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Media Role, Urbanization, and Community

areas has become considerable. As de Cauter (2001) notes,...

Populated Areas and Military Offenses

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

Downtown America Development

such probably exist in other areas. The main aim was to make these places attractive to visitors. This requires the development o...

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...

Republic of Plato and 'the Just City'

how ones intellect cannot be considered a gender. In other words, intelligence is intelligence regardless of where it is housed. ...

Leadership According to Rudolph Guiliani

about something he knows. It is entitled Leadership. Giuliani does know about leadership as he has exemplified this numerous time...

Jersey City and the Availability of Street Drugs

that became known as "crack" cocaine, which is cocaine in its purist form (Marcocci, 2002). After its first appearance, crack quic...

Urban Sprawl and the Threat to U.S. Cities

class is slowly disappearing from cities and going to the suburbs (1998). This trend is really nothing new but symptomatic of prob...

Ancient Athens and Democracy

became the law of the land (Rempel). While such a system may seem chaotic, and perhaps even very close to...

Problems of Waste Disposal in the Greater Toronto Area

but ultimately with no success. All investigation between 1980 and when the Keele Valley Landfill closed in 2002 had been directe...

Homelessness in NYC

("Modern," 2002). Modern mass homelessness had become dramatically worse in subsequent years, especially during the early-1980s r...

Analyzing the Bombing of Oklahoma City

may help one understand how and why the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah building occurred. Conflict theory, unlike functionalism o...

The Pyramid at Chichen Itza, A Mighty Climb

view and in terms of sensing the history of a people. It is not the climb, but the place and the history that seems to truly draw ...

Tri Cities Furniture Automated Systems Business Proposal

Superficially, it may seem to be counterproductive to replace the existing computer, particularly when it never has performed to t...

Terrorist Attack School Preparedness Evaluated

phone numbers for that person as well as for each member of the family (The American National Red Cross, nd). The second step is...

City of Philadelphia and Business Prospects

York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C. and San Francisco (2003). While understanding demographics is key, particularly as it...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

Japanese Architect Studios and a Team Zoo

In ten pages this paper discusses the Nago City Hall and Miyashiron community center in a consideration of a Japanese architectura...

Historical Connections Between Liverpool and Shanghai

This paper discusses the common historical aspects of these two very different and distant cities. The author examines how Ninete...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Aspects of the Death Penalty

In eleven pages the various factors relevant to the death penalty are considered in an argument against it along with some inclusi...