The Benefits of Parks: Why America Needs More City Parks and Open Space By Paul M. Sherer Published by: 116 New Montgomery Street Fourth Floor San Francisco‚ CA 94105 (415) 495-4014 www.tpl.org ©2006 the Trust for Public Land - Reprint of “Parks for People” white paper‚ published in 2003. Table of Contents Forward: Will Rogers‚ President‚ Trust for Public Land 5 Executive Summary 6 America Needs More City Parks U.S. Cities Are Park-Poor Low-Income Neighborhoods
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majority of my life has been smooth-sailing. For most of my life‚ I was told not to meddle in other people’s affairs and to not think too much about what others say. As a result‚ I would say that I have faced very little struggles. In the article “Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health‚” the author Jen Christensen describes aspects of reading that may be beneficial towards our emotional and mental health‚ including how to face those struggles that I never had. Instead‚ I read books for the sake
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Hobby for Nerds I was focused on the start line ready for the first race of my track career. Not knowing at the time how running would have such a great impact on my life. Running has always run in my family (pun intended). I began running in elementary and developed a deep passion for running as I got older‚ and I have found a few reasons how the nerd culture and running go hand in hand. For the most part‚ running is an individual sport‚ which is perfect for the socially awkward nerds. Performance
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lost‚ and now found. This book His Needs‚ Her Needs: How to Build an Affair Proof Marriage helps improve the problems in a marriage and helps by trying different methods to keep a marriage strong. As most marriages start the process for the first few months and years of their marriage‚ they realize there not the same person they dated in the beginning. This simply is what builds or lead the marriage to failure. However‚ in the long run it simplifies his or her needs‚ as the book will help the couples
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The issue of policing schools has been widely debated across the country. As a high school student myself‚ I believe policing schools would be extremely beneficial and would enhance the safety of schools everywhere. The article “Does America Really Need More Cops in Schools?” by Susan Ferriss states‚ “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun‚" National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre said after a young man shot his way into his former grammar
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In Jen Christensen’s article‚ “Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health”‚ the idea of a therapy approach consisting of books‚ known as Bibliotherapy‚ is introduced to the reader. Alison Courtney has been assigning books for people to read‚ not just for pleasure‚ but as a therapeutic treatment. She has been using books to aid people in overcoming issues such as grief or depression‚ as well as using them as general emotional support in several different aspects of life such as goals and relationships
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weapons would give way to the space race. Space technology has long revolutionized the technological status of the world. The first of the long list of space-inspired technology would be the ICBM’s contrived from the USSR’s launching of Sputnik. America suddenly realized that if the Soviets can put a satellite in orbit‚ then they can engineer a warhead into a missile that can be launched from Russia and reach Los Angeles. Sputnik opened the possibilities of space and space technology. No longer would
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Some people in countries like the United States of America think they need all the newest gadgets‚ the newest model of a car‚ and they really need the Internet. We have grown up in a generation ruled by the discoveries of things like the Internet and iPhones. We are used to having so many things that we just take for granted‚ things we think we need that we don’t‚ and worst of all things that we don’t think we need that we would be lost without. So many other nations don’t have the things that
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Chicago‚ like all great cities‚ contains the best and worst of humankind. Man’s great dreams and achievements stand like shadows next to man’s great failures. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson captures the essence of man’s greatness in the contrast between the Columbian World Exposition of 1893 and the murders conducted in the summer of the fair’s reign by a man known as Dr. H. H. Holmes. The World’s Fair‚ as the Columbian Exposition became known‚ represents one of the crowns in Chicago’s
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No need for a uniform The US education system is facing a dilemma. High dropout rates‚ low graduation rates‚ bullying and budget cuts are among the problems US schools are facing today. Trying to find solutions to these problems‚ school uniform proponents think that school uniforms might be the key to solve them (Alhanati). In countries like Great Britain‚ school uniforms are common and many other countries like Ireland‚ New Zealand‚ and South Africa adapted the same system (Should Uniforms in Schools
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