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An Overview of Singapore

4.0% Others (Sikhism, Confucianism, etc) 0.6% Finally, literacy is high in Singapore, as revealed by the following chart. It has ...

Role of Counselors in Inner City School Guidance Counseling

a perennial shortfall in state aid resulted in the reductions in guidance counselors at the same time that an increase in services...

New Orleans: Race, Ethnicity, and a "Sense of Place" After Katrina

nationalist mentality throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, cultural identity has gradually become more intimately associated wi...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Economic Inequality

were intended. There is a law that requires states to distribute federal funding towards its earmarked purposes. If the law is vio...

River City, California Corrections Problems

beyond us sometimes. But that ancient bit of memory seems very "right on," as far as corrections goes in California; it is "troub...

Identity in 'The New York Trilogy' by Paul Auster

to Quinn because they allow him to temporarily lose his identity. By walking, he could leave "himself behind," and simply give him...

NYC's Flexible Pavement Management Problems

In five pages this paper discusses New York City's flexible pavement problems with various suggestions offered. Five sources are ...

WTC Towers' Rebuilding Proposal

of north and south sections and the verticle structures that are central to the overall construction. Procopius wrote: "And In th...

NYC's PE Programs

Fay and Doolittle (2002) recount how in the early 1990s concern over standards-based reform in academic subjects actually generate...

Louisville, Kentucky and the Expansion of the United Parcel Service

gained considerably from having UPS locate its hub operations in that city. For one thing, UPS contributes generously to a variety...

Overview of the City of Jerusalem

In fourteen pages Jerusalem is examined in an overview of the holy city's history and the various religious conflicts among Muslim...

Politics of Authoritarianism and Status of St. Petersburg, Paris, Istanbul, and Mexico City

intensified hostilities among those who were previously amicable. Some contend that despite all its past and present global impli...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

New York Retailer Barneys

eyed a nondescript storefront at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 17th Street, in the lowbrow Manhattan neighborhood known as Chel...

New York City's Fifth Avenue

This research paper examines the various changes in New York City's Fifth Avenue that have taken place since the late Nineteenth C...

Urban Policy Decision Shifts

districts were also homes to railway stations that brought people from out of state. However, when the automobile began making lon...

The Growth of Greensboro, North Carolina

This well written research report contains a plethora of information. The paper focuses on the city's growth and historical inform...

City in Writing of the Late Medieval Era

In six pages this paper examine 'The Taill of the Uplondis Mous and the Burges Mous' by Robert Henryson, 'To the Merchantis of Edi...

NYC and Potential for a Serious Earthquake

our rock. And these rifts share another frightening trait: a strong inclination to produce earthquakes of magnitude 7 or 7.5. A 7...

Evolution of the City According to Italian, Roman, Greek Cultures

In five pages the way cities evolved in terms of various cultural influences are considered with organic and planned cities exampl...

NYC Schools and Vouchers

about systemic change" (Domanico, 1993). Their idea was school choice, not vouchers (Domanico, 1993). The difference is that paren...

Defining a Contemporary American

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how to define an American to a resident of a remote village in Africa. Five sources are ci...

Experiences and Culture of Contemporary Latino Americans

deal of discrimination from the majority of citizens in the United States. One of the cultural groups which is meeting a great dea...

Becoming New Yorkers

the facts revealed by Lopez concerns the way in which speaking Spanish is punitively regarded in the high school that was the focu...

Historic and Contemporary Prejudice Against Native Americans

This 5 page paper discusses how mainstream white culture has treated Native Americans as inferiors throughout much of our country'...

Contemporary American Culture and Films

In a paper consisting of 7 pages American cinema and how it satirizes or reflects American culture is considered with student tuto...

The American Dream and Its Contemporary Meaning

In four pages the past and present meanings of the American Dream are examined. There is no bibliography included....

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

Contemporary American Family

and challenge the idea that gay, unwed parents, or interracial families are beneficial for a child and their welfare. Several boo...