land use zones - are the areas of housing, industry and commerce (shops, offices etc.)in a town. industrial estate - an area of modem factories Infrastructure - the framework of roads, railways, power supplies land use zones - areas in a town with the same kind of land use linear settlement - settlement with a long, narrow shape low order services - those used frequently by most people, found in villages as well as towns e.g. post office, general shop nucleated - a settlement with the buildings clustered together residential area - housing area site - the land on which a settlement is ...

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Is it because we want to escape from our chaotic and complicated surroundings? ... The Astrology of the Hippy Movement "The deeper, more subtle, changes that the Hippy Movement generated are still being integrated into our social and political structures as well as our collective psyche. ... So our philosophy is a mélange of the teachings of Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Krishna, Gandhi, even some latter-day saints like Lennon, Leary and Morrison. ... In small towns they often stand out like a Peter Max poster in a funeral home. ... Once they discover other hippies their age that they can ...

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There is destructive impact of our way of life (mostly urban) on the regional and global environment. ... Cities of our times look like each other. ... We must be able to connect our buildings to the open spaces; this extends our consciousness to our immediate surroundings. ... Certain relationships between space and buildings were reorganized in the medieval town. ... In the history, town life was always centered upon the plaza9. ...

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Everyday Life In Colonial America The eighteenth century was a very interesting time in our nation's history because our nation was born through the hard work and the dedication of those who lived during those times. ... Our nation was once made up of many different kinds of people, from puritans to slaves, whose religious and cultural beliefs varied tremendously. ... The northern region of colonial America was an influential region because its eventual formation of government and acts of rebellion would be the spark that helped us gain our freedom from England. ... Towns were more c...

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What commonality are these writers describing about our western civilization that is so typically unbalanced. ... Johnson became the dark truth and the well kept secret of his town because of his ugliness. ... The town felt a deep sense of sorrow for not appreciating Johnson more while he was alive. ... Trescott who quickly loses business in town because of Henry's exploits. ... He asks them to find his mystery "benefactor" that resided in the town. ...

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Skyllberg had eaten nothing but handfuls of snow since December 19 when his car became bogged down in drifts near the town of Umea in northern Sweden. " (Hall) His battery died and he was left without an option to heat up his surroundings with machinery, as well as, stuck in a location where it would be hard to notice him. ... Therefore, it can be seen that expanding research in this area will greatly help our economy, our exceeding gas prices, and our chances of not being in a life or death situation because a dead disposable battery that's unpredictable of when they are going to run out...

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Group1 1 OUR FOOD SYSTEM After a long hard day of work you sit down in your comfortable recliner and open up your favorite snack. ... Just recently, there was a great example of how great our government is, even with the many shortcomings. ...

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CLEAN-India programme, an initiative of Development Alternatives was launched in 1996 with a vision of developing cleaner environment for our towns and cities through a network of schools and NGOs linked with Government, business, academic and other institutions. This nation-wide programme on environmental Assessment, Awareness, Action and Advocacy (4'A's) aims to mobilise community responsibility for environmental assessment and improvement in all major towns and cities of India, spearheaded by school students (our future citizens) at the fore. ... John May The Greenpeace Story Th...

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Together with his posse and lasso, the Dark Knight restores some law and order to the town of mayhem. ... We get our first sense of a city quickly going to hell. ... Batman can no longer sit by while his town is destroyed by these wild men. Resembling other lawman, he takes justice into his hands to ensure the safety of the towns people. We can see this example within the small town of Tombstone, Arizona. ...

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Pudd'nhead Wilson, originally called David Wilson, is a young lawyer who comes into the small town named Dawson's Landing. As he isn't recognised as a lawyer in this town, he spends most of his time in scientific hobbies like fingerprinting. ... They are very popular in this small town because of their extravagant appearance and because of being the only foreigners in town. ... Further on Mark Twain says "All the negroes were friends of ours and with those of our own age we were comrades, and yet not comrades; color and condition interposed a subtle line which both parti...

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We made our final decision just before Christmas. ... We were travelling to a Hotel in a small town outside of Munich. ... When we entered the town it took no more than 2 minutes to reach the Hotel, which was the town centre, making it very small. ... As we came near our destination we drove through the town of San Vito. 5 minutes later and a little further up the mountain side and we were at our hotel. ... After this we went to our rooms. ...

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Weighbourne, Windfield, Effie and Amy stayed at home in our new house. ... Our older brother Weighbourn was our boss, besides Mama. ... Think he'd go to town and stay all day or to visit his married children. ... The next day he went to town, he lived about 9 miles out in the country from town, and ran into my mother and told her he's seen me go by carrying a suitcase and my coat. She hired one of her nephews, who lived in town, to drive her out to my brother's house to see if it was so. ...

