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IG Report, Yonkers

This paper address six specific questions that relate to an Inspector General's report for the City of Yonkers. Four pages in leng...

City Managers and Ethics

This essay offers a discussion of the evolution of ICMA Codes of Ethics for City Managers from 1924 to the present. Three page in ...

Ancient Jewish Leaders

The major challenge in constructing histories of Israel and Judah is the fact that they were individuals but they also had cities ...

Peloponnesian War Defeat of Athens in 404 B.C.

turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...

A Latin Jazz Exploration

In ten pages the history of Latin jazz is presented with a discussion of locations such as New York City and important musicians s...

City Governments, Reformed v. Unreformed

power (1993). In other words, one may hold office but have a hard time maintaining popularity. One example comes from New York Cit...

Handicapped Individuals and Recreational Activities

are all potentially disabled" (pp. S8). The point he goes on to make is that the vast majority of disabled people were not born wi...

Administration of New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Labor Unions

Citys mayor before Dinkins would grab the title in 1989. Many consider Koch to have been a great mayor, and while that is the case...

Kerouac, Auster, and Whitman A Conversation

A five page fictitious conversation among these three authors is developed and considers the similarities and differences of such ...

Tutorial on Medical Training Improvements

Oftentimes, when a patient arrived at the clinic for their appointment, they were told that their charts could not be found and th...

Mike Davis's The Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

In five pages this paper discusses the city of Los Angeles and the mismanagement and misunderstanding that have led to its geograp...

Photographer and Social Reformer Jacob Riis

16). In 1888, Riis left the Tribune to work for the Evening Sun, at which time he also began work on his first book concerning t...

Essay on Bogota, Colombia

In an analytical essay that consists of eight pages the many contributions and rich cultural history of Bogota are discussed in te...

Expansion of Another Paper on Travel Agencies and Impact of Technology

In thirty five pages an expansion of an earlier paper includes a section on the present and future travel agency changes resulting...

Cinematic Technique Known as 'the Long Take'

In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Public Housing Planning

In seven pages this paper discusses a fictitious city council's proposed approach to public housing planning with the example of P...

Comparative Analysis of the Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel

In five pages these two tunnels in New York City are compared in terms of construction, usage, structural properties, and improvem...

2 Perceptual Impressions of Chicago

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie in a considerat...

Detroit Michigan's History

In ten pages this report considers the history of one of America's largest and oldest cities dating back to the first years of the...

Integrity Testing of New York City Police Officers

In four pages this paper examines the practice of Force Related Integrity Testing and argues against the program designed to expos...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

Auburn, AL and TQM

Andrea Jackson's 'Applying TQM principles to the finance department: the city of Auburn experience' is applied to this considerati...

NYC Subway Track Maintenance

In five pages this paper presents various examples such as the IRT line in a consideration of how subway tracks in New York City a...

Overview of Terrorism

In five pages and 3 sections this overview on terrorism includes similarities and differences between terrorism and war, force mul...

Deadly Force in New York City

In six pages this paper discusses the Busch and Diallo cases in this overview of deadly force uses by law enforcement in New York ...

Revolution at the Roots by William D. Eggers and John O'Leary

In six pages this paper analyzes Eggers' and O'Leary's text in terms of government reformation in operating towns and cities. The...

New York City Police Brutality

was released (143). The fact that such a big deal was made over this honest New York City cops attempt to call forth justice provi...

Themes in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In three pages life and death as they are thematically represented by the Trojan war and the city of Troy are examined in this ana...

NYC's Subway History

In eight pages this paper traces the subway system of New York City back to 1904 and considers its widespread impact as well as ef...