Essays on Town

A Rose for Emily constitute the crucial part of Faulkner's art. Analyzing the plot, background, and chronological order it becomes clear that Faulkner managed to develop his own manner of novelistic narration. The short stories of the writer were equally popular as his novels, and such stories as A Rose for Emily were widely appraised by critics and shared the most revered places among the representatives of the «big» genre. Indeed, by determining Faulkner's contribution to world literature, many English-speaking critics underlined that the writer's genius manifested itself in both genres, despite the complexity of the style that he ...

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Gender equality in today’s era is the most important objective for development. Smart economics is represented by the gender equality. Greater the gender equality, greater are the chances of improved productivity, development outcomes for the coming generation are improved and institutions look more representative. This study aims to understand the Declining Sex Ratio in India, What are the reasons for declining child sex ratio, the gender gap and the need for policy reforms that should be taken to improve this Sex Ratio in India. Sex ratio is defined as the number of females against 1000 males. The result ...

History of dengue

Dengue is described by the World Health Organization (n.d.) as a fast emerging pandemic viral disease with worldwide prevalence. The viral disease was initially traced to the epidemics in Java and in Egypt in 1779. Some literatures trace back the virus and its vectorsto the Chin Dynasty. It was hypothesized that the disease occured in the Western hemisphere in the midddle of the 17th century and believed to originate from tropical America. However, some researchers would point out that the accounts of dengue outbreaks were traced back during the 18th and 19th century in Southeast Asia.The dengue outbreaks in ...

Introduction

In a perfect democracy, the people and the states are one and the same element. In this accord, it is extremely unethical and unprofessional to segregate the public’s involvement in state affairs. In this regard, prudent and essential that the public is allowed to be the key players in the community development projects. Not only will the act of fostering public involvement in planning, sparkle the public’s cooperation, but also, tremendous advantages will be accrued from the government-public corporation. The planning of community development projects tends to foster betterment of the standards of living within a particular ...

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to be given to an artist “who created the most distinguished picture book of the year.” (www.ala.org) In 1992, the winner of that prestigious award was David Wiesner, the children’s author and illustrator of the book Tuesday. Known for books with little or few words, Tuesday stays true to this artist’s format. The book opens with the words, “TUESDAY EVENING, AROUND EIGHT”. It is easy to see why it became such a favorite. Simply it is the story of frogs unexpectedly taking flight from their pond, on lily pads. Through pictures ...

Introduction

The world around us is experiencing paradigm shifts in the different kinds of phenomenon. This is because the human race is going through a phase of development, and it is becoming difficult to estimate the enthusiasm involved in this process. The dynamics associated with the development are complex, and it is imperative to analyze its impact on our environment. In order to ensure prosperity for our future generations, it is essential to conduct a proper analysis regarding the people and their environments. The environment used to play a vital role in the development of suitable atmosphere for living creatures ...

Immigration is a contentious topic in the United States today. Even now, the Presidential Debates are full of discussion of immigration and the suggestion of immigration reform; in the last months of his presidency, President Obama seems intent on discussing and passing new immigration reform legislation as well. Immigration is a difficult topic in the United States because the country has literally been built on the backs of immigrants; however, there is also a long history of xenophobic thought and nationalistic sentiment in the United States as a whole. The history of immigration is even more contentious in places ...

Gone Baby Gone is a thriller movie that involves a working call neighborhood in Boston. However, it follows unhappily the footstep of two other crime movies in Boston, where it only depicts the famous characters as inherently unworthy and assumes their neighborhoods on one that involves a lot of crime scene in which everyone seems guilty of something since they all involve themselves in ‘ugly’ or ‘evil’ acts (Goldsmith 54). The adaptation involved in crime scene novels does the writing and makes the movie a typical hard-boiled motion picture to the point of being overcooked. For this reason, Gone ...

With the fossil fuel energies and oil fast depleting, the industrial civilization is at a crossroad. After all, the entire infrastructure behind industrial technologies is aging and needs a new perspective. Governments and businesses are in a tight spot with riding debts and unemployment. Ever since the 2008 economic recession, the governments, business communities and civil societies are at loggerheads as to how to revitalize the global economy and help the world grow and self-sustain (Rifkin 1). Clearly, the era of great energy is over. A bold new economic narrative is repaired to transform the society. 1.1 A New ...

