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    Fashion Capital: New York

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    perspective‚ it is reasonable to suggest that fashion has a very important role in the society. Thus‚ understanding various aspects of fashion is also of utmost importance. It is from this point of view that this paper discusses the importance of New York as a fashion city. A fashion capital is a city that has major influence on the global fashion trends as well as the core of the fashion industry‚ where activities such as designing‚ production and retailing of fashion items‚ events like fashion

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    Gangs Of New York Themes

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    The film‚ Gangs of New York (2002)‚ directed by Martin Scorsese‚ is loosely based on Herbert Asbury’s work‚ “The Gangs of New York: an informal history of the underworld” (1927). The film tells the story of a fictional character‚ Amsterdam‚ who is trying to avenge his father‚ who was killed in battle by the film’s main antagonist‚ William Cutting‚ also known as Bill the Butcher. The story is set in New York City in the mid-nineteenth century‚ specifically‚ at the infamous Five Points‚ which now makes

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    Wave and C. New York

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    was. She offered to feed the guest and everyone was willing to do their part in preparing the meal. Miggles began to tell how she came to know and care for Jim. He was someone she knew back six years ago and he spent plenty of money on her. One day Jim sat down on the sofa in Miggles room and he was struck with this illness and he’s been that way ever since. She was once a saloon girl but moved to the outskirts of town where the traffic and visitors are at a minimum. Miggles had the choice

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    Summary: Gangs Of New York

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    Gillespie 12/10/14 HIS 343 Dandan Chen Gangs of New York: A Cultural Shift In the 2002 Film “Gangs of New York” by Martin Scorsese we see New York City reshaped and changed through cultural influence of feuding individuals and groups with different ideas. On the surface the movie seems to have a straight forward theme but in the back ground we see a cultural shift as immigrants come into America and New York City. In the movie we see the political influence during that time

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    How vast is the New York City’s mass transit system? XXXXXXXXXXXXXX Instructor: XXXXXXXXX Course: XXXXXXXXXX Date: XXXXXXXX New York City‚ one of the world’s most vibrant cities‚ has one of the biggest public transportation systems of North America. Everyday hundreds of thousands people enter this city as workers or as tourists. New York City has excellent connectivity to all of its neighboring states: New Jersey‚ Connecticut‚ and

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    and spoke on challenging slavery. The intention to overthrow the current system in place was a there in New York City in 1941. It is shown in the actions of those who did rebel and confess to doing so. Davis infers that‚ “the intentions are often difficult things to establish in fact. While actions not always speak for themselves‚ they are more easily visible. So these actions of blacks in New York more easily show a desire and an effort to change some of the immediate circumstances of slavery” (29)

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    Over the past ten years Portland and New York have been vying for distinction of being creative capital of the United States. They range in size‚ both geographically and in terms of population‚ they have very different environments and people‚ although they have some things in common‚ like a diverse art and music scene. We can explore these differences and similarities to better understand the significance of each city and the things they have to offer. New York is a city with pavement‚ concrete and

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    New York City Analysis

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    My first breath in New York City was quite disgusting. I was standing in the musty cellar that is known as Pennsylvania Station in the world’s capital. And as I stood there‚ luggage in hand‚ I did not realize that my life was about to change. New York City is a place like no other‚ it’s truly a concrete jungle. I was visiting some friends from Los Angeles; and they had allowed me to stay with them for 6 days in the Big Apple. They were staying in an apartment in lower Manhattan‚ so for me this meant

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    They call New York the city that never sleeps. All bars in the city do not close untilto four o"tmclock in the morning. Let me tell you something‚ this big place called "New York" is the capital of all the new fashions and old fads. You can go see these teams at Shea Stadium in Flushings‚ Queens‚ and The New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. You can buy liquor at anytime during the day because they never close. What I am trying to say is that New York is the inventor of all invertors.

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    New York City Tenements

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    before‚ tenements were often very crowded due to the large wave of immigrants coming from Europe. These immigrants were stuffed into buildings that were inadequately made. In 1914‚ the streets below fourteenth street‚ which was one eighty-second of New York State’s total land area‚ had one sixth of the city’s population (Urban Castles). Showing how in a relatively small piece of land‚ many people lived there. Most of the people who lived there lived in tenements. There were 22‚000 slum tenements that

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