Essays on City-Data

Colorado Springs:

Colorado Springs located in central east of the United States. It is basically situated in the fountain creek some 97 km away from the Colorado State Capital in Denver. Colorado Springs is blessed with much natural beauty. The mountainous region provides a scenic beauty and a place for tourism. Colorado basically is situated around the base of Pikes Peaks. This city is also the centre of around 24 national sports governing bodies. It was entitled as the best place to live in the USA by the U.S. News and World Report ("100 Best Places to Live in the USA | ...

Financial

The population in corona in California as per 2013 was 159 503 with 100% living in urban. The males population was 80,961 (50.8%) and the females population was 78 542 (49.2%). The median resident age is 33.6 years in comparison to 35.7 years of California median age. The estimated median household income as per 2013 is $66, 094 as compared with $60,190 in California (City-data, 2016). The estimated per capital income was $25, 372 in 2013. The median gross rent is $1, 330.

Social challenges

In Corona there are high crimes rates which have continue to be a challenge ...

In the year 1880, when Susan Coolidge published her book, A Short History of the City of Philadelphia, From Its Foundation to the Present Time, she observed the rapid growth of the city. She wrote, “It is difficult to realize, when studying any one of our large American towns, how short a time it is since the ground on which it stands was an unbroken wilderness, upon which eye of white man had never rested” (Coolidge, Chapter 1). Indeed, to stand in Philadelphia today, one absorbs a sense of great history, ideas, and progress, feelings that seem as if they should ...

Rhetorical Analysis of Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer believes that the combination of her gender and ethnicity is the perfect storm to create a very specific type of discrimination, which is often accidental as her anecdotes show. Cofer makes her argument through anecdotal evidence and then lays out her conclusions in plaintive language at the end of her essay, “For them life is a struggle against the misconceptions perpetuated by the myth of the Latina as whore, domestic, or criminal.” As an analysis of her essay “The Myth Of Latin Women” yields, Cofer does not go outside of her personal experience to make her claim. She ...

It is estimated that 34.9% of adults and 17% of youth in the US are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit & Flegal, 2014). Compared to national data, the average obesity rate for Maryland is lower than the national average with the adult obesity rate of 26.7% and the low-income preschool obesity rate of 15.5% (City-data.com, n.d.). Although the average statistics for Maryland indicate a lower prevalence of obesity, the data for Bowie, MD indicates that obesity in that city is still a significant problem with 30.7% of adults and 16.7% of low-income preschool children being obese (City-data.com, n.d.). Therefore, a community-based intervention utilizing tertiary ...

the Promotion of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in Hollywood, California

Overview

In California, the Los Angeles Metro, government, public organization and communites have worked hard to develop TOD projects in several locations in California. Los Angeles County (LAC) in Southern California is bordered by the Pacific Ocean; and near enough to the southern border of the U.S. that many people have migrated north to LA. Hollywood acts like a magnet for people looking for work in the movie industry and for tourists. years. In fact, the congestion of people and their cars in LAC has made it one of the most crowded ...

Barstow is an average-sized municipality situated in the state of California and has seven constituent districts. As per the year 2010 United States census the population of Barstow stood at 22,639. Consequently, the population density was 546.9 people for every square mile. As per the residents, the makeup of Barstow includes a considerably mixed raced people who include the whites, the African Americans, Asians, Native Americans as well as the Hispanics. Around 98 percent of the residents live in family units while some live in non-institutionalized group squatters and some in institutionalized systems. The San Bernardino High Desert communities ...

Planning Before Teaching:

Epidemiological Rationale for Topic Obesity and diabetes were found to rate high compared to the State averages in South Orange Village Township. The obesity and diabetes rates stand at 25.3% and 9.4% respectively against the state’s, 23.3% for obesity and 8.3% for diabetes. There is secure food availability, provided by many grocery stores; 3.95/ 10, 000 populations, compared to 2.90/ 10,000 populations for New Jersey State. There are also full-service restaurants, which serve the needs of the population (City-data.com, 2012). In respect of this, the group shall teach the community about the causes, effects, and levels ...

Introduction

Domino pizza is a well known brand based in United States where it has a wider reach in operations. The business is the subject of this analysis where demand analysis and forecasting is used to evaluate the suitability of the business venturing in Bowie, MD. The analysis is done by collecting market data on the independent and dependent variables, calculating the regression models and the coefficient of determination whose interpretation together with the test for the regression and the variables are used as a basis of the decision. The analysis also forecasts the market demand for pizza in the region for the ...

Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, US. The city, located at the convergence of Blacks Creek, Crosswicks Creek and Delaware River had a population of 3,924 as of 2010 (city-data.com, 2012). New Jersey has a climate that is relatively comparable to most other states. Other than experiencing higher levels of precipitation; Bordentown’s all other significant statistical climate determiners are relatively similar to other states. The town has four main highways, water, rail and bus services. This transport system serves long distance trips between the southern and Northern areas of the state. Several aspects of Bordentown’s geographical ...

Having been in Missoula for the long I have been here, I would like to bring to your attention one of the contemporary problems facing our society. This problem is something that we all know yet just ignore it by discarding it as a matter of impossibility. Looking at almost all towns in America, the problem of beggars has greatly escalated leading to more and more panhandlers as time goes by. This is what has struck my brain and would also like to share my ideas on how to at least solve this problem currently if not completely (.city-data.com/forum/missoula/723306-why-so-many-panhandlers-missoula.html). ...

Outline This essay will look at the issue of global warming using the Toulmin model (Toulmin, 1; Fullerton.edu, 1). As such, the following sections will be discussed in the essay in line with the model: Claim: Looking at the issue of global warming, it is clear that there are many causes culminating into the pollution of the environment, and the degradation of the ozone layer. There are various factors that can lead to this. The end result is global warming which threatens life on the planet. As such, it is the responsibility of the inhabitants of earth ...

I live in New Jersey, which is well-known as a multi-racial state. I am an Irish-Italian and I own my own business, which is currently doing well. There are many Irish-Italians in my community and our race is well represented in most areas of society. Overall, my community encompasses its many races peacefully. However, differences still exist in the treatment and representation of the various ethnic minorities and majorities. Out of the states, New Jersey rates as one of the highest in terms of ethnic diversity. According to the City-Data website, “As of 2000, 1,476,327 New Jerseyites ( ...