increasingly more in an urban area. • The density of human-established structures is high in the case of an urban area. • Cities and towns constitute urban areas. • It is interesting to note that natural resources and artificial resources develop rapidly in urban areas or in other words it can be said that the areas characterized by natural growth of resources flourish into urban areas. Urban areas are subjected to a process called urbanization. Vegetation and fauna available in the areas are made full use of
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The Help - Important Character The Help written by Kathryn Stockett is a beautiful but shocking look into the racism towards coloured maids in Jackson Mississippi during the 1960’s. An important character who helped to develop much of the plot-line is Hilly Hilbrook. Hilly becomes an important character through her talent for nasty gossip‚ her power over people and the insecurities she has about herself . She somehow manages to still seem cute and innocent and is described as‚ " One a those
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The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid by angelakm Angela Matthews The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid serves as a bridge between two worlds‚ the modern and the untouched. Unfortunately untouched is not be the correct word to use as it becomes apparent that this village has in fact had its fair share of visitors. The story begins itself with one of these visitors being led through the village by a wise old man. The man speaks in a sincere tone and with a voice of experience that gives the sense that this isn’t the
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Hello‚ my name is Mary Wilson better known as Jean Wilson. I am 31 years young and I major in Mass Communication Media Production. My hometown is Madison and I really love living there because its quite and peaceful. Well... at least the part I live in is! I’ve always dreamed that someday I would own my own business‚ and that dream has come true. The name of my business is Wilson Photography . I feel really overloaded sometimes about owning my own business‚ but‚ HEY... that’s the life of a business
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Abandonment and Neglect in Gorazde. In his “Safe Area Gorazde” Joe Sacco describes his experience visiting a Muslim enclave during the Bosnian War of 1991-1995. Tragically‚ this work is based on testimonies of residents of Gorazde‚ allegedly a UN-protected area where Bosnian Muslims are able to take refuge to avoid the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Serbian army. Gorazde is anything but protected which Sacco demonstrates throughout the book by ridiculing the UN and the US who are able to and
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rhythm of events. Thus the metropolitan type creates a protective organ for itself against the profound disruption with the fluctuations and discontinuities of the external milieu that threaten it”. Unlike those of a more rural setting‚ whose daily activities are more common‚ ritualistic‚ and expected‚ the modern individual deals with rapid change in a very short amount of time. In order to cope with these constant shifts‚ one develops a “protective organ”. The metropolitan encounters so many individuals
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The term ’urban’‚ as opposed to rural‚ is related to towns or cities. Urban settlement is a large nucleated settlement in which the majority of the employed inhabitants are engaged in non-agricultural activities. Urban areas may be defined by national governments according to different criteria; for example‚ size‚ population density‚ occupation of the people‚ and type of local government. This division between urban and rural is arbitrary and that is why today most of scholars use the term ’rural-
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planning has to take into consideration a wide range of options and choices like adequate roads‚ parking lots‚ alternate system of transportation‚ and mass transit facilities. The aim should be to reduce total vehicle miles driven in congested areas thus reducing pollution and emission of green house gases. • Effective
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refers to general increase in population and the amount of industrialization of a settlement. It includes increase in the number and extent of cities. It symbolizes the movement of people from rural to urban areas. Urbanization happens because of the increase in the extent and density of urban areas. Due to uncontrolled urbanization in India‚ environmental degradation has been occurring very rapidly and causing many problems like land insecurity‚ worsening water quality‚ excessive air pollution‚ noise
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and Tok-Jae saw the cranes soaring through the blue autumn sky Sam-Song retied Tok-Jae up. Tok-Jae said‚ “Why did you tie me up again?” Song-Sam said‚ “I still have to bring you back to the metropolitan area for questioning.” Tok-Jae said‚ “Why?” Song-Sam was quiet on the way to the metropolitan area. But Song-Sam Silence was only temporary. All of a sudden they heard a loud noise‚ it sounded like a civilization creeping towards Song-Sam and Tok-Jae. The civilization jumped up out of the
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