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Puerto Rican El Barrio
1,368 wordsCities exist for many reasons and the diversity of urban form and function can be traced to the complex roles that cities perform. Cities serve as centers of storage, commerce, and industry. The agricultural surplus from the surrounding country hinterland is processed and distributed within the city. Urban areas have also developed around marketplaces, where imported goods from distant places could be exchanged for the local products. Throughout history, cities have been founded at the intersect...
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Driving While Intoxicated Drunk Driving
635 wordsDrunk Driving is yet another risk factor that lurks on college campuses. It is observed that the majority of underage students continue to drink alcohol despite drinking age laws. College alcohol use policies aimed at decreasing drinking opportunities on campuses may also have increased the likely hood that students will drink off campus. This change may place students at risk when returning to campus residents after consuming alcohol. The NCADD (National Association Against Drunk Driving) did a...
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Smoke Signals Personal Reflection
566 wordsFor most of my life, the word Native American had immediately made me think of feathers, powwows, and a society uncorrupted by civilization. However, in watching the movie Smoke Signals, a movie that depicts the modern Native American culture, I learned many other things. For one, I learned that many of the customs that modern Native Americans have are very similar to my own. I also saw that the family life of the Native Americans in the film had many of the same problems that my family had unde...
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Hard Times The Theme Of Utilitarianism
1,819 words... e a white complexion an indication that education has literally stripped them of individuality. A chapter, where this process is described is named Murdering the Innocents which refers to replacing the rich personalities of children with cold and impersonal utilitarian attitudes. In his description of the Coketown community, Dickens highlights the fact that it is not a healthy society. The workers have no escape from their problems. People resort to alcohol and drugs; crime is rampant and th...
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Made Them Feel Reader To Understand
1,458 wordsLet me just show you how you looked to us (Kincaid 35). That is exactly what Jamaica Kincaid expressed, with malice, in A Small Place. The you is identified as being the reader, a tourist, someone who travels in the pursuit of pleasure. Kincaid feels strong resentment towards the tourist who comes to Antigua, a place where Antiguans suffer and want to escape. The natives suffer and slave in order to provide pleasure for the tourist. While the natives are trapped on their tiny island, living in p...
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5career Management At Merrill Lynch Investment Part 1
1,542 words/ 5 Career Management at Merrill Lynch Investment Bank 1) Do I know what is expected from me at work? Working as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch investment bank I know well what is expected from me at work for the following reasons. First of all at a large financial institution that a Merrill Lynch represents, most of the duties and responsibilities are highly documented with a single small nuisance being assigned the personnel employed. As a financial analyst I know that I am supposed to p...
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Industrial Revolution Stephen Blackpool
3,615 wordsHistorical Background The late 18 th and early 19 th centuries were an era of great change in Europe. The Industrial revolution happened in many countries, but was initially focused on Britain. The Industrial Revolution centered on the production of iron and the steam engine. Later, railways and increasingly mechanized forms of manufacturing would develop. The urban population increased rapidly and cities were transformed into centers of industrial production. They became overcrowded, as people ...
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El Barrio Puerto Ricans
2,679 wordsEthnography in the City: Phillipe Bourgois and the Barrio Cities exist for many reasons and the diversity of urban form and function can be traced to the complex roles that cities perform. Cities serve as centers of storage, commerce, and industry. The agricultural surplus from the surrounding country hinterland is processed and distributed within the city. Urban areas have also developed around marketplaces, where imported goods from distant places could be exchanged for the local products. Thr...
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