Essays on Brooklyn

In the following essay, I would like to compare the coverage of Harlem race riot of March 1935 presented by two newspapers – New York Age –one of the most influential African-American newspapers published from 1887 to 1955 and Brooklyn Eagle, a daily newspaper published from 1841 to 1955.
At the time of the riots, there were a lot of speculations about the exact circumstances which incited the riot. The whole incident started off with the ungrounded rumor that the 16 year old Black, Puerto Rican boy had been beaten to death due to his alleged attempt to steal candy

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Introduction

The Brooklyn Shop is needs a requirement specification document for their e-commerce website. The document will covers all aspect which will solve the problems identified. The document will focus on the key issues and should also comply with the international standards of developing e-commerce system. The requirement specification will particularly focus on functional, non-functional and other system requirements that are relevant to Brooklyn Shop business.
The document gives a detailed description of functional and non-functional requirement for Brooklyn Shop’s integrated web-based system’s which will be implemented in a forth night. This document is to act as a

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Summary of American Experience: New York Season 1, Ep. 3 "New York: Sunshine and Shadow (1865-1898)"

The third episode of the seven-part documentary about the history of New York, takes the viewer to the second part of the 19th century, a period rich in radical changes that affected the lives of its ever-growing population. The documentary starts right after the end of the American Civil War and ends two years before the beginning of the 20th century. It follows a chronological approach, beginning from the events of 1865 and moving towards narrating the major events and the lives of important personalities that shaped the city’s history.
The documentary begins by telling the story of

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The Graph below represents a map of Manhattan and four surrounding land masses with bridges and tunnels connecting to Manhattan.

Key
NJ- New Jersey LT-Lincoln Tunnel
M-Manhattan BBT- Brooklyn Battery tunnel
BR- Brooklyn BB- Brooklyn Bridge
B- Bronx WB-Williamsburgh Bridge
Q-Queens QMT-Queens Midtown Tunnel
QB-Queensbrough Bridge WAB-Willis Avenue Bridge
TB-Triborough Bridge TAB- Third Avenue Bridge
GW- George Washington Bridge HT-Holland Tunnel
- The degree of a vertex implies the number of edges joined to that vertex.

The degrees of vertices in the Graph above are as follows are:

- Vertex M is of degree 13
- Vertex B is of degree 4
- Vertex Br is of degree 4
- Vertex Q is of degree 4
- Vertex NJ is of degree 3
- The Graph an Euler Path and no

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I have been interested Occupational Therapy for a while now. Having been granted the Master’s program of the long Island University in Brooklyn New York, I believe the opportunity will enable me serve best my fellow colleagues as well as obtain and join the Honor membership. I am in the occupation of therapy and as such I have been lucky to receive the opportunity of joining the honor membership of Pi Theta Epsilon (PTE) to be part of the membership in the honor society for the American Occupational Therapy students.
I am therefore privileged to be among the

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Engineering

Abstract
The Brooklyn Bridge is probably underappreciated by most of the people who use it today but it is still an example of great engineering. The chief engineer, Roebling, designed a suspension bridge that was fifty percent longer than any other suspension bridge of the times. His design for weighting of the bridge to keep it stable when there was wind is a very important lesson for today’s suspension bridge designers. The health and safety issues of the height of the bridge and the use of the Caisson boxes have been discussed. The approximately 27 deaths that took

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