NEW YORK CITY New York is probably one of the most interesting cities in the world. It has something to offer to everybody. If you are looking for culture you make the right choice visiting one of the hundreds great museums in the city. If you want night-life: you are probably right in one o...

Immigration is an event that has been occurring in New York since the 1624 when the Dutch West India Company assembled thirty families from Holland to established a settlement that became known as New Netherland. Many immigrants came to our nation looking for opportunities that their country could n...

Throughout its history, the United States of America has had its fair share of terrorism and radical demonstrations. Terrorism is a fact of life that we would all wish would go away but can\'t. Mental and physical scars pinpoint the heartbreak and sorrow of a once free and safe nation. In the area o...

\"America was born in the streets,\" reads the cover of the Gangs of New York DVD. This \"historical\" film was undoubtedly one of the most popular films of 2003. To cast Cameron Diaz, and Leonardo DiCaprio together in a ten-time Academy Award nominated film, Martin Scorsese must get credit for bein...

Immigration, racial tension, and violence are something that is experienced today and back in the 1860's. In the movie "Gangs of New York", it portrays the same way the immigrants were treated in the 1860's as well as today. In the movie the racial tension and violence was toward...

New York City is home to many problems, not only the recent attack of the World Trade center, or the city-wide blackout. For starters, New-Yorkers are subject to great amounts of pollution caused mostly by the large number of vehicles present in the city. The skies above New York are darkened ...

If you want it you can find it in New York City from the hustle and bustle of Time Square to the serenity of a quiet park bench in Central Park you can do anything you want to in New York. Within walking distance, you can find a zoo, an aquarium, numerous museums, the fashion district...

Higher academic standards have moved to the forefront of education reform in the United States. In New York State, the Board Of Regents has approved 29 learning standards, adopted an "all Regents' exam" curriculum, and is considering more rigorous state assessments and graduation...

Civil rights advocates in the city note, however, that there has been a cost to the new strategy, revealed by steady citizen complaints against more aggressive NYPD officers during the past several years and continuing impunity for many officers who commit human rights violations despite the recent ...

New York State was named after the English Duke of York who later became King James II of England, The nickname "Empire State" came from George Washington, who boldly claimed New York would become the seat of a new empire. New York is located in the northeastern part of the United States...

Growth of NYS Business For a number of reasons, business enterprise in New York grew by leaps and bounds between 1825 and 1860. New York's growth between the years 1825 and 1860 can be attributed to a number of factors. These include but cannot be limited to the construction of ...

Following the successful assassination of Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich, a devastating revenge was taken on the town of Lidice, where suspected assassins supposedly received "aid and assistance through circles connected with the attack on Heydrich." (NY Times, June 1, pg. 7) Th...

Growth of NYS Business May 8, 2000 For a number of reasons, business enterprise in New York grew by leaps and bounds between 1825 and 1860. New York's growth between the years 1825 and 1860 can be attributed to a number of factors. These include but cannot be limited to the construction of the...

In Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes the reasons for which Angela and her future husband left Ireland for New York were simple. Angela was sent to New York by her mother because she said Angela was worthless and there was plenty of room in America for useless people. As for Malachy, Angela&ap...

English Descriptive EssaySeptember 23, 2002New York City is the place that I want to visit, revisit, and visit again. Out there on the streets, I feel free. When coming from New Jersey to New York City on the New Jersey Transit tTrain, which is grimy but comfortable, it is an experience unlike I h...

Ballet is a classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and elaborate formal technique, often, but not always, performed on point by female dancers. Lincoln Kirstein, a very wealthy man, founded the New York City Ballet in 1933 as the American Ballet. He imported George Bal...

In American cities today, community does not appear to be an important aspect of everyday life. As society has changed, so too has the emphasis that we put upon the sense of community and interaction. In today\'s Manhattan, there is a preconception that the city cannot provide a community for its in...

John Roebling designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge as a luxury to the New York people at that time period. When the river froze over one winter day in Manhattan the people walked across the river to Brooklyn, and the people noticed how great it could be if they could have a bridge connecting the ...

The Boston Redsox, a major league baseball team, have not won a World Series title in 52 years. The cause of this long drought of losing seasons is debatable according to fans and sportswriters. The 2003 major league baseball season was the last attempt by the team to make it to the big game. The...

Title: Fell, Barry. America B.C.: European Settlers in the New World. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976.Author: Howard Barraclough Fell (1917-1994). Fell is an accomplished marine biologist from Harvard, also became the professor of comparative zoology at Harvard. An interest in lan...

Loyalist or Patriot?January 19, 1776Dear Journal,Life in Hackensack, New Jersey is really getting crazy. The British have occupied New York, and my family and I are very nervous to have the enemy controlling an area so close to where we live. Mostly all of our neighbors are Loyalists, so the few o...

The New Deal (Yes)The New Deal was a plan that took action in the 1930's to counteract the crisis of the depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected during this time and brought ideas that he had while serving as the governor of New York. The biggest achievements of the New Deal were the unemplo...

Commercial architecture from 1910-1920 was very different from buildings today. Thanks to the advances in technology, bigger and better commercial buildings are able to be constructed. Many companies built offices or factories during the period of 1910-1920, and many still exist today. These buildin...

Everyday millions of tons of trash gets dumped into America's landfills. But soon those landfills will be full and we won't have anywhere to store our waste. Even our very own, Fresh Kills landfill has been closed. Now NYC garbage is shipped upstate New York and other states like Ohio and...

MEN VERSUS WOMEN IN "SAMUEL"New York is known for having a subway system. Many people travel on the subways because it is impossible to find parking and because the enormous amount of traffic in New York. Many people rely on the subway systems to get them to work, school, and places they may want ...