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Wildlife and the Impact of Urbanization

addition, urbanization brings about the need for "linear land use" such as roads, power lines and trails, and the introduction of ...

Gender, Class, and Race from a Social Perspective

Much of what Rubin (1994) says is true, of course, but there are also other perspectives available. The author seems to want...

Implementation of SWAT Units

to more forceful methods to provide a sense of security for their citizens. Additionally, like it or not, the drug war has come h...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Developing Nations and Management Issues

of any country appears to go through different stages when becoming industrialised. The issue of industrial relations is one aspec...

United States, Latino Immigration, and Poverty

according to Nieman Reports researcher Joe Rodriguez (1999, p. 45). Basically, the welfare laws allow states to choose between con...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Central Los Angeles and Urban Unrest Causes

South Central L.A. that had been the hardest hit (Tucker, 1993). They also indicated that this area had had other problems stemmin...

Social Reality as Molded by the City

urban phenomena as boulevards, wax museums, and the public display of corpses at the Paris morgue. Drawing on an immense range of...

Definition and Overview of Global Flows

for example are far easier when technology allows for that information to be transmitted immediately as opposed to taking days or ...

Earning Minimum Wage with a Family to Support

If the husband is bedridden, ideally both of the older children should be in daycare (the oldest in after school care), but there ...

Impacts of Poverty on Children

doesnt take a great deal of historical awareness to recognize that politicians have engaged in all sorts of acrobatics to negate o...

U.S. Incidences of Teen Pregnancies

be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...

Analysis of Debate

are based more on the liberal position that America should be welcome all comers. The growing disparity of language in border sta...

Urban Aesthetic and the Films of Martin Scorsese

large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Poverty and the Tropics

of cold weather also demonstrates a dip compared to the temperate climate (Landes, 1999). Using this as a basis it is...

Toronto's Lakeshore Village

for the "sum total" of the structure of urban artifacts (Rossi 140). In addressing this, Halbwachs looks at the various social g...

Poverty and Economic Equality According to W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and C.Wright Mills

even more disastrous in contemporary culture. There appears to be no end to what people will do to acquire a lot of money, often ...

Positive Impact of Globalization

possible to make an international phone call or surf the Internet from a caf? in Shanghai, while sipping a cappuccino (Micklethwai...

Passaic County A Proposal for a Literacy Program

in Passaic county. It is further suggested that the approval of a proposal would allow students access to additional scholarship ...

An Overview of Urban Empowerment Zones

funding at all for urban Empowerment Zones (King, 2005). This region has, in fact, become accustomed to cuts in Empowerment Zone ...

Urban Regeneration and the Significance of Voluntary Sector and Local Business

a timely reminder that reliance on the government is a dangerous strategy for regeneration due to the whims and changes in politic...

Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

Best Media Selection

after work. This alone is no sufficient to determine the target market and as such the media that can be used. If we look more c...

Factors Leading to Suburban Expansion

these issues are complicated by the transitional nature of the cities themselves. Changing land use patterns, changing occupation...

Designing Entertainment Venues

gambling establishments has served to completely transform otherwise impoverished communities and even afford them the ability to ...

2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

A Poverty Solution

could live comfortably. It would appear to be a common sense approach, but the idea of welfare is often discouraged in a society t...

Poverty and the Effects of Social Policies

21 months to reach independence through employment. The goal, of course, is to aid recipients in becoming independent of welfare b...