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Jenna Biersch Mr. McDermott AP English 08/06/14 The Strength in What Remains Chapter One: The novel begins with introducing the character Deo who is from Burundi, which is located underneath Rwanda. The chapter begins with Deo travelling to New York in hopes of a new safe life in American. Jean, one of Deo’s wealthy friends, helps him escape the horrors of Bujumbura by paying for his plane ticket. Deo comes to America with two hundred and completely lost. He has never travelled on a plane and…

Alcohol Addiction in New York What is alcohol addiction? Alcohol addiction is a chronic disease caused by long term, habitual alcohol consumption. The disease of alcohol addiction is widely known by varied common terms such as alcoholism, alcohol dependence syndrome, and alcohol use disorder. This disease has several distinguishing characterizations that determine a positive diagnosis. Accepted medical conclusions of a positive diagnosis is made if two or more of the following signs are…

Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) is a ubiquitous computing revolution that refers to the use of sensors, actuators, and data communications technology built into physical objects—from roadways to pacemakers—that enable those objects to be tracked, coordinated, or controlled across a data network or the Internet. In the past 5 years, there has been 300% increase in connected machine-to-machine devices. A number of closely related concepts include sensor networks, Ubiquitous positioning,…

There have been many attempts to try to explain why gentrification happens; some of the theories are explained by the production-side of it, the consumption-side, and the political-economic side. Gentrification through a production lens explains the process as a consequence of the uneven investment of capital in certain land uses, its devaluation through use and disinvestment, and the opportunities for profitable reinvestment created. They explain gentrification as an economic process that is…

Skin Cream is Skin Cream Ashley Allen New York City College of Technology Abstract It is a given that we want to look and feel beautiful. Everyone wants to have that natural glow which radiates amongst others. We spend large sums of money in buying skin creams with promises of smooth and unblemished skin. Some with positive results and others not so much. Skin cream is skin cream; everyone has their favorite brand. The purpose of this advertising paper is to discuss two advertisements. One…

Futurity I was shocked for a moment after I watched the show Futurity because I didn’t expect it as a musical show. My classmates who sat next me were also confused. In order to understand what the show is about, I found a brief summary from their website: “Two people try to imagine their way out of impossible circumstances in FUTURITY – an avant-Americana musical by indie band The Lisps. Julian is a Civil War soldier dreaming of a technological utopia. Ada is a mathematical genius thousands…

living the dream and no one knew about it. He was the master of disguise, fooled everyone under his nose, and felt accomplished by it. In his letter, he is saying that he knew what Hyde was and he still drank the potion. When he wakes up as Hyde in the Soho apartment, he is excited for a while and enjoys the moment thoroughly before…

Candice gray 4 April 2016 The exploration of hybrid cultures within textiles I will be exploring hybrid cultures within fashion and textiles, by looking at traditional African textiles though their techniques, patterns and colours, of their fabrics and further exploring how fashion and textile designers contemporarise these traditional textiles in to modern and exciting textile pieces. Traditionally, textiles from Africa have originated for thousands of years, and were used used to show…

Chasing Madoff Chasing Madoff is a 2011 documentary film by Jeff Prosserman, based on the 2010 memoir No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller written by the film’s arguable protagonist Harry Markopolos. Chasing Madoff examines Markopolos and his cohorts pursuit of now infamous ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. Madoff robbed tens of thousands of people, of tens of billions of dollars. Investigative journalists from several large publications were sought out and tried to bring forward expose…

“Welcome to New York,” was all it took for me to wake me from my four hour and a half nap. I readjusted in my seat to look out the large window that my head had just been resting only to observe grimy white subway tiles and cracked gray concrete. Quickly, I realized that we were driving through the Lincoln Tunnel that connects New Jersey to New York City. The small, hazy, yellow lights that filled the tunnel bounced off the red velour bus seats, creating strange patterns; I held my breathe,…