...piece, the author reports information that he learned from a sales analyst named Paco Underhill. He uses his acquired knowledge to inform the readers about the “science” that goes into the shopping experience. He explains in detail how stores are run and set up in order to accommodate their customers, and how those stores gather the information on how to set themselves up. Underhill describes shopping patterns in humans, “Human beings walk the way they drive, which is to say that Americans tend to keep to the right when they stroll down shopping-mall concourses or city sidewalks” (97). This piece was written by Malcolm Gladwell on November 4, 1996. While the article was written almost twenty years ago, the message and key elements in the article are still prevalent today. The piece was written for any and all of the readers of his website. Computers were much more...
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...believe you should stop Wal-Mart from selling their merchandise in New York City. Wal-Mart maybe putting extra cash back into the pockets of New Yorkers, but the real question does Wal-Mart create New Yorkers jobs? The slogan "Save Money. Live better" really brings Walmart so many customers and us new Yorker love the lowest prices and best deals. The bottom line is that once Walmart expands in New York City local and small business will suffer. Wal-Mart does more harm than good Although Walmart guarantees the lowest prices goods and services than the existing local merchants in any nearby small town. Walmart provides lower cost for consumers, greater employment opportunities, and healthier communities the company has also helped keep U.S inflation down. While Walmart creates jobs but employees are not paid at minimum wage, but at a lower wage. Walmart has shown to be very valuable accounting for some of the 70% of America’s GDP. Walmart is known for giving back to community it has donated to different organization. People believe Walmart is the greatest thing that has happened to low income Americans, because of it low prices guaranteed. Walmart is the world’s biggest company and it’s expanding each and every day. Walmart has become a modern day monopoly. Walmart isn’t boosting the economy most of its goods come from outside the U.S. which is hurting our economy because money isn’t flowing. About 70% of its merchandise is imported from China and Indonesia and China where...
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...creation of a large means leaving the artifice of the urban park (2). city behind and entering into an innocent green world, a vestige of A Cleansing Landscape the original Manhattan that existed For some, the new park would prior to the rise of the city. For increase adjacent property values urban environmental historians, and provide a leisure ground for though, there are two serious probrides in well-appointed carriages. lems with viewing the park in this way. Most of the city elite, though, First, Central Park is not nearly as offered less self-serving argunatural as it may appear. Far from ments, at least publicly. A large predating the rise of Manhattan, green space would not only cleanse the landscape is very much a product the air of dangerous smoke and of the mid nineteenth-century city. miasmas, it would convince the As such, Manhattan’s “front lawn” overworked sons and daughters of can be read as a primary source, a Puritans to leave their homes and unique window on Victorian views offices, get out in the sunshine and of nature as well as the politics of fresh air, and indulge in healthclass, ethnicity, gender, race, and giving leisure. Even more, the park neighborhood. The second probwould draw workers and immilem is that the surrounding city of grants away from “dissipating” Manhattan is not nearly as artificial and “uncivilized” leisure practices,...
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...After the Alabama senate election, “The New Yorker” wrote an article entitled: How the Alabama Senate Election Sanctified Black Women Voters. Throughout this article, it is explaining how black women affected the votes, and how they were a big part of Doug Jones winning senate. A quote from the article said that “Ninety-eight percent of black women (and ninety-six percent of black voters over all) chose Jones...” The article also says that black women worked hard and rallied together for Doug Jones to get senate. At one point, the author even mentions that black women are the “backbone” of the democratic party. Because of this, they try to vote for the leader that they think will leave the most positive impact of the United States. Overall,...
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...travel before repair has declined, which reduces the number of buses on various routes.[1] The public consider the NYC bus system to be unreliable, overcrowded and not dependable. Its unreliability is associated with the frequent failure of buses, non-covering of runs, changes in routing and the use of antiquated dispatching procedures. Many people prefer to use alternative ways of transit because of the longer wait times, particularly along the busy routes. They prefer to be on a train rather than wait for buses. With the fare hikes and traffic congestion, New Yorkers usually walk instead of taking short bus rides.[2] New Yorkers feel that the bus system undercounts passengers, because some buses operate with broken fare boxes, which has increased the number of fare evaders and resulted in issues concerning bus operator safety. The increased deadheading of buses in recent years has raised concerns among New Yorkers, since buses operate not in service rather than carry...