Music has a lot of emotional connection to our feelings and we relate it to our life journeys. Many of the songs we listen to reflects love and how it relates to our personal life. Songs sooth the soul as a way of understanding how we feel even we do not understand completely the feeling. One great composer is a high recognizable individual who has done just that. The wonderful talented musical artist is Henry Purcell. His music he created called “The Food of Love” was composed in the mid 1600’s and has a signature relation of another ...

Before Sunset

A city is a natural habitation for people in the 21st century. People are born, they study, work and die in cities. A place, wherein people spend most of their time should be both multi-functional and convenient. Thus, city planning is of outmost importance for people to live in a comfortable and friendly environment. There have been numerous attempts to improve urban planning and to create a dream city. Some of such attempts remained to be theoretical developments only, while others were realized, for example, such utopian projects as Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow or Le Corbusier’s ...

PART 1: ART AND ARCHITECTURE THEME REFLECTION

Part 1: Thinking Through Theme and Image

The theme chosen for discussion within this particular project is the theme of duality and conflict as a result of duality. This is a common theme throughout arts and literature; it can be seen in a grand sense in the Bible, with the duality of the divine, as well as in classical literature like Frankenstein. It is also present in many famous works of art, including works of art like Picasso’s Guernica. Duality and conflict—and associated themes of war and strife—are common themes because they are universal in many ...

The use of cityscapes in cinema began in the mid-1920s with Berlin being the birth city of these new types of movies. Since then, cities have provided a production site as well as consumptions and distribution sites. The usage of cities in movies also assists in explaining different emerging issues within the modern urban society. Using cities as sites for shooting movies allows an understanding issues of the public sphere and social space (Mennel 32). Employing city landscape when shooting movies also help in promoting an understanding of modern aesthetics. Linklater’s movie Before Sunset tells a romantic story ...

Introduction

Over the years, there have many cities within the United States that have been developed in terms of infrastructure and housing facilities, leaving the case for landscape and sustainability of the natural resources behind. Historically, Los Angeles is one of the big cities that have been developed on the basis of utilizing the natural resources of the nearby region and focusing on building an urban metropolitan city. Sustainability has been put on the backfoot, for the past century as urbanization and incoming flow of population has seen investment in every form of infrastructure, leaving the once naturally beautiful region ...

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Comparison Contrast Essay

A Comparative Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and Franz Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” There are both similarities and differences between the short stories A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and A Hunger Artist, but it is certain that these two stories can be compared on several levels. Every man deserves to be treated with respect in spite of being different than most people. Both of the stories have the main characters who do not fit in the society, who are different and deserve to be accepted for who ...

The different sources of drinking water comprise of streams, ponds, rivers, lakes, groundwater wells and springs. San Jose Municipal Water System, CA, buys treated surface water from the Santa Clara Valley Water District that imports water chiefly from San Luis Reservoir, Lake Del Valle and South Bay Aqueduct (Water Supply, 2016). It also buys treated water and Hetch Hetchy water from San Francisco Public Utilities Commission that gets its water supply from Hetch Hetchy Watershed. San Jose Municipal Water System is run by City of San José, Great Oaks Water Company, and San Jose Water Company. Although the water ...

Introduction

Growing up in a poor urban area, it is difficult to make ends meet. An autistic and handicapped child is very stressful for parents and family members. While autistic individuals are relatively high-functioning, they have great difficulties socializing and interacting with others. The fact that an autistic person is furthermore confined to a wheelchair and cannot walk is stigmatizing enough in elementary school, but the learning disability is even more of a challenge. Although they are capable of learning and many are highly intelligent, they have obvious learning differences and must go at their own pace. Most would perform ...

Introduction

Africa has a population of over one billion people that is roughly 14% of the world’s population (Brown and Levasseur). Most of the people in the continent live in rural areas with some of these places densely populated. Areas that are highly populated are along the river Nile, the Maghreb region, West Africa, East African Highlands, and eastern half of South Africa.

