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Pope Urban Ii Fourth Crusade
1,968 words
In the year of our lord 1095, Pope Urban II
started what we know as the Holy Wars or the
Crusades. Over the period from 1095 - 1464, a
series of military expeditions were fought to take
back the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Seldjuk
Turks. There were eight crusades which were
spurred for many different reasons by many
different people that left a lasting effect to the
world. These years of bloodshed were led by men of
power to bring money, greed, and fame to
themselves at the expense of others....
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Black Youths Cd Rom
858 words
The Pool Player, Seven at the Golden Shovel. The
lifestyle of many inner city Black youths often
leads to death and destruction. This destruction
can be an internal personal destruction of the
individual or it can be the harsh victimization of
innocent people. The death of inner city urban
Black youths is a fact of urban gang life, while
escape for the lifestyle to most seems impossible.
The lifestyle of many urban inner city Black
youths often leads to death and destruction. This
destruction ca...
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Urban Sprawl Low Density
1,308 words
The urban sprawl that has characterized American
growth patterns for the past 45 years has been
held responsible for a host of problems,
including: profligate energy use (Levinson and
Strate, 1981 and Newman and Kenworthy, 1989);
rising municipal infrastructure costs (Neilson
Associates, 1987; Real Estate Research
Corporation, 1974; and Frank, 1989); the loss of
agricultural and wetlands (OTA, 1984 and Krause
and Hare, 1975); the loss of community values
(Newman and Kenworthy, 1989 and Freedman,...
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Urban Sprawl Cambridge Ma
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... ous legal devices including zoning, deed
restrictions, and racially restrictive covenants
to impose and increase racial residential
segregation. Furthermore, real estate agents,
appraisers, brokers and mortgage bankers ensured
the concentration of poor minorities by refusing
them access to property or loans. Many of these
exclusionary practices persist today in the
suburbs leading to a concentration of poor
minorities in the inner city. Second, Suburbanites
have an interest in decreasing the...
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Drugs And Alcohol Gang Violence
1,938 words
Although a lot of todays music deals with problems
in society, hip-hop stands ahead of all other
forms of music in dealing with social problems.
Predominantly black, hip-hop music deals with
issues and problems facing the black youth mostly
in the inner cities. More commonly known as rap
music, artists such as the Notorious B. I. G. ,
Bone Thugs N Harmony, and 2 Pac have lead rap
music into dealing with social issues. These
artists rap about welfare, degradation of women,
gang violence, poverty,...
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Social Mobility Racial Discrimination
1,632 words
Social Mobility in the United States? The focus of
this paper will be social mobility in America. My
expected findings were that upward social mobility
is declining in America, social mobility depends
on race, income, mother and father occupation, and
ethnicity. The method of research that I used was
literature review. I found that 1) upward social
mobility is more likely for a white individual
than a black individual 2) upward social mobility
among the lower classes is decreasing and downward
s...
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Comedy Of Errors Point Of View
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Traditional classifications of drama normally
started with the basic distinction between tragedy
and comedy, a separation common in Greek and Roman
drama, and clearly established by Shakespeare's
time. Of these two styles, the easiest to define
initially was the former. Tragedy was understood
as the dramatic portrayal of a great mans
suffering and (almost invariably) his death. The
hero might be a great villain or famous for virtue
(a historical or Biblical character, for example),
but the main ...
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City Schools School Systems
974 words
One of the most significant issues raised in
public education in recent years is the radical
difference that exists in funding levels between
wealth and poor school districts. "Many states
have allotted educational funding related to tax
revenues, and this has determined a higher level
of educational spending in wealthy neighborhoods
and a much lower level of spending for inner-city
poor and rural poor communities" (Friday 15). A
number of states have considered and implemented
plans for the equ...
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Ethnic Minorities Urban Areas
1,082 words
In this essay I would like to highlight the major
issues connected with the development of urban
areas, and what race misunderstandings come along
with it. I shall use some information that was
written by the famous world writers in their books
and also I shall make an independent research on
an issue. In our thinking about racism we can
always choose between a fact and a fiction. The
truth is that many of those ethnic groups living
in urban areas are fleeing torture and
persecution, despite of ...
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Pope Urban Ii Roman Emperor
1,579 words
To begin to answer the question, "Why did Urban's
appeal to the Christian nobles at Clermont command
an overwhelmingly positive response?" one must
first consider the political and social situation
in Europe and the Middle East in the millenium
before 1095. Firstly, European society had
survived the raids of the Magyars, Vikings, and
Saracens, and its economy and society were
recovering quickly. There was a new spirit of
adventure apparent in the art, literature, an
actions of the western Europe...