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...definitions for this term. There are three big variations of this term in my opinion. One is the literal meaning which is basically where you come from or where your native country is. Another one is your newly adopted nationality or the one I am most closely associated with, which in my case is being an American although it isn’t my country of origin. Finally the third one is a smaller subset similar to a community that defines you more so than your newly adopted nationality. The literal definition of nationality basically states that I am Indian and come from Mumbai, India but this doesn’t say anything about me personally or reveal anything about how I express or show my “nationality”. My newly adopted nationality is me being an American because I was born in America and I being raised to follow a certain American standard. This definition of nationality is closer to my own definition of the phrase. My personal definition is similar to that of Benedict Anderson’s where nationality is also closely linked with community and that almost shapes who you are. When someone asks me what my nationality is, the answer is never so simple as just “Indian”. My answer is normally, “Well, I am Indian, but I was born in America… but I am a very typical New Yorker.” After this short explanation someone’s follow up question is usually, “Where are you from in New York?” and then there is another short explanation of how I lived in Queens as a child and then became a Long Island kid and now I’m going to...
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...First published in The New Yorker in 2004, George Saunders’ “My Amendment” was as an actual response from the author, “an obscure, middle-aged, heterosexual short story writer” who is generally often asked about his “feelings [toward] Same-Sex-Marriage” (newyorker.com). The New Yorker is known to readers as a critic of politics, to science and technology to popular culture. By having George Saunders speaking up about his point of view toward the political issue of gay marriage in The New Yorker, the audiences could recognize his satirical comments and underlying meaning that we need to change our views on how society accepts certain issues. At the time when Saunders’ response on The New Yorker in 2004, numbers of opponents of gay and lesbian marriage affect strongly to the nations’...
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...Bloomberg who is The City of New York 108th Mayor has been in office for eight years. Bloomberg is the first Mayor to amend to New York City’s term limit law, in order to allow him to run for a third term in 2009. Since 2002, he has been the Mayor of New York City and, with a net worth of $18.1 billion in 2011, he is also the 13th-richest person in the United States. As Mayor of New York, Bloomberg declines to receive a city salary, accepting remuneration of $1.00 annually. He is the founder and eighty-eight percent owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media company. Once a lifelong Democratic before seeking office he later switched to the Republican Party and now he is an Independent. Bloomberg despite his followers and outpour for his continued leadership abilities he represents the Independent Party. As the Mayor, he has taken on some of the toughest issues facing millions of New Yorkers. Budget cuts, smoke free zone and gay marriage just to name a few has brought him less support. However, with the courage of a lion and the moral leadership of a beast Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has prevailed in his leadership role. (Purnick 2009) While The City of New York projected budget for fiscal year 2012 may reach $9.3 billion Bloomberg finds ways to cut some of his expenditures. Unfortunately, public safety, sanitation, and education are amongst some of the agencies that are going to receive some of the bigger cuts. New Yorkers including myself thought that...
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...nation. In the Second Founding by David Quigley, New York City is examined to determine if they lived up to the promises made during reconstruction. New York City did not “live up to the first reconstruction’s promise” which was emancipation (183). Through the thirteen amendment, the abolition of slavery was prohibited by law in the United States. However, throughout the reconstruction period, there is many instances where restrictions on the lives of certain groups of people including...
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...Résumé * A Fairly Sad Tale * Afternoon * August Popular poems: * A Very Short Song * A Dream Lies Dead * "Star Light, Star Bright--" * A Certain Lady * Résumé * A Fairly Sad Tale * Afternoon * August Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the Hollywood blacklist. 1920: Parker's caustic wit as a critic initially proved popular, but she was eventually terminated by Vanity Fair in 1920 after her criticisms began to offend powerful producers too often. 1925: When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, Parker and Benchley were part of a "board of editors" established by Ross to allay concerns of his investors. 1934: In 1934, she married Alan Campbell, an actor with aspirations to become a screenwriter. 1936: At the behest of Otto Katz, a covert Soviet Comintern agent and operative of German Communist Party agent Willi Muenzenberg, Parker helped to found the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936 (which...
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...assumed by the men at work and the children playing as if it were just an average day. The lottery was outdated to such a degree that some seen it as a cruel tradition no one could escape. On the other hand, some had believed that carrying on the tradition was necessary. Not long after "The Lottery" was published in The New Yorker, "a flood of mail - hundreds of letters-deluged both the editorial offices in New York and the post office in Bennington" (Friedman 63). Shirley Jackson said that out of all the letters sent, there were only thirteen that were positive responses, and those were from her friends (63). The letters consisted of "bewilderment, speculation, and old-fashioned abuse" (63). The public's initial reaction to the story was extremely negative. The fact that the tradition itself is scheduled for 10:00 and it took only two hours shows that there is no concern for the "winner" of the lottery, only for themselves. The villagers had a convenient amount of time so they were able to eat their lunch afterwards and continue their day. The children collected stones, competing against the other children, and tried to keep other friends from stealing rocks from their piles. This most definitely shows that the tradition is only a game to the children. The adults in the story are rather nonchalant as well. Mrs. Hutchinson can't help but finish washing her dishes before meeting her family and friends at the village square. After Tessie is selected as the "chosen one", her friends...
