Based on a short-time study of Little Saigons, a Vietnamese ethnic enclave, and Paris by Night, a musical cultural variety show, this paper examines the social, cultural, and emotional significance of such culture preservation in the lives of immigrants. ... Little Saigon and Paris by Night: Creating a Sense of Identity The story of the Vietnamese immigrant experience is one of pain and loss. ... One way that is achieved within the Vietnamese community is through Little Saigons- Vietnamese centers for commercial, cultural, and political activity-- and Paris by Night, Vietnamese-language musica...

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The next early morning, we took the first class EuroStar from Rome To Paris (990 miles, $226/per adult). ... The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. ... The construction was entrusted to Chalgrin, who built a model of the arch on the real site in 1810 for Napoléon's wedding to Marie-Louise, daughter of the Austrian ambassador. ... The Arch is a site both of memories and current events and celebrations. ... I think it was a a truly impressive landmark, 50 metres high and 45 metres wide, I do...

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Our hotel was situated in the heart of Paris which gave us ample time to visit the most famous sites, such as the Louvre museum. ... I admit that at that time it was not the most exiting thing I would do while in Paris but nowadays I am very proud to say that I saw a lot of the paintings that we talk about in our lectures. ...

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This account of Paris will look at how Paris has become a "global" city, and how it plans to remain there, and the problems that it faces. ... Globalisation has a large effect on the urban fabric of Paris. ... The city with the highly specialised services and financial innovation "a site for post-industrial production" (Sassen 1991) The service sector still employs 2.3 million people within the Ile-de-France region. ... Leading to strong social polarisation within Paris. ... This led to a high unemployment level in Paris. ...

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In some cases, parks have replaced derelict industrial sites. ... Paris is the most visited city in the world, with more than 30 million visitors per year. ... The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre are the most visited sites in Paris. The city is also a very popular site for international conferences and trade shows. ... The city also has well over 100 theaters (theatres) in Paris. ...

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By using superblocks he transformed the amount of land use by using tall towers that opened up over half of the site while keeping the population density the same and in some cases even increasing it, accounting for growth. ... Le Corbusier was very confident in architecture's role in social transformation, even suggesting that there would be a revolution if Paris did not accept the Radiant City Plan. ... Moses did however have the same top-down approach in New York as Haussmann did in Paris. ... The practice for the government previously was to select a renewal site, purchase it, reloc...

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It is set approximately 35 miles outside of Paris in the French countryside. ... The entire site is placed in a dense area of trees, which provides the gardens with somewhat a sense of seclusion (figure 1). ... This axis is also mirrored in the layout of the actual palace on the site. ... Although the gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte are the most important design element in the site as a whole, the design of the palace is also very important to the overall design. ...

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Denis is named after the first bishop of Paris and his companions martyred in 270; a small chapel was built over the place of their burial, which is now the site of the Abbey. ... Notre Dame in Paris is an example of a cathedral designed after the Gothic influence of St. ...

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Potential mineral resource developments around the Montezuma Canyon (southeastern Utah, San Juan Basin) were threatening archeological sites, petroglyphs, and ancient Pueblo and Navajo sites and artifacts. ... The destruction of Indigenous Cultural and Sacred sites and properties has been occurring since the "Day of Discovery." ... Part of the dilemma is the view non-Natives have on what we (Indigenous People) consider cultural or sacred sites and properties. ... I recall this same viewpoint when the French court, in 2013, made a determination for approving the auction for several Hopi/Zuni ka...

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According to Briney (2011), nowadays the UNESCO has more than 195 countries members; it is based in Paris and has more than fifty offices distributed in the world. ... Every country can candidate an unlimited number of sites, with a costly and lengthy practice. However, Smith (2103) states that a site must meet at least one criterion on ten to be included in the tentative list. Six criteria are related to the cultural importance of a human-made site and four are associated with the importance of a natural site (See Appendix 1). ... The other richer countries, such as European countries, see th...

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Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden on November 27, 1701. Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist, mathematician, poet, and writer of popular science. He was born into a well-known scientific family. His father, Nils Celsius, was a professor in astronomy. His two grandfathers; Magnus Cel...

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Several organizations such as .unicef, .paris, .nyc, .canon, and .hitachi have already publicized their plans to claim a domain name, but many companies and governments refuse to comment for competition reasons (Gross). ... For instance, if a certain bank only has domains with a specific suffix, scammers would have a difficult time leading users to a fake site (Gross). ...

