For the ideas of the picturesque places have been grown from the thrives on creativity, innovation and community. In the big city is combined with small town with thousands of businesses are tightly bonded to an enthusiastic community and grateful. Across the US, the customer…
People are starting to enjoy the downtown experience again. New stores and new restaurants have taken root in our community and are working to help re-energize our…
Throughout the history, Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful empires of the world. Founded by Osman 1 in 1299, this empire ruled large territory of Europe and Asia starting from Baghdad to Algiers at its prime. Since the empire controlled both Europe and Asia, it has ruled various ethinicities and cultures. Thus, various people who had different religions and lifestyles lived together. Between many of the cities of the Ottoman there was one city which had various religions.…
You remember the day like it was yesterday. The long awaited moment of finally meeting your favorite football player. The anticipation was immense, trembling with your brand new pigskin awaiting the autograph of a key figure in your life. That ball will serve as a valuable keepsake and will trigger all the memories and emotions you felt on that special day. Old Ghost Collectibles has a large selection of uniquely designed football display cases that are the perfect way to showcase and protect you priceless artifact.…
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, is a fascinating, vivid, and compelling account of how London’s 1854 cholera epidemic shaped the field of epidemiology and profoundly impacted our understanding of cities and disease. The diligent and remarkably multidisciplinary work of physician John Snow and curate Henry Whitehead proved that scientific methods of investigation could be applied to medicine and human populations to solve problems in society, on both local and government-wide levels. After tracing all cases of cholera in the outbreak directly back to drinking water from a certain pump (the now-famous Broad Street pump), Snow successfully persuaded local authorities to remove the pump handle, preventing the infected water from reaching human…
From the early 1900s, Zonolite vermiculate mine was a primary worldwide that produce 80 percent of vermiculite production. However, the toxicity that was not clarified from government and mining fill to the miners were slowly killing in the town, Libby. Based on the article, A Town Left to Die, written by Andrew Schneider, it depicted how people suffer from the toxins in the air, asbestos, which came from the vermiculate mining. Agent…
A global trend that seems to impact every country in the world one way or another seems to be urbanization. Worldwide the idea of living in a big booming is becoming more and more popular. Cities mainly appeal to people as social, commercial, and political hubs. Their allure also comes from the unique culture that every city has. Although seeming glamorous, there is a dark side of urban life.…
Sunshine Village is located high on the Continental Divide in the heart of Banff National Park, although just a 15 mintues drive to the cozy mountain town of Banff. The greatest part about Sunshine Village is you are able to snowboard in Alberta and British Columbia on one ski run! Sunshine Village is operational during a seven-month season stretch from early November until late May, which is the longest non-glacial season in Canada. Sunshine can receive up to nine metres (30 feet) of snow in a season, and it stays all year.…
America is a melting pot. It is diverse in terms of origin and religious practices. In the book Garvey’s ghost written by Geoffrey Philp it’s about a teenager living in South Florida named Jasmine that runs away from her mother’s house to find out who she is and where she belongs. Jasmine’s mother, Kathryn finds out that her daughter was crushing on her professor Jacob Virgo who is a Rastafarian. He feels responsible for starting Jasmine on the path of discovering Marcus Garvey the writer of the quote “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots”.…
People have little to no time to socialize because they are so busy working and always trying to stay updated with whatever fad there may be. Yet, Simmel also mentions how the city frees people and gives them a sense of liberation because of all the new opportunities and…
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, a nauseating account of Victorian London in the mid 1800’s, tells an appalling story of disease, devastation, and death. This was a crisis that had puzzled some of the brightest minds of the time. With overwhelming amounts of human waste collecting, and a growing stench in London it was no surprise people were dying. It must have been the smell of the waste spreading infectious disease in the air. While elected officials scramble to solve the problem by forcing residents to eliminate their cesspools and dump them in the community’s main source of water, little did they know that the smell in the air was the least of their concerns.…
Do I believe ghosts are real? Yes, I think that ghosts are real. I consider spirits as ghosts. No one can actually explain the existence of these supernatural beings, but I truly think they are in everyone's existence. It is called a spirit because it relates not to matter but to mind, soul, and feelings.…
She establishes credibility with the people who believe in the supernatural by providing locations to visit which are supposed to be haunted. Dabbs writes about spending two nights at a haunted hotel in Savannah, Georgia,…
Every year, people move to city centres to achieve successful…
I had never felt a genuine sense of fear. That wasn’t until I visited the first haunted house of the Halloween season. During my childhood, I was overly obsessed with horror movies and anything that was guaranteed to send shivers down my spine. I lived to seek for blood and guts. I lived to seek for scary.…