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1. There are many different reasons why individuals might join a gang. According to organized crime, we all have what is called cognitive R.A.M. or random access memory. It is the ability to process information just like a computer. Therefore, everyone is programmed differently and has different ways to process information in this world. Furthermore, how we process information is mainly determined how we were raised. Those particular individuals who are raised around gangs such as the Mafia…

The Civil War is the single most important event in America's historical entity. While the Revolutionary War created the United States, the Civil War of 1861 determined what kind of nation it would be. One author in particular is credited to have written one of the most influential works that changed America. Living during the sensitive time of the reformation of the country after the Civil War, Stephen Crane published The Red Badge of Courage in order to expose people to a different perspective…

The New Museum is located in the Lower East Side on Bowery and opened its doors in 2007 after expanding and relocating from its previous home in SoHo. Likewise, the Whitney by Renzo Piano Workshop was the result of a need of expansion that saw the museum vacate its old largely residential neighborhood in…

successfully used today - Seinfeld, being a perfect example. A distant relative, Edward “Farfariello” Migliaccio, played the caffé concerto, the jook joints of the Italian circuit which had several venues around Little Italy, New York and especially on Bowery Ave. His acts played with the tradition of the typical Italian-immigrant dilemma: identity crisis, communication issues, mannerisms, stereotyping. His work was so beloved for its endeavours of unifying Italians and Americans, King Victor…

Towards the end of the 1860s, the period of American Romanticism—in which westward expansion was glamorized and the “American” identity was beginning to take shape— was coming to an end. The promise of prosperity from manifest destiny and the arts movement born from American Romanticism, that embraced nature, individualism and sentimentalism, was beginning to be overshadowed by the rise of realism during the Gilded age. The Gilded Age at the end of the 20th century was a time of booming…

be seemingly not the best idea to be traveling on the Downtown Eastside alone nor in the car with your windows a tenth way down. I sat at my desk for the rest of that night and researched information about skid rows all over the globe including The Bowery in New York, Skid Row in Los Angeles and various impoverished areas in America, but little did I know these areas had been problematic for the past few decades and there were limited options left for the homeless people. A part of me was filled…

In August of 1861, President Lincoln signed the 1st Confiscation Act formalizing to some degree Butler’s contraband argument by authorizing the United States army to seize any slave used to aid the Confederate military. This however did not resolve the ambiguity of the status of the majority of enslaved people who now numbered in the thousands in and around Union army camps. The decision as to whether these people were free, property of the army, or to be returned to their masters was…

trend in New York tenements he does this by providing the story in which includes fights , abuse and a lot male dominance. In Maggie: A Girl of The Streets starts of by including a scene in where Maggies brother Jimmie is involved in a street fight in Bowery neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side. Right from the beginning we are introduced with some sort of violence going on . From this we would infer that wouldn’t be the last time we would be hearing from that . In this short story Maggie…

we read about are more exciting or extraordinary then our own. But in the case of Stephen Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, the life we are being shown is less than extraordinary. He brings us into the grim, merciless world of New York City’s Bowery neighborhood in the late 19th century. Although it is a disheartening view of society, the perspective that Crane provides is beneficial in a different way. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets serves as a reminder that romanticizing such a flawed…

he was a gorgeous model appeared in the television series How I Met Your Mother from which she gained a lot of popularity. She also signed a contract with Chic Management’s Sydney Division. After shifting to New York Miranda where she co-owned a Bowery Ballroom and signed with NEXT Model Management and then appeared in a lot of fashion shows. She did advertising campaigns with various brands and magazines like Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Levi's, Trelise Cooper and so on. She also appeared in various…