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Healthy and Sick City Distinctions Made by Plato

a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...

Benjamin Rader/American Sports

of sport and leisure, it seems that Benjamin Rader (2003) does a good job in outlining the relationship between the advent of citi...

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...

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...

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...

Overview of Okinawa, Japan

a fourteenth-century palace that doubled as a fortress during the war, housed Japanese soldiers far beneath its fortified structur...

Enduring Success of Philadelphia's Olde City

For example, the City Hall is in Center City, which is the name given to downtown Philadelphia (Shapiro P03). In fact, many people...

Educational Funding Adequacy Determination

Commission might consider using this approach to defined sound basic education. The authors report there have been three approach...

Political Systems of Ancient Greece and Rome

members who were responsible for preparing "the agenda for the assembly and" carrying "out its decisions. This council also admini...

Development Models; Isisbter’s Modernization, Dependency and Marxism Theories Applied to Bangalore in India

Bangalore. In addition to this the approach is one which disregards the need for help for the worlds poor as well is the moral and...

Harlem Renaissance

on the east and Convent Avenue on the west" ("Songs of the soul" SR1). During the 1920s, a "star-studded group of poet, writer, mu...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

Monteverdi’s Orfeo

divisions.vi For twelve years he wrote music as a member of the court of the Duke of Mantua, before being appointed as choirmaster...

Kelo v. New London

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

Denver: A Great Place to Live

are considered to be kind and friendly. While an individual may be put off by conservatism, or by family oriented ideals, the tr...

Detroit, Michigan

has a relevantly new, sharp mayor who has made a lot of progress since his stint in that role. While a struggling entity, Detroit ...

Middle Eastern Immigration in America

During the earlier waves of immigration the Muslims would move to rural areas in addition to urban areas (Smith, 2008). There was ...

Nurse Salaries

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

Decision Making at Disney

creation of a Disney theme park in Europe and the acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC. Thee were very different decision and can be ...

Art Deco: New York City

style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...

Georg Simmel, Saul Bellow and “Looking for Mr. Green”

postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...

Agricultural Needs and Landlessness in Ancient Rome

themselves but produce the food that Rome needed to survive. As a consequence of the scenario outlined above, agrarian laws...

William Wordsworth’s Natural Imagery

to release the burthen of my own unnatural self and the wearying city days such as were not made for me" (Driver 48). The first li...

“Fist Stick Knife Gun”: Addressing Juvenile Delinquency

in the world and a greater and greater percentage of violent crimes in particular. The behavior of far too many of our nations ch...

Social Psychological Theory and Observation

12.30 p.m. and the stop is busy. Not only that, but a small crowd of perhaps 20 people has collected and remains long enough to li...

The Joan of Arc Memorial (Reaction Paper)

of Bronze and Mohegan granite ("Joan of Arc Memorial," 2007). This perhaps provides the sculpture with a sense of weight. The obj...

Imagery in Aguilar’s Luminous Cities

about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramat...

CHICAGO'S ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Though the Fair itself was definitely a source of economic growth for Chicago, turning it from its vision as a "frontier town" int...

“Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America's Older Industrial Cities”

growth in the 1990s and economic well being of the city residents in 2000 (Vey, 2007). Two indices of economic health were create...