Environmental Factors Affecting Population Distribution

Most of sub-Saharan Africa nations rely on agriculture for a living either through subsistence agriculture, export agriculture or a combination of both. Areas with fertile soils and reliable annual rainfall that can support the growing of ...

Land changing is a major activity of how people are believed to be civilized. Since the beginning, very many years have passed and some people have converted the natural landscape which is the area having many people. Motivations which are typical for the change in land are the cultivation, the occupation and also other cultural and the economic pursuits. All through the time the earth’s surface has been the mosaic of the natural and also the culture landscape. Every path of this mosaic, forms part of a very diverse and also the interconnected sets of the landscapes which ...

Many people agree that the period of chivalry was probably the most interesting and fascinating. The word chivalry is mainly associated with knights and is usually described as institution of knighthood. It is also believed that chivalry presupposes such traits as courtesy, valor and generosity. It also presupposes helping the weak (such as women and children). It is clear that nowadays the concept of chivalry has become archaic. However, its examples may be still found in fiction and in modern life. For example, William Faulkner in his work “A Rose for Emily” and James Joyce in his work “Araby” ...

Cardboard is a material used in the architectural department in the buildings as it is easily available, relatively cheap and available. Many past architects have been seen to use cardboard in their work, architects such as Shigeru Ban, in the Cathedral Christchurch. Cardboard can be improved by having it corrugated. By corrugating, this makes the cardboard to be easier to combine with other types of boards and this makes it a better quality. The best types of glue to use with cardboard are polyvinyl acetate glue because this glue gives a very tight bond thus making it stronger when ...

In the 15th century, the population of the Europe grew tremendously. This gave a chance for a class of merchants to emerge; they bought expensive jewels and silk, and would spice their dried meat with cinnamon or pepper (English Online). Since the need for these goods grew, they had to be brought in through routes controlled by the Turkish Empire; this was tough for the European merchants (English Online). They had to find alternative routes through countries like Spain and Portugal, through the assistance of new ships and instruments, and thus the Age of European Exploration was born. The ...

Analysis for Fuddruckers

Re: Product Competitiveness Introduction There are a number of factors that affect the competitiveness of Fuddruckers. These effects work both positively and negatively to bring change to the brand. It is important to highlight the benefits that the market, the environment and the company best practices that affect Fuddruckers activities in the market. This is through identifying the industry in which the company is involved and analyzing the best practices therein. Fuddruckers is a restaurant chain located in America. It deals with fast casual food staffs which is specialized to hamburgers (Fuddruckers 2). This means that the organization is ...

MARKETING

Development in science and technology Current technology available China has quite a number of current technologies that are not common to the rest of the world and the technologies are listed as below; High voltage transmission; China has innovated the world`s first ultra-high voltage DC and AC lines, which are capable of carrying more power efficiently for longer distances.

High speed rail

Advanced coal technologies Nuclear power Alternative energy vehicles; these include hybrid, electric, plug –in hybrids, and fuel cell vehicles. Supercomputing Solar energy technologies B. Technological skills and the general labor force of CHIINA The general labor force of china ...

Children of Heaven

The film Children of Heaven is Iranian film released in 1997. The main theme in the film is family love and sacrifice they make for each other. The other important themes are dignity in poverty and effort that people make in order to survive as well as the contrast between urban and rural areas. The family is consisted of the parents, a son and a daughter and all of them are good people who happen to be poor and live in a poor neighborhood in Tehran. They are honest, hard-working and represent the society which is selfless and caring. ...

China is dealing with tons of waste produced every day. With unsustainable development and production, countries are exploiting natural and other resources and causing environmental degradation, polluting the air, water, land and soil. With inappropriate waste disposals, the environment is becoming polluted, and is dangerous for health of people. With increasing concern of people regarding environmental pollution, and its effect on health, protests were seen through the last whole year in the communist country. The topic is important, because more and more incarnation plants are being constructed in China, which are causing havoc to environment, and are also putting ...

