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Thoughts for Theologians in Cities

This essay defines and discusses urban theology. It discusses cities and urban areas in the Bible and in today’s society. The essa...

Pastoring in the City

This paper reports an interview with an urban pastor. The writer identifies the pastor's theology and philosophy and provides a lo...

"Mama Might Be Better Off Dead," A Book Review

This essay offers a book review of Linda K. Abraham's book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban of Urban Heath Car...

Urban Church in Queens

Urban ministers need to remember their primary mission, according to Pastor Etwaru, from the Global Christian Ministries in Queens...

Cry of the Urban Poor by Viv Grigg

This book review is on Viv Grigg's Cry of the Urban Poor, which relates the author's experiences living and ministering to the urb...

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...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

Urban Decline of Detroit

In seven pages the urban decline of Detroit and its reasons are explored along with the plunging nonautomotive industry and increa...

The Role of Technology in Urban Sprawl

industries are all concentrated in a single area, and if this is the case then we need the housing to be accessible. The risks her...

The Roles of Urban Planning

This 5 page paper discusses two of the roles of urban planning. The writer first discusses land use, then discusses the rapid grow...

The Urban Evolution of Paris

the Right Bank, this traditional barrier had to be extended by another structural wall in the fourteenth century (Diefendorf, 1991...

An Overview of Urbanism in America

the proliferation of entertainment and leisure. Films, plays, restaurants and night clubs are a part of the landscape. After th...

Beyond the Industrial Revolution in Urban Design

to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerab...

Argument: Poor Urban Life Contains Certain Fixed Elements

the people merely accept poverty, gangs and an extensive drug subculture as part of modern urban life. Yet, does the popular media...

Article Analysis - Urban Sprawl

gridlocked roads for every chore," it also costs us a significant amount of money. They go on to say that we encourage sprawl whe...

The Evolution of Urban Areas from the Middle Ages to the Present

This 5 page paper discusses the way in which the relationship between man and his environment has determined the economic, social ...

Le Chambon's Heroic People and Pastor Andre Trocme

In five pages the struggles of these villagers and their French Protestant minister as chronicled in Lest Innocent Blood be Shed b...

Political and Religious Threats in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In five pages the threats to politics and the greater threat to religion that the Nigerian villagers experienced with the arrival ...

Pre 1983 Kukulewa Villagers Community Transformation, Experiences, and Ideas

in which villagers handled that particular designation of modernity with regard to their once-cooperative relationships. Creating...

Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and a Consideration of Ulu

which the British officer solicits his aid illustrates the bipolar reaction of Ezeulu verses the office who has been appointed to ...

The Religious Orientation of the Deir el-Madina Villagers

It appears that the village had a relatively high level of it received compared to the rest of Egypt, possibly in excess of 50% co...

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie

In five pages this paper discusses the Nazi resistance by the villagers of southern France's Le Chambon region as described in the...

Achebe: The English Presence in "Things Fall Apart"

precepts, and laws of the land, which are established for the good of the society" (Nnoromele). We know that there are nine villag...

Witchcraft or Delusion

This paper contends the Salem witch trials erupted not because of real witchcraft but because of delusions in the mind of the vill...

William Wilson's "When Work Disappears" - HIV/AIDS

the work in the formal economy...These circumstances also increase the likelihood that the residents will rely on illegitimate sou...

The Phenomenon of Urban Heat Islands in Brazil

much more land is converted into houses, buildings, parking lots and roads - the very things that transform an otherwise natural v...

Theory and Forms of Sociology

the foundations laid by Durkheim. Aside from scientific investigation, functionalism also holds to the concept of "the orga...

Organizations, a Critique Critique of James March and Herbert Simon's, "Organizations":

that they are essentially useless in terms of instigating action because they are far too vague to be of real use. For example, h...

The Struggle for the American Curriculum 1893-1958 by Herbert M. Kliebard

in American schools" (Models of Teaching: Politics of Education). The first is "Social Efficiency curriculum" which is essential...

Comparison of the Theories of Herbert Spencer and Karl Marx

as much to the other areas of politically con, trolled social change) will be based on the insight that no social progress can suc...