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Kevin has two younger brothers and is a real rural, like Homer-but unlike Lee who lived in town above his parents" restaurant. ... These people have invaded our land, locked up our families. ... "Our parents would say that the most important thing to them is our safety, but we have to make our own decisions." ... "The way I see it these are our choices; One, we can sit tight and do nothing, and there's nothing chicken about that. Two, we can have a go at getting our families and maybe other people out of the Showground, that's a tough one. ...

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How about cowboys and horses, stage coach robbers, little towns in the middle of no where, or the first railroad crossing the United States? ... The towns are filled with hostility. In one town, there are feuding families trying to kill each other off. In another, the town drunk is unnecessarily bumped off without reason. As a result, a crowd of people seek to vent their feelings by beating people up or running them out of town. ...

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It's hard to believe, but this little old lady has such a big influence on our culture. ... The biggest part of our culture is food, and everyone loved being at grandma's house for Sunday's or holidays. ... We had to speak with proper English and no cursing, we also had to have our clothes ironed before we could leave the house, as well as our shirts tucked in. ... We do not know how to live our lives without depending on society. ...

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There are no benefits for the workers; all illnesses or injuries are treated with copper sulfate pills that the town children collect for bingo games. ... Mayta screams into the town, which takes little or no notice of him, "We are rebelling against the bourgeois order, so the people can throw off their chains! ... To stop the imperialist rape of our nation!"... Macondo is a town without an economy; it is an agricultural community. Like many third-world countries, the town must purchase foreign goods with its raw materials. ...

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The townsman explains that the woman arrived two years ago in the town and was to wait for her husband, a learned Englishman, to join her. Her husband, however, never reached the town in time, and the town's consensus is that he has been lost at sea. ... After this conversation, the magistrates, along with the reverends of the town, call Hester to look at them. ... Unable to get a hint out of her, the magistrates call on the Reverend Dimmesdale, the most popular minister of the town, to decide Hester's fate. ... The new stranger in town, the deformed man, enters the cell and opts to ...

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It is evidenced by the way they speak to each other and act towards each other, but the idea is subverted due to the fact that everyone in the town sees Idgie as a man. ... So, the question begs to be asked, how could Whistle Stop, a small town in Alabama, be so accepting of something so different than the norm; a lesbian couple? It could be that they were not like any other towns back in those days. After all, they were much more accepting of and caring towards the blacks in the town; which was also unheard of in that time. ... Coping with situations within FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Human N...

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It's common to all and, in a sense, it takes us beyond all our ideologies. ... Water Pollution As if all this were not enough, we pollute our water in various other ways. ... Side by side with this, we use huge quantities of chemical fertilizers in our agriculture. ... We are polluting our waters with chemicals, with oil and with untreated sewage. ... The harmful chemicals which are deposited in one way or another into our rivers, our seas, our lakes and our oceans get into...

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Tolkien is set in a fantasy world that has differences, as well as similarities, to our own world. ... His attack on Lonely Mountain displaced an entire people and several towns. ... Master of the town: He is the leader of Esgaroth. ... When the dragon has destroyed the town, he tries to shift the blame onto the dwarves. ... He does not appear until Smaug attacks the town, but he makes a brave stand with a small group of townspeople. ...

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He returns a shattered man, unable to accept the complexities of the world; he lives on the outskirts of town, attempting to create order in his life. ... The town is at first wary of him and his ritual, then, over time, unthinkingly accepts him. ... Nel, who becomes the embodiment of the town's moral code, she gets married and is "one of them" (Morrison, 120), meaning a member of the prevailing/mainstream society. Instantly, her views become aligned with those of the town and she "belonged to the town and all of its ways" (Morrison, 120). ... Nel's outrage at Sula's actions i...

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People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... Also cited is General Sherman, who was known for his Civil War attack on Atlanta, where he shouted "War is all hell," while he plowed through a southern civilian town during his raid. 1 These names create a forewarning of destruction and chaos to the main character, whom Cummings simply mentions as "him". ... This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continue...

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Based on our investigations not many businesses will compete against us, thus giving our product the upper hand in our market niche. Our operating motto: MECCA - Make Every Customer Come Again, and leave a lasting impression in our customer's minds. ... The establishment will draw primarily from the Mansfield/Storrs market while attracting guests from other surrounding cities and towns in the Greater Hartford area. ... Whether it is a group of friends or a couple out to see a movie together, these people need a place to socialize/drink either b...

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The characters in this drama all play curious roles in this depressing time in our country's history. ... The depiction of the hangings provides insight into the feelings of the town. ... The theatrical version has no mention of the way the town reacted. ... There is no mention of the everyday activities of the town except to say that animals ran wild and land was up for grabs. ...

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Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. ... A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan returning to the area. As the situation escalates, the national guard is called into town, while everybody is awaiting the trial jury's decision. ... One example are the different coffee shops in town. ... When the klansmen ar...

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