significant issue for New York City. It is said that the residents living within the city of New York are at high risk to cancer. According to Scorecard.goodguide.com‚ the pollution information site‚ New York City is ranked highest for added cancer risk per 1 million within the state. New York comes in first place at 1900 (per 1‚000‚000) compared to Wyoming at 49th place with 140 (per 1‚000‚000) of Hazardous Air Pollutants. (Refer to Table: 1) Some of the most substantial problems New York City faces
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Kaily Purtle 09-10-2012 Study of the Family Reaction Paper 1 In class we discussed Reading #4. This reading was about the “Super Mom”. We discussed our personally experiences along with readings. We talked about how stay at home mothers and working mothers get looked at by society and by their husbands. I will be writing my reaction paper on this topic because it is very interesting to me. The “Super Mom” is described in the White and Klein text as a “stroller in one hand‚ brief
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The view is breathtaking. It’s nighttime in New York City: buildings are lit and sparkling‚ brightening the clear‚ purple-hued sky and reflecting in the otherwise dark water. On the right‚ a young man and woman are visible through a partitioned floor-to-ceiling window in a skyscraper they occupy. It is not the view of the city you’d expect to see: the United Nations building looms large in the foreground‚ and the man and women face the water‚ the city hidden mostly behind them. The man and woman
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The artwork I picked was the painting “Frozen Assets” (1931-32) made by Diego Rivera. The Art Historian Ph.D. Greta Berman published on the Juilliard Journal in February 2012: “To me‚ the strongest and most uncannily apropos today painting of the New York City works is Frozen Assets (1931-32)‚ which combines
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Evolution Reaction Paper After finish watching the movie "Darwin’s Dangerous Idea"‚ our biology teacher asks us to write a reaction paper based on each section in the movie. There are ten parts in the movie‚ which include: Darwin’s Observations from the Beagle‚ Humming Birds‚ Darwin’s Idea of Natural Selection‚ HIV Evolution‚ Complex Organs: made/evolve‚ Eye Evolution‚ God versus Natural Selection including Humans‚ Can God Fit in Science‚ Society Control of Church and Book Publishing. The first
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Living in one of the most crowded places‚ you would expect the suicide rates to be higher in New York City as opposed to other cities in the world. New York City has an astounding rate of 8% suicide rate per 100‚000 people. Then there is Las Vegas with a surprising 34.5% suicide rate. Shouldn’t New York City‚ one of the most stressful cities to live in have a higher suicide rate? But why doesn’t it‚ you may ask? Emile Durkheim‚ a Functionalist has expressed his thoughts within his book‚ Suicide.
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The Tropics in New York was written by Claude McKay in 1920. McKay was born in Jamaica in 1890 and immigrated to the United States in 1912. The twenty-two years that he lived in Jamaica gave him inspiration for this poem. The poem includes masterful imagery and other literary devices. The poem starts with McKays somewhat cheerful description of luscious tropical fruits: Bananas ripe and green‚ and ginger-root‚ / Cocoa in pods and alligator pears‚ (lines 1-2). At this point‚ the reader is not sure
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housing‚ economic and socio-cultural activities within the confined space. The principal transport mode was walking. But as the industrialization and civilization started taking place‚ cities extended boundaries and suburbs formed. Now this led to new railway-road lines to provide home-work journeys. In these cities‚ density remained high and walking continued to be the dominant mode for other journeys. Far Eastern cities or Asian cities show similar characteristics today: very high density and mobility
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Margarette Louise L. Gumpal (2013-21456) ABE30 – T2 “An Inconvenient Truth: Reaction Paper” In the documentary‚ Former US Vice President Al Gore addressed the threats of Global Warming and Climate Change. He revealed several studies about the sudden increase of Carbon Dioxide emissions and the temperature. He emphasised the possible effects of the warming of the Earth. The collapse of ice sheets in the north is one of the major products of this. Based also on the research that Mr. Gore
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REACTION PAPER Personal Development and Public Relations is one of my most unforgettable subjects in my first year of college. I thought at first that this was just an ordinary and predictable subject because of its topics like values and manners. But what I had encountered was actually the total opposite! I have discovered my attitude that I have never known before‚ I have learned a lot on how to manage myself in different environments or situations‚ I have also boost my self confidence that
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