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While this is in fact a more recent study the same holds true for older boomtowns. Sour Lake experienced a huge influx of unmarried men to a town with little else to offer other than the work in the oil industry. The town had no bars, no theater, no stores, essentially no businesses other than the hotel. Many of these single men arrived with no shelter or food and no way to attain these things. Consequently, these men had a lot of time on there hands in which to get into trouble. As a…

gold rush in California, many people flocked to the cities in search of their fortunes. Names of men like Andrew Carnegie and J.D. Rockefeller are associated with the wealth of the times. Unfortunately, this was not the fate of the majority. Vast wealth was had only by a small percent of the population. After being lured to America with hopes of…

The second half of the 19th century was a period of significant change in American Cities. Industrialism, growing of labor unions, change in immigration Patters, growth in entertainment, development of political machines and bossism and significant changes in quality of life made the latter half of the 19th century full of dramatic growth, diversity and transformation of American Cities. The era of Reconstruction (1870) to the end of the 19th century, the United States underwent an economic…

pathways, contiguous green spaces, and the booming Buckingham Fountain with the Chicago skyline as backdrop for three days traded in its calm environment for loud crowds of energetic, bustling, loyal sports fans excited to be a part of the NFL Draft Town. Football, the American sport beloved by so many had another exciting weekend. And no it wasn’t kickoff season or the Super Bowl, rather it was draft time. As jerseys and fans came out, and the sports spirit was alive and thriving in Grant…

everything a woman ought to be. I was eight when I went to visit my grandmother in New York City for the first time. I saw then that this city changed her life and I knew it was beginning to change mine. My cautious mother grabbed my hand, “stay close,” she told me, “this isn’t like back home. This isn’t the safest place for a child to walk without holding their mother’s hand.” My mother didn’t like the city; she didn’t understand it. My opinion differed from hers. I had never been to a…

the family moved to Nebraska and live in a ranch, soon she was bored about this and moved to the town for then moving again to Lincoln for her studies. This part of her life is a resemblance to the short story she wrote because meanly of she living in Nebraska and moving to the town because of the dullness of the plains as shown in the short story but in the other way around that Georgiana was in the city and went to her husband farm in Nebraska and lost all her interest in all the things she…

These gestures are known as Speech-Dependant Gestures. They are known as this because they accompany speech, emphasizing our words to send a more powerful message (Knapp, Hall, & Horgan, 2014, p. 201). Similar to how I mentioned in my essay earlier in the semester, all great speakers use their hands to talk. The book “Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction,” references Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon, in which…

in Leavenworth Washington. The top ten qualities about this hotel are; it has just thirteen rooms, it is Leavenworth’s first Bavarian style building, it sits right across the street from a city park, some rooms are American style with a private bath, others are European style, and have a bath room down the hall, all rooms are air conditioned, rooms hold from 2 to 6 people, in the heart of downtown shopping, and dining district, it has a common kitchen, and a comfortable dining room, free parking…

that you can do something about it now. The discipline of planning and architecture is a very important discipline given the context of our present capital of J&K State, Srinagar. The city is rapidly urbanizing, people are leaving their villages and migrating to cities in large numbers. When they migrate to cities, one of the common problems they face is of housing. Urban housing, especially for the urban poor will become a major challenge in the future. If we do not plan for the future…

IQRA UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD Cities and Climate Change: An Urgent Agenda Term Paper 5/24/2016 Submitted to: Dr Baber Submitted by: Ramish Chohan-23375 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1 PROBLEM STATEMENT 1 SITUTAIONAL ANLYSIS 1 CHALLENGES 2 LITERATURE RIVEW- IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CITIES 2 SOLUTION 3 GREENING THE CITIES ECONOMY 3 BUILDING 4 WASTE 4 RETHINKING GOVERNANCE 4 REFERENCES 6 INTRODUCTION Climate change is affecting towns and their residents, mainly the bad, and…