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    some argue that he helped change the view of Italian Americans. Joe DiMaggio played thirteen years with the New York Yankees partly during World War II, attained nicknames from players and fans, and has several great accomplishments. First and foremost, Joe DiMaggio is one of the few players to play in the major leagues with only one team. DiMaggio spent thirteen years with the New York Yankees. In fact, during his thirteen years with the Yankees Joe and his team won ten pennant titles…

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    The Knapp Commission was started in the 1970’s after Frank Serpico in the New York City Police Department had enough of the police corruption and abuse of authority over the community. Frank Serpico is known as the whistleblower that began the investigation into police corruption in the New York Cities Police Department's so called finest. The police officers back then were doing everything that they were trained to look for in order to make an arrest. “The Knapp Commission’s report…

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    David Leestma is a 21-year-old junior at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. He graduated last 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in HVAC with no debt. David took a year off between High school and College because he was not sure what he wants to do for a career. Instead, he works at the café of Sam’s Club for $9 an hour. David got interested when he spent time with a mechanical engineer, who designed HVAC systems, so he decided to take it as his career. He has four younger siblings and…

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    Crime Perception

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    1968, the United States Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio decided that police may stop a person for questioning and frisk, without probable cause, if they have reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. The New York City Liberty Union website provides a total number of how many people were stopped from the year 2002 to 2016, while also providing a racial breakdown of how many of that total were blacks, whites, and Latinos. According to this website, in 2016…

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    For example, Tunica County illustrated one of the highest percentage of families living below the poverty level of 50.5 percent, and the highest unemployment which was 17 percent, with the exception of Humphreys and Yazoo, all selected counties in the Mississippi Delta were marked by double-digit unemployment rates and high family poverty rates, from 27.9 percent in Washington County. Regardless, of how poverty is measured deprived people that deal with the challenges of being poor are more…

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    Will Atenton Sociology

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    about Will Atenton ( David Craig) his wife Libby (Rachel Weisz) and they two daughters that lives in New York City they decided to cash in all their money and buy a big house in Connecticut. He works as a successful publisher he is never at home. He made this big decision he is going to write this book he always wanted to write. At first, they appear to be living the American dream in a county home they have first moved into. Will notices a lot of tension between the neighbors. Anne Paterson…

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    today. Owned by the Vanderbilt’s, Grand Central Terminal earned its name as a terminal because all railways end there, it's always been referred to as Grand Central station. Grand Central Terminal is not only iconic structure in the middle of New York City, but is still a working train stain to help people on their daily commute to places inside the immediate tri-state area and the east coast. Grand Central has been open and running for a little over a hundred years, the complete…

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    Housing Reform Case Study

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    movement began in New York City in the beginning of the 1800s. It was a necessary action as a result of the incidents emerging from the overcrowdings that had emerge because of the large mass of migration into America, by foreign groups. The population of immigrants in the city was growing so much that in order to provide a place to live people were being crowded up together in unsanitary and constricted spaces (Robert, p. 8). Therefore, in order to address this issue, New York City began to…

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    Patriot Team Case Study

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    The Patriot Team is working to complete packets for the 22 August boards, which could allow us to close two additional AOCs (AECP). Our Current mission posture is AMEDD Vol 375/381 (98.4%) and AOC Precision 25/79 (31.6%). In the last two weeks we have closed four additional AOCs (RA, 72B, VC 3Y HPSP; AR, 66H, 67E). Our CH mission posture is currently Vol 34/65 (52.3%) and AOC Precision 0/3 (0%). This last week our operation section has been focused on MAVNI interviews, though the efforts of the…

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    ` People deny racism even exists in the United States, but one does not have to look far to see blatant signs of racism, you just have to look to our prison system. The high rate of incarceration in the African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest…

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