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Film Ghostbusters
709 wordsI Ain't Afraid of no Ghost! The true test of a film's greatness is time. The 1984 science-fiction / comedy classic, Ghostbusters, has stood the test of time, producing both a sequel (in 1989) and a hit cartoon series. Ghostbusters is the story of three offbeat scientists interested in paranormal matters: Peter Venkman (played by Bill Murray), Raymond Stand (played by Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (played by Harold Ramis), who have just lost their university grant, and are suddenly forced out o...
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New Deal Economic And Social Reform Program
652 wordsFranklin Roosevelt was 32nd president of the US 1933-45, a Democrat. He served as governor of New York 1929-33. Becoming president during the Great Depression, he launched the New Deal economic and social reform program, which made him popular with the people. After the outbreak of World War II he introduced lend-lease for the supply of war materials and services to the Allies and drew up the Atlantic Charter of solidarity. Once the US had entered the war 1941, he spent much time in meetings wit...
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Cultural Diversity And Language
841 wordsIntroduction To awaken from the dream means recognizing the illusory nature of this constricted self concept and perception of the body and mind, not as a means as of gasping at the ephemeral pleasures of the world or as a prison enclosing the self, but as an instrument for learning and communicating in various languages. Before the Move Two months before moving to New York, my friend William, thought he would be kind enough to warn me about the vast culture of the, "Big Apple". William begins b...
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Artistic Treatment In Photography
954 wordsCapturing images on film has fascinated the human spirit for centuries In the 16th century artists and scientists used light passing through a small hole in a dark room to project inverted images on the opposite wall. Later the hole was replaced with a lens and by the 18th century a portable box had replaced the room. In 1727, it was discovered that certain chemicals turned dark when exposed to light. The first attempt to use these chemicals to record the image of a camera was made by Thomas Wed...
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New York Through The 1920's
797 wordsNews and Politics In the 1920's The five years (1920-1925) chosen are exciting. There were presidents elected, one dying in office, baseball was still the national pastime, a major political scandal, and there were new inventions everywhere! Although all of the events can be listed in chronological order and described as news, the 1920's had many exciting firsts. In telling about them, it seems to be better not to put them in any order. That makes them more interesting. That makes it easier to d...
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State University Of New York Maritime College
823 wordsHistory of Throgs Neck and Maritime College". In September 1642, John Throgmorton, with 35 families applied to the Dutch authorities in New Amsterdam for permission to settle in. Permission was granted in October 1642, and the colonists settled on the long neck lying south of what is Eastchester Bay today and named it Throgmorton's Neck after their leader. By the time of the American Revolution, the name had been contracted to Throgg's Neck. Throgmorton and his colony thrived for short time, for...
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New Yorkers For Civil Justice Reform
1,810 wordsTort Reform: New York: Shutting Off the Money Faucet Open-Minded Friends A tort is wrongful interference against a person or property, other than breaches of contract, for which the courts can rectify through legal action. The reform effort is aimed at reducing the number of unnecessary lawsuits that burden the court system while still allowing injured parties compensation when they " ve been wronged. This latest effort at tort reform has given rise to the same spirited rhetoric that might be fo...
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Gangs Of The Five Points
1,211 wordsThe movie begins in New York, in 1843, with a gang fight. Bill "the butcher" Cutting's gang of "nativists" have challenged the "dead rabbits" (a gang of mostly Irish immigrants) to a fight to settle once and for all who is the most powerful gang in the area. After an intense battle the "nativists" win by killing the leader of the "dead rabbits", also Amsterdam's (the main character's) father. Amsterdam is then led into an orphanage where he grows to be a man, all while Bill Cutting runs the Five...
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Date Her Products Estee Lauder
437 wordsEstee Lauder was a successful cosmetic designer that has been around for a long time till her disappointing death in April 24 of 2004. She is one of the women most looked up to, because of her famous cosmetic line that estimates to about 2 billion dollars from world wide sales and 5.4 if you add her other cosmetic brands and stores, like MAC. To get her to this fortune she put her heart and devotion into it. Estee Lauder was a daughter of two immigrants, a French catholic mother and a Jewish fat...
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New York Exhibition Of His Watercolors
1,088 wordsEDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS ('Estlin') is born October 14 in family residence 104 Irving Street, Cambridge, Mass., the son of EDWARD and REBECCA CLARKE CUMMINGS. His energetic, versatile, and highly articulate father teaches sociology and political science at Harvard in the 1890's and in 1900 is ordained minister of the South Congregational Church, Unitarian, in Boston. The Irving Street household will include at various times Grandmother Cummings, MISS JANE CUMMINGS ('Aunt Jane'), EEC's maternal unc...
