as a mainstream means of transport resurfaces. When the Philippine government and the World Bank started to prepare an urban transport for Metro Manila‚ serious discussion of a pilot bikeways project took place. But where to pilot this idea in a metropolis notorious at that time for horrendous traffic jams and poor transport system? One would need a city where the leaders are not only willing to experiment‚ but also fully committed to make the cycling project work. Marikina City‚ a medium-sized
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THE VODOU PRIESTESS: MAMA LOLA I found Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola to be an innovative and intimate “ethnographic spiritual biography” exploring the lived realities‚ material and immaterial‚ of a Haitian Voudou priestess and her family in New York City from the late 1970’s through the 1980’s. (xiv) Brown’s approach is innovative because she treats her subjects’ as multivocal and fluid. Brown heeds her own advice and contrary to most ethnographic scholars before her‚ appropriately represents her own
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During the second half of the 19th century and well into the 20th‚ the city of Los Angeles was subject to a period of what author William Deverell calls “whitewashing.” In other words‚ Deverell argues that after the Mexican-American War‚ the newly arrived white population in Los Angeles did a number of things to distance themselves from the Mexican population‚ as well as other ethnic groups. In his extensive work Whitewashed Adobe‚ Deverell forms his argument around the specific‚ and racist tactics
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Through history‚ there has been revolutions that have affected the world in many different ways. There is two kind of revolutions political revolutions ‚that are changes to the government‚ and non political revolution‚ that are intellectual‚ economic or social changes. The non political revolutions are important because they had shaped the way we all think‚ act and work in the actuality. Some of those non political revolutions are the enlightenment that was a change in the way that everybody thinked;
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I used to build spaceships. They were quite mesmerizing‚ really‚ the kind of flying wonders a child could not glance at without imagining the bold brass Star Wars fanfare. Of course‚ I was not limited to just spaceships; although my first works consisted of cars‚ trains‚ and other relatively basic creations‚ I eventually acquired the expertise to even recreate the Empire State Building. To my ten-year-old self‚ the fact that my (comparable tiny) models were made of molded blocks of plastic rather
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------------------------------------------------- London Calling The article from the “Newsweek” magazine is written by William Underhill who was in London with Marie Valla. The article is informative‚ describing London’s best attributes and development on financial‚ cultural and intellectual areas. The growing prosperity and popularity is presented as a result of one thing in particular: immigration. This means the main focus in the article is how immigration has contributed to London’s culture
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What was 1920’s art like? By: Marisol Menendez and Libby Davis Art Influences • Art in the 1920’s was mainly influenced by two movements: Dada and Surrealism. Dada Art • Dada was an anti-art movement . Anti Art painters rejected in some way the conventional artistic standards. • It was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. It rejected reason and logic‚ prizing nonsense‚ irrationality and intuition. Many Dada artist scattered across Europe after Great War ended. Dada’s
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Malthusian Theory in relation to the Caribbean According to Chinapoo et Al (2014)‚ Thomas Malthus’s Theory (1798)‚ claims that population growth is determined by certain natural laws and food supply was the main limit to population. He argued that population increases faster than the food supply and compared the way in which each increases. Malthus ’ theory of population can be used to explain the dynamics of the relationship between population and resources in less developed territories. Since the
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Cited: Baty‚ M. The Metropolis and the Oceanic Metaphor: E. M. Forster`s Howards End and Virginia Woolf`s Mrs. Dalloway. Diploma: wsu.edu/~honors/thesis/AdvisecSignature.htm‚ 2003‚ p. 1; p. 23 Finch‚ J. E. M. Forster and English Place. A Literary Topography. Abo Akademi University
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Company Overview Management Team Career Company Profile: Navana Real Estate Ltd. (NREL) was formed in late 1996 under the Chairmanship of Mr. Shafiul Islam Kamal to cater the boom in Real Estate Development in Bangladesh. NREL within a short span of time turned out as one of the most trusted company in this sector and has already been working in various numbers of apartments‚ commercial and land projects. The motto of NREL is not only to deliver apartment or land ahead of schedule but also to maintain
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