In Majid Majidi’s “Children of Heaven”, released in 1997, Ali and Zahra lead viewers through the old streets of Tehran, in an adventure to solve the problem of a lost pair of shoes. For western viewers, the film offers the perfect opportunity to become acquainted with the Iranian culture and the Oriental atmosphere of the old streets which pervades many of the scenes is fascinating. The filmmakers create a realistic picture of the Iranian capital and identify both the most beautiful, and the most disturbing aspects of urban life in this country. As the film progresses, the viewers ...

The 1955 short story, “Good Country People”, written by Flannery O’Connor, delves primarily on the human tendency to take advantage of the weaknesses of others, and the perception that everything urban is more superior than its country-style counterpart. This has been achieved through the use of several elements of fiction, obvious of which are the use of symbolism and irony. As such, in the said story urbanism is represented in the characters of Mrs. Hopewell and he children, while the supposed lower or innocent class of country living is seen in Mrs. Freeman and Manley Pointer. More so, ...

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Technically, a lexicographer is a person who writes compiles and edits dictionaries. According to a comprehensive dictionary of English language, lexicographer is "a harmless drudge who compiles lists of words." (Kaye 129). Therefore, the creators of the Urban Dictionary qualifies to be called the lexicographers. The creators or the authors of this dictionary are required to provide the correct spelling of the word they are creating, example sentence and its definition. With this light, the creators must make appropriate decisions regarding the authentic or proper form of language. Consequently, these self-appointed creators both standardize and record the language used ...

The food justice movement can be understood as a network of people who are concerned about corporate control and the deterioration in quality of our food supply which has resulted in a range of public health crises. For the most part, the leaders of this movement are white and upper middle class academics, journalists and other activists who speak with each other. A problem is that the main victims of the global food supply chain are actually a majority low income populations in urban and rural areas. An overwhelming proportion of this demographic, especially in urban areas, are racial ...

The Eminent Domain Law reflects the state purchasing private property that belongs to residences and using it for public use. “The private property that is obtained from private owners are to be compensated for the sale of the property” . In order for this type of purchase to be considered there has to be legitimate reason and proof that the property will benefit the public in a positive way. A hearing usually takes place with the public being able to input on the circumstances that the property purchase is being used for. The proper channels should be considered before the ...

INDIVIDUAL MEMO: IDENTIFYING BEST PRACTICES FOR HOMELESS SERVICES IN A BUSINESS DISTRICT

Executive Summary The City Heights Business Association is interested in understanding the best practices for homeless services to deal with the relatively large population of homeless individuals in the business improvement district (City Heights Business Association, 2016). The organization has services available in the form of funding and partners, but the organization is very concerned about what the most important method for dealing with the problem of homelessness in the United States— and particularly in their district and surrounding districts— might be. This discussion is an overview of the various options that the City Heights Business Association might have ...

What makes a murderer? This question has often confounded many researchers, scientists and criminologists. Understanding the underlying motivation of a killer is important to researchers, scientists and policymakers to create responsive laws and policies that could minimize the instances of this crime. Some believed that murder, like some diseases, runs in the family. This means that if one has an ascendant or ascendants that committed murder or had killed in the past, then it is likely that the person will also commit a similar crime. Others, however, lay the blame on the environment in which a person has been ...

In the first book: Mr. Gradgrind is a man who is all about propriety and facts, He scolds Sissy, whose father works with the horses in the traveling circus for using the informal version of her name and not being able to define horse. Two of Gradgrind’s children, Thomas and Louisa go to see the circus after school, but they run into Gradgrind who tells them to return home. Gradgrind’s close friend is Josiah Bounderby, who is a wealthy factory owner. Josiah likes to lie about abuses in his childhood. Bounderby and Gradgrind kick Sissy out of ...

Doug Baldwin’s article, A Study in Social Control: The Life of the Silver Miner in Northern Ontario, presents a complete sociological examination of the relationship between capitalist enterprises and the social hierarchy that it serves. Baldwin’s work, although overly historical in the preface of the article, thoroughly explains the causal dependencies in regard to the development of a micro-culture. The article demonstrates that similar mechanisms also propel larger groups to societies and that there are analogous instances that can be seen through each stage of development. Baldwin is an academic writer who does express the intended ideas ...

