To begin with‚ the Western world used the term the Roaring Twenties to refer to the period of 1920s. This period did usher in the birth of a modernized national lifestyle; because Americans who were war-weary did come to value leisure and also convenience over self-denial and leisure. The main characteristics of this new national consumer-based society were; 1. Culture clashes People’s culture was clashed during this period where they had to adopt a new way of doing things. 2. Politics of fear During
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Mar’02-May’02 Issue 31 RURAL LIVELIHOODS Kirankumar Vissa (AID Maryland) Why are they begging on the trains? When you are traveling in India‚ you are invariably forced to ask yourself‚ “What do I do when someone comes to me begging on the street or in the train?” Many say that by giving them money‚ you are only encouraging them not to work for their living - that you are encouraging them to remain poor. But‚ are the people who say this doing anything that helps remove the poverty? Should
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URBAN PATTERN Settlements of any size and type can always be formally synthesized by their patterns‚ so it means pattern identify the settlements. Town houses in gridiron blocks‚ high-rise office structures‚ academic campuses‚ suburban estates‚ and highway retail sprawl are good examples. Urban form‚ then‚ is a result of the bringing together of many elements in a composite totality:the urban pattern. Patterns are the outstanding formal features of urban areas. A pattern can be defined as
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Jordan Groll American Society: Urban Legends in the Classroom What is it about America that causes students and people to crave an education? Could it be the intense pressures of society‚ or could it even be the simple fact that we want to educate ourselves? For centuries people were fine with being un-educated and life was simple and laid back‚ but when John Cotton (a noted Puritan Minister) established the first public school in America‚ people began to eat it up. And thus was
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were decorating their homes or designing their public buildings. Improved communication meant that a large proportion of the general population was exposed to the latest fashion trends and responded‚ positively or negatively‚ to them. During the 1920s the most distinctive clothing styles originated in Europe: in France for women’s attire and in England for men’s. Coco Chanel was one of the first women designers to adopt the new era of clothing‚ which meant that she adopted a more boyish look. She
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The terms urban sprawl and car dependent now accurately describe the lifestyle of most Americans and individuals around the globe. Urban sprawl is an urban layout where the location of homes‚ schools‚ shops‚ and places of work are widely separated. All of the vastly separated locations are connected by multilane highways. The highways alleviate the issue of distance and replace it with an issue of time (how quick a location can be reached). The city limits are also constantly extending into the countryside
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ONE PERSON IN EVERY TEN THOUSAND met a violent death in the 118 leading cities of the United States last year. To Chicago went the doubtful distinction of having the most homicides—510; New York City‚ with approximately twice the population of Chicago‚ had 340. In twenty-eight of the leading cities the rate was 9.9 per 100‚000‚ as against 11.0 in 1925. "Slight as it is‚ the reduction is encouraging‚" observes the collector of these statistics‚ Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman‚ writing in The Spectator‚
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RURAL ADVERTISING IN INDIA ABSTRACT Villages are integral part of the Nation. Rural markets acquired greater importance in countries like India‚ China‚ etc. because of economic growth of the nations now highly depend up on the rural economy. Corporate companies are struggling a lot to get more sales/profits in urban areas i.e. almost all the companies are saturated in urban areas. “Go rural and be rural” seems to be the guiding principle of marketing. In this context‚ companies are diversified
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The problems facing by Rural Americans in getting access to health care HCA 540 Philomena Nissy John Gaddam ABSTRACT This paper illustrates widely about the problems facing by rural Americans in getting access to the health care with reasons .It also explains the solution to the problem in order to make every one access to health care without any health disparities (htt1). People living in rural areas have many disadvantages in getting access to healthcare. Along with the access‚ there is
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Jakarta‚ Indonesia This chapter raises important issues about the efficiency of traditional ethnographic fieldwork techniques in transnational corporate settings. William Leggette conducted his fieldwork in Jakarta‚ Indonesia. He depicts this culture as a “multi-ethnic‚ multi-cultural landscape [that] promotes a constant sense of dislocation-for both resident and visitor alike”(75). There are noticeable contrasts between the class systems in this city‚ as skyscrapers overshadow the decrepit and
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