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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...

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...

Cinematic Comparison of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Philadelphia and Death and Life of Cities by Jane Jacobs

and at equal distances from this center is formulated four residential square, each identical and formulated for the same use (Jac...

2005 Annual Report for Urban Outfitters

for retail store sales or when merchandise is shipped to customers for wholesale and direct-to-consumer sales, net of estimated cu...

London's Urban Development Process

the rebuilding of this in a more uniform style with a great deal of aid from Sir Christopher Wrenn and his pattern for the streets...

Paris and Gateshead - Urban Development

to take into account not only the need for economic activity, but the interaction with the local communities and the local culture...

Urban Poverty and Housing Policies

absence of an address of the real problems. Inadequate housing is associated with many problems and in many cases these problems ...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

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...

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 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...

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). ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

3 Questions on Steven H. Star and Glen L. Urban's The Case of the Test Market Toss Up

Three questions are examined within the context of this book by Steven H. Star and Glen L. Urban in an essay of five pages. One s...

Urban Planning and Development Theories of Paul Peterson

In eight pages this research essay considers Miami in an application of Paul Peterson's urban development and planning theories. ...

Present And Future Issues in Urban Development

This 7 page paper discusses past trends in urban development and how they have influenced contemporary cities. There is 1 source l...

Which Play Best Exemplifies the Contemporary Woman, The Glass Menagerie or Lysistrata?

illustrate what the modern urban woman is, and then turn to discussing the two stories, arguing that today, the modern urban woman...

Ancient Literature on the Life's Meaning of Moral Order

Sophocles "Oedipus the King" Sophocles establishes a setting in which the twists and turns that ultimately led to the vision of ...

Motown and Berry Gordy

Vegara, and "Urban Crisis" by Thomas Sugrue. Berry Gordy and Motown Berry Gordy is considered to be the father of Motown. "In ...

Life's Final Chapter

is never a simple effort. Many books that deal with this subject do so in such a way that ends up coming across as patronizing an...

Las Vegas Urbanizaton and Development

poor but improved 75 percent the next. Most of the biggest Vegas casinos, including the Hilton and, yes, New York, New York, laid ...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

West Oak Lane Neighborhood and Pennsylvania State Representative Dwight Evans

economic hard times and the ever-expanding problems associated with poverty and the inner- city. As its name would suggest, it is ...

Life's Complexities and Tort Law

1. "Should the wronged party be compensated by the other party for the wrong"? If the answer to that question is yes,...