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Problems of various recycling methods .3 Executive summary 3 Field investigation ..5 Benefits ..8 Recommendations ..9

Introduction

Most countries need to solve the issue of waste disposal. Currently the bulk of waste dumped at landfills. This situation has extremely negative impact on the environment, since the decomposition of organic substances are released into the atmosphere large quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. According to researches many scientists still have not found the optimal solution for the safe and cost-effective waste management. Waste disposal and waste incineration do irreparable harm to human health and ...

Introduction

A brief history of space travel In many ways the todays advances in space travel came into fruition by accident. During World War II the Nazi’s create and implement rockets as weapons against the British. These rockets flew over 3,500 miles per hour and had an arch of 60 miles high. (A Brief History, n.d). Following WWII, the Soviet Union began creating their own missile program (A Brief History, n.d). By 1957 the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite into space. They followed this up four years later by having Russian Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin ...

Education Segregation in the United States

Education is a critical component of a country’s future, and the quality of a country’s citizens determines the level of prosperity its community will enjoy. In multicultural societies emerging in the modern world, there exist variables among citizens that limit their access to education. An advanced country should have in place an education system that offers all children the chance to a quality education. Nonetheless, many advanced countries education systems displays weaknesses that inhibit the ability of some students to acquire a meaningful education. Kozol examines this situation in his article, ‘From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’ ...

Impact of Contraband, Bootlegging and Peddling on Inner City Small Business Success: A Millennial’s Perspective

Abstract Inner cities were the business hub for a long period of time. However, in the last 30 years, many large and small businesses have closed down their shops and moved out of inner cities to more affluent city suburbs. Especially noteworthy is the fact that small essential businesses such as grocery stores and drugstores are closing down their stores in inner cities despite a huge demand prevailing there. There are many reasons attributing to the problem. Contraband, bootlegging and peddling definitely have forced some of the small business owners to shut down their business. They are unable to ...

Red Dawn is a movie directed by Bradley, Dan and written by Carl Ellsworth, Jeremy Passmore, Kevin Reynolds, and John Milius that was released in 2012. It is important to note that the film released in 2012 is a remake of a similarly titled film released in 1984. This movie feature prominent actors in its cast including Josh Peck (Matt), Chris Hemsworth (Jed), Josh Hutcherson (Robert), Isabel Lucas (Erica), Brett Cullen (Tom), Connor Cruise (Daryl), and Adrianne Palicki (Toni). In summary, this War film portrays an American City waking up to an invasion by Koreans seen through the paratroopers ...

Social Issues in the Films “Anna Karenina” and “The First Grader”

“Anna Karenina” is considered to be a great historical novel written by Russian world renowned novelist Lev Tolstoy. It is also a film directed by Joe Wright. It serves up all the important issues intertwined with tasty, thrilling, salacious and tantalizing gossip. It is a story with varied affairs, complete with sex, heartbreak and eventually, suicide-by-train (Anna Karenina). Having written the novel during the 1870s, there were lots of political and societal changes in Russia. The novel occurs against the backdrop of liberal reforms represented by Emperor Alexander II in the 1860s. These reforms involved prompt growth and development ...

According to the recent State of the World’s Cities Report 2012, a holistic and integrated approach is essential for the well-being of all. It is critical to get aware of the new risks and support the cities to make the world progress economically, socially and environmentally. Although different crises of varying intensity have hit the cities, it is felt that cities can provide a solution for the regional and global crises via flexible and creative platforms. Part One: Prosperity and Urban Trends The future cities will be the center of prosperity. The human beings find their basic needs ...

Exams were finally over, and I had all kinds of thoughts about how I would spend my summer holiday. It was my final year of college and my last summer with my friends, most of whom we would have to part ways since I was a foreign student and planned to travel home after my last semester. My girlfriend, Bella, short for Anabel, had that look of expectation toward a great summer when she saw me. As I drove to my apartment after parting ways with my friends, she talked about all sorts of things including how we planned ...