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The ACI site development is part of the largest redevelopment project in Australia at present, that is, the Green Square/South Sydney Growth Center. ... Specifically it analyses the urban design principles underpinning the master plans for both the ACI site and the overall Green Square Draft Structural Master Plan against principles derived from some well known urban design theories. ... Subsequent council guidelines and planning instruments covering the area and masterplans for other sites such as the ACI site and Green Square Town Centre (both prepared by Lester Firth Australia (LFA) (Pacifi...

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Famous Entrepreneur Analysis Pierre Omidyar Founder of EBay History Before eBay Pierre Omidyar was born on July 21, 1967 in Paris, France. ... To his amazement the site was engulfed with visitors viewing and trying to purchase the items listed on the page. He soon had to set up a separate site in order to control the growing masses, and dubbed it eBay. ... Great idea however didn't stop the traffic and site continued to grow. ... He eventually caught some bad publicity due to potential sale of contraband through the site. ...

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Social media can be an extremely dangerous threat to teenagers from some of the other people using the social networking sites. ... Ask.fm is a website designed for people to be able to ask one another anonymous question, this site has been a factor in at least sixteen teen suicides since 2012 (Dickey 42). ... The growing number of social networking sites has worsened the effects of cyberstalking over the past 5 years (Poitrowski 533). ... Getting a goodnights rest is extremely important for ones health and wellbeing, if the overuse of social networking sites is getting in the way of a pers...

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At age twenty-four he became editor of a paper in Cologne, Germany but his radical ideas soon got him into censorship trouble, and he went to Paris, partly to escape arrest. ... Expelled from Paris in 1845, Marx lived for a time in Brussels, Belgium. ... The first volume appeared in 1867, soon after which he later returned to Paris but was expelled once again in 1849. ... She sites that critique mainly to discourage any attempt by Marx to promote theories of togetherness; meaning any system that would entail politics as a community (communism), rather then politics as an individualist activ...

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War can cause people to hate, all the sites the people see, and all the problems they have to deal with. ... Cacciato who the book mostly focuses around leaves his platoon to go to Paris, France. Him and his platoon were in Vietnam, he wants to go to Paris so he can live his life without war. ...

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Ernest Gellner was born December 9, 1925 in Paris, France. ... (Mattick The New York Times) In commenting on Gellner and his writings, the Santa Fe Institute Notebooks web site said: "Most of Gellner's writing consists of essays and reviews, in which a fairly limited number of themes crop up again and again; if you like what he says, he brings to mind kaleidoscopes, and if you don't, he seems repetitive." ...

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The group called themselves the Jimi Hendrix Experience and debuted October 6, 1966 in Paris, France.... Jimi Hendrix Web Sites Used: 1) MSN Learning & Research Plus - Hendrix, Jimi. 19 November 2002 http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx? ...

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It had hundreds of spectacular rooms with marble columns, polished inlaid floors, brilliant rugs and tapestries, and painted ceilings it was a very beautiful site. ... This was a plague which, once introduced, became a scourge to the whole country, for it did not take long to spread to Paris, and thence to the armies and the provinces; so that a man of any position is now estimated entirely according to his expenditure on his table and other luxuries. ...

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The Washington Monument was the world's tallest structure for five years, when it was surpassed by Paris' Eiffel Tower. ... National Park Service staff, inspectors and contractors are working diligently to reopen the site as soon as possible. ...

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Barbie It all started in the 1950's when Ruth Handler saw her daughter, Barbara, and her friends playing on the floor with paper dolls. They enjoyed imagining the dolls being different people, who were working, swimming, playing with friends, being and doing grown up things. Ruth, who owned the...

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Research Paper: Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was a super-genius and one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo was also an architect, engineer, scientist, mathematician and philosopher. Sadly, Leonardo only had a limited amount of completed paintings, and he made many ...

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The Ben and Jerry's web site has a "Flavor Graveyard."" ... The sites include product information, promotions, company history, store locations, and even fun games. ... When we visited the websites of competitors such as Breyer's, Blue Bell, Well's Blue Bunny, and Dreyer's Edys, their web sites did not boast social service projects like Ben and Jerry's, nor did we find any sweepstakes such as those that Haagan-Dazs offers. These web sites focused on the product, and many have games (Dreyer's has a dream analyzer) and e-cards. ...

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As Taylor explains; "Already a familiar figure in the cafe society of Paris, Marinetti had met and become friendly with a number of important literary and artistic figures... he had written his first play Le Roi Bombance in admiring imitation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi"3. Indeed, Marinetti's close links to French avant-garde artists is illustrated in his choice of a French, rather than Italian, newspaper for the launch of his Futurist movement, on February 20 1909 he published the first Futurist Manifesto in Paris paper 'Le Figaro' , a move indicative of a partial ideologi...

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