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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

San Francisco's Development and the Impact of the Gold Rush of 1849

In sixteen pages this paper discusses the short and long term effects of the 1849 gold rush on the city of San Francisco. Twenty ...

NYC and Puerto Ricans

In five pages this paper discusses Puerto Ricans who call New York City home in a consideration of the status of their living cond...

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...

Amsterdam and Its Culture

In five pages this city in the Netherlands is culturally examined in terms of its lifestyle, family structure, history, climate, l...

Perfect City According to Plato

In five pages The Republic is used to examine how Plato reveals what constitutes a perfect city in his view. There are no other s...

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

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...

Sumer's Economic Contributions

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

Joh Kuo Wei Tchen's New York Before Chinatown

historical documents. Finally, and tragically, Tchen chronicles the turn of the tide toward resentment, fear and mistrust toward t...