Poverty‚ and the lack of support and trust in adults are some of the underlying factors of urban violence in America. While racial discrimination is no longer legal in the United States‚ economic discrimination can have as much impact on peoples life. There are other forms of economic discrimination that manifest in the environment. For example‚ single parents must work two or three jobs to nourish and shelter their families‚ young people progress through schools without learning the skills adequately
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Committee on Education and Labor Urban Education With the growing count of people in suburban areas‚ cities are left with less money and aid to support its urban settings. The lack of financial support put the schools at a disadvantage; the schools averages are extremely low and the children‚ as well as parents‚ are frustrated with their current situation and the schools. On top of students’ lack of effort in school work‚ the schools are‚ many times‚ unable to better the students’ learning
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Urban Sprawl‚ New Urbanism A new revolution of thought has wage a war against low-density suburban growth or sprawl. But is sprawl really a problem? And could the proposed solutions do more harm than good? Sprawl typically conjures up images of strip malls and mega stores‚ traffic congestion‚ long commutes‚ lost open space‚ pollution‚ crowded schools‚ higher taxes‚ and the demise of downtown shopping areas. Activists throughout the country are fighting proposals to build new retail stores proposed
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Sociology 240- Ethnography Assignment 2 1 October 10‚ 2012 5:00pm- 5:40 pm New York Public Transit A train This paper will serve to report my observation on the New York City public transportation letter A train line. I see that a lot of people have headphones in their ears‚ reading magazines‚ reading books‚ newspapers and on their phones. The guy sitting next to me to my right is reading‚ had headphones in his ears and is casually dressed. There is a guy with a red sweater who is standing
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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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BUSINESS POLICY MGT499 SOLUTIONS: 1. Why do you think Urban Outfitters has been so successful? What can other firms learn from Urban Outfitter’s success? What is their strategy? ➢ Urban Outfitters has been so successful because of its ability to introduce diversification in its market. It has been able to attract shoppers by introducing an eclectic mix of full price clothing and also introduce home goods in most of its stores. ➢ Secondly‚ it has managed to give employees a chance
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According to the author‚ there is a new multiracial urban working class that holds the key to transforming urban American. The urban resident who are comprise are Latinos‚ Asian Pacific Islander‚ West Indian immigrants‚ can US born African. Now‚ tell me have a job that are in the working class. Those jobs are cleaning services‚ nursing homes‚ telephone sales‚ assembling plants‚ and food processing services. Now‚ in the world today most people who are under class are working in a retail shop as a
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Municipal Finance is directly and indirectly impacted by urban sprawling. In Canada it has become very desirable to live in sub-divisions with large yards and single family dwellings (2). These types of subdivisions create urban sprawl by spreading out residential and commercial areas in such a way that public transit is not feasible and residents require vehicles to transport themselves to work‚ school and recreational activities (1). Therefore‚ creating a strained balance between municipalities
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growing cities in the world. Urban sprawl is becoming the subject of analysis through modern decades concerning the management of urban growth. It described the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into rural areas‚ following the outward expansion of cities; it is believed that the city of Dubai has followed this method. Each city has shaped its own settlement patterns over time‚ either through the oldest and most widely quoted models in urban studies which are those of Burgess
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An urban farm to me‚ is an area‚ much like a rural farm‚ that includes home grown plants and vegetables but instead of being in the correct rural setting‚ the plants are grown within a city setting. The Heritage Market Urban Farm is located off of City Line Avenue and is surrounded by a mix of a suburban and urban neighborhood. Because the urban farm is located on the side of The Methodist Home for Children‚ there are mainly African American families that live in and around that area of Philadelphia
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