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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...

City Governments, Reformed v. Unreformed

power (1993). In other words, one may hold office but have a hard time maintaining popularity. One example comes from New York Cit...

Peloponnesian War Defeat of Athens in 404 B.C.

turned into tribute to Athens" (Greer, 1977, p. 74). Many neighboring city states were appalled by Athens avarice and abuse of po...

A Latin Jazz Exploration

In ten pages the history of Latin jazz is presented with a discussion of locations such as New York City and important musicians s...

Kerouac, Auster, and Whitman A Conversation

A five page fictitious conversation among these three authors is developed and considers the similarities and differences of such ...

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...

Tutorial on Medical Training Improvements

Oftentimes, when a patient arrived at the clinic for their appointment, they were told that their charts could not be found and th...

E-Commerce, Tax Revenues and Physical Stores

Internet sales would result in decreased sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores (1999). That seems to make logical sense if ...

American Urban Politics and the Federalist System

as partnerships related to: "fundamental human dignity; issues that do not recognize borders; and issues where major financial res...

2002 Winter Olympics' Pairs Skating Controversy

In five pages this paper examines the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002 and discusses the pairs figure skating vote fixing sc...

Romantic Era Poetry of John Keats

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program

teens living in non-institutionalized group situations at the time of the 1990 census (US Census Bureau). Figures from the 2000 C...

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...

Early Urban America and the Impact of Railroads

The absolute neglect with which this matter was handled is most unpleasant and an excellent example of the animosity and resentmen...

Long Beach, California's Department of Health and Human Services

who is responsible to whom (Department of Health and Human Services, About, 1998). Each Bureau has an overall manager who reports ...

Corruption and Political Machines of New York City

political; in fact, religion and settlement had a great deal to do with the manner by which political machines eventually overran ...

A Historical and Theological View of Urban Renewal in Lupton's "Renewing the City"

tells Nehemiahs story in dramatic terms. The story goes thus: After invasions by Nebuchednezzar, the city of Jerusalem lay in comp...

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Revenue in Ottawa City Accounts 2005 - 2009

originating. We have a net tax revenue on the revenue statement of 1,286,044, however the taxation received is actually greater th...

My Father the Chef

the most obvious difference would be the amount of money he would make in such a restaurant. Of course it costs more to live in Ne...

The Devastation of Katrina

history of the United States, and New Orleans is still trying to recover from it. This paper considers three aspects of the storm:...

SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS: BRIBERY OR LOBBYING?

of influencing a particular outcome. The main difference is that lobbying, as such, is "persuasion," whereas bribery is an overt e...

A Tale of Amazonian Adventure

writer for "The New Yorker", David Grann becomes caught up in the legendary tale of renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harris...

Contextual Theology

to live in harmony. This incorporates the need for eliminating racism and religious intolerance. This recommendation talks about d...

Homelessness and Community Activism

aid. This aspect of San Franciscos Project Homeless Connect is particularly effective because it makes unnecessary for homeless ci...

Overview of The City of Ember

how to fix anything. Everything was provided for the inhabitants and there was plenty of everything for everyone. When the Builde...

What Michael Bloomberg's New York City Mayoral Victory Means

been many issues to crop up during 2005, inclusive of the bid for the Olympics. There was heated debated about a stadium to be bui...

Gentrification and Olde City

There are artisans and craftspeople who continue to sport a nineteenth century attitude ("Old City"). They live in what is called ...

Immigrants from Ecuador in the United States

the helm in the "New World". Each component group of the immigrant wave was subjected to the same pressure to become...