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    NEW YORK There are allegations of corruption against state Sen. Malcom A. Smith and New York City Council member Dan Halloran astounded the state. (huffingtonpost, 2014) New York City has a dirty side in politics with the reformers there is chance for change with the charges of bribery, wire fraud, and extortion. Larry Norden said “In some sense, we are very lucky,” deputy director of the non-partisan public policy and law institute Brennan Center for Justice. “We have an opportunity in New York…

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    In the early 1940's as stated in the New York Times, the Hudson River became contaminated with Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), that flowed from two General Electric factories that were later banned in 1977, as a health threat to people and wildlife. In high doses, they have been shown to cause cancer in animals and are listed by federal agencies as a probable human carcinogen. As New York City grew along the Hudson river, the sewage discharged increased. In 1965, NYS voters passed a Pure…

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    William Albert Allard is photographer of people. Allard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1937, and studied photography at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He started his photography career as a National Geographic photo intern in 1964. He has contributed to 42 articles in the magazine, not only as a photographer but as a writer. Allard likes to photograph people in remote locations and locations where people would never see other than through…

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    its internal secrets. This pathos appeal states his grounds and his background experience through his love to this city. Later, Whitehead states “Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” This idea is compared to the idea in the other passage of “Manhattan”, where people see what they see without questioning these details and exposing the internal view of the object. As a result, this…

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    Broadway in the musical Cabin in the Sky, and she was also on the 1943 film version. Probably her most successful dramatic role was in the stage version of Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding in 1950, a performance for which she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. She also played in the movie version in…

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    New York can be an amazing state to adopt a pet in. However, bear in mind the temperatures of different areas of the state before deciding on the animal you wish to keep as a pet. Many places enjoy mild temperatures during the spring, summer and fall months, with colder weather occurring in the winter. However, upstate New York routinely deals with chilling temperatures and vast amounts of snowfall. If you live in the city, chances are a small dog or cat would make the ideal pet. On a farm…

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    Harlem, New York, and he died on December 1, 1987 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France. When James was a young boy he served as a young minister from the age of 14 through the age of 16. After he graduated he put his college plans on hold to help support the family. He was the oldest of 9 children and grew up in poverty, developing a troubled relationship with his stepfather. Baldwin knew that if he left the pulpit he must also leave home, so at 18 he took a job working for the New Jersey railroad.…

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    For centuries man has used water as way of transportation, travel, and trade. From around the start of the 16th century people have been trying to find a way to make a canal across Central America. Many misfortunes and deaths have been sacrificed to try and make that happen. The creation of the Panama Canal by the U.S has been one of the most influential innovation since the beginning of time. The Panama Canal revolutionized and improved international travel by evolving international trade,…

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    U.S. Presidential Election Donald Trump was born in 1946, in Queens, New York city. Donald was a bright and energetic child, so his parents sent him to a military academy at the age of 13. Trump did well at the academy, both socially and academically.During the summers, Trump worked for his father's company at construction sites. Trump graduated Wharton school of finance at the university of Pennsylvania. Like his father, Trump went into real estate. Following the family business. After Donald…

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    A small town called Westford, in New York State, that’s where I resided in for eighteen years of my life. Westford is about two hours of the city. The closest grocery store is thirty minutes away, and the nearest hospital is twenty three miles. Westford is all country in every way. Animals ran wild everywhere. Some of the animals you would see are squirrels, quails, chipmunks, deer, and even bear. They were not afraid of anything, until hunting season. The trees are so tall with many colors, red…

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