The first thing to take into account is the actual number of arrests using the given statistics. This means that in 2002 there were 11‚446 arrests compared to 20‚330 arrests made in 2008. During this time the total population only grew by about 300‚000 citizens or about 1.5%. The increase of arrests was definitely due to policy change‚ as is illustrated when comparing population growth numbers by the increase in people actually stopped and those arrested. Current law allows police officers to
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In April of 2007 an African American man studying to be a doctor‚ is stopped and frisked by three New York City Police Officers. The man‚ 33 year old David Floyd said he was not doing anything suspicious. This is the now famous case of Floyd v City of New York which challenged stop and frisks as discriminatory and unconstitutional. The judge ruled stop and frisk cases like Floyd vs New York are discriminatory and police tactics like this must be reformed. Because not only are people being treated
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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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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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Why I Live in New York: Personal Indulgences No. 13 April 1‚ 2009 by Tobi Tobias 26 Comments Why I live in New York. New York City‚ that is. Manhattan‚ to be exact. Dirty. Dangerous. Expensive (so much so today that people who once thought of themselves as middle class now fear they’re only a few ladder-rungs above the have-nots. And the number of have-nots is heart-rending. But still . . . I was born and raised in Brooklyn‚ in a neighborhood and time suited only to people with a deep tolerance–or
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Growing up I spent a lot of time going to New York City‚ to spend time with my mom’s side of the family. I enjoy the city‚ I’ve always called it my home away from home. I have always known since I was a little kid I wanted to live in the city. During the summer‚ I learned that New York City is the right place I want to fulfill my education and go to college as well as pursue my career in. The summer of 2017 my cousin from Fargo‚ North Dakota visited for 2 weeks. She was 19 at the time and I was
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Saint Joseph There is no certain date when Saint Joseph was born‚ but he was said to be born around 100 BC. Saint Joseph is one of the three people in the Holy Family‚ also including Mary and Jesus. Saint Joseph was the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus. Although he was a humble person‚ Joseph came from a royal lineage. His genealogy marks him as a descendant of David. Saint Matthew said that Joseph was the son of Jacob‚ but Saint Luke said he was the son of Heli. He was a carpenter
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The New York Draft Riots of 1863 In the summer of 1863 New York experienced one of the most violent protests in the American history. The riots were mainly in reaction to the Union draft for the Civil War‚ which Abraham Lincoln enacted when volunteers began to run out. The riots lasted for five days‚ and the mob consisted of almost 50‚000 angry men who opposed to the Civil War‚ draft and Emancipation Proclamation. This paper will discuss how the Irish immigrants in New York affected the draft
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phraseological word combinations…………………………….… ІІ. FUNCTIONING OF PHRASEOLOGICAL WORD COMBINATIONS IN THE NEWSPAPER NEW YORK TIMES……………………………………………………...……... 2.1. Origin of the newspaper…………………………………………………….………….. 2.2. Brief history of the newspaper New York Times and Egemendi Kazakhstan………………………………………….……………………………………………….… 2.3. Functioning of phraseological word combinations in the newspaper New York Times and Egemendi Kazakhstan CONCLUSION…………………………………………………….…………………….…... REFERENCES............……………………………………………………
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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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