Number 1. January 2008. Rapid Urban Growth and Poverty in Dhaka City Shahadat Hossain• Abstract The paper aims to explore the nature of urban growth and poverty in Dhaka City‚ Bangladesh. It has highlighted the city of Dhaka as the urbanisation of the whole country is interlinked with the intense development of the city. The paper is based on data collected through surveys of population censuses and relevant studies. It reveals that the historical process of urban development of Dhaka City presents
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White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime One problem that plagues our society is crime. Crime is all around us in our everyday lives. Daily we hear of murders‚ robberies‚ and rapes. These are categorized as "street crimes." For many people‚ such crimes are the only "tragic" crimes‚ the ones that are senseless and preventable. In Finsterbusch’s book‚ Taking Sides‚ another variety of crime is exposed. This other form of crime is "white collar" crime. Both have victims‚ and the effects of both
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relationship between incarceration and crime has been examined for a long time. Some researchers have posited that incarceration reduced crime. Others have argued that incarceration did not reduce crime; even‚ a few of researchers insisted that it increased crime. Also‚ some scholars have contended that incarceration brought about unintended or collateral consequences. By delving into numerous studies focusing on the relationship between incarceration and crime‚ this literature review will illuminate
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in peri-urban areas Bryant et al. (1982) in an attempt to show why there is an uneven land use development in peri-urban areas‚ noted that urban development may not occur around all urban centres in all directions‚ due to variations in societal response to changes within the surrounding areas of a particular city. This makes the peri-urban areas a disjointed (irregular) spatial occurrence in metropolitan regions. According to the PLUREL Project (2006)‚ the problem of this uncontrolled urban sprawl
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Although homeschooling has many benefits‚ Public school education provides a more efficient and effective environment for a student to learn and succeed. According to some researches‚ there are more than 2.04 million students who are doing the homeschool in United States of America. The number keeps on increasing over 75% since 1999. In Indonesia itself‚ the number of families that choose to use the homeschooling is still increasing. According to HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association)‚ there
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Criminal Justice has been a career option of mine for a year. I have come to the concussion that I would like to spend the bulk of my life rehabilitating criminal’s. Parole officers evaluate offenders to determine the best course of rehabilitation. They also provide offenders with resources such as job training assistance in getting a home if necessary. Becoming a parole officer will allow me to do so. In order to pursue a career as a parole officer there are some steps that I will have to take.
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Urban vs Rural India About 80 per cent of the Indian population live in villages. When travelling through the length and breadth of this subcontinent‚ one can really visualise the difference betweenrural and urban India. There is a big difference between urban and rural India. One of the major differences that can be seen between rural India and urban India‚ is their standards of living. People living in urban India have better living conditions than those living in the rural parts of India. There
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Name: Sherif Nader A. GOUBRAN ID: 900092358 Date: 13-5-2010 Class & Section: English 201-02 Dr. Loubna Youssef Subtitle: Research Paper (final Draft) A Solution: Urban Chaos in Cairo What is known today as the Greater Cairo Region is in fact a combination of a number of neighbouring cities and governorates (including Cairo‚ Giza‚ Helwan‚ Qalyubia and 6th of October. Since the first establishment in the region‚ Al- Fustat in 641 AD‚ Cairo was in continuous growth. The numerous and different
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Introduction ICT (information and communications technology) is a term that includes any communication device such as radio‚ television‚ newspaper‚ cellular phones‚ computer and network hardware and software‚ satellite systems and so on‚ as well as the various services and applications associated with them‚ such as videoconferencing and distance learning. ICT development Index The ICT Development Index (IDI) is a composite index combining 11 indicators into one benchmark value (presented on
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Urban consolidation is a rising issue in amny capital cities and could have a dramatic effect on the environmental sustainability of Australian cities in the near and distant future. “Urban consolidation policies concentrate on increasing housing densities in the large cities to produce more compact development‚ shorter travel distances and less dependence on automobiles.” (Forster 2004‚ p.171). Some of the main negative issues that is caused by urban consolidation are a drop in value of pre-existing
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