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    inflects the East Village‚” she tells us; she calls it an “urban drug‚ an accessory of life lived all night‚ under artificial light‚ among indifferent crowds always in a hurry. It belongs with the all-night cafeteria‚ the after-hours club‚ the taxi‚ the tenement‚ the alley; it answers to the melancholy and feelings of displacement these spaces embody.” She notes: “Cool and dope inform each other; they share an underlying banality of blank affect.” She writes about getting “splendidly high” on “a tender snowy

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    it is something they would be good at or not. These types of people would be roaming about the greatest concentration of unskilled job areas. With the income they would accumulate a month‚ they would live in extremely crowded boarding houses and tenements. Into the middle-class individuals who were able to bring in a descent amount of income began to inhabit neighborhoods that were around the development of mills. Average workers would live in rented apartments and houses built by their employers;

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    About Nick Joaquin

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    most important overall‚ after José Rizal and Claro M. Recto. Biograph Early life and education Joaquin was born in Paco‚ Manila‚ one of ten children of Leocadio Joaquin‚ a colonel under General Emilio Aguinaldo in the 1896 Revolution‚ and Salome Marquez‚ a teacher of English and Spanish. After being read poems and stories by his mother‚ the boy Joaquin read widely in his father ’s library and at the National Library of the Philippines. By then‚ his father had become a successful lawyer after

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    Sylvia Michalak March 14‚ 2013 Theology 103 Essay 1 The Deathly Hallows is the final part to the Harry Potter franchise. Harry Potter becomes a basis for spiritual conversation‚ a process of dialogue that leads to the topic of truth that is Jesus Christ. There is a very direct parallel when it comes to the two‚ believe it or not. J.K. Rowling has given Christians a valuable resource to introduce some of the central beliefs of the Catholic faith to a generation that knows the life of Harry Potter

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    #1. A. Merode Altarpiece‚ Workshop of Robert Campin. The dimensions measure approximately twenty-five and three-eighths inches‚ by forty-six and three-eighths inches overall. The central panel measures; twenty-five and one-fourth inches‚ and each wing measures twenty-five and three-eight inches by ten and three-fourths inches. It was made in Tournai‚ South Netherlands‚ but its current location is at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The medium used in the painting is oil on oak. B

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    aunts voyage to New York‚ to start a new life in hopes for a better one‚ but ends up finding herself in reverse. Sad‚ hungry‚ tired and poor. In her diary‚ it had‚ also told about how she and her aunt were making little money‚ lived in a run-down tenement‚ worked back breaking jobs‚ and also describes their horrific voyage to the United States and on top of that‚ how they were treated differently by

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    To be considered a person in the United States you must be able to sue and be sued. The Black Codes state the same thing‚ along with a list of provisions that state “as to allow any freedman‚ free negro‚ or mulatto to rent or lease any lands or tenements except in incorporated cities or towns‚ in which places the corporate authorities shall control the same” (Black Codes). Based off what Logic says in Everybody‚ he just wants everyone to be equal‚ “Everybody talkin’ ’bout race this‚ race that‚ Wish

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    single working women experienced time and labor similar to men’s rather than married women’s. They needed to‚ as Peiss puts‚ “carve a sphere of pleasure”‚ out of daily life in the harsh conditions of the shop floor and the tenement. These young women found pleasure in dance halls‚ amusement parks‚ and movie theaters. The young women were not content with recreation at home so they went for “organized entertainment”. Dressing up nice‚ strolling the streets and staying

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    of 1‚76‚754 families lived in 710 slums under subhuman conditions Rocinha’s population was estimated at between 150‚000 and 300‚000 inhabitants in 2000s We may find that the cluster is over crowded. Most of the buildings / tenements are crowded with the people. If the slum is retreating many buildings are unsafe for habitation‚ but there can be overcrowding in the building occupied. Uninhabited spaces are occupied by undesirable occupants and use it as junkyards.

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    stumbled upon some of the immigrants that inhabited that industrialised area. She became aware of the fact that many of these individuals worked in factories and had very poor living conditions so giving them a place to gather outside of their dirty tenements was very beneficial. With the establishment of the hull house she was able to set up a child care center. Many of the mothers that had to work didn’t have anyplace to leave their children to so the Hull house was like their saving grace.

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