Select one of the major actors involved in the production of the built environment (i.e.‚ speculators‚ real-estate agents‚ financial institutions‚ government‚ etc.) and‚ with reference to Hong Kong‚ to illustrate their role in urban change. Introduction The correlation between productions of built environment‚ human activities and the change of urban development has long been a hot topic in Hong Kong. It requires a complex decision making process‚ which includes political‚ economic and social concerns
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Determined that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of apportioning taxes and representation. Northwest Ordinance of 1787: Created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories. Antifederalists: Opposed a strong central government‚ skeptical about undemocratic tendencies in the Constitution. Shays’s Rebellion: A rebellion by debtor farmers in western Massachusetts‚ led by
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An ecosystem can range in size from a large reef to a tree stump (University of Michigan‚ 2017)‚ the range of ecosystems is staggering. This report will investigate ecosystems and the connections within them‚ using Kakadu National Park (Northern Territory‚ Australia) as a case study. This report will also cover the impacts that human activities have on these fragile ecosystems‚ both positive and negative. The Importance of Maintaining Biodiversity for Functioning Ecosystems In Kakadu‚ there are
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people before they became “extinct‚” and they would do so by pushing them west into a land for just them (Doc 8). In 1830‚ Jackson secured the passage of the Indian Removal Act‚ which authorized him to exchange public lands in the west for Indian territories in the
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of the year when the entire landmass is safe from the potential danger of bushfire. The fire season in different regions of Australia depends primarily on latitude. At the ’top end’ of the country‚ extending north of Tenant Creek in the Northern Territory up
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Liberation Organization (PLO)1 -- headed by arch-enemy Yasser Arafat‚ a man long considered a terrorist and responsible for unspeakable horrors against Israeli civilians -- represented official recognition by Israel of the PLO‚ now known as the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Fatah party. Jerusalemites sang the famous “Yerushaliyim Shel Zahav” (Jerusalem of Gold – the victory song of Jerusalem’s reunification‚ written by Naomi Shemer and made famous by singer Ofra Haza2) while lamenting the eventuality
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What Does The Future Hold for Israel-Palestine? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proven to be one of the most complex and “intractable” conflicts of modern history – or as some may even add – of all time. And after many decades of failed attempts at peacemaking in this region‚ there still seems to be no conceivable end to the conflict. During those same decades‚ most of the parties involved as well as the international community have embraced the idea of a two-state solution‚ but the question
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among the American people. A couple of issues that caused a division among American society were the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and the expansion of slavery into new territories. Slavery has always been a controversial topic‚ and people had used their opinions to argue for their support or rejection of expansion of slavery into new territories. The Louisiana Territory was purchased with the help of Thomas Jefferson with the intentions of it benefitting the United States of America. However
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When settlers first came to the New World forests covered ____ per cent of the land. The forests all had a wide range of trees and bushes in them. The "primeval forest" or the first forest Europeans came into contact with had been changed by many acts of nature such as floods‚ hurricanes‚ and flood. Actions of Native Americans also had a hand in changing forests. Such forests included redwood forests‚ which were home to huge redwood trees‚ mossy forests‚ and swamp forests. To many European
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“Territory” by David Leavitt is a short‚ yet complexly intimate tail of a mother’s futile attempts to accept her son’s homosexual identity and his on-going struggle with internalized homophobia. The story opens with twenty-three year old Neil visiting his mother‚ Mrs. Campbell‚ at his childhood home. As they prepare for the first arrival of Neil’s lover‚ Wayne‚ the anticipation triggers anxieties both Neil‚ causing him to have painful flashbacks of the past. As these images reveal‚ Neil has lived
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