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    Living in Urban or Rural

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    “Where to live” is the most common question for young people cause it affects a lot to the rest of their lives. As its modern facilities‚ some people prefer living in urban rather than in rural areas. However some debate that people will harm their health when live in big city. No one is wrong and everything has its own reason. I will discuss this controversy as the following paragraphs. As I have mentioned‚ big city attracts people for its modernization including health care system‚ entertainment

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    Economic growth has increased rapidly due to industrialisation which has encouraged rural-urban migration to escape rural poverty. This has increased the size of some megacities to over 20 million such as Mumbai in India. In India hyper-urbanisation seems to have occurred as some cities have grown from less than 10 million to over 20 million in less than 25 years‚ e.g. Mumbai and Delhi. This must be due to huge rural-urban migration and internal growth. Growth in Latin America must be slower as Sào Paulo

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    dip below freezing with temperatures around 2 - 8 °C [6]. London experiences light precipitation throughout the year with an average of 583.6 mm/year [6]. Snow is uncommon and is only seen up to few times a year due to the heat generated from the urban area which can make London up to 5 °C warmer than the surrounding areas [6]. London’s temperate weather is beneficial in a metabolic sense since not much energy is wasted on cold and hot air conditioning in residential and public indoor areas. London’s

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    Rural vs. Urban

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    Rural Community vs. Urban Community Some people prefer the hustle and bustle of the city life while others prefer the relaxed and laid back life of the country. Living in a rural community and living in an urban community are completely different. Most people have their preference of where they would like to live. Your lifestyle will always be influenced by the society in which you choose to live. Some people find a rural life boring while other people find an urban life too chaotic. To some people

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    developed‚ the urban area was quickly getting decayed. All minorities were stuck and living in dirty poverty in city. Since that was the government’s act‚ minorities did not have really anything to do. All they did was protesting‚ but nothing really influenced changing. But somehow‚ federal governments felt guilty and removed the discrimination act officially‚ but there was still segregation going on in individual person’s inside. By the fact‚ federal governments decided to rebuild urban area.

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    Urban Music History

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    take a look at the urban and Latin music genres. First up: urban music. Also referred to as urban contemporary music‚ this genre originated in the 1980s and 90s as a solution for “advertisers who felt that ‘black radio’ would not reach a wide enough audience” (Encyclopedia Britannica). Its sound is defined by rhythm-and-blues or soul artists with mass crossover appeal. Today‚ urban music tends to be a phrase referring to hip-hop‚ rhythm-and-blues‚ and soul genres. When urban music first populated

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    Outline how three of the texts we have studied so far explore a sense of alienation for individuals in an urban landscape. In T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes”‚ William Blake’s “London” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian”‚ individuals are alienated in an urban environment. Alienation and isolation is evident through the contrast to monotony and the lone individuals standing out in the environment. Their existence is described and associated with a monotonous and bleak existence. Through language‚ alienation

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    Rural vs Urban

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    health care sectors ’ ’ ’URBAN LIVELIHOOD IN INDIA ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’Urban livelihoods are inside buildings ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ Urban is city based living For example:IT analyst * informal trading * wage earning jobs in the government and private offices * Basically education/knowledge based * Men and women activities are very different‚ * Sometimes self-employed‚ * clerical or professional jobs. * Women engage in petty trade or street food vending Urban livelihoods are complex and not

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    Crusades and Pope Urban

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    Saracens‚ took over the lands and denied more Pilgrimages to the Holy Lands. This brought great anger to Pope Urban II. Pope Urban II was responsible for the very first Christian Crusade. He started this by giving an extremely influential speech to all Christians in Europe and Medieval time saying that the Saracens were turning Christian Churches into Mosques which were Muslim churches. Pope Urban II then told all Christian men and European Christian Princes to go on a crusade to take back the Holy lands

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    others by bishops‚ and even a few by warriors themselves. Historians are constantly asking‚ "What exactly did Pope Urban II say at the council of Clermont to persuade Christians to set forth on such a difficult venture as the Crusades?" One man‚ an early 12th century cleric named Fulcher of Chartres wrote perhaps the best historical chronicle of the events at Clermont and the speech of Urban II.<br><br>Fulcher begins his account with a prologue that states how blessed the journeymen of the Crusades were

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