AP/SOSC 1801 / 1809 6.0 2012-13 Health Controversies: Issues of Health‚ Illness and Society Assignment #3: First Draft of the Final Essay Context The assignments for this course have been designed to guide students through the various steps of writing a social science research paper at the university level. Each assignment targets a specific set of skills that students will need to learn and use during the essay-writing process. Written course assignments will eventually culminate in the
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did the religious fervor of New England Puritans decline after 1660? How did the Salem witch episode reflect the tensions and changes in seventeenth-century New England life and thought? The Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England that had a profound influence on the social‚ political‚ ethical‚ and theological ideas of England and America. Puritans immigrated to the New World‚ where they sought to found a holy commonwealth in New England. Although the Puritans
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Nikole Hannah-Jones and her husband were facing one of the toughest decisions since they became parents; where would they send their 4-year old daughter to school in an intensely segregated New York City school system? The family lived in the predominantly low-income‚ black neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant and if their daughter attended the local public school‚ she would be attending the school with a majority of low-income black students. They could send their daughter to a private school‚ as
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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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New York Times vs. Sullivan (1964) Have you ever been labeled by people for doing something that you did not do? Another word for that is libel‚ libel is a false published statement that is meant to hurt a person’s reputation. New York Times vs. Sullivan is a case where Sullivan sued New York Times for libel. The case went to the Alabama court ending in failure for New York Times‚ the case reached a final decision in the Supreme Court. Sullivan brought the case to the court claiming that New York
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New York Vs. Los Angeles Did you know according to the US Census and Suburbanstats.org that almost half of Los Angeles is hispanic while only 17% of New York is hispanic? Why is that so? And how would that affect these cities and their peoples’ views? New York is the largest city in the United States and the world while Los Angeles is the second largest in the United States and third in the world. However‚ they are on the opposite ends of the United States. Also‚ Los Angeles is a much younger city
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History class when I received a project to write an essay on what I liked about New York City. How was I to answer this without even seeing the city? I was a
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Corruption in the Gangs of New York The Gilded Age‚ or as it is commonly referred to as‚ the era of corruption‚ took place in 1877 to 1900. This time period was most effectively portrayed in the novel and movie‚ The Gangs of New York‚ which was written by Herbert Asbury. The Gangs of New York focused on a time of political corruption during a period of massive increase in immigration in New York. In this essay I will discuss three themes: immigration‚ Political machines‚ and bad situations‚ that
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thought as the place of opportunities‚ New York City became a symbol of freedom and economic mobility to the earliest immigrants coming from all over Europe and Asia in the 1800’s. Whether it was due to religious persecution‚ land and job shortages‚ famines or rising taxes‚ these immigrants were just looking to obtain a better quality of life for themselves and their families. Nearly 12 million people passed through the gates of Ellis Island and settled in New York City. Due to the fact that most immigrants
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On March 18‚ 1970‚ history was made in America. Thousands of New York City postal workers expressed their frustration with Congress by simply refusing to work. Even though the strike was birthed in New York‚ postal workers from many other states also shared the same anger and concerns. Despite the miles that separated them‚ nearly 200‚000 postal workers from 30 major cities joined the strike. Prior to 1970‚ the United States Postal Service was known as Post Office Department and was also managed
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