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The Problem of Poverty: A Look at Santa Rosa, Florida

11.9%(2004) ("Santa Rosa County," 2008). * There is less poverty in Santa Rosa County than in Florida overall. * Yet, clos...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Walter and Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun

that the African American male is simply not given the same opportunities, or not as many opportunities, as the white man. This pl...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

The Widening Gap Between the Rich and Poor in India

This 16 page paper examines some of the issues surrounding the gap between the rich and poor in India, including the growth of the...

Rich and Poor: the Growing Income Disparity in India

Development Bank (ADB) says the number of people in Asia living on less than $1 a day fell by 223 million between 1990 and 2002" (...

International Trade and Global Poverty

latest "round," however, has not gone well. "America wants to slash tariffs, arguing (rightly) that the best way to help poor coun...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Poverty and Social Work

The Charity Organization Society quickly became a model by which many other charitable organizations were modeled and developed (T...

Administration of George W. Bush and Poverty

and around $1,200 in subsidized school meals for both children (Besharov 35). After taxes, this comes to around $21,000 per year. ...

Soft City by Jonathan Raban

centers and the changes that occurred in the national identity. Raban wrote: "For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is ...

Urban Planning and the Geographic Information System

in the design of cities as well as perhaps the design of a single building. Additionally, GIS is a tool utilized for comprehending...

Urban Development: Lyon, France and Göteborg, Sweden

A central part of the developments in Lyon involve the Cit? Internationale, which will essentially be a small city unto itself, a ...

Urban Renewal and the City of Pittsburgh

apartments (Fitzpatrick, 2000). Economically, it is noted that while there were shopping centers instituted, they could not compe...

The Urban Experince: Brooks and Komunyakaa

"Slam, Dunk, and Hook" it can well be assumed the sport is basketball, a powerful favorite of urban youth today. There is a yout...

America's Most Serious Social Problem

the direction in which America is headed. What has gone wrong? The top Americans arent getting richer by accident; government pol...

Baudelaire In Savannah

and captivating. History indicates that this has always been true. General William Tecumseh Sherman was so taken with the city o...

Paris and Gateshead - Urban Development

to take into account not only the need for economic activity, but the interaction with the local communities and the local culture...

Poverty Causes

higher median income than native-born citizens" (Young, 2005). Young does admit that most people, if born into the culture of pov...

MDGs and Development Promotion Commitment

the MDGs which are the cornerstone of the Millennium Declaration can be driven forward (Banuri, 2005). The UN appear to believe ...

US Urban Areas and Homelessness

City, 2003). In the past year, "requests for emergency shelter increased ... by an average of 6 percent ... Requests for shelter ...

Planning and Implementing Urban Policy in the UK

set by the ruling parties at local or national level, with national concerns coming before local concerns in general policy settin...

Data on U.S. Poverty

1970, 20.5 percent of poor Americans lived in the suburbs, in 2000, that had expanded to 35.9 percent and in 2004, the ratio incre...

Living Within the US Poverty Standard

the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. The Tennessee participant pay...

Civil War in El Salvador

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

Zambia's Female Trade

skills suited to their new environment, meant huge changes for the socioeconomic system; in particular, it meant that "there were ...

Urban Transformation

quality is poor as well, and the large number of cars coming into the region makes it unlikely that this will improve (Ezcurra and...

Urban Violence and Drugs

outbreaks of violence are seemingly spontaneous, but may in fact actually be the end result of a long chain of events that began m...

The Use of Irony in Fences by August Wilson

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...