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Since the beginning of time, water has played a key role in societies all over the world. The earliest recorded civilizations have all been found along large river valleys, such as, the Indus River in India and the Yellow River in China. Water is an essential part of life; it does not just sustain the life of all human beings around the globe, but also sustains the life of every living thing known to this Earth. All of the major cities that we know today are surrounded by large river systems that

The City of Vancouver is world renowned for being a beautiful yet expensive city for people to work and live in. Despite ranking as the third least affordable housing market in the world, Vancouver is home to Canada’s poorest neighbourhood, the Downtown Eastside (DTES). Due to the high costs of living, the city of Vancouver has a large amount of poverty and homelessness. The DTES has high rates of “drug use, poverty, crime, infectious disease, and mental illness” (Linden, Mar, Werker, Jang, & Krausz

the week to come. Also, much to our horror, they told us where to go if there was a terror threat at the hotel. We awoke the next morning eager to do some sight-seeing before the official start of the gathering that night. We took the bus into downtown Detroit and, just like the tourist you seeing in the movies, we unashamedly took pictures of anything mildly interesting or different. We were left off the

Nemesis by Philip Roth is one of most tense morality fiction tale which took place in Newark's summer camp during 1940s. This tale is on the connection between fear, belief and ethics. The book starts off describing the Newark’s suffering from a breakout of polio, which was spreading among infants and children. The main focus of this tale is twenty-three years old playground director named Bucky Cantor. Bucky has disconnected his life because of his disability. His eyes were weak and it became one

Debbie Obi Government Paper 3 After reading the article “ TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen In Texas” I could relate to both sides of the Local Control and state government. I related a little more with the citizen lobbyist simply because I can relate to what they are trying to oppose. In the article a picture with a banner was presented and quoted “ We will defend ourselves, we will defend our ban”, although Texas Government wants the best for their citizens, but the way they use their powers

Pittsburgh the “Steel City”, “City of Bridges”, and the “City of Champions” was once considered to be disturbingly polluted. It is now more environmentally friendly. Green buildings, less water pollution, and all the other things that make Pittsburgh better. The thesis statement goes here. Pittsburgh geography created a strange city layout. George Woods and Thomas Vickroy created the layout of the Golden Triangle 1784. The design was called the Woods-Vickroy double-grid plan. The Great of 1854 destroyed

transportation when they're just as large of a threat anywhere else. There are aggressive citizens everywhere, but there are also citizens who are willing to assist. Unfortunately, sometimes people only see and remember those few intrusive ones when they are downtown or in an urban setting and then form false opinions about an entire group of people. We need to realize that people in urban areas even if they may be homeless, without work, or just less fortunate than we are, are not all intrusive and threatening

or an upscale dining experience reserved for the most special of occasions. Houston has a much broader ethnic diversity in kinds of restaurants. When staying in Houston on business or with your family on a vacation, you have many lodging choices. Downtown Houston is where most of the attractions are located. It also features various luxurious hotels that offer the kind of services you and your family will appreciate. This article will describe some of the favorite and best restaurants that may be

Downtown Los Angeles is one of the busiest commercial centers in the United States. However, the city holds two groups of people in different economic level-the homeless and the working class. Hector Tobar frequently includes the landscape of the setting in downtown Los Angeles in The Tattooed Soldier. The novel is about two immigrants from Guatemala who have moved to Los Angeles. The protagonist, Antonio, takes a revenge on the antagonist, Longoria because he murdered Antonio's wife and son when

- 2004 Skid Row lost 1000 housing units. In 2005 there were 1,544 violent crimes on Skid Row, 10 times more than in Beverly Hills which is 8 miles away. This is the city away from downtown. Skid Row has 5 major missions that service 6,561 homeless families. Midnight Mission was the first shelter to be built in downtown Los Angeles. It was established in 1914 ,by Tom Liddecoat " father of the poor", as a refuge for the men of Skid Row. in 1922 the midnight mission was given a non-profit status. in