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Democracy Defined

for a third alternative to what he sees as the two ways of looking at democracy, either as a having "negative rights" or "positive...

Runway Clashes

flight 1736 collision on the runway at Tenerifes Los Rodeo Airport in the Canary Islands. The Flight KL4805/Pan Am 1736 d...

Making Laws

should actually be handled (Johnson, 2003). After the subcommittee has sent the bill back with full recommendations to the full c...

Plato's Republic and Five Essay Questions

self-destruction. Socrates proposes many people in the simple city would not be satisfied forever with a simple way of life (Pla...

Suffolk County's Energy Problem

Country has a unique problem related to its isolation and high cost of energy resources. There are solutions. In 2000, a New York...

Bird Beak Precipitation and Morphology

environmental parameters outcompeted those who are not as well adapted. In other words, animals which are anatomically well-suite...

Typee by Herman Melville and its Ethnological and Analytical Observations

of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...

Immigration and Ellis Island

what is known as National Origins Act and this was responsible for a great decrease in the number of people who came to Ellis Ilan...

Tourism Marketing of the Virgin Islands

area is attractive to tourists for several reasons, in the winter the temperature averages between seventy-seven and eighty-two de...

Natural Disaster Reclamation of Hawaii

In six pages this paper examines a fictitious scenario involving the natural disaster destruction of the Hawaiian Islands' manmade...

Galapagos Islands' Marine Iguana

In two pages the Galapagos Islands' marine iguana or Amblyrhyncus cristatus is discussed with a specimen picture described. One s...

Long Island's Transportation History

to the multitude of choices of transport on Long Island. Finally, in a discussion of Long Island, it is important to define it. W...

Finches Study by Peter and Rosemary Grant from a Philosophical Perspective

In eight pages this paper discusses how Darwin's concepts of evolution are affected by the Galapagos Islands' finch research condu...

Evidence Offered by Charles Darwin on Natural Selection

In six pages this paper discusses the natural selection theory of Charles Darwin and includes a consideration of the Galapagos Isl...

The Environmental Impact of the Element Cadmium

of problems with cadmium have not been ignored. Such concerns have been voiced over the past twenty-year or so and early issues h...

Early American Presence and Refugium Examination

carbon dating placed him at a time when the land barrier would have still been accessible. "Its incredible whats in the ice," sa...

Urban Agriculture - Benefits And Risks

living in urban areas to become involved in producing food (Prudham, 2005). That proportion also differs by region, ranging from 1...

Thoughts for Theologians in Cities

This essay defines and discusses urban theology. It discusses cities and urban areas in the Bible and in today’s society. The essa...

Pastoring in the City

This paper reports an interview with an urban pastor. The writer identifies the pastor's theology and philosophy and provides a lo...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Urban Church in Queens

Urban ministers need to remember their primary mission, according to Pastor Etwaru, from the Global Christian Ministries in Queens...

Cry of the Urban Poor by Viv Grigg

This book review is on Viv Grigg's Cry of the Urban Poor, which relates the author's experiences living and ministering to the urb...

2003 Fire at Rhode Island's Station Fire Nightclub

they tried to go out the same way they came in...the other three exits had signs with battery-powered lights, but people couldnt s...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

New York City - Urban Planning

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

Hawaiian Islands' Coral Reef Ecology

and manmade events. Industrial, nutrient and fresh-water run-off kills the coral closest to the shore and allows for the spread of...

Beyond the Industrial Revolution in Urban Design

to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerab...

The Roles of Urban Planning

This 5 page paper discusses two of the roles of urban planning. The writer first discusses land use, then discusses the rapid grow...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

Hawaiian Island's Monk Seal Endangered Species

longer if action is not taken to try to preserve the remaining few that there are. As of this writing there are only one thousand...