violent death in the 118 leading cities of the United States last year. To Chicago went the doubtful distinction of having the most homicides—510; New York City‚ with approximately twice the population of Chicago‚ had 340. In twenty-eight of the leading cities the rate was 9.9 per 100‚000‚ as against 11.0 in 1925. "Slight as it is‚ the reduction is encouraging‚" observes the collector of these statistics‚ Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman‚ writing in The Spectator‚ a New York City insurance journal. "But‚" he
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Simon Worall and “A Tale of Three Cities” by Joel Swerdlow‚ the features of a cosmopolitan city is shown. “London on a Roll” demonstrates London’s diversity and her financial success in a well-developed economy‚ it also shows London’s internationalism as acceptance to everyone is mentioned in the article‚ disregarding sexual identification; “A Tale of Three Cities” illustrates Cordoba’s advancement in medicine‚ knowledge‚ history‚ and architecture. It also illustrates New York’s diversities in providing
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EDITORIAL Saving Money‚ Poisoning Workers By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: April 4‚ 2013 The workers at Royale Comfort Seating in Taylorsville‚ N.C.‚ had a simple but grueling job. For 10 hours at a stretch they spray-glued pieces of polyurethane foam into shapes that became the spongy filling of cushions sold to many top furniture brands. Unfortunately‚ the glue contained a dangerous chemical known as n-propyl bromide‚ or nPB‚ and the spray guns left a yellowish fog in the air that coated everything
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Individual Research Paper Assessment of New York Tap Water vs. Deer Park Bottled Water MGMT 650 July 25‚ 2011 Turnitin Score: % Purpose: There have been debates over the years on whether people prefer bottled water over tap water. If you step into an office somewhere in the corner or up against the wall is stacks of large blue containers consisting of water. This debate begins with two sides and often times someone would state that “I never drink tap water” or “Tap water is good
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Executive Summary The New York Metropolitan Museum of the Art is a non-profit institution with an established history as a behemoth of the artistic world. It was founded and maintains today the mission of “establishing and maintaining in the city of New York a museum and library of art‚ of encouraging and developing‚ the study of the fine arts‚ and the application of arts to manufacturing and practical life‚ of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects‚ and‚ to that end‚ of furnishing
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Kathleen Samson Paul Auster has said that The New York Trilogy is centrally concerned with “the question of who is who and whether or not we are who we think we are.” Use this remark as a point of departure for a discussion of the character Quinn –his presentation in the novel and his experience – in City of Glass. In the City of Glass‚ Auster creates a sense of uncertainty around the identities of the different characters in the book
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Federico Giustini Prof. Tiso Urbanism Final Project Essay 12/13/12 Alternative Project for Hunters Point Hunters Point is a neighborhood on the south side of Long Island city in Queens. The East River waterfront defines the neighborhood through its amazing views of the Manhattan skyline. Hunters Point’s history is mainly based on its industry that is currently not as prevalent as it once was. Several problems for hunters point exist and need to be addressed in order for the neighborhood
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detective in City of Glass The City of Glass is an anti-detective novel that subverts the conventions of a modern detective story. The detective represents a de-centering subject that challenges reading. This paper focuses on the fragmented self of this character in the novel‚ and shows the destabilizing subject as a postmodern concern. Lewis argues that in Auster’s work the disruption of the detection process is always associated with a breakdown of the self (60). The main character in City of the
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The last time Charlie saw his father was in Grand Central Station in New York City. He had been visiting his grandmother in the Adirondacks and was traveling further on to his mother at a cottage that she had rented on the Cape. When he wrote his father if he could meet him for about an hour and a half in between trains‚ it was
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Thanksgiving with him and his family. John and I became a very good friend since the first day of my schooling at New York City. It’s amusing that John accepted me as his friend at a time when I didn’t even understand a single word he would say to me and I wasn’t able to express that how much I appreciate his help to cop this new environment and that his help is actually helping me to make this Big city as my home. John‚ as I would describe him‚ is a Chinese looking guy with long hair‚ big nose and the great
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