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Affordable Housing Metropolitan Areas
1,301 words
Urban Problems and Solutions Urbanization is one
of the global trends that is followed by almost
all of the states and nations through out the
globe. This trend brings up many environmental and
other issues that concern with life of societies
living in urban areas. There are many positive and
negative affects that follow the trend of
urbanization and in this report we are going to
talk about problems and possible ways of solutions
faced by American cities. In particular we are
going to talk abou...
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Anglo Saxon Jewish Immigrants
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Cities and Social Change Scio me nihil site
Socrates The urban city and its function in
society cannot be understood without studying its
structure as a city of immigrants, their newcomer
families and friends and the ties that connect
them. By overlooking the social culture and
networks of the city's immigrants, the study of
the urban centre is at best a futile effort.
Several characteristics of immigrant settlement in
urban Canada have been studied. Perhaps the most
frequent focus in the litera...
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Rio De Janeiro World War Ii
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20 Century Architectural and Urban Theories Th
definition of what constitutes a city chang's from
tim to tim and plac to plac, but it is most usual
to x plain th trm as a matter of dmo graphics. Th
United Nations has rcommndd that countries read
all plac's with mor than 20, 000 inhabitants
living clos together as urban; but, in fact,
nations compile the statistics on th basis of many
different standards. Th United Stats, for instant,
uss urban plac to man any locality whr more than
2, 500 people...
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One Child Policy One Of The Major
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China s One-Child Policy: An Economic Perspective
on Governmental Control In 1979, China implemented
a one-child per family policy in order to address
the issue of unchecked population growth for a
country with limited resources. Because China is
one of the most densely populated countries in the
world, concern for the issue of overpopulation and
the capacity of the Chinese government to address
the needs of such an overwhelming population
directed the impetus for the implementation of the
polic...
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Fourth Crusade Speech
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The military expeditions planned and fought by
western European Christians that began around 1095
are known today as the Crusades. The soul purpose
of these expeditions was to overtake and gain
control of the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the
Muslims. ? Deus vult! (God wills it! )? was the
battle cry of the thousands of Christians who
participated in the event of the Crusades. It was
Christian belief that fate was to gain control of
the Holy Land for the glory of God. The origin of
the Crusades was...
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Black Panther Party Martin Luther King
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During the late 1960 s and early 70 s posters of
the Black Panther Partys co-founder, Huey P.
Newton were plastered on walls of college dorm
rooms across the country. Wearing a black beret
and a leather jacket, sitting on a wicker chair, a
spear in one hand and a rifle in the other, the
poster depicted Huey Newton as a symbol of his
generations anger and courage in the face of
racism and imperialism (Albert and Hoffman 4, 45).
His intellectual capacity and community leadership
abilities helped t...
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Rise To Power India
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A Brief History of India The roots of Indian
civilization stretch back in time to pre-recorded
history. The earliest human activity in the Indian
sub-continent can be traced back to the Early,
Middle and Late Stone Ages (400, 000 - 200, 000
BC). The first evidence of agricultural
settlements on the western plains of the Indus is
roughly contemporaneous with similar developments
in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. The Indus Valley
Civilization This earliest known civilization in
India, the starting...
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Risk Management Van Der
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Recreational Risk Management and Security Control
Introduction: The need for effective risk
management has become evident to leisure-service
managers in various settings. As more and more
people have visited large national or state parks,
forests, and recreation areas, the risk of injury
or death from environmental hazards has increased.
Controls that will protect participants from their
own unawareness of the natural environment or from
behavior that invites injury or death, must be
better supe...
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Single Parent Families Lot Of Problems
1,060 words
Economic change has helped lead America into urban
crisis for the following reasons. First of all,
because urban problems are no longer confined to
the inner city, but are regional in nature. The
federal government has, also, largely drawn from
the urban policy arena, thereby having cities and
sates to develop their own solutions to local
problems. Furthermore, the economy of cities is no
longer organized around a central business
district, but is dispersed throughout a
metropolitan region. Next...
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One Can Easily Factors That Affect
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Social Factors Affecting Inner City Poverty
Poverty has stricken the country with thousands of
inner city families facing dilemmas that
contribute to their inability to reach a higher
economic social status. Each year, the U. S.
Department of Health and Human Services issues
updates for the U. S. Federal Poverty Measure.
These updates report thresholds that determine
eligibility for particular federal programs, and
also is used to set an income measure which allows
the National Census Bureau to ...
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