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    New York City and its immigrants are the central topic in Garnette Cadogan's essay "How to Walk Around the World Without Leaving New York". Immigrants consist of Native Americans, Refugees, and Tourists who choose to build a life in the Big Apple. Diversity, adventure, and sense of home are just a few of the many offerings that the city provides its inhabitants. Improving my claim, I selected several examples from Garnette Cadogan's essay. Diversity is the mixture of races and religions that make

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    New York City in the 1950’s New York is made up of five different boroughs. Staten Island, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn. The overall population was 7,891,957 and didn’t change much over the next decade. The population was very diverse and consisted of large percentage of immigrants. A large part of the American Music Industry was headquartered in New York City. Some of the labels that called New York City home were Columbia, RCA and Decca. Peer Southern, as well as Hill and Range

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    New York City is just like every other major city in the United States. New York City crime rate is the main reason why people are moving out of the city that they call home. American’s believe that a civil decent society is a place where they can receive an education, and have access to things in life such a life, liberty and freedom. According to United States of America (1994), Public spaces are among New York City’s greatest assets. The city’s parks, playgrounds, streets, avenues, stoops and

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    art in neighbourhoods in New York City) once said: “Through culture, new ideas are generated, diverse perspectives are unearthed, bridges are built between them, and civilization moves forward.” I think he couldn’t be more right. Cultural diversity If you ever visit both New York State and New York City, you will notice a huge difference in the people’s behaviour. The culture in the city is much different than the rest of the state. Some have an idea of a stereotype New Yorker: loud, snobbish and

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    New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement

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    crowded city. This city is like none I’ve ever been in, I had been in Miami, Atlanta, and Charlotte but those cities were nothing like the city I was about to visit. In October of 2016 my older brother ran into a medical problem causing us to have to visit a doctor that was located hundreds of miles away. From then on we had to travel to Teaneck, NJ, but minutes away from that town was the largest city in the United States which was New York City. I had seen movies, television shows, and news about

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    Looking around, I had seen diversity like I’d never seen before. I was in another world. Even though New York City can be a dangerous place, I felt comfortable there. My view of Kansas is now forever changed. On that trip, I found out what I wanted to do during my adult life. My back was sore from waiting in the stiff airport chair. I sat there staring at all the travelers moseying their way to a seat or hurrying to their gate. Just a few hours ago, I was at school, eating lunch with my fifth

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    I have always been fascinated by city life such as New York City. I believe it to be the world’s most beautiful city I have ever seen. The crowd and lights filled in cities amazes me. Whenever I feel like I need to spend some alone time with myself I would go to New York City. Some people call it as “city of dreams” whereas some call it “city that never sleeps”. Both these quotes are very true. Most people come here to fulfill their dreams. New York City is also known as the “Capital of World” because

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    THE NEW YORK TRIALS Since the very beginning of New York City there has been major manufacturing, which comes a lot of trial and error. The many accidents have led to improvements for the future, but have caused pain to many people. Most of the accidents were problems that now barely happen anymore because of safety precautions set in place. The many accidents were even very recurrent in the form of man made disasters or even natural disasters. One main cause for the disasters in New York City was

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    residents in luxury apartments and cultural restaurants, this city is one that never will be boring. Scotty describes the city as “like a gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me” (99). While people get to see is the beauty of the city, but they don’t see is the other side of the coin. With this luxurious city comes an absurd amount of wastefulness. Scotty is able to see this as he looks out Bennie’s office window. “I looked down at the city. Its extravagance felt wasteful, like gushing oil or some

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