September 24‚ 2012 Response to ‘City out of Breath” From the very first line in which author Ken Chen begins his essay made me anticipate some sort of hike that they would be going on or a mission of some sort. “So all night‚ we only walk in one direction: up” Could it be that they are escaping from somewhere? Are they on a vacation? Further into the reading I realized that they are in the city of Hong Kong and that he and his father are being led through the city by a “tour guide” When Ken Chen
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HEALTHIER CITY and HEALTHIER COMMUNITY To compare with last few decades‚ now healthy communuties and healthy cities are more important issue. Many government‚ many associations and people try to answer this question “What is a healthy city?”. This question may be answered that a healthy city has regularly changing and developing social and physical environment. These social and physical environment can be explained enough food‚ clean water and air‚ adequate resources‚ good income
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In the film City of God‚ director Fernando Meirelles and Kàtia Lund utilize subtle yet effective cimatography techniques to call attention to the inequality that lies within the favelas of Brazil. City of God‚ released on January 17‚ 2003‚ focuses on the lives of two black boys‚ Lil Zé and Rocket‚ from the City of God. Rocket is the ambitious‚ kind‚ and charming photographer while Lil Zé is the as the callous‚ sinister‚ and selfish drug lord. Meirelles and Lund utilize this film in order to expose
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population is growing four times as fast. Megacities‚ cities over 10 million in population‚ are increasing in number but only in the developing world which now accounts for 13 of the 20 largest urban agglomerations… If one were to compare a map of the world as it was around the year 1900 with one of the world in 2000‚ two changes would be strikingly apparent: _1. The proliferation of independent nations and 2. The mushrooming numbers and the sizes of cities. Around the year 1800‚ perhaps 3% of the world’s
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The City Planning Bureaucracy A City Planner is hired by a local city municipality to work in a planning department while being paid an hourly wage. One chief objective of a City Planner is to complete and update a Comprehensive Land Use Plan for a municipality. Another objective for a planner is to construct and amend zoning ordinances as well as enforce the zoning regulations. A planner also constructs and enforces Subdivision Regulations‚ and manages projects through the Capital Improvements
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NATURAL DISASTERS : MAN-MADE OR HAND OF GOD The United Nations defines disaster as “The occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune which disrupts the basic fabric and normal functioning of a society or community”. Good morning respected members of the jury‚ teachers and my dear friends today I stand before you to speak on the topic NATURAL DISASTERS: MAN-MADE OR HAND OF GOD. As we all know a disaster is a man-made or natural event which results in widespread loss of human beings
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co-ownership. All 69 thousand employees‚ roughly (屈fuly ) 40 thousand of them at Waitrose‚ have a say in how the business is run and a share in its profits(paul futs). Unlike other major supermarkets‚ Waitrose isn’t owned by shareholders and the City. Instead‚ as part of the John Lewis Partnership‚ it’s owned by everyone who works for the Partnership. And every year they share the profits that would normally go to shareholders. As you would expect this produces an extraordinary (ex多敦WAY) high level
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The city called Sparta was the most military defended city of Greece‚ which set it apart from other cities. It was always known for it’s philosophy‚ architecture‚ and literature. Spartans were proud and fierce people. The city was called the City of Warriors. Education for the young was important‚ especially for the boys‚ who left home at the age of seven to learn to be a soldier. Training was horribly hard. It was designed so that they would survive anything during battle. They were not fed
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by Carl Sandburg and “My city” by James Weldon Johnson are two poems that are similar‚ but in their own way different. These poems are similar in the fact that they both talk about the proud the feeling for their cities; their theme and tone are similar‚ but they differ in structure. The themes by Sandburg and Johnson have a similarity‚ both are dual in nature‚ they describe the positive and negative sides of their cities. They love it‚ and they think there is no other city that could be better than
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MY DREAM CITY No matter how old we are‚ we never stop dreaming. Using our imagination in the highest way we create our own world‚ where we are free and brave. People are different and our dreams are different too but in one point we are the same because in our dreams‚ what we create seems to be perfect for us. So I created my dream perfect city which I call the city of Warriors. When I travel to my city I do not want to come back the city like magnet stretches me with
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