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    New York City Advantages

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    Past the countrysides, cities pop up round and round. These urban areas are displayed with humongous skyscrapers, resonate the air with vehicles booming and people roaming streets as their daily lives. Cities diverge from every form of lifestyle and environment, such as islands, reserves, countrysides and wetlands. Cities emphasize three key features that are essential to the establishment of this aspired habitat. Across the globe, citizens select cities as their homes. Therefore, in this essay these

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    Graffiti Research Paper

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    found in museums, private galleries, and even on the crowded streets. Certain urban environments can become flooded with countless forms of graffiti and are created by numerous artists tagging a multitude of locations. Even through overwhelming controversy, graffiti remains an art form that allows certain communities to communicate through a medium that expresses their political and social philosophies, provides particular urban environments with beauty, and includes an assortment of artistic variations

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    The Chelsea community is a very well structured city. The Chelsea Community has a few problems here and there, but the community is also very successful. Chelsea’s schools have produced very well mannered and intelligent young individuals, the streets and buildings are being well protected, and many other great things. But one problem the community has is the amount of homeless people who are around the alleyways and outside of shopping centers. The homeless people have nothing, these people need

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    OVER $50 Highlights for the Urban Outfitters Deal offered are: • Wide range of products available: Apparels, Shoes, Accessories, Beauty, etc. • Valid for both new and existing customers • No coupon required • Applicable on both Website and App • Automatically activated deal *t.c apply Terms & conditions are as follows: • Offer applicable only for standard shipping. • Rates may differ for orders outside US. • Additional shipping charges for oversize items. Flat 25% off Urban Outfitters clothing for

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    Living In Shanty Town

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    Have you ever in your life been dirt poor? Have you ever had to scavenge for things to trade or to build your house with? The people of Shanty Town have been scavenging for a little while now. Everyone who lives in Shanty Town has to scavenge for scrap so that they can trade that scrap for food and maybe even clothes if the right person comes through town. It is 2030 and a devastating thirteen year world war has left many countries to collapse and left in trash and ruins. It has only been two years

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    Introduction The gentrification process is a trend in urban neighborhoods, which results in increased property values and the displacing of lower-income families and small businesses(Sims1994-1999). Many cities around the world have begun to adapt in order to bring in new revenue. This process is being done blindly, because the apparent change is not quite noticeable but the damage is being done. The fact that there is damage being done speaks volumes at the fact that this process is being done

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    A third way Anderson describes how discrimination affects those in the inner city is the discrimination against hiring those who live there some workplaces have. Part of the reason the concept of family has deteriorated in the inner city, besides the increase of drugs and drug dealing, is because it is hard for a young man to provide for his family. Those who are in the “decent” group have to fight against the stereotypes set forth by those part of the “street” group and have to essentially be a

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    Life can differ from every city of the world and even the minimum differences such as weather, streets or population may guarantee people a new adventure. Through the years, humans have settle down their own lifestyle making it match with their hometown. Lifestyle is an important factor that defines the culture in every town, city or population. When people move from one city to another, they start discovering a new culture that changes their lifestyle. Morelia, a city in south of México, highly

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    I have decided to investigate the AFSC nonprofit, which is an organization the was originally created by Quakers. They have offices all over the United States, however, I will only be focusing on the office here in Des Moines and what they do for the community here. I have had my own personal encounter with their services. They offer Legal Aid to refugees and immigrants of Iowa. Being a DACA recipient myself I have attended clinics to apply for immigration status and also have volunteered to help

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    their late twenties earn significantly less then those who lived outside the city. One would ask why is that? Yes, these findings seem to be a shock, but they are truth. The local government and those elected to change the current situation, that has been a situation for far to long have done nothing but make it worse. Residents of these neighborhoods are nothing more then puppets, “endured at the hands of local, state and federal policy makers, all whom worked to quarantine black residents in

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