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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...

Urban America and Cultural Wars

In nine pages this research paper discusses how social scientists define the inner city urban culture of African Americans and how...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Puerto Ricans in 'the Big Apple'

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

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...

Photographer and Social Reformer Jacob Riis

16). In 1888, Riis left the Tribune to work for the Evening Sun, at which time he also began work on his first book concerning t...

NY Politics Evolution

In five pages New York City politics and its evolution are discussed in a consideration of its historical development with politic...

Urban Development of Boston and London

In twelve pages this research paper compares London and Boston in terms of the urban development of each city. Eleven sources are...

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...

Detroit Michigan's History

In ten pages this report considers the history of one of America's largest and oldest cities dating back to the first years of the...

Mike Davis's The Ecology of Fear Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

In five pages this paper discusses the city of Los Angeles and the mismanagement and misunderstanding that have led to its geograp...

Essay on Bogota, Colombia

In an analytical essay that consists of eight pages the many contributions and rich cultural history of Bogota are discussed in te...

Successful Leadership in Business

In five pages this paper examines effective business management in a consideration of Good Guys and Circuit City companies. Six s...

Pericles' Funeral Oration

In an essay consisting of five pages the comment that city is the best teacher of man by ancient Greek poet Simonides is examined ...

Baby Boy Film by John Singleton

vulnerable in all their humanity - authentically reveal their most personal hopes and aspirations. Ten years after Boyz N T...

Economic Overview of Norfolk, VA

In five pages this paper discusses how this Virginia city is trying to improve its economic circumstances by encouraging business ...

U.S. Supreme Court and the Georgia State Supreme Court

In eleven pages this paper considers the histories of both courts and also provides case details of N.Y. Times v. Sullivan, City o...

Police Departments of Hampton Roads and Norfolk in Virginia

largest naval base and the auspicious beginnings of Americas colonial history. This essay compares a number of issues relevant to...

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Reasons Behind Them

The assumption was that Germans were working as feverishly on atomic power as was the U.S. - and it was only late in 1944 that the...

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,...