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Latin America and Gay Marriage

wedding is what this event implies about secularization, as a deep fear of the Catholic Church has been that secular attitudes wil...

Understanding the City

the feminine.1 Woolfs gendered city is found in her "all-pervasive metaphor of street life as river-like, conveying a sense of dyn...

Didion, Smith and the Illusion of New York City

assume there was no problem; if she and the puppies had died, it would have made a huge impact on Smith and he would have written ...

Country Mouse or City Mouse

it is in fiction. Despite the fact that the city seems exciting, a great many people would prefer to live in the country, because ...

The Sacred Architecture of the Maya at Copán

"witnessed great political growth during the early years of the Late Classic period under the reigns of long-lived rulers" and the...

The Intersection of HR Planning and Recruiting

conducted a ten-year study of small and medium-sized businesses in the UK and "concluded that HRM practices ... are the most power...

City Beautiful v. Urban Reform Movements

history of urban development and city planning is the result of a lengthy evolutionary history. The following discussion relates a...

NEW YORK CITY AND PARKING TICKETS - UNFAIR?

very much there. One man, Simon, Belsky, is convinced of this - hes fighting a ticket he received in 2006 for blocking a fire hydr...

Homicide and Domestic Violence

comes the condition of alcohol or drug abuse, a condition that is usually pursued in order to alleviate the stress of being poor. ...

THE DISMAL CITY CASE STUDY

police force to become die-hard friends. So the next step is to take small steps - rather than simply introducing a commun...

AN OVERVIEW OF PROPERTY TAX

(Gruber, 2006). There is the so-called "traditional" viewpoint, which states that tax is levied on two factors - the land (inelast...

The Economy of the City of Birmingham, UK

this has changed; the general movement in many manufacturing industries has been to shift production to lower coat areas, usually ...

Increase In Downtown Crime: Comprehensive Combat Strategy

Maintaining the peace is no longer an objective to be fulfilled by law enforcement; todays ever-escalating unruly and violent glob...

Alexandria

since the city was taken over by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE (Shillington, 2005). Shillington (2005) explains: "The intermixtur...

How Race Shapes Fashion Design in New York City

a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...

Impoverished Neighborhoods in New York City

the phenomenon by noting that the poor are disconnected from middle class social networks that could help them land jobs or propel...

Social Changes

and started to shape the way that people view travel, increasing their horizons. It has been argued by many that over the last c...

Plan to Increase Business for Dubai Internet City

free economic zone under the concept of clustering, allowing films of a similar nature in the same or similar industries in the sa...

"Letter from the Birmingham City Jail," and Martin Luther KIng's Concepts of Just, Unjust, and Morality

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

Mahler and the Burning Bronx

hes a scrappy second baseman just traded to the Yankees from the Oakland Oaks. He asks the managers incessant questions and yells ...

A Multinational Real Estate Company

billion worth of commercial, agricultural and residential real estate annually" (Knight Frank, Factsheet, 2010, p. 1). Every offic...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and Social Intervention

least. Description of Agency XYZ is a small organization that attempts to address the needs...

The City of Shells

a shell. Barnaby is a young man who feels somewhat bad because he knows he is not nice in thinking her being stuck is a nuisance...

A Health Official’s Fight Against Smoking

since records have been made (United Press International, 2009). This is down from 21.5% in 2002 (United Press International, 2009...

Themes of "Neighbor Rosicky" by Willa Cather

his heart. The very act of carving out a new life in an unfamiliar territory casts its share of fear and anxiety, however, this u...

Class Hegemony and City Governance

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the governance of cities. Policies and their relationship to economic class are expl...

The Reform Movement and Political Machines

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at political machines and governance. Reform movements are highlighted as well as their...

Reduce Health Costs by Targeting Resources

The New York City Police Commissioner was successful in reducing crime by targeting high crime areas and allocating resources to t...

Waste Management

This essay pertains to the topic of waste management. It focuses on the importance of recycling and the concept of the "zero waste...

Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney,

This essay discusses characteristic features of Bright Lights, Big City, a novel by Jay McInerney. Three pages in length, no othe...