Some Time in New York City

The homosexual condition in the United States Summary Introduction p 3 I - Homosexuality and the US society p 3 A)Vision of homosexuals and recognition of a homosexual community p 3 B)Religious and moral aspect p 3 C)Homophobia, discrimination, violences, anti-homosexual movements p 5 II – Homosexual community p 7 A)History p 7 B)In movies and arts p 9 C)In literature p 15 III- Homosexual rights p 16 A)History of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual) social movement

Holly Hughes, Norman Lunger, John Nickerson, Bruce Oatman, Shelley Orenstein, Richard Pawelek, Ira Peck, Jonathan Rose Content: 1. (People): One From Many 2. (Geography): From Sea to Shining Sea 3. (History): Toward the City on a Hill 4. (Government): A Responsive Government 5. (Business): The Business of America 6. (Education): A Diverse Educational System 7. (Science & Medicine): A Republic of Science 8. (Religion): Separating Church and State

CAREER Jean-Marie Messier was born in 1956 in Grenoble, a city in the Alps of southeastern France. The son of an accountant, he was a serious and hardworking student in his high school years. Although he failed on his first attempt to gain entry to the École Polytechnique, the training ground of France's business elite, he retook the entrance examinations the following year and was admitted. He did well in his studies, graduating from the school with high marks in 1976. Messier then attended the École

Under the Second Empire, Paris was almost in the same aspect of the Middle Ages: streets were still dark, narrow and unhealthy, some buildings were falling apart and the city was close to break. Paris was also overcrowded and the living conditions in the apartments were alarming. The cholera epidemic touched many people and reached the uptown. The Capital and its citizens needed radical changes. Napoléon III, was aware of the seriousness of the situation and was willing to make Paris a purified and

René Goulaine de Laudonnière (1529-1574): was a French explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline, located in present-day Jacksonville, Florida. He made contact with a native tribe who at first helped the colonists. The colony did not flourish and had to get food from the Natives. Colonists complained and a small group of them seized a ship and sailed to the Gulf of Mexico to become pirates. Deserters from the colony angered the Natives who refused to give any more food. Colonists

Mosque at Ground Zero Nowadays, 2 years after his election, Barack Obama supports the building of a mosque in New York City. It is located more precisely, just near “ground zero”, the site of the World Trade Center. This project triggered several conflicts in America. Firstly, Ground Zero is a delicate site since 2001, and there are lots of opponents who don’t want an Islamic community in the Manhattan center; specifically, to several hundred feet away from the site of the Twin Towers. That’s

Ramble City: Postmodernism and "Blade Runner" Giuliana Bruno October, Vol. 41. (Summer, 1987), pp. 61-74. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0162-2870%28198722%2941%3C61%3ARCPA%22R%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U October is currently published by The MIT Press. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission

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The Brooklyn Follies – Paul Auster I. Short Biography Paul Benjamin Auster was born on February 3, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Samuel Auster, was a landlord; his mother, Queenie was about 13 years younger than her husband; the marriage was not a happy one. When Auster was about 3, his mother gave birth to a daughter; sadly by the time she was five it was apparent that she was psychologically unstable, and later suffered mental breakdowns. Auster's passion for reading began when

3rd 1947 in New Jersey. Before he stopped studies, Paul Auster went to Europe and visited Irland, Spain, France and Italie. At the age of 18, he published for the first time articles about cinema in the University's paper, and after graduating from his University, Colombia University, he moved to Paris, in 1971, where he used to translate French literature and publish his first poems, essays and novels. He wrote his first autobiographic work, The Invention of the solitude, in 1979, in the death