European immigrants have become hotspots of coffee culture‚ as have college towns and resorts like the Berkshires. Thanks to corporate chains like Starbucks‚ coffee has become a popular beverage in all parts of the country. Yet in many American suburbs‚ coffee remains something people drink on the go while driving to work‚ not in coffeehouses. Independently owned local coffee shops are working to change that. These family owned businesses offer an increasingly popular alternative to corporate
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Ecologists are concerned about the rising danger to barn owls in North America caused by harmful chemicals that their natural habitats are being exposed to. Their natural habitats consist of grasslands‚ fields‚ suburbs‚ and cities‚ which are often poisoned by organophosphate pesticides‚ pollution‚ and other harmful chemicals that are poisonous to barn owls. Predatory animals such as the barn owl are threatened by these harmful chemicals‚ as they may be ingested by the barn owl’s prey or directly
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Caitlin Maltbie 009606309 Take Home Essay Question 2: Racial Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites After racial discrimination was made illegal in the 1960s‚ blatant and bigot racism has seemed to disappear‚ yet remaining racist attitudes have continued to put blacks at an overall disadvantage due to the progression of these attitudes into institutionalized settings and policies. The result of historical and contemporary discrimination and segregation is a widening gap
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the concentric-zone model (1942)‚ Chicago was divided into five 5 zones‚ with the zone of working men’s home in the inner city and residential zone with better‚ private housing in the outer suburbs (as cited in Pacione‚ 2009‚ p.141). Even the model itself is dated‚ the illustration that the housing in the suburbs is better than those in the inner city still applies to most developed countries‚ like the one shown in Kearsley’s modified Burgess model (1983). The urban core is always the first place to
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1. Nash equilibrium is where one player maximizes his payoff and the other doesn’t. is where each player maximizes his own payoff given the action of the other player. is where both players are maximizing their total payoff. is a unique prediction of the likely out-come of a game. Use the following to answer Questions 2–4: Consider the following information for a simultaneous move game: Two discount stores (mega-store and superstore) are interested in expanding their market share through advertising
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Sennett stated that Enrico had worked twenty years without complaining. Enrico had one goal and that was to provide for his family. Which he did by purchasing and house in the suburbs in Massachusetts. He left his Italian neighborhood because he felt that the suburbs were better for his kids. When he moved to the suburbs Enrico and his wife began a college fund for his kids. Enrico and his wife check the increase their savings every week. They measured their home life by various improvements and
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THE CRONULLA RIOTS The beachside suburb‚ known by residents as "God’s Country"‚ saw the spread of violence in a series of ethnically motivated confrontations in the week of December 11th 2005. This day saw the gathering of nearly 5000 people‚ most of Anglo Celtic background‚ some locals‚ some from other Sydney beachside suburbs such as Maroubra and Brighton‚ in order to "reclaim the beach" after two middle eastern youths attacked Cronulla lifesavers earlier in the week. The notification of the
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The turn of the century changed everything all over the world. The Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th and 19th centuries and was a period of significant economic development marked by the introduction of power-driven machinery. The steam engine was use to run machinery. Before this time‚ a few machines were use to harness nature such as the wind and watermills‚ humans‚ and animals were depended upon as a source of power. Much like the Agricultural Revolution‚ the Industrial Revolution
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La Haine is a story about three guys who have a friend ling in coma after being shot in a riot. Vinz‚ Hubert‚ and Saïd live at the suburbs of Paris and suffer with the violence committed by the police. Vinz finds a cop’s gun and decides to kill one if his friend dies. Hubert is boxer and had his gymnasium burned in the riots. However‚ he does not agree with Vinz. Saïd is the youngest one and does not have a definite opinion. This movie illustrates the effects of brutality‚ discrimination and repression
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Tops and Minority Stops‚ “But the suburb’s widening gulf between the number of white and minority traffic stops is troubling to some civil rights experts and is drawing attention to police practices. Such frequent stops also raise questions that the suburb is seeking to boost revenues by targeting and imposing fines on minority drivers” (Schroedter
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