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When people think of New York they usually first picture luxury, money, glamour, sky scrapers and a ton of other BIG features – The American Dream! New York has this image portrayed of it being beautiful, romantic and a place of new beginnings. New York, having Ellis Island, is the center of the New World that offered a chance of change and freedom. The city was known as a place where immigrants and people came to start over. This portrayal has always been going on from the Great Depression to even after the attacks on 9/11. We saw that even with hardships New York couldn’t be brought down. From our art that was created to our movies, we’ve painted this picture of wellness and happiness. A lot of portrayals of this great city is exactly that, great, even with how little the show Sex and the City really emphasis the use of the New York it does it in a way that you see how great of a place it is.
There are some media that show the hardships that the city and the people of New York go through, which brings the true image of the city to light. Others like Sex and the City that uses only certain parts of the city but very rarely do these parts focus on the things a big city would normally bring, it seems to focus on mostly good qualities. This show is unsuccessful in portraying the real New York because even if the show is in the city very little attention is on it throughout the city. Some media lets us see the opposite of this American Dream, even if it is just a glimpse into that unwanted life; that even when all hell breaks loose we still want to keep this image, the perfect life, the only thing we recognize as what New York is. The show displays only the women’s life, is does not really go into detail on what the city ...

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