I have to say‚ that Townsend’s book is a fascinating read on how societies are envisioned in the future. It is much like a dream‚ why not to call the fantasy world of Tomorrow land: It is like leaving the today world to enter the tomorrow world and its fantasy. We can say‚ that some societies are almost there‚ some already there‚ but most of them can only hope to be there. In our critique and analysis‚ we can appreciate‚ that the purpose of creating smart cities is not to build a technological utopia
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Newman (10 Ways the Drug War Is Causing Massive Collateral Damage to Our Society) and Solomon and Baksh (Evaluating the Drug War on Its 40th Birthday‚ by the Numbers) discuss the detrimental consequences the war on drugs had on society. Specifically‚ the prison system’s dramatic increase in population. The mass incarceration of people of color in the United States can be traced back to numerous historical events. One of those events being president Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs‚ which provoked the
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The Progressive Era began in the 1890’s. The Progressive Era was a period of social and political reform in the US. Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. People in the United States had long been displeased with the unsafe conditions‚ political corruption and social injustice of the industrial age; it was not until the late 19th century that the accumulation of cheap newspapers and magazines
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The Peloponnesian war was not an easy war at all for both sides. The war began shortly after the war against Persia (“Peloponnesian War” History). After the war with the Persians both Sparta and Athens were beaten up‚ and sort off broken down. Sparta and Athens were two very major powers at the time in Greece (“Peloponnesian War” Ancient History). Everyone new that eventually these two great powers would soon have conflict (‘Peloponnesian War” History). But Throughout the next half century Sparta
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Koreans destroyed the crew and the ship. So when the American naval came to Korea‚ the Koreans attacked them‚ and later‚ the Americans attacked back. This conflict was later called the United States Expedition to Korea‚ or simply the Korean Expedition. Although the Koreans attacked General Sherman and the American naval ships‚ Merlin of the book The Once and Future King would find that America was the aggressor in the conflict‚ since Merlin would see that
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In 2001 the Twin Towers were destroyed by two planes and also there were two other planes one was supposed to hit the White House and the other the Pentagon. This started the war in Afghanistan. It’s been eight years since this incident‚ and the United States and President Obama still want to keep this war going. Next year they are going to send 30‚000 troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. There are three reasons why they shouldn’t send them: one for their safety; two Afghanistan should keep their business
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Rachel Carson’s “A Fable for Tomorrow”‚ the first chapter in Silent Spring‚ succeeded in creating a greater awareness of the increasing amount of human-caused disasters involving pesticides around the world by bringing in a large audience‚ showing the audience realistic‚ feasible events‚ and laying the foundation by giving purpose for the entirety of Carson’s book. Carson was a marine biologist‚ but was more famously known as a conservationist because of her book Silent Spring. She is also credited
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War of 1812 Although the American’s had been “independent” from the British since the end of the Revolutionary War‚ the British continued to harass and mettle in American affairs. While Madison was seeking reelection the War Hawks in Congress had declared war on Britain in June 18. On paper the rag-tag American was seen as incapable of defeating the superior British forces for a second time. However this war would have an unexpected results as neither side would be the “victory”. Even the United
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revolutionary war began? And‚ in your own words‚ why was there an American Revolution? The revolutionary war was something that would create our American identity‚ but how did it come to be this way? As with all wars‚ there was conflict‚ specifically between two opposing sides. In the case of the Revolutionary War‚ these people were the Patriots and the British. To start‚ we should know why they are fighting. A couple years before the Revolutionary War‚ Britain fell into huge debt from a previous war‚ the
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Expert Systems with Applications Expert Systems with Applications 32 (2007) 687–702 www.elsevier.com/locate/eswa Intelligent modeling of e-business maturity George Xirogiannis b a‚* ‚ Michael Glykas b a University of Piraeus‚ Department of Informatics‚ 80‚ Karaoli & Dimitriou St.‚ 185 34 Piraeus‚ Athens‚ Greece University of Aegean‚ Department of Financial and Management Engineering‚ 31‚ Fostini Street‚ 82 100 Chios‚ Greece Abstract E-business has a significant impact on managers and academics
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