Introduction

The city of New York is a state in the United States of America. It is located in the North-Eastern United States. It has many nicknames which include “The Big Apple” and “The Empire State”. New York City is a fast paced city. It is famous for setting global trends in fields such as the arts, culture, fashion and finance. It is also home to iconic landmarks. These include the Central Park, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and the Times Square. The city of New York is also the most populated city of the United States. ...

SOCIAL INTERPRISE REVIEW

Introduction Review of the article “The Role of Farmers’ Markets in Two Low Income, Urban Communities” reveals outcomes of a study specific to collecting consumer demographics in the East Loa Angles Farmers’ Market and South Los Angeles Watt Healthy Farmer’s Market. Both of the markets host local farmers’ produce in the direct focus to bring fresh and healthier foods to these two low income poverty areas of Los Angeles in an effort to provide education on healthier eating for intervention focus on the high rates of obesity and the causal factors of poor health and the associated co-morbidities ...

Over the 170 years of its history, the United States was in colonial dependence on Britain. The settlement of the New World was the work of individuals and companies that have received such permission from the monarch of England. Differences in the social character of these colonizers predetermined different colonization trends in the regions of their settlement and conditionally divided them into three groups: 1) joint-stock companies of the bourgeois type; 2) Protestants and other religious minorities; 3) aristocrats. Thus, there were three types of colonies: the northern colonies - New England (Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut ...

Observed Affects of Age, Gender, and Culture

Observed Affects of Age, Gender, and Culture

Introduction

The objective of this observational research is to test two hypotheses. First, that in contemporary society traditional male courtesies toward unknown females, such as allowing females to disembark first from an elevator, are rarely practiced by younger men, for example those under 40 years old. This is probably not because younger men are ill-mannered, but because females are perceived as more independent today than they were in the past and so do not require special treatment. Since this male deference is no longer offered consistently, a female elevator passenger is now in ...

Ancient African Art and architecture

Ancient African Art and architecture mostly reflects the time, needs and place in which it was established. Though the works of art are situated in different geographical regions there seems to be several similarities.

Djenne Mosque Mall

Mali is in the Black Africa part of the African continent. It is in here the Great Djenne Mosque is situated. The native black Africa has, and still suffered many years of poverty and political instability despite having gained independence (Creswell and Allan, 56). Though black Africa seems to be the same, it is further divided into two, with West Africa and East Africa on ...

The history of Jamestown dates back into June 1606 when King James I issued a charter to a team of entrepreneurs from London, also known as Virginia Company to build an English settlement in the Northern Part of America in a region called Chesapeake. On May 14, 1607, an English colony was established after Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island. Jamestown was almost brought to a rim of failure by famine, conflicts with the Native Americans, diseases and many other problems in the first two years before a new group of settlers rescued it in 1610. Jamestown, however, ...

Three critical issues

According to the article urban centers are historically credited with significant economic growth. It follows that the expansion of urban centers would continue to play a critical role in the economic shifts all over the world. Economist needs to have a precise evaluation of the rate of growth of the cities to predict the economic changes. The app provides an interactive map comparing up to two thousand, six hundred cities. The app gives the GDP, the population, and the income levels of 2010, and the situation in 2025. From this information, historians, city planners, and cooperate strategist can make ...

ANALYSIS OF TWO ARTICLES: A LADDER OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND THE NEW MT.EDEN

The article “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” by Sherry R Arnstein (1969) is about the various forms of civil participation in the cities. Arnstein defined eight levels of civil participation that could be observed in the USA in the 1960s. The author argues that very rarely in the USA the people truly participate in the urban processes. Instead there is widespread non-participation and tokenism of participation. Arnstein defines the civil participation as a term for citizen power which enables the citizens that were excluded from decision making processes to be included in the future. If there is civil participation, ...

Delivery date

Go To 2040 is a plan that is being implemented in the Chicago metropolitan area. It was adopted in 2010 in the month of October. The plan is mainly aimed to help the state government to handle the projected additional 2 million residents by the year 2040. It thus ensures that people will have enough homes to live in, the economy will not deteriorate, and unemployment rates will not hike among other things the community requires. The plan has four themes. The first is human capital, and it deals with employment for all people in the area. The second ...

