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2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

The Threat of the So-Called Urban Coon

caricature was always at the heart of white supremacy" (Malburne). Lets consider that statement for a moment: the caricature of ...

Mass Media, Melting Pot, Sustainable Growth, and Overpopulation Questions Answered

(Anonymous, 1997), thereby deciding which social and political issues are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural promin...

Urban Solid Waste in the Year 2050

during the late 1980s and the decade of the 1990s. This was a time that globalization reigned among the worlds largest busi...

Canadian Urban Planning, Housing, and Women

housing planners that build neighborhoods based on the old model - that of residential neighborhoods with the neighborhood school ...

Customs of Chinese Marriage Since 1949 Introduction of Communism

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

Urban Tension Identification

created unforeseen problems with regard to the bustling growth of cities, the complications of new technologies and the reactions ...

Urban Planning, Architecture, and the Contributions of Rome

track generation after generation stand in great testimony to the true greatness of this civilization. If the nature and worth of ...

Diabetes Education Expanded Lesson Plan

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

Mainstream Society, Underground Music, and African American Culture

D.C.s prominent African American institution of higher learning Howard University in 1965, he proclaimed that he would introduce b...

Macro Economy of the United Arab Emirates

aspects that a government may seek to control or influence, including inflation, unemployment, the balance of trade, foreign inves...

Urban Development: Lyon, France and Göteborg, Sweden

A central part of the developments in Lyon involve the Cit? Internationale, which will essentially be a small city unto itself, a ...

Urban Renewal and the City of Pittsburgh

apartments (Fitzpatrick, 2000). Economically, it is noted that while there were shopping centers instituted, they could not compe...

The Urban Experince: Brooks and Komunyakaa

"Slam, Dunk, and Hook" it can well be assumed the sport is basketball, a powerful favorite of urban youth today. There is a yout...

Baudelaire In Savannah

and captivating. History indicates that this has always been true. General William Tecumseh Sherman was so taken with the city o...

Zambia's Female Trade

skills suited to their new environment, meant huge changes for the socioeconomic system; in particular, it meant that "there were ...

Urban Transformation

quality is poor as well, and the large number of cars coming into the region makes it unlikely that this will improve (Ezcurra and...

Urban Violence and Drugs

outbreaks of violence are seemingly spontaneous, but may in fact actually be the end result of a long chain of events that began m...

US Urban Areas and Homelessness

City, 2003). In the past year, "requests for emergency shelter increased ... by an average of 6 percent ... Requests for shelter ...

Urban Planning and the Geographic Information System

in the design of cities as well as perhaps the design of a single building. Additionally, GIS is a tool utilized for comprehending...

Urban Modernization, Rights of Workers, and Mexico

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

Place Marketing in Urban Development

the investment take place and the area is improved. This improvement may be with more housing, more industrial or commercial units...

Planning and Implementing Urban Policy in the UK

set by the ruling parties at local or national level, with national concerns coming before local concerns in general policy settin...

The Use of Irony in Fences by August Wilson

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

Affirmative Action Views

up against glass ceilings, and find themselves, in relation to men, as poor as ever" (Katz, Stern and Fader, 2005; p. 65). ...

Soft City by Jonathan Raban

centers and the changes that occurred in the national identity. Raban wrote: "For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is ...

Urban Studies and Transportation Planning

achieved. Though transportation projects may be viable, may be logical in terms of meeting goals, and may be cost feasible, there...

U.S. Culture and the Blues

the blues is slower and contains much depth of feeling. Later on, the acoustic urban would become electrified, but early on, there...

Is Urban Sprawl Positive or Negative?

processes of sprawl significantly and negatively impact the environment (Cain, 2000). On the other hand, an extensive analysis p...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...