Review Sheet for GEOG 320: Latin America – Exam 3 – Spring 2014 Contemporary Cities -- Chapter 14 What were the reasons for rapid urbanization / urban growth in the 1900s? What are the rural push factors for migration to cities? And the urban pull factors? What are some examples of formal and informal economic activities in Latin American cities? Why might governments want to stop “self-help” housing? Why might governments want to support “self-help” housing? “self-help” housing
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assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT’s protection‚ documenting what he saw there. Over the next seven years‚ Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers‚ crackheads‚ squatters‚ prostitutes‚ pimps‚ activists‚ cops‚ organizers‚ and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access‚ he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business‚ conducted PR within their community‚ and
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fact that those who are in power are continually claiming that our country’s economic status is improving‚ is this so-called "improvement" prominent? Are our surroundings (particularly our avenues and boulevards) not anymore infested with beggars‚ squatters or the homeless? Has the number of Filipinos who leave the country every year drastically dropped? The answer is simply palpable. Moving on to the brighter and more positive side of the concepts of development‚ indeed‚ our government is doing
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Chapter 2: The Planting of English America‚ 1500-1733 A. England’s Imperial Stirrings 1. After Columbus’s landfall‚ the Native American peoples had nearly been extinguished mostly from disease (only about 10% survived) 2. From Florida and New Mexico southward‚ most of the southern half of the New World lay firmly within the grip of imperial Spain 3. In 1600‚ North America remained mostly unexplored and unclaimed a. Three European powers planted three primitive outposts
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A criminological theory known as the broken window theory is something that interests me a lot. I first learned of this theory through my required school reading of “Freakonomics” by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner. The theory was being used to support the argument that the broken windows theory was responsible for New York’s 1990’s crime drop. The theory is believed to be responsible for the crime drop because of William Bratton‚ the New York City police commissioner. William Bratton used the
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Corporate Social Responsibility • Economic Responsibility The Aroma Crest Company aims to be a long-term company and profitable enough to stay on the market. Being a profitable company‚ TAC can fulfill its social responsibility for their employees and people in the society. Also‚ through this the company may able to innovate and improved its wines that will satisfy the changing needs and wants of their wine consumers. Moreover‚ profitability also strenghtens the relationship of the company with
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FINANCING OF URBAN HOUSING IN Bangladesh Problems and Prospects of Public Private Partnership (PPP) Abul Baker Md. Touhid Senior Assistant Chief‚ Physical Infrastructure Division Planning Commission Sher-e-Bangla Nagar‚ Dhaka‚ Bangladesh. 1. Introduction 1.1 Background Bangladesh is one of the populous countries in the world. It has a population of around 144.50 million on only 147‚570 sq km land. Per capita income estimated at current price in the country is only US$ 848 (Bangladesh
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the choices people are making. Do you know exactly how many people are homeless in the world ? Out of 7.5 billion people in the entire world they have estimated that about 100 million of them are homeless. Also‚ about one billion people live a squatters‚ refugees‚ or in temporary shelters all lacking adequate housing. People have witnessed them in “Cardboard Boxes‚ Old Cars‚ Abandoned Houses‚
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Title versus Possession - *V.Divya Scheme:- In the constantly changing society‚ the emergence of law has led to such a situation where the title of the property is coming in conflict with the possession. This modification in law is to protect the person in possession from being subjugated by the owner of the property (i.e.‚ title holder) by providing certain rights as well as duties imposed on both the title holder as well as the person in possession. In my project‚ I will
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The American Pageant‚ 13th Edition Textbook Notes Chapter 01 - New World Beginnings I. The Shaping of North America 1. Recorded history began 6‚000 years ago. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin colonization 2. The theory of Pangaea exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. They then spread out as drifting islands. 3. Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4. The
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