BIXI GOES TO NEW YORK The Public Bike System Company (PBSC) was a private company operating Bixi‚ a bike-sharing service in Montreal‚ Canada. Bike sharing systems had seen rapid global growth in the recent years‚ and the equipment used for the Bixi system was considered as one of the best available on the market. Because of this‚ Bixi-based systems had been sold to a number of cities in the past two years‚ including MinneapolisSt-Paul‚ Melbourne‚ Washington D.C.‚ London‚ Toronto‚
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“And the Chicago Blackhawks have defeated the New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup for the third time in five years!” the announcer’s voice boomed throughout the living room. A smile tugged at the corners of my mouth. I had never been a big Blackhawks fan‚ but I just extremely disliked the Rangers. On the other side of the room‚ my Uncle Nate was going nuts. He threw his New York cap down onto the floor and stomped in circles all around it. The Rangers jersey that had cost him more than a year
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short story named "The Test"‚ written by Njabulo Ndebele (1983). It is about a young boy called Thoba and its passion for playing street football with his friends‚ before he heads home. Text 1b) is a newspaper article (sports report) from the New York Times (2005) which treats the World Cup‚ a real event happening every four years. Both texts share the theme of football‚ however they approach this sport in a different manner: Text 1a) is about street football on a local scale while text 1b) is about
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Mount Pleasant‚ New York Windshield Survey Introduction This paper is a Windshield Survey of the town of Mount Pleasant‚ New York‚ which is located thirty miles north of New York City‚ in Westchester County in the lower Hudson Valley. A windshield survey “ involves the generation of data that helps to define the community‚ the trends‚ stability‚ and changes that all serve to define the health of the community” (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2014‚ p. 409). The town I live in is comprised of the Villages of
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New York Slave Revolt (1712) In 1712‚ some blacks ad Indians were planning to rebel by burning their masters’ outhouse and killed all of the people trying to extinguish the fire. However‚ those rebels were put in to trials and some were executed by hanging‚ burning or torturing while some were freed. During the 17th century‚ the number of slaves in New York City was very large and they could communicate easily‚ so they set up a plan to rebel. Despite the fact that they got help from the Indians
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Erfurt – B Anglistik Seminar: „Nightlife and New York City Culture“ Dozent/-in: Dr. Giulia Palladini Wintersemester 2013/14 The Change in New York City’s Nightlife during the 1920s Franziska Funke Matrikelnummer: 33643 Studienrichtungen: Kommunikationswissenschaft/Anglistik eMail-Adresse: franziska.funke@uni-erfurt.de Abgabedatum: 6. January 2015 For the term paper on Nightlife and New York City Culture I will focus on the the roaring 20s in the USA as this time has been significant to the cultural development
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Ebanks v. New York City Transit Authority 70 N.Y.2d 621‚ 518 N.Y.S 2d 776‚ Web 1987 N.Y Lexis 17294 United States Court of Appeals of New York Facts: * Julius Ebanks’s left foot got caught in a 2-inch gap between the escalator step and the side wall of the escalator‚ which was owned and operated by the New York City Transit Authority. * He was thrown violently to the ground after reaching the top. His hip was fractured along with other serious injuries. * The standard gap of the
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Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital case‚ the patient came in complaining of a stomachache and left with a hysterectomy. In the Mohr v. Williams case‚ a woman came in with a bad right ear and left with an operated-on left ear. While there are differences between these cases‚ there are more similarities; both are cases of malpractice and breach of consent‚ but both have specific particularities. Both cases involve a breach of consent. In Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital‚ the patient
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of Auster’s The New York Trilogy Abstract: The concept of fragmented self was first introduced by Freud through his model of three part psyche‚ namely ego‚ id and super-ego‚ and later modified by Jacque Lacan‚ the famous postmodern psychoanalyst. The split of subject is one of the most appealing concepts in the postmodern literature. By assimilating the structure of unconscious to that of language‚ Lacan bridges between psychoanalysis and linguistics and hence makes a new interdisciplinary
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paying the officer are guilty of a crime. Surveys have found that only five percent of those approached by a police officer for a bribe report the activity to the police (Walker & Katz‚ 2010). A study done by James J. Fyfe and Robert Kane on the New York City Police Department from 1975 through 1996 found that very few officers were found to have been involved in corruption or other forms of police misconduct. The data indicated that 1‚543 officers out of about 78‚000 had engaged in career-ending
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