“One saying: the techniquereproduced object domain of tradition. By making for a unique existence. And in permitting object reproduced Benjamin is saying that reproductions reduce the integrity of the art because the product is no longer authentic. It seems to him that an object is only unique and interesting in its singularity and once it becomes too easy to obtain then it loses its allure. For example, the Mona Lisa it is considered by many to be a great piece of art and there is only one. Which makes it intriguing. Now if the look the woman had was ...

Timbuktu and Jenne and Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili City States

In ancient times there existed numerous civilizations we are not even aware of. Till our days we know about the signs of several civilizations which, in spite of their pre-domini age, impress with great achievements in different spheres of activity.

In the given paper I would like to compare two civilizations – Timbuktu and Duarte Borbosa.

I would like to begin with geographical position of these civilizations. The first existed on the area, which is now known as Nigeria, Africa. The second lived on the territory of modern India. The difference in geographical location influenced the development of cultures and spheres of activities which were popular among those representatives. The facts show that both civilizations ...

Broadband Access Disparities

The case for broadband access disparities has been established by a recent, widely accessible report (Council of Economic Advisers). The report emphasizes disparities in broadband access based on different metrics including income, educational attainment, age and geography (urban vs. rural). For current purposes, focus is laid on racial, educational and geographic disparities. For racial disparities, report findings show households of White and Hispanic races are at upper and lowest ranks of Internet access at (56.0% – 77.4%) and (34.3% – 66.7%) over (2001-2013) respectively (Council of Economic Advisers). Blacks, Asians and Native Americans improve from (31.0%; N/A; 38.5%) to (61.3%; 86.6%; ...

The current state of affairs in Toronto in terms of child poverty is quite bleak. There are a number of problems associated with poverty in Toronto’s urban center, but the problem of poverty as it is associated with children and childcare is of particular interest for the future of the city. Toronto, as a city, has been experiencing serious problems associated with childhood poverty for decades; indeed, since the 1980s, Toronto has consistently been the Canadian city with the worst record on youth poverty (D, 2016; Mangione, 2015). Not all of the children living in poverty in Toronto ...

Sociological Analysis:

Most of the written works on gender roles and sexuality during the Greco-Roman period largely categorizes gender in two-- female or male. Likewise, society was segregated into two major sections-- the private domain and the public domain. Men usually dominate the public domain, whereas women largely dominate the private domain. During the ancient period, in the Greco-Roman world, women were banned from important public positions and activities. Even though women progressively acquired social entitlement and a greater degree of autonomy under private law, their position in public law is still seriously limited (Holmes 2012). However, in some ways, women ...

Delivery date

Overcrowding, pollution, congestion and traffic are some of the reasons why most governments need to focus on the planning of cities and the adjacent neighborhood. For example, in United States, Chicago is one of the cities that exhibit most of these factors thus necessitating planning. Traditional planning methods focused on bringing down old buildings and building new low-income buildings. However, this did not stop the formation of slum-like dwellings. Modern city planning was thus necessary. It focuses on improving city economic as well as social aspects of city living. Contemporary urban planning is one of the planning processes that ...

MANCHESTER

ASSIGNMENT OF tourist destinations 2016 NOVEMBER, GROUP 4 Tourist Destination Introduction There are different modes of traveling and the fastest is through the air. Most of the people prefer to travel through the air because it facilitates them in reaching all parts of the world. A lot of changes has been made from the inception of airplanes and now the customers have an entirely experience, as the airplanes offer several facilities to its customers. Today, aircrafts have become sophisticated, safer, faster, and cheaper. For these reasons, tourism has exploded. In 2013, 3 billion air passengers arrived at various world ...

The Second Battle of Fallujah

The Second Battle of Fallujah The Second Battle of Fallujah (Operation Al-Fajr) took place in Fallujah 43 mi west of Baghdad. It is city with more than 300,000 residents and people often call it a “city of mosques”. Fallujah had not been affected by the military activity in Iraq until 2004, but then it became a hot zone where insurgency led to the large number of casualties. Fallujah’s residents used to be open to the Coalition forces, but on 28 April 2003 several local demonstrators were killed by the military and this incident caused a rise of ...