as Cape May‚ Chincoteague Island‚ Chesapeake Bay Tunnel/Bridge‚ Virginia Beach‚ Charleston‚ Savannah and our final point – Jacksonville. Discussion Section: 1. First part of the road: From New York to Chincoteague Island‚ VA (www.roadtripamerica.com): a. First point of interest – Cape May‚ NJ. City famous for

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    Martin Scorsese’s latest film‚ Gangs of New York is a failed anti-war film. It is 165 minutes of some of the most violent footage ever seen in a film intended for mainstream entertainment. As a fan of Scorsese’s‚ I have to say that even the brutality of Good Fellas could not have prepared me for the assault that is the experience of watching this film. Even leaving aside the violence‚ I admit that I am mystified by all the hoopla surrounding Gangs of New York. Leonardo Di Caprio only slightly adapts

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    the founders of New York State and approved the Dutch colonies to reclaim the area in 1609. In 1664 England bought the island of Manhattan and altered it into a foremost trading port for the 13 original colonies. New York City then turned out to be an area of prodigious population and diversity. The New York harbor was first discovered by an Italian man in 1524. His name was Giovanni De Verrazano. There is now a bridge named after this man. After Verrazano discovered the New York harbor‚ the Dutch

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    The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City. New York enacted laws that restricted the lives of enslaved peoples. A slave market was built near present-day Wall Street to accommodate the increase in slaves being imported by the Royal African Company. By the early 1700s about 20 percent of the population were African slaves. Slaves were limited and required to carry a pass to be able to travel more than a mile from home‚ couldn’t gather in groups of more than three people‚ marriage

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    easy thing. Especially now in the United States where immigration is seen as a problem with our new president. Our president has made decisions against immigration solely because of stereotypes that have been around for centuries. A great film that replicates the first sign of U.S. immigration and it’s first stereotypes in the late 1800s is Gangs of New York (2002). This movie takes place in New York where at this time there was a huge flow of a variety of Immigrants that had no one to relate to

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    New York Jets: Top Five reasons why Brandon Marshall won’t be back next season The New York Jets Brandon Marshall might not be in Gang Greens future plans for these reasons. #1) Will not take a pay cut With the New York Jets in desperate need to make cap space by being the second lowest NFL team with money to spend this offseason. Marshall made it abundantly clear Wednesday on WFAN’s Boomer and Carton Show that he would not take a cut in salary. "People need to get away from me due $7.5 [million]

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    What is the result‚ after a reporter commits frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news event? The trend continues when there are not things or people in place to rectify it. When obvious warning signs are ignored‚ such as Jayson Blair’s mistakes it only weakens the credibility of the newspaper. Blair was caught in a plagiarism scandal that harmed the New York Times reputation; though he set the stage for more incidents like that to happen and history repeat itself. The fact

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    DNY: Landscapes in New York 11/12/14 Term Paper – Rising Sea Levels and PlaNYC Ban Ki-moon once said‚ “Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor‚ small and big. Therefore‚ this is what we call ’global challenges‚ ’ which require global solidarity.” This quote shows how we as a world must work together to try and slow down climate change because it is something that is affecting us all‚ and eventually will distress us all in a very drastic manner‚ due

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