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A Historical and Theological View of Urban Renewal in Lupton's "Renewing the City"

tells Nehemiahs story in dramatic terms. The story goes thus: After invasions by Nebuchednezzar, the city of Jerusalem lay in comp...

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

The Devastation of Katrina

history of the United States, and New Orleans is still trying to recover from it. This paper considers three aspects of the storm:...

A Tale of Amazonian Adventure

writer for "The New Yorker", David Grann becomes caught up in the legendary tale of renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harris...

Decisions at Disney

The writer looks at two major strategic decisions made by Disney; the decision to locate EuroDisney near Paris and the decision to...

SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: BRIBERY OR LOBBYING?

of influencing a particular outcome. The main difference is that lobbying, as such, is "persuasion," whereas bribery is an overt e...

Contextual Theology

to live in harmony. This incorporates the need for eliminating racism and religious intolerance. This recommendation talks about d...

In Favor of the Ground Zero Mosque

This research paper offers an over-all summary of the debate over whether or not New York City should allow construction of an Isl...

City Management Leadership Styles

Unfortunately, unlike quantitative skills such as financial analysis, risk assessment, project management, and so on, leadership i...

The Day the Cowboys Quit

but is part of the town because of the members of the community, cowboys have long done most of the work. Those men who come in wi...

Overview of Morristown, NJ

nearly every worker has a tale about being underpaid or not getting paid at all" ("The unscrupulous," 2003). Morristown especiall...

US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cannot be Justified

inhumanities against our fighting forces" (Benson V1-V2). Supporters for dropping the bomb have conveniently skewed the fac...

Republic by Plato and the 'Just City'

in order to be just. Many are familiar with the tales of Sodom and Gomorrah from the bible. They understand that many cities had ...

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...

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...

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...

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'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...

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 ...

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...

Private Team Sports Facilities and City Financing

notes that in the 1990s alone: "30 new professional sports facilities have been built at...

Daniel Sklar's Playmaking

the goal" involves all the children in a discussion of the project and how to approach it. It describes why such projects are wor...

Philadelphia and How to Increase Business Tourism

as other cities have learned over the years. Manufacturing is declining in the United States as a percentage of gross domestic pr...

A Case Study of The First Central Bank of River City

union. Perhaps the most significant and saddest example of the need for unions comes from the Triangle Factory Fire story. That oc...

Second Grade Literacy Teaching

In seven pages this paper discuses inner city schools and the various approaches for teaching literacy to second grade students. ...

Sweetwater Sweets Confectionery and Retail Store Project Plan

to the $80,000 to $100,000 range. Analysis of the current market indicates that this is a quite conservative goal and may be one ...

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...