The City of Dream Bright lights‚ massive crowds of people‚ a whole new perspective of life was all I could think about as I tossed and turned‚ unable to sleep. Anxiety and nervousness flooded my body‚ like water rushing into city streets after a hurricane. Maybe it was the fear of the unknown‚ but it was a good feeling. A feeling of anticipation; it was the night before my trip to New York and I was ready to experience the “City of Dreams” for myself. Ready to accomplish my goals
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Mud City The main character in the book is named Shauzia‚ Shauzia is a Fourteen-year-old that dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France‚ but it is hard to reconcile that dream with the terrible conditions of the Afghan refugee camp where she lives. She has tanned skin and brown eyes‚ short hair‚ and she wears a salwar kameez (long‚ loose shirt and trousers‚ worn by both men and women. A women’s salwar kameez has different colors and patterns and sometimes elaborately
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The City Planners‚ Margaret Atwood In this poem‚ the poet attacks the sterile uniformity of residential suburbs. Notice that she never mentions people. ‘What offends us is the sanities’ Sanity is defined as being reasonable and of sound mind; she is referring to ‘pedantic houses’‚ sanitary trees’ and things that she considers to be overly controlled or constructed. She does not approve. In stanza 2‚ she lists ‘certain things’ that give momentary access to the landscape…’ The images
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As an unprecedented proportion of world populations find themselves living in cities‚ it is beyond question that initiatives such as the global TheSmarterCity.com are invaluable. By observing and sharing how other urban centers have faced the challenges of city planning‚ participants can design more and more efficient social systems. The website for Smarter Cities is very effective in illustrating the common facets of social systems by choosing a user friendly and easily understandable model of
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I live on the ninth floor of the tallest building in the city. I often sit in my window and watch the drama unfolding below‚ seeing as I overlook the slum areas of Creedville. It is always darker down there. From the things I have witnessed‚ I have developed a great fear of being out after 9:00 pm. Most nights I would rather spend sitting in my only window watching below. One evening I had just sat down to watch the darkened scene below‚ when I saw a young looking man walking quickly toward a running
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Life in a big city is different from life of a village or a small town. The hustle and bustle which is found in the cities is not in the small places. Once I had an experience of a life in a big city. It was a strange experience. I went to Karachi to spend my summer holidays with my uncle. He lives in Sadar Bazar. A very busy and crowded area of Karachi. I was surprised to see such frenzied activities of people throughout the day. As I live in a village near Narowal I had no idea that life would
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EOW takes Aim at one more car rental company Aim Limouzines - like City Limouzine - had started a car-rental investment scheme‚ but allegedly defaulted on payments to investors. EOW suspects fraud to the tune of Rs 20-crore | | |
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CITY Urban Chronicles NCP: Coastal Roads Will Alter Mumbai Coastline THE CM maintains that there will be no violation of environmental norms Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan‚ who has been pushing for the Rs 8‚000-crore coastal road project between Colaba and Kandivali‚ has been receiving warnings from senior ministers of NCP‚ saying the project is likely to alter the picturesque seashore‚ which is the main tourist attraction of Mumbai. Though Chavan maintains that there will be no violation
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The City Planners - Margaret Atwood Summary: The Canadian author/poet Margaret Atwood creates this piece of poetry‚ addressing the perfection‚ robotic‚ bland and uniform structure of the city as she takes a cruise through it on a relaxing Sunday weekend‚ something that she finds completely sickening. Throughout the poem‚ she addresses the sickening sense of conformity that she finds in the city as well as the hidden hand behind all of this – the ‘evil’ politicians of this world‚ she says.
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Dear City Council‚ Cell phones are one of the many things that businesses‚ organizations‚ and other companies have a major problem with. City Council feels that they should be banned from facilities because people don’t consider the other people surrounding them while having a cellular device in use. Me on the other hand I feel that city council should not ban cell phones. Cell phones have made a great impact on human society and I strongly disagree that cell phones be banned from any facility
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