Fun Trip To New York City

Review:vyjayanti mehra


NewYork is a busy city of United States Of America .The mention of United States is incomplete without naming New York .The name of New York is mentioned with the Historic mention of its world wide famous wonder ‘The statue Of Liberty .’The statue of Liberty proudly greets the visitor to New York . The Statue is a magnificence in itself and is simply fabulous . It not only makes the city proud but also satisfies the sight seeing thirst of the visitor. The statue also has a remarkable history to mention .The statue is a token of friendship between the people of United States and the people of France .It was presented by the people of France to the people of States .It is a statue that symbolizes harmony and liberty throughout the world .The statue depicts both personal and communal liberty.It symbolizes freedom from unnecessary cobwebs and shackles.The statue is very old and has celebrated its one hundred and twentieth birthday in 2006 AD. It was built in 1886 AD . This amazing wonder is one hundred and fifty one feet tall and weighs nearly two hundred and twenty five tons.Its pedestal is eighty nine feet tall and is made of granite.Overall the statue is a metallic wonder.It was designed by a French designer Frederic Bartholdi . The interior iron framework was designed by Alexender Gustav Eiffel who was also the designer of the Eiffel Tower.The statue’s Pedestal was designed by American architect Richard Morris Hunt .It is located in the New York harbor and promises freedom to the world.
New York touring is exciting if you approach the right services at the right hour .New York presents money saving schemes like chauffeured service which offers new vans, motor coaches and new sedans at great and reasonable rates. Helicopter rides over Manhattan, Statue of Liberty, Empire State building is available at reasonable rates. The rides provide a remarable view of the statue and Manhattan .If Helicopter ride seems costlier then one can take the open top buses or even the boat for a clearer idea. New York touring is incomplete without seeing Brooklyn which has wonders to offer.In Brooklyn one should not miss Astroland Amusement park which awakens the child in you . It offers cyclone roller Coasters,Arcade game rooms and thirty five thrilling rided and attractions.

The New York aquarium which is situated in the Surf Avenue ,Brooklyn has three hundred species of aquine animals .It is spread around fourteen acres .Sea Lion Shows ,Walrus encounters,gift shop, Eatery etc are the mentionable parts of the aquarium .The Brooklyn Botanical Garden, is spread in fifty two acres and offers a collection of valuable flora .The tour to the Botanical Garden can be aided by a ride .

The Asia Society and museum located in the Park Avenue aids to communicate between the people of Asia and the People of America .They display each other’s art pieces ,organize exhibitions and also perform the Media shows . It aims at bringing the peoples of Asia and America together and also provokes love among them. The Bronx Zoo is the country’s largest zoo with more than six thousand animals of over six hundred species .The exhibhits include Tiger Mountain ,Jungle World ,Himalyan Highland ,World of birds,African Plains ,Wild Asia ,Baboon Reserve and 6.5 acres of Congo Guerilla Forests .The zoo has eating and shopping arrangements within the campus. Then the Alexander Doll Company presents the liveliest collection of dolls and Handicrafts. These handicrafts include all kinds of collectable dolls.
Then the world known collection of seven hundred wine show cases, the Alto is situated in the Madison Avenue of New York. This is not all about the mention of the nation’s prestigious city. There are a hundred and one places which are yet to be visited. This article is incomplete if I do not give an idea about staying in New York .The visitor may consult the following to get an idea of residing in New York. Brooklyn Tourism and Visitor Centre ,situated in 209 Joralemon Street ,Brooklyn is the full service tourism centre .It provides counseling information on arts ,events ,attraction etc,.

The Ginger Root located in the Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, provides gourmet cuisine in warm friendly environment. This café also arranges Site dining and site catering. The following sites provide useful information and a complete idea for reasonable dining in New York City: www.available-aahotels.info www.travel.yahoo.com can help you to find cheap hotels in New York City www.newyorkcity.com www.crownplaza.com www.holidayinn.com provides free internet and free eating for kids. www.hotelcompany.com is giving 75% discount for all the visitors who visit New York. So New York is a wonderful city and is reasonable if you visit the right places. Happy touring!
Fun Trip To New York City Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/travel/websites-online-communities/505493-fun-trip-new-york-city/

The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001

Summary:EddieB

When I was working on the assembly line at General Electric in 1979, a boss came down one day and gave each worker a share of stock worth $3.00. I tore mine up and threw it in the trash. Even so, the company kept it on record, and from time to time in the 1980s and ‘90s contacted me to say that the stock had split and increased in value. To make a long story short, by August 2001, that lonely share of GE stock had multiplied like capitalist loaves and fishes into 90 shares—now worth $4,500. Not being much of a capitalist, I gave away my totally unearned loot to my family or the Catholic Worker community. Even so, when I imagined from this one example just how much the rich, the near-rich and the obscenely rich must have increased their wealth during this time, I understand just what Michael McHugh meant when he called it a Second Gilded Age.
Anyone interested in politics, culture and race will certainly be enthralled with this book! It describes the cycles of US History from the time of the First Gilded Age (1873-1901) to the Second a century later. Both were periods of laissez faire capitalism, of Robber Barons who exploited new technologies to establish giant industries such as John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil in the 19th Century or Microsoft a hundred years later. In these capitalist heydays, wealth and incomes are highly concentrated in the hands of the top 10% of the population, while the living standards for most of the population stagnated or declined. Far from protecting and defending the interests of the common people, politicians serve the oligarchy during these Gilded Ages, while manipulating the voters through the calculated use of racism, religious and cultural issues, law and order and nationalism. It is no accident that these capitalist heydays are also the heydays of right-wing populist movements like the Ku Klux Klan and Moral Majority.

McHugh compares these Gilded Ages with what he calls the Historical Exception Period of 1945-73. He shows us how prosperity after World War II, when the American Empire was at its strongest, also gave working people social democratic and modern liberal capitalist welfare state. Building on the New Deal and Fair Deal of the 1930s and 1940s, the New Frontier of John Kennedy and the Great Society Lyndon Johnson created programs that uplifted the city’s and fed the hungry plus Medicare, which enriched the elderly with help on their medical expenses. As a result of the Second Reconstruction of 1954-65, new laws were passed to protect minorities in voting rights, affirmative action and desegregation of schools and work places. In the 1968 election, the Vietnam War was tearing the fabric of the nation apart. Nixon beat out Humphrey for the presidency. Nixon was the last president of the Historical Exception Period and the initiator of the Second Gilded Age. He promised to dismantle the Great Society programs that benefited poor women with children the so called ‘welfare queens’. He was effective in manipulating the backlash of white voters, which Republicans called the Southern Strategy. Nixon also used the issue of ‘law and order’ to erode the gains which minorities and working people had gained during the Historical Exception Period. Reelected in a landslide against George McGovern in 1972, only the Watergate break-in and his disgrace and his ouster from office prevented him from establishing a new Republican majority. Nixon self-destructed in 1974, but the conservative backlash endured and prospered despite this.

I cannot do this book a great enough service. In The Second Gilded Age, Dr. Michael McHugh has given a concise critique of the history of the workings of our society and political system in an amazing way. This book should be read by scholars or anyone who is concerned about the future this country and our world. It at least offers the hope that the Gilded Ages are cyclical and that although they might have seemed endless at the time, they have never been the last word in history.
The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001 Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/919272-second-gilded-age-great-reaction/