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Administration of New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Labor Unions

Citys mayor before Dinkins would grab the title in 1989. Many consider Koch to have been a great mayor, and while that is the case...

The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing and Uses of Narrative

not follow any timeline, as it jumps around continuously from one moment to another. In the end we are left understanding the enti...

Subway System of New York City and Its Impact

million passengers per day (Hood, Part 1, 2001). When the subway opened in 1904, it launched an unprecedented era of growth and p...

Comparison and Contrast of The City and Ithaca

a higher understanding of what life could be. In better understanding some of these obvious themes we analyze the poem through ...

E-Learning In Employee Training

years (Brumback, 1995). This company, intent on providing information to all of its employees, uses a multi-media ongoing training...

Nineteenth Century City Planning

which commenced in July 1909 with over three hundred principal citizens taking the position, was created as a means by which to "e...

Nineteenth Century Growth of Northern Ireland's City of Belfast Industrial, Political, Religious and Social Factors

home of the most violent conflicts between the two factions. Industry The First Industrial Revolution in Northern Irela...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, France and England

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

City of Dallas, Texas

PG). Another celebrity was Doc Holliday who sent up a dental practice in Dallas, but found out that gambling was much more profit...

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...

Contemporary American City Development

and the turn of the nineteenth century, there would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that t...

Heroism in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

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...

City Development Shifts and the Path Technique

The student will want to discuss the influence of early Roman streets as they have impacted subsequent city development, as well a...

Employee Training and Credibility Legal Issues in Negligence Cases of Employee and Agency Accountability

black equality. Although the 13th Amendment was ratified in December of 1865, its provision that "neither slavery nor involuntary...

Funding for Inner City and Suburban Schools

is the tendency to place the high achieving students in private schools where they will get a more individualized and intensely fo...

Overview of Washington State's City of Seattle

than make up for its seemingly endless days of damp, gray mistiness. Style Surrounded by Green Seattle can easily be associated w...

Nature and Cities

a decline in the quality of life. The Report The report presented by the World Health Organization argued that there is a growi...

The Ancient City of Palenque

In a five page paper the ancient Mayan city of Palenque is examined in terms of its religious and historical influences and how th...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

American Dreams and American Cities

that -- unlike the European countries, from which so many nineteenth century immigrants to the US left behind - the upper classes...

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...

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...

Improving American Neighborhoods

and carriage, most of the people lived within walking distance - or at worse, simply a few miles away from their downtown centers....

The Link Between Urban Development and Design and Pollution in London

the way that we see rubbish collect on the streets, and from here it will have a further impact as it is gathered together or coll...

NYC's DOT

the citys franchise agreements that include seven private bus companies (2002). They oversee private ferry operations on city-owne...

Athens, Duty, Pericles and Socrates

that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...

Second World War Atomic Bombs Usage Justifications

number of lives lost as a result of the atomic bombs. This paper will seek to illustrate that there are, therefore,...

NYC and the Real Estate Market After the 911 Attacks

days, and then everything went back to what was thought to be normal. After September 11, 2001, things would never be the same aga...

Landmark Buildings of NYC

of the pyramidal spire. As Flagg did, Gilbert has a tower shaft that rises from a supporting block base, but to maximize the expr...