Noise in the city Steve Curwood: Modern life is full of nasty noises‚ especially in the cities. Sirens can shatter serenity at any moment and jackhammers‚ loud music‚ and useless mufflers can all send us over the edge. For many people in New York City‚ there’s one form of sonic pollution at the top of the list. They’re calling for its banning‚ even though some nervous New Yorkers savor the sound for security reasons. And as Neal Rauch reports‚ even as the controversy prompts loud debate‚ some aren’t
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Life is full of challenges without freedom In the book A Good Fall by Ha Jin‚ he is a contemporary Chinese - America poet and novelist. His poetry is associated with the Misty Poetry movement. Throughout his book‚ all the characters have to struggle to seek for the freedom of life and get out of imprisonment. But it seems like no one is having freedom. According to Mr. Mchon’s blog‚ There are different type of imprisonment includes psychology‚ emotional‚ spiritual‚ obligation‚ financial and physical
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hometown. With many cultural heritages‚ natural beauties and diverse culture‚ its is a city where one can experience the modern and ancient events mingled with each other. Geographically situated between 27°38’32” to 27°45’7” North latitudes and 85°16’5” to 85°22’32” East longitudes. It is believed to have some of the oldest human settlements in the central Himalayas. The city area is generally flat‚ what is now a city was once a highly productive agricultural land. One of the popular legend about
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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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The proud lamp seemed to have stayed in a time which the rest of the city had forgotten. It was filled a deep blue‚ so pure that all dirt and grime seemed to reflect off it. The aroma of charm and grace which it breathed into the city made the street seem lit with a light the eyes were not advanced enough to detect. For the first time in a long while‚ I smiled at its comforting presence. I then remembered where I was. A city‚ in which decay had become a terminal disease‚ blackened concrete car parks
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Broadcast News: Mad City Mr Fogel 13/05/13 Broadcast News: Mad City Elements used by Max Bracket to Construct His News Story A) Max says to his News director Lou that ever since he was working for his news team that the ratings have gone up from a three to a nine out of 10. Max knew that Lou’s job so he used it as an advantage for him to contradict his own better judgement. B)Max convinces Sam he will help him find a job. C) When Max left the museum after the police arrived
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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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Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 12‚ Number 2—Spring 1998—Pages 139-160 Are Cities Dying? Edward L. Glaeser Is the city dying? Professional seers‚ such as Richard Naisbitt and Alvin Toffler‚ have argued that information technology is rapidly making the need for faceto- face contact juid cities obsolete. Experts on the inner city see inevitable urban decay when they note that 16.7 percent of families in cities with greater than one million inhabitants live below the poverty line (compsired
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writing. 2.-In what countries of the actuality did the civilization have its place Mayan? Southern Mexico to much of central America. Heart of their highlands of Guatemala and the plains of the Yucatan. 3. - Mention at least three of five Mayan cities to which one alludes in the documentary. Tikal‚ Copan‚ Palenque. 4.-What happened with the Mayan writing system after the arrival of the Spanish? It disappeared because the Diego de Landa believed that the Mayan writing system was the tools of the
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The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich By: William H. Shirer William Shirer‚ the son of a lawyer‚ was born in Chicago in 1904. When he was a child his father died and the family moved to Cedar Rapids‚ Iowa. He had to deliver newspapers and sell eggs to help the family finances. After leaving school he worked on the local newspaper. In 1925 Shirer toured Europe and while in Paris found work with the Chicago Tribune. He started on the copy desk but after learning French‚ German‚ Italian and Spanish
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