Metropolis

Vietnam, along narrow shaped country on the eastern coast of mainland Southeast Asia, has been through a long history of struggling with political situations, from Annam to Indochina to Vietnam. Small territory, small populace: it was able to manage to defend and defeat flows of enemies and struggles. Initially, there were always been struggles within the domestic spheres. Under the oppression of their own emperors, the empire was disjointed while also suffered frequent economic downturns, which…

As the world grew and civilizations rose, there were those who used brute force, manipulation, and raping of cultures to gain money, power, and complete control of what they so desired. First starting off with the spanish capture of mexico and then the complete takeover of the Native Americans by the new American settlers. The book that will be used to help explain everything will be Juan Gonzalez revised edition of Harvest of Empire:A History of Latinos in America. When the world was young many…

Introduction Banks are just like a business; they are there to make money. Considering the majority of countries have their own form of currency, banks stand to earn a large return based on the transaction they perform for each of their customers. Each country around the globe can have an effect on the other financial institutions. The United States (US) recession in 2008 was felt in every part of the world, while the American people limited their spending the amount of imports and exports…

The increase of globalization-driven fight, the product in population, the management in practical places, and the innovation in technologies are putting distress on tourism destinations. This productivity was also reflex in expression of business. Increased sustainability for destinations also indicate a remarkable fitness for many agility sectors, such as building, water, energy, mobility, waste and supplies. Based on the conclusions of the meeting, in the future, excitable solutions should…

packed the necessities, left my fiance, my family, my home and bought myself a one way ticket to a new city, new job, new life. Except sometimes a change of scenery is just that. -- Everything is the same here. The people are still awful and the metropolis…

The continent of South America contains many fascinating countries. Countries like Argentina, Paraguay, and Peru are all located on the continent. The most fascinating country of all however, is Brazil. Brazil is the most vibrant and colorful country in South America, and for good reason. Brazil is an interesting country that is definitely worth visiting. Brazil has a semi-large population; in the year 2016, the population was two hundred and seven million people. While that number may seem…

there are no disorders, no theft, no coalitions, none of the distractions that slow down the rate of work, make it less perfect or cause accidents. (Foucault 1995: pp. 200-201)” Foucault agrees with Bentham on the process of creating an efficient metropolis by maximizing the amount of people that can be controlled and minimizing the amount of people required to control them. Surveillance has changed as its moved from the plague to prisons and finally the NSA, but constantly oversees people’s…

Allen Ginsberg began writing “Howl” circa 1954, a time when homosexuality (and sexuality in general), profanity, vulgarity, and illicit drug use were so tabu that even writing about such subjects was considered illegal and warranted arrest. Ginsberg’s poem should be read with the understanding of how progressive, revealing, and dangerous it was within the contexts of society. It shattered walls, gave a voice to the vagabonds, free-spirits, artists, and erotic people of not only America but the…

the biggest sandbank in Taipei. Due to a heavy flood caused by a typhoon, Cody, in 1953, development of this area was compelled by regional policy (about 40-year developing stagnation); thus, it also has the last landscape of rice fields in the metropolis, Taipei (Lin, 2005). In general, this sandbank can be divided into two parts (Fig. 20), the north of this sandbank (a beak-shaped zone) for agriculture and light industry, and the southern one for residence. 4.2 Policy…

American families did move into middle-class African American neighborhoods, and, in response, many of these same middle-class families moved from the city to suburbs as well. Michigan’s tradition of home rule also contributes to the fragmentation of the metro Detroit area. Home rule provides a certain degree of autonomous power delegated to sub-units of government by the state, which limits the amount of interference state governments can have in local government matters. Like many…