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Analysis of W New York Hotel

This analysis focuses on the W Hotel, Lexington Avenue, New York City and discusses its current ranking in that city's marketplace...

New York City - Urban Planning

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

Foreshadowing in “A Tale of Two Cities”

or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...

City of God

something that happens to all the boys in this region of the city. They are clearly victims of the impoverished city as they are d...

Foreign Films

is made to truly feel for them, fear for them, and hope they survive. However, anyone who has watched both of the films will clear...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

A Review of "Comeback Cities" by Grogan and Proscio

of block clubs and churches. Most of these groups, typically called community development corporations, or CDCs, began forming in ...

NYC Teacher Importance

would enhance any educational environment. For example, I have learned the importance of both teaching and learning, and believe ...

Fontana, California and Davis's City of Quartz

agricultural commune, with most people looking out for the other, in which agricultural products were the primary focus of barter....

Koran Sections 'Women' and 'Cow' and Contemporary City Governments

probably mean not going to prison, and being free). Another way this could be taken is that those who work among citizens groups w...

John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...

Compare and Contrast: San Francisco and Saint Louis

of Asia within San Francisco. One finds themselves, a few short blocks from the business district of the city, smack dab in the mi...

Book 4 of Plato's Republic, 'Justice of the City'

what it is that you "can do," and then doing that for the good of the group - in this case the city. The unification of the virtu...

Urban Planning

In five pages this paper considers holistic alternatives to urban planning with a diagram targeting the congestion of inner cities...

Process of Becoming An Auxiliary Police Officer

In an essay consisting of twelve pages the process involved in becoming a New York City Police Department auxiliary police officer...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

An Analysis of the Novel, Princess of Cleves

This paper analyzes Madame de Lafayette's book, Princess of Cleves and the French court during the sixteenth century. This five p...

A Literary History of Texas' Independence Movement

Erasmo Seguin, father of Juan. The elder Seguins actions were motivated by his identity as a Texan, rather than as a Mexican citiz...

To Be A Slave In Brazil, 1550-1888 by Katia M. De Queiros Mattoso

In five pages the slave trade and the foundation of cultural and historical racial prejudice it cemented are examined within the c...

Leadership According to Kathleen Sanford and Max DePree

receive a portion of the financial gains that result from their ideas (OToole, 1995). Also, at Herman Miller, 100 percent of all f...

“Chimpanzee Politics”

the quest for power. For chimps that quest is most often loud and apparent. For humans it is often more subtle and calculated....

De Tocqueville: "Democracy in America"

customs, and morals which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial" (de Tocqueville, Introduction). The result of this...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

On The Trinity by Augustine

Shedd (1886) points out that Augustine is especially guilty of this in the last eight chapters/Books. This may be because the firs...

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Vol. 2. Boston, MA: Ginn, 1906. Hanover Historical Text Project. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/barth.htm (accessed May 18, 200...

Nicholas Copernicus and His Times

the duty of an astronomer, which is to observe the motion of celestial bodies and then devise explanations for these motions (Osia...

Bringing Christianity to China

constantly threatened by invasion from the east (Mungello, 2005). In other words, China was at a high point in its history and Eur...

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

Don Quixote

In looking at who Don is the reader can see quite a bit of his chivalrous and romantic ideals in the following: "So then, his armo...