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    61‚931 homeless people in New York City just sleeping in the New York municipal shelter system‚ and not counting the people out on the streets. So when I had a chance to visit New York City‚ I saw a homeless person almost every corner I turned on the streets. Most of them were sitting in their dirty clothes‚ holding up a cardboard sign reading‚ “Need Help.” This shook me up immensely time. Just by looking into each set of eyes‚ surrounded by the grand city of New York‚ I now realize the importance

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    Gangs of New York � PAGE �4� Analysis of _Gangs of New York_ HUM/150: Introduction to Film Studies Workshop 5 Word Count: 2083 Analysis of _Gangs of New York_ In 2002‚ Martin Scorsese teamed up with Miramax Films to direct _Gangs of New York‚_ a film he had dreamed of making since the 1970s. With a $97 million budget‚ the film was a box-office flop‚ grossing only $190 million worldwide. Nevertheless‚ _Gangs of New York_ earned 10 Academy Award nominations‚ and won two Golden Globe Awards for

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    I. Introduction The Rockaway peninsula is part of Queens‚ New York City. The communities there‚ referred to as the Rockaways‚ border the water‚ with long stretches of picturesque beaches. The name "Rockaway" (phonetically spelled) means "place of sands" in the Munsee language of the Native American Lenape people‚ who once inhabited the area. After the Dutch West Indian Company bought the land‚ many of the indigenous groups were forced to move and were replaced by European settlers. In the 19th

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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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    eye-widening now that it has been modified. Now‚ bullying is no longer confined to the physical world‚ but also in cyberspace. Bullying has evolved into a state where it can be performed through emails‚ text‚ and social networks.Thus germinating a new word; CYBERBULLYING. Cyberbullying is even more threatening because anyone could a victim of cyberbullying regardless of age‚ gender‚ or sexuality. And also because most cyberbullying cases aren’t reported. This research paper would focus on cyberbullying

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    Assignment title: To what extent did the New York School poets bring a fresh sense of life to poetry? Close analysis of the poems written by Frank O’Hara‚ John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch‚ has lead me to believe that they bring a fresh sense of life in the poetry they write with the help of many factors ranging from the way they structure their poems‚ which is in the free form. To contextual and social references through the arts and the city. Effectively‚ almost embodying life in their poems‚ I believe

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    American Revolution. In one of the more significant cases New York publisher John Peter Zenger was accused and brought to trial on charges of libel. In 1734 the German immigrant published an article "attacking" Governor Cosby of the New York Colony. His case was won and the trial aquitted. This case showed the oppsite side of the spectrum‚ on how to fight against defamatory charges. Another important case occurred in 1964 in New York Times v. Sullivan. This case set a

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    References: Editorial: The wrong Attorney General [Editorial]. (2005‚ January 26). The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/sgst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE7DE163BF935A15752C0A9639C8B63 English‚ D

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    building approach (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. 4. Brochure with corporate author. BestTemp Staffing Services. (1997). An employer’s guide to staffing services (2nd ed.) [Brochure]. Denver: Author. Note: when the author and publisher are identical‚ use the word “Author” as the name of the publisher. 5. Brochure with a writer. Lawrence‚ K. S. (1993). Guidelines for reporting and writing about people with disabilities (4th ed.) [Brochure]. New York: Research and Training Center

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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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