Originality at its Finest If you want a quiet‚ humdrum‚ or mundane life‚ then New Orleans is not the place to be. With all of its quirky qualities‚ New Orleans is anything but ordinary. Between all the food‚ festivals‚ music and art‚ one will always be entertained in this city. The food is entertaining enough to keep people coming back. New Orleans is one of the only cities I’ve known where‚ when one goes out to eat‚ they discuss all the other places that they’ve tried around the city. The people
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Gangs of New York: Who’s A True American? “You can hire half the poor to kill the other half.” Boss Tweed spoke these words in reference to the Draft Riots. It shows that you can easily turn the poor against each other‚ if you bring money into the situation. Gangs of New York is about the separation of the Irish and the Natives‚ which eventually led into larger conflicts. In this film there are two important characters‚ Amsterdam Vallon and Boyle McGloin‚ who were both Irishmen in the Five Points
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COMPANY NAME/WEBSITE/INDUSTRY Company: FreshDirect Website: http://www.freshdirect.com Industry: Online Grocery BACKGROUND/HISTORY FreshDirect was founded in 1999 but fully operational in 2001. The company is a New York based and in the online grocery business. All of their customers shop online for their groceries that are delivered to their homes or place of business the next day. FreshDirect offers fresh produce‚ meat and seafood‚ shelf stable items and even prepared meals (www.freshdirect
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New London. A place of opportunity. A place for the future. A place of fierce oppression. I grew up just like every other child in New London. We’re raised by parents that were raised just as us. We’re given predetermined jobs. Twenty thousand dollars is then given to the children when they reach seventeen as birth money. From there‚ they do their job. They’re given a wife at age thirty. And the circuit is repeated. Just as it has been for the last seven hundred years. Complete stability. Nothing
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is mine. When your young and naive the possiblities to screw up are endless‚ mine started as soon as I left home. I was testing my own judgment and left everything i knew for a scholarship in New York. I wanted to live outside of the boundires i grew up in‚ what better place then New York. The only thing from questioning my future were my three best friends. They were the only people i could call my family. My original family was what you call‚ disasterous. My parents had divorced when i
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The New York Kouros The New York Kouros is one of the earliest examples of a Greek free standing statue that still stands strong today. The inspiration for these life-like statues came from the Egyptians. When we look back at when Greek statues started to come about‚ we notice that it is about the same time that the Egyptians started to let foreigners past their borders for trade and other matters. We notice that‚ at first‚ they used the same technique and proportions used for Egyptian works.
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in New York” by Claude McKay In a three-stanza poem “The Tropics in New York”‚ by Claude McKay presents the feeling of sadness and homesickness of a man who has been living in New York. In the first stanza‚ the author invites us to imagine the tropic in New York. After that‚ in the second stanza he brings us to the man’s old memory. Some techniques the author uses persuade readers to be aware of the man’s nostalgia in the third stanza. The abundant images of fruits that the man sees in New York
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New York is one of the United States most known cites. It is also known for it’s sights and attractions. New York has always been my second home since my first home (New Orleans) was struck by a natural disaster. Before I moved back to New Orleans I gained friendships and built on them. Ever since 2008 I’ve been vacationing in New York for at least one month in each summer. It’s something about that 2009 vacation I will never forget. It was overall fun and I had a blast. My 2009 vacation to New York
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Air Pollution in New York The people of New York have the right to enjoy an environment that is conducive to the full development of individuals as human beings. This is an environment that is not only free from obvious threats of physical harm such as crimes but also from concealed threats that have long term effects on human health and functioning such as air pollution. Unfortunately‚ despite the efforts of the New York City government to improve ambient air quality in New York through pollutant
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knew I had to dress warm because it would be cool out there. Our flight left at 6:00pm and it was only 2:00. I told myself " Anais you need to slow down and take your time"‚ but I just couldn’t‚ to think of the possibilities of this trip and all the new experiences excited me. I continued to get dressed and blow-dry my hair. Time was not on my side today. It was taking forever. Finally Shady and Junior got to my house to pick me up and take Shady and me to the airport. It was only 4 o’clock and I knew
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