James Howard Kunstler's 1993 book, "Geography of Nowhere,"" contends that today's cities and towns are ruined by corporate gigantism, abstract renewal patterns, and public buildings that we have built. ... Kunstler further argues that people today have a great number of possessions such as modern technology that over time will not be worth maintaining because of insignificance and the failure to anticipate the cost of the social problems we created in letting our towns deteriorate. In contrast, Elizabeth Kolbert's 2008 article, "Turf War"" argues that today's lawns which ...

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Throughout history town hall meetings have used as the best method for individuals of a community to talk and discuss important issues and concerns they themselves and their community may have. ... One of the more vocal members of this town hall meeting to speak on behalf of segregation was Alabama Governor George Wallace. ... Johnson who showed great concern for our country in this moment of turmoil and the direction we are heading in as a country. ... It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning or our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor...

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The theme of the story revolves around the strong attachment to tradition and rituals of the people in this town. ... The author presents the society around this small town as rigid due to the unknown fear and evil of human nature. She presents the very destructive rituals in mankind that the people in this town engage in blindly. ... The people in this small town always come together every 27th day of sixth month for the annual lottery event. ... In conclusion, the villagers who acted as the prosecution in this annual lottery are very similar to the leaders in our present societies. ...

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These gases gather in the atmosphere, thickening it and consequently the sun's rays, which normally bounce back into space, are being trapped in our atmosphere causing the earth to heat up. ... Climate change will affect the survival of small towns in the area because most of the jobs are involved with tourists and tourism. ... The Franz Josef town relies solely on tourism to keep the town going, the 330 person town is five kilometres from the terminal face of the glacier. When the Franz Josef glacier disappears the town will be likely to disappear overtime . ...

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The creature after being rejected by his creator wandered town aimlessly, his appearance evoked fear and anger into the towns people. The creature fleed to the outskirts of town to avoid people who react to his appearance with disgust. ... This research has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the physical world. ... The possibility of having this great mind able to work towards furthering our understanding of science would ultimately be of benefit to our society. ...

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Carrington writes of Stockton as being working class and economical and socially unstable she describes it from the beginning as "a small-town of rumour and innuendo" pg xvi, which immediately position us to distrust the evidence given by the people in the town through out the book. ... Pg 89, later on Carrington backs up our views which she has construct by using emotional language and sad tone and stating "That no one has been punished for this or indeed any of the sexual violence that occurred that night is a travesty of justice that words fail to describe."... Carrington emphasis that nobo...

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Thus, Cape Town put into action a beautification plan that involved the massive destruction of slums and replacing them with more aesthetically pleasing housing structures. ... The N2 roadway connects Cape Town International airport to the center of Cape Town, thus making this strip of roadway and its dwellers visible to visiting World Cup fans and the world at large. ... The N2 gateway project in Cape Town was designed to provide adequate housing in a city known for its lack of housing. ... However, what actually occurred was the displacement of Langa residents to the outskirts of town in ...

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It also expresses the detective's obsessive nature with his work, as well as his subconscious realization that an unqualified victory is not acceptable in his struggle to rid this town of its evils. ... The crux of the town's crime and corruption "poisoning" the Op does not become fully apparent until the conclusion. ... The opening is a rather standard crime beginning: our detective-the unnamed Continental Op-goes to the home of the man who hired him. The man's not home, so the wife greets our protagonist and she automatically arouses suspicion within the Op. ... I...

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Those who have been watching the war on television are familiar with the video footage after the US military took control of Safwan, the southern Iraqi border town, when a man was captured on film hitting a large, partially destroyed wall portrait of Saddam Hussein with his shoe. ... A few days after the world heard about the shoe being smacked against Hussein's forehead, ABC News reporter John Donvan and his crew crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq and visited the town. ... They were angry at America, and said US forces had shot at people in the town. ... In cities and towns across ...

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After becoming citizens, they were still not allowed to vote, and they also had to live in certain "red lined" areas of town where living conditions were poverty level at best. ... Our football club has recently joined a new football league in our area. The director of this new league has been discriminating against our football club since the first day we joined. Our team, along with another team that has Hispanic players, does not get the same benefits or acknowledgement as the other teams in the league. At first I really did not want to believe that it was racism or even dis...

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But in 1799, French troops near the Egyptian town of Rosetta discovered an ancient basalt slab that would prove to be the key to unlocking Egypt's mysteries. ... And see how, within a few years, the secrets revealed because of the Rosetta Stone had transformed our understanding of the ancient world. ... How found, Who, What, When, Where, Why The arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in 1798 (accompanied by 175 artists, scholars, and scientists intent on studying the varied aspects of Egypt) signalled a real turning point in our knowledge of Ancient Egypt. ... Because we can read...

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I was not a minority student and did not come from a family probably as poor as Miguel's, but being from a lower-middle class family, in a small, rural southeast Oklahoma town, having lived on a farm, and being raised by two parents, although loving and caring, who had never experienced college, was very difficult. ... Like many small towns in America, there were definite "clicks " within our community. ... I realize now because of his own insecurities and lack of self-motivation he chose to carry the "torch " and wear his ignorance as a badge of honor like so many in our hometown. ......

