Weaver English 101 Mr. Roper “The Art of the City” It was six o’clock in the morning‚ I lay there eyes wide open like a toddler on Christmas morning. Excitement flowing through my veins. I could hear the bustling movement of morning rush-hour‚ I could no longer wait for the others. I open the blinds to an inspiring view of the one of the most powerful buildings in the city‚ The Empire State building. Finally‚ the beautiful city of New York lay at my fingertips. I had waited my whole childhood
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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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Alex Bauer Informative Presentation Outline Topic: New York City General Speech Goal: To Inform Specific Speech Goal: I want my audience to recognize what makes New York City the city that never sleeps. Introduction I. Attention Getter: I want all of you today to imagine yourselves walking down a street‚ but this is no ordinary street. You feel like you’re a mouse in a maze‚ the skyscrapers are keeping you trapped within the city‚ thousands of people walking in different directions‚
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10/5/11 Chapter 1: The first chapter mainly talks about the condition of New York city in the 19th century‚ and what school systems were started. New York City was the leading commercial center of the new American nation. New York was mostly made up of white Protestants of Dutch or English descent. As immigrants came in‚ crime went up because immigrants were looked down upon‚ and were poor‚ so they were basically pushed into crime as there was little in the way of a job and a reasonable pay for
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2005 New York City transit strike The 2005 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU). Negotiations for a new contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) broke down over retirement‚ pension‚ and wage increases. The strike began at 3:00 a.m. EST on December 20‚ 2005. Most New York City Transit Authority personnel observed the strike‚ effectively halting all service on the subway and buses. Millions of commuters
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Support Children and Young People’s Health and Safety Outcome 1 1) When planning for young people you need to take several factors into account to make sure the environment and services are safe. The first factor is the individual needs‚ ages and abilities of the children and young people. This requires you to work out staff to children ratio’s to make sure there is legally enough staff for the number of children present and to ensure all children will have supervision. Ratio numbers will
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NEW YORK CITY There is a huge difference between a city in the Mid-West‚ such as Columbus in the state of Ohio‚ and east coast landmark‚ such as New York City. Each city has its stereotype‚ something everyone can say. For instance‚ New York equals skyscrapers and lots of people. Whereas when you say Columbus‚ people tend to think of average size city‚ rather quiet for it?s size. Lets take a closer look. Majority of people have a very set feeling about New York: they love it or they hate it. Some
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artwork I picked was the painting “Frozen Assets” (1931-32) made by Diego Rivera. The Art Historian Ph.D. Greta Berman published on the Juilliard Journal in February 2012: “To me‚ the strongest and most uncannily apropos today painting of the New York City works is Frozen Assets (1931-32)‚ which combines
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New York City Draft Riots of 1863 In September of 1862‚ President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. This was to take effect on January 1‚ 1863; this document was what freed the slaves in states that were still in rebellion with the Union. At the time the Emancipation Proclamation was not what New Yorkers wanted to see embraced. In March of 1863‚ a form of a stricter draft law was formed. The law required all male citizens between twenty and thirty-five
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Perspective on Health Care: New to Health Care HCS/212 January 28‚ 2013 Perspective on Health Care: New to Health Care "Medicinal discover‚ it moves in mighty leaps‚ it leapt straight past the common cold‚ and give it us for keeps." -Pam Ayers Since I was a little girl‚ I always have had a fascination in the dental field. I was one of those rare people‚ who throughout my life always enjoyed going to the dentist. I was enrolled in Palomar Dental School and was scheduled to start the dental
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