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    City Life

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    rural environment‚ that was the only life I knew and thought it was the best. Adulthood brings into focus maturity. I moved into the city‚ and came to the realization that I had to adjust to a different way of living‚ another transition of my life. I was very overwhelmed by hustle and all the excitement of the life that surrounded me. For this reason rural life and city life can be compared and contrasted in regards to cost‚ standard of living‚ accessibility and entertainment. Living in a rural

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    John Updike once wrote that‚ “ Cities aren’t like people; they live on and on‚ even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.”. This quote is very representative of American cities because it recognizes the fact that as time progresses the mechanisms that built up the city may no longer be blatantly evident‚ but the city lives on in an adapted form as time progresses. This notion of similarities and difference between aging cities can be seen when looking at

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    The City of Ember

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    role as one of the main personality in discovering the mystery of the “City of Ember”‚ and lead the story in an act of escape from the underworld with her friend doon. Doon- plays another major character in the story‚ whereas‚ he and his friendship as messenger with the people of the city of ember‚ lead to discovering clues in which he himself was surprised to discover the mystery behind the 200 plus years old underground city. Other Characters 7th Mayor- significantly acted to be guilty

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    Essay on city life The migration from the countryside to city areas is merely a new phenomenon. This is a historic transformation on a global scale that consists of village culture being rapidly replaced by urban culture. Nowadays more than half of the world’s population lives in the cities. The majority of the people migrate of the better employment opportunities‚ the medical and educational facilities but there are also other reasons like the fun attractions of city life. City life is far

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    In the short stories‚ The Hollow of Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Moving Finger by Edith Wharton‚ there is an ever present sense of the supernatural. This is shown in various contrasting as well as similar ways in each story. Two such ways would be the use of the supernatural in a physical and impure way in Hawthorne’s story and in a psychological and spiritual way in Wharton’s. The use of the setting to portray the supernatural motif is also used. Firstly‚ both stories share similar

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    City Improvement

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    There are many things that can be done to improve the city of Euclid. We can improve the school system. We can improve the school programs. We can improve the overall look of the city. We can also improve recreation in Euclid. Therefore‚ we can improve the city of Euclid. There are many things that can be done to improve the school system and programs. First we can improve the high school. They should first bring back small schools‚ because I feel that the students had a better chance. The

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    The City in Literature

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    encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way‚ Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe‚ Charles Dickens‚ Emile Zola‚ Bram Stoker‚ Rider Haggard‚ Joseph Conrad‚ James Joyce‚ Theodore Dreiser‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and Raymond Chandler. The European city is read against the decline of feudalism and the rise of empire and totalitarianism; the American city against the phenomenon of the

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    City of Dreams

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    City of Memories I feel the moment coming‚ the feeling of a cool breeze just like the same feeling I get when I chew a minty fresh gum. My heart senses each breeze of wind as it strikes my face and soon my heart is addicted to this feeling of coolness. The trees look alive as if they are dancing and the sun is shining bright‚ but not to the point where it’s burning hot. As I walk down the city streets‚ the sight of sky towers and magnificent buildings appear before my sight. The people that are

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    The Hills of Dynamics between Men and Women Men and women talk in different ways. No matter whether it is today or a century ago‚ men and women just have different ways of communication. Language may have changed but the feeling and dynamics behind it has not. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story‚ "Hills Like White Elephants"‚ the language and how the two characters talk to each other is a prime example of the way men and women talk. Hemingway’s use of dialogue between the American man and Jig in “Hills

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    Sustainable Citys

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    of future generations. Toronto is a developed urban area‚ so in theory should have a more sustainable transport system than a newly developed city such as Curitiba or Rio de Janiro‚ who may have other problems‚ such as poverty which they may be trying to solve and so not focusing on having a sustainable transport system. It is very difficult to make cities completely sustainable due to the high density population with a high demand for energy and high quality of life; the dense population also means

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