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Explaining the Sagging Jeans of Generation X

In seven pages white America's sagging jeans' trend is chronicled from inside prisons to external society in both the suburbs and ...

Natural Environmental Impacts of Urbanization

The ways in which the natural environment was affected by the birth of cities are discussed in a paper of ten pages which includes...

Medieval Women and the Concepts of Honor and Dishonor

to consider that the concepts of honor and dishonor, as they pertained to Medieval women, were dictated by the attitudes that wome...

Puerto Ricans in 'the Big Apple'

of employment opportunity, income, welfare payments, and unemployment compensation payments, the author concludes that in the peri...

'The NY-911 Demonstration Project' and NYPD Data Collection

In twenty six pages this report discusses the 911 emergency services of the New York City Police Department in terms of its implem...

Oakland, California and Crime

In eight pages the steps the city of Oakland has taken in order to reduce crime since 1997 are discussed with the inclusion of the...

Crack and Our City School Systems

Over time, drug use itself heightens the bad feelings and can leave the user suicidal. More than half of all adolescent suicides a...

Sumer's Economic Contributions

their conquerors. History By 3000 B.C. a flourishing urban civilization existed. Sumerian civilization was predominantly agricult...

Political Propaganda and Buildings

centres that remain today. This was a develop that place appearance as important as function. The Palazzo Pubblico makes the strai...

Promotion of Contraceptives in Chicago Marketing Plan

age of 15, "compared with 21 percent of Hispanics and 16 percent of non-Hispanic whites" (Non-Hispanic black teens, 2003; p. 7). ...

NYC Tourism

have been traveling to New York City as long as travel has been a pastime. New York City is a magnet for tourists, but of course h...

Immigration and the Gangs of New York

The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...

Athenian Empire and Pericles

indeed a city of art and beauty - at least for those among the wealthy who could afford both art and beauty. As with any urban are...

Fiction of the 20th Century and the City

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

Hometown Matching of a Minor League Baseball Team

Braves, and Ogden Raptors. The League has decided to capitalize on two positive aspects it has enjoyed since 1996; increased reve...

Western Urban Growth Resulting from the Transcontinental Railroad

In five pages this paper discusses how city expansion in the Western United States resulted from the Transcontinental Railroad. F...

Home Delivery Hardware Store's Marketing Plan

In fifteen pages this paper examines the fictitious Widgie's Widgets Hardware Delivered to Your Home in a presentation of a market...

LA Homelessness

In five pages this paper examines what it means to be homeless in the city of Los Angeles in a problem description, assistance, an...

Nagasaki Bombing by the US was Strategically and Ethically the Right Thing to Do

"If it can be shown that using the bomb shortened the war, averting the need for a land invasion and the loss of many thousands of...

San Francisco's City Hall Architecture

In five pages the influence of the French Renaissance is emphasized in this consideration of the City Hall in San Francisco with t...

The Cultural Transformation of Los Angeles

This paper examines two works regarding cultural changes in LA. The author discusses Mike Davis' book, City of Quartz, as well as...

Urban Politics

argued that there is a distinct correlation between economic activity and regional policy making, but that limitations exist withi...

E-Commerce, Tax Revenues and Physical Stores

Internet sales would result in decreased sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores (1999). That seems to make logical sense if ...

Three Questions about Urban Policy

This 5 page paper answers three questions about urban policy: 1) how to control the power of large corporations; 2) the impact of ...

Policy and Social Work Implications of The Corner by David Simon and Edward Burns

The most vivid message of "The Corner" is the desperate situation under which the people of "the corner" exists. We find that the...

An Early Twentieth Century Comparative Analysis of New York City and Los Angeles

the similarities will be striking, but the differences are also worth noting. II. The Political Development of New York Between...

Timothy McVeigh's Execution and Its Social and Legal Repercussions

suffering, and death upon fellow Americans. Evidence quickly developed to incriminate at least two individuals associated with th...

NYC Skyscrapers' Controversy

population grew and the need for office space expanded. The growth of the city almost demanded that the tiny strip of island grow ...

Cultural Influences, Archaeology, and City Morphology of Classical Athens

the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...

Transit Workers of New York City

venues where large numbers of diverse peoples mixed regularly may be attributed to the subway phenomenon (1996). On thing which di...