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    The City at Night

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    The City at Night I step forward into the deep‚ soft snow and hear the sound of a muffled packing of frozen wetness. All the sounds are muffled‚ yet somehow amplified by parentheses they fall hard but slow‚ despite the weight. I look at the cloud they fall from and think how the snowflake seems like a frozen flake of a billowy cloud. Its cold and the snow that falls on my upturned face froze on my eyelashes until I blinked and now the warmth of my cheeks melts the snowflake and its

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    Falls In Hospitals

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    Research Summary and Ethical Considerations of “Factors Associated with Falls in Hospital Adults Patients” Introduction Falling is a crucial issue among the hospitals. Even the hospitals make all the efforts to prevent fallsfalls still occur frequently and some repeatedly. According to Currie (2008)‚ approximately 700000 to 1000000 individuals fall in the united states hospitals each year. A fall in a hospitalized patient is considered a never-event by Medicare and Medicaid services(CMS) (Cox

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    Garden Cities

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    ------------------------------------------------- Garden city movement From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Ebenezer Howard ’s 3 magnets diagram which addressed the question ’Where will the people go? ’‚ the choices being ’Town ’‚ ’Country ’ or ’Town-Country ’ The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned‚ self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts"‚ containing

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    What is a city?

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    URS 1006 31 March 2014 City Title What is a city? People often confuse a city for a town. Merriam-Webster definition of a city is “A place where people live that is larger or more important than a town: an area where many people live and work.” (Merriam Webster definition). The definition of a town is “an urban area that has a name‚ defined boundaries‚ and local government‚ and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city.” The official definitions of these terms do not

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    Rise and Fall

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    Case study 10.1 - THE RISE AND FALL OF WORLCOM Bernie Ebbers built WorldCom‚ Inc. (now part of Verizon‚ Inc.) into one of the world’s largest telecommunications firms. Yet he and chief financial officer (CFO) Scott Sullivan have become better known for creating a massive corporate accounting fraud that lead to the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Two investigate reports and subsequent court cases conclude that WorldCom executives were responsible for billions in fraudulent or unsupported accounting

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    City’ Super

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    Introduction In this project‚ we have chosen City’ Super as our investigation target. We will discuss its buyer’s responsibilities in merchandising and the external forces affecting its buyer’s environment and will provide recommendations for City’ Super. Moreover‚ we will investigate how City’ Super locates right resources and prepares merchandise for sale in order to satisfy the needs and wants from the customers. The responsibilities of the buyer of City’ Super can be divided into five categories

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    The Fall of the Bastille

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    The 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille is the occasion of national celebrations in France‚ a flood of books‚ articles and TV programmes‚ presenting opinions for all tastes. Yet beneath all the ballyhoo‚ the ghosts of 1789-93 are beginning to stir uneasily. The modern descendants of that very bourgeoisie which was the principal benefactor of the revolution are experiencing a crisis of identity in their attitude to their own past. As one journalist expressed it‚ "although all serious

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    smart cities

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    What is a smart city? • A smart city has been defined as a ‘knowledge’‚ ‘digital’‚ ‘cyber’ or ‘eco’ city; representing a concept open to a variety of interpretations‚ depending on the goals set out by a smart city’s planners. We might refer to a smart city as an improvement on today’s city both functionally and structurally‚ using information and communication technology (ICT) as an infrastructure. • A city well performing in a forward-looking way in [economy‚ people‚ governance‚ mobility

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    Aztec and City

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    Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan was the main city and capital of the Aztec empire. The city was founded in 1325 when the Aztec emperor told some of his tribes to look for a spot for their new capital city. He told them that the spot for the city would be found when they saw an eagle eating a snake on top of a cactus. This symbol is now on the Mexican coat of arms and on the Mexican flag (King). The tribes wondered around in what is now present day Mexico City‚ looking for this strange site. They finally

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    The City Life

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    THE CITY LIFE Living in a large city certainly has its advantages and disadvantages. Some of the key advantages of living in the city are the number of jobs available‚ the commute to those available jobs‚ the hot spots‚ popular malls‚ and the convenience of public transportation. There are a number of entertaining venues in the city such as the state’s baseball and/or football stadium‚ arenas‚ theaters‚ and don’t forget that most entertainers perform at city venues. Living in the city can be

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