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    Apollo Theater In Harlem

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    the Apollo merged itself with the African-American Culture in Harlem. Gave people the chance to audition and show their talent. Participated on the Civil Rights Movements alongside Black Nationalist and last but not least created fundraiser for the people of Harlem. Every time Harlem is mentioned one thought that flashes through our minds is always The Apollo Theater. The Apollo Theater is located in the Capital of New York City, Harlem on 125t. At the beginning Hurting and Seaman’s New…

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    aspects of photography, painting, drama, poetry, and prose during the Harlem Renaissance. Each aesthetic person had their own purpose for their works of art. Many of them wanted to depict the beauty of Harlem as well as emphasize the importance of equality between races and classes. The Harlem artists produced many great works of art in the black community from the 1920s and beyond. There had been a few people during the Harlem Renaissance that were very well-known for their…

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    families, in order to escape social prejudices. Black Harlem is an environment that can evoke the best and the worst out of the characters. For example, the novel is set during the Harlem renaissance, when jazz music was becoming a popular thing and created an ability to seducing people like Dorcas, or making people like Alice fear. There is also the apparent economic and social disparity that African-Americans faced in a poverty-ridden city like Harlem, which has been a common theme in many of…

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    Sharon Zukin’s “Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto” explores upon the reinvention and Manhattanization of Harlem. Zukin goes in depth about how Harlem went “from a dark ghetto into a middle-class, racially integrated, cosmopolitan community” (93). She examines the factors that pushed for gentrification, the influence it had on the neighborhood’s metamorphosis, and the effects of the displacement of traditional residents and businesses through new commercial activity. Through her detailed analysis of the…

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    fulfilling National Geographic journalist Dan Buettner’s task of living to be over one hundred which he investigates in his speech “How to Live to be 100+”. In his speech, Buettner delves into what exactly extends life by looking into so called Blue Zones or “ areas where people are living to age one hundred at rates up to ten times greater than we are, areas where the life expectancy is an extra dozen years, the rate of middle age mortality is a fraction of what it is in this country”(Buettner…

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    Ebola In The Hot Zone

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    The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a non-fiction novel about the origin of Ebola and its effects on people and the outbreak of Ebola in a monkey house. Preston also goes into details about the symptoms of Ebola and the different strains of Ebola,which are Ebola Zaire, Ebola Reston, and Ebola Sudan. Preston really informs about the dangers of Ebola and what it can do to the human body and what must be done to prevent the virus from spreading around the world and causing an…

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    in favor of this system, but it became a life changing factor in our world today. Since the railroads were being constructed, which allowed a fast and resourceful way to travel great distances, the operation "required the standardization of time in zones." To begin with, citizens were not fond of the topic "time" due to many reasonings. One being that the citizens didn 't have a consent on the subject and it angered most of them. Before the Standard Time Act, people used a well-known clock…

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    Denali National Park Essay

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    these famous wolves. But recently, the wolf population in Denali National Park has been surrounded by controversy. Denali National Park along with members of the public have been fighting the Alaska Board of Game to establish a hunting free buffer zone along park boundaries in effort to maintain the wolf population that has recently began to fall.…

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    encourage outsourcing and have teams, both here in the US and outside the US. Both teams will need to work together in order to come up with a common goal. Our main goal would be efficiency and timely deliveries, as teams working in two different time zones we will need to balance out our tasks accordingly and make sure all items are delivered on time. This can be achieved by effective communication by use of communication tools like IM (instant messenger), WebEx, conference calls and also video…

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    In the Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", the neighbors on Maple Street were out performing their everyday duties when suddenly an unknown flew across the sky above. Based on rumors, the object was supposed to be some type of foreign media from out of space. After the strange object 's appearance, weird things started happening on Maple Street: several homes were without electricity, car engines would no longer start, and several other unusual activities were observed.…

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