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Rest Of His Life Mathew B Brady
1,003 wordsMathew B. Brady (1823-1896) Mathew Brady was an early photographer most famous for his work during the Civil War. He spent his whole life savings to train and equip a group of men for his expedition. He was granted special permission to follow around the Union army from camp to camp and from battle to battle documenting all aspects of life during the war. In the end nobody wanted Brady's pictures. The debts brought on by his project would plague him for the rest of his life. (W.J. G, 585) Mathew...
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New Madison Square Garden
2,021 wordsOld Madison Square Garden: Fond Recollections of a True Landmark From the world cup of soccer to the superbowl, people all throughout the world have dreams of being sport stars or even just meeting their favorite athlete. It is in some peoples mind, the ideal american dream. In a time known as the roaring twenties, people throughout New York were working toward the american dream. This dream included a more splendid lifestyle that allowed for freedom and fun. In the middle of the Manhattan bu ro...
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Late Mrs Dorothy Parker
2,037 wordsPatti Smith Born in Chicago and raised in Woodbury, New Jersey, just across the state line from Philadelphia, Patti's mother, Beverly, was a jazz singer cum waitress. Her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant; she was the oldest of four siblings: her sisters Linda and Kimberly (the latter plays mandolin on Gone Again's "Ravens", ), and brother Todd. Unable to find her place in high school society, she took refuge in the images of Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, James Brown, and the Rolling Stones. Dr...
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Several Times From Provincetown To New York
2,518 wordsEugene O'neill Through poverty and fame, "An artist or nothing" (Miller p 6), was the motto of a man named Eugene O'Neill, who wrote from his soul in an attempt to find salvation. In the year 1888, the Barrett House hotel in Time Square, New York saw the birth of a man who would be called the greatest American playwright. His father James, was an actor, and was famous across the United Sates for his role in the popular play Monte Cristo. Eugene's mother was a beautiful woman named Ellen who was ...
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Captain Stormfield Clara Clemens
598 wordsSamuel Clemens 1861 In Hannibal, forms the voluntary militia group Marion Rangers with 14 young men; after two weeks of training, the unit disbands. Clemens goes to Nevada with his brother Orion, who is appointed secretary of a new territory. Clemens clerks for the Nevada Territorial Legislature. 1862 Works for Virginia City Territorial Enterprise 1863 Lives in Virginia City; adopts pen name Mark Twain. 1864 Moves to San Francisco; works for San Francisco Call 1865 Mines at Angel's Camp, Califor...
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Stieglitz The Chemistry Of Photography
2,483 wordsAccording to John Gould Fletcher, Alfred Stieglitz was a "philosopher, guide, teacher, discoverer of genius, inspirer of the machine age, prophet and Messiah. (Block 764) It would be difficult to argue Fletcher's statement because it was Stieglitz who provided the essential example of the mean by which the artist could reach out to a new and more accurate mode of representing the world of experience. Stieglitz knew that many hardly even considered photography an art and was determined to prove o...
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My Fair Lady's Opening Night
403 wordsOur Dame Julie Andrews hasn't always been Mary Poppins or Fraulein Maria. She started out on Broadway playing the role of Polly Brown in The Boyfriend. Her second show was My Fair Lady, where she left her mark and made Audrey Hepburn look like a whiny school girl. Camelot was her last show. That was all before Walt Disney discovered her and turned her into our favorite magical nanny. Before Robert Wise made her our fearless governess. Julie was only 19 when she moved from her hometown of Walton-...
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Katie
482 wordsWhen I booked my flight to New York, I thought that I couldn't get enough time off to stay longer than 4 days. Now it looks like I can stay maybe 8 or 9 days. I New York. So many wonderful people have contacted me through xanga and I want to meet all of you. Almost all girls mind you, and 4 days is just too short! I don't want to bug the friend I'm staying with who " ll probably have midterms at the time I'm visiting... and she's a first year law student. I have another friend who lives in Astor...
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Meyer Lansky And Bugsy Siegel
1,638 words(Corruption and Murder in the 1920's: The story of Bugsy Siegel) Thesis Statement: Born within the streets of Brooklyn to poor immigrants parents, Benjamin Siegelbaum would steal and kill his way into history as one of the most notorious members of organized crime. In which he and gang member and friend Meyer Lansky terrorized people throughout the city of New York. With their racketeering and thefts they made the city of New York a dangerous place to live in the 1920's. One of five children, Be...
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Florida And New York
861 wordsHave you ever stopped and wondered how different the United States really is? When I was growing up, it never really crossed my mind until a few days after my Sixteenth birthday. It was then that I discovered I was moving fifteen hundred miles from South Florida to a small town called Port Jervis in New York. Immediately, I realized how different the weather, people, and landscape was in this new environment compared to the place I had always called home. The first major difference I noticed was...