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...New York City's Central Park was the first landscaped public park in the United States. In the early 1850s, wealthy New Yorkers envisioned a project to construct a park that had spanned for over a decade and cost the city millions of dollars. Following a long period of debate concerning the site and cost of the project, the state legislature authorized the acquisition of 700 acres of land through eminent domain. Advocates of the park hoped to refute the European notion that Americans were devoted to a life of materialism without taking consideration of the common good. Furthermore, in awe of the public grounds in London and Paris, wealthy New Yorkers wanted to uplift the international reputation of the city—or better yet, the United States—by constructing a similar feature. The high society of New York City imagined an idyllic and rustic landscape, where they could travel in carriages, socialize with the rest of the upper class, and allow the poor to live in a safer and cleaner environment as well. Using the "Greensward Plan" designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux as winners of a design contest, the park underwent construction in 1853. Upon the park's completion in 1873, the idyllic landscape that encompassed large meadows, several lakes and hills, and a reservoir finally came to life. During a time period when industrialism in New York City was growing at a rapid and extraordinary pace, the green space intended to lure workers into spending time towards a life...
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...Dasom Kim 2008100399 Prof Napp English Writing March 30, 2011 Misconception and the truth As I traveled alone during last summer vacation, my heart was touched by some funny things that happened because of my misunderstandings. The reason I determined to go NY is the popular drama named Sex and the city. I bought a ticket for New York in a light mood. From the beginning, I faced with an unexpected difficulty. To visit popular sites, I had to use metro or bus. However, it has an amazingly complex subterranean network, so I always lost my ways and had to ask people how to get there. New Yorkers, though, walked through the street, busy as a bee so I was hard to inquire them a direction. One day, I was on the way to find the free ferry for the Statue of Liberty. As usual people went their separate ways. I became lost on the way there and wandered around for minutes. Just at that moment I became frustrated to find the ferry. A man asked to me, “Are you going to take a ferry?” I told him how long I wandered to find free ferry. “I know how to get there. If you want I’ll take you there.” For a few seconds, I was concerned whether I should go with him or not because he was a stranger. In the park, there were lots of people so it would be fine if I got in trouble. The street became more desolate the further we went. My heart started pounding and I was overcome with apprehensions. ‘Oh my god…… why is he taking me to an out-of-the way place? Will he try to...
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...try to move away from their parents, or from an apartment to a house outside of town. But it is not everybody who knows how hard it can be to move to another place. In Siri Hustvedts “Living With Strangers” we hear about her and her family who move from Minnesota to New York City. She has a tough time in the “Big Apple” because she has just moved away from a city where everybody said “Hello” to each and to a city where everybody just ignores each other. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival in this town – a convention communicated silently but forcefully. This simply law, one nearly every New Yorker subscribes to whenever possible, is; PRETEND IT ISN’T HAPPENING”. This sentence shows how the New Yorkers treat other people in public. But how is it to live side by side with people you hear and see, but do not know? This story by Siri Hustvedt is about how tough it can be to move from one city to another. In this case it is from Minnesota to New York City - Two different cities. She used to say “hey” to everybody she meets, but that is not standard procedure in New York, and she is not comfortable about all the people and their ignorant way to live their life in the big city. She tells stories about people she meets in public and their way to act in the big city. She has a hard time figure out how to react on people behaviour. In the second paragraph on page 1, line 6 to 20, we here about Siri Hustvedt’s first impressions about New York City after...
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...Hannah Simon wants to make statements. It’s why she came to University of Missouri, a decision that’s shaped her, and will continue to, into who she is. Simon grew up in New Jersey. Her mother and both of her brothers went to the University of Maryland, and although Simon says she fell in love with the campus when she visited, she “didn’t want to follow in their footsteps”. Instead, she chose to come 930 miles west, to University of Missouri. Here, she plans to pursue a degree in Strategic Communications. She says it can be difficult to be so far from home, but it’s manageable: “Both my brothers live in D.C, so they get to hang out all the time, which makes me feel left out,” she says. Mizzou ended up being the first school Simon got into,...
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