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The physical aspect of the business of advertising is obvious, with billboards, flyers, and media messages a part of our everyday lives, but the cultural side is interesting as well. ... Throughout No Logo, she supports this belief of undemocratic brands taking over our jobs, our taste, and our humanity. Klein reproaches the global brands not only for their shameless exploitation of workers in sweatshops in developing countries and for their selfish pollution of the planet, but also for colonizing our minds and our lives. ... Hundreds of towns and suburbs across North America will fight migh...

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Imagine living in a town of thirteen thousand people and being a part of an event so historic and so dangerous from the 1980's that is still being felt until today, that displaced more than one hundred and fifteen thousand people were displaced from their homes and never allowed back to the places that they've could have lived in for multiple generations. ... Even though they knew of the danger the Communist Government refused to evacuate cities and towns; this angered many people in the Soviet Union. ... Little wonders that there are so many sick children in our district, especially...

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They may have human features but the dwarves are shorter than the town's people, or the humans, in the film and they are considerable larger which fits in with their occupation as miners and warriors. ... The opening scene involves the dragon Smaug attacking Lake Town and its defenseless town people. ... When our hero hits Smaug with the arrow and the fire in his eyes are extinguished, the camera cuts to the dwarves and Bilbo who are heard cheering in celebration showing the audience that good has overcome the initial conflict in the movie. ... Hand to hand combat is not our idea of warfa...

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Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

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On July 4th 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved and signed by fifty-six men, to whom they agreed to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"; these men represented the thirteen North American colonies that were proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, founding the United States of America. ... They consisted of six acts, among them were, the Boston Port Act, "to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, a...

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Aristotle also felt that walls and other such defensive protections should guard the town itself. The defenders of the town must always seek additional means of defense by the aid of scientific inquiry. ... The town should be organized in a quincunx (the same pattern used to plant vines), and make sure that the whole city is not laid out in geometric intervals. ... Aristotle later added the need of water to preserve proper health when he declared that "air and water, being just those things we make most frequent and constant use of, have the greatest effect on our bodily condition."" ...

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Today without map use, it is impossible to acquire and understand the knowledge of events such as; the earth sciences; the place of our state in relation to others and, the socio-economic processes taking place or having taken place at a particular location. ... Political Maps are important not only to the public but also in Geography because when studying climate we can refer to these Maps to see where exactly each region is located, so that when we talk about the Mediterranean Climate students of Geography can see the countries that are within the climate region, and how far away they are fr...

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The micro level refers to districts, towns, counties and other small areas. ... This type of representation is tied very closely to place and space and focuses mainly on small areas such as districts, towns and boroughs. ... The geography of elections has defintiely had its changes throughout our history. ... They have been able to make changes necessary to make our government meet our needs and to make our nation a better place to live and participate in politics....

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African-Americans have a strong work ethic within our families. ... Within our families and community, there are more flexible roles, meaning that our parents do not necessarily have to be there all day everyday for us. Our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and sometimes cousins take on the role of mother and father while our real parents are working, out of town, or if for some reason our biological parents are no longer around. ... We sing, dance, shout, and cry during our service. ... The church is an extended family in our community, and this is seen in the fact that we call members of our c...

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This family, known as the Grangerfords, is one of two wealthy families in the town, engaged with a feud with the other wealthy family, the Shepherdsons. ... The fact that any man of a civilized nature would not sentence his kin to death over a matter as childish as a feud, for not even our beloved pap would do such a thing. ... The most powerful and blatant attack against the South in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is found in chapter twenty-two, as a Southern Mob comes storming up to Colonel Sherburn's house, with all intentions to lynch him, after he had shot a town drunk. ... Aft...

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The plan to relocate Government well Aborigines expresses the racism in official ranks as the town wants to be devoid of all things Aboriginal (In its ploy to sway coming elections). ... Whole town knows why we"re going. Cos wetjalas in this town don't want us ere, don't want our kids at the school with their kids, and old Jimmy Mitchells tight cos they reckon they Bert Aukes gunna give him a hiding in the election" This relates to the whole Aboriginal community showing the publicity of racism practised by the dominant society, and the strength arguments such as Jimmys contain, ye...

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Interestingly, Kubler-Ross calls attention to American society's increasingly depersonalized approach to the aging and dying, and notices that our reliance on technology and machines is "our desperate attempt to deny the impending death which is so frightening and discomforting to us- to ultimately avoid "[reminding] us once more of our lack of omnipotence, our own limits and failures, and our own mortality- (Kubler-Ross 23). This only intensifies this deep-set fear of losing control of our lives to nature. ... As religious values become less standard are no longer a strong influence an...

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For years these nuclear weapons have been contaminating our environment by discharging harmful contaminants into the environment, but yet they still seem to be the backbone of our nation being built and tested every single day (Armstrong, David, 1). ... Although it has not gone unknown, many have recently become much more aware for concern of the environment, not only in their town, but in others as well. ... We are the smartest of beings on the planet and thus, have a responsibility to use our knowledge to our advantage. ... How good can nuclear weapons be in order to be built every day at...

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