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    Since the first material regarding the Jesuit Relations has been published in the seventeenth century in France, it has given numerous worthy sources for researchers. These religious reports got widespread with the progress of the times for scholars in the 1890s because of national-scale seventy-three-volume publication. And then, multiple editors and translators gathered all the Relations to combine with other Jesuit resources. After that, they made that in public in multilinguistic format…

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    Reputation is of the utmost importance people today. Whether you live in a rural community of a metropolis, your good name is one of the most precious things that you posses. A good name can lead to favorable treatment and elevated standing in social spheres, whether it is deserved or not. Likewise, a bad name can be followed by mistreatment. Again, this may or may not be deserved. This is not only the case in today 's world. It has been this way for hundreds of years. It was the same way in…

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    Zwia Lipkin’s book investigates the history and urban development of Nanjing through demonstrating how the Nationalist government managed various social problems in the city and the continuous effort to create the desired model of a “modern” national capital between 1927-1937. Lipkin recounts in detail how the Nationalist aimed to boost the image of the new capital by eliminating various social problems including refugees, shantytowns, rickshaw pullers, prostitutes and beggars in the city in…

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    Optimization of Public Transport Demand: A Case Study of Bhopal [1]. This observe deals with locating out the different troubles in optimization of public delivery call for and it also provide us with extraordinary answers to the problems. So the major reasons for now not the use of public delivery came out to be low accessibility, less comfort & greater journey and ready time in comparison to the private delivery modes. The evaluation of opinion survey additionally showed that almost 50% of…

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    entertainment and fashion industry that explicitly defines its nightlife. Additionally, the city boats of a diverse food, arts, and culture tradition born out of its multicultural character. Numerous people from all walks of life congregate in Sydney’s metropolis to usher in the New Year every December. Many agree that the fireworks display of Sydney compare to none on the planet, and are a greater and spectacular display to watch especially from the Sydney Bridge. The thematic organization of…

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    Peru Research Paper

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    the Peruvian culture. To compare and contrast the city of Lima and Cuzco, even though they are both well mixed with Inca cultures and Spanish cultures. The city of Cuzco leans more towards traditional Inca cultures, while Lima is more of a growing metropolis. The life expectancy of a Peruvian is sixty-nine years. The role of women in Peru are to provide just like man. The woman have more freedom than many other nations, but that’s due to the difference from a city to a small rural community…

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    “Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” W. E. B. Dubois born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (Collins and Makowsky, 2010, pg. 169), was “a pioneer in service learning, policy and public sociology, and the utilization of methodological triangulation” (Wortham, 2005). He is considered “one of the founding figures in American sociology” due to his application of the scientific methods in sociology…

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    Salmagundi was a newspaper created by Washington Irving in the beginning of the nineteenth century that tried to produce a literary magazine that would separate itself from other journalistic writing. This was the first newspaper of its kind, where the authors intentionally tried to depart from journalistic practices. Within its first couple of issues, the periodical established itself as a bold, satirical, and coy newspaper whose purpose was to please the writers, not the readers. For…

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    On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold at a mill where a group of men erecting for John A. Sutter south of the American river. Even though Sutter tried to keep it se-cret until he could secure and protect his vast estates from Mexican land grants, California’s newspaper already revealed his findings only two months later in March. First news reached the east coast in August by the New York Herald, next month the word from the United States Counsel in Monterrey, Thomas O. Larkin,…

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    have been seen as an inspiration for generations. It is hard to imagine that is wasn’t long ago that the city was a series of closed off neighborhoods. Under the rule of Napoleon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann worked to redo the city into the modern metropolis that we see today. It was in the writings of Charles Baudelaire that the author shows that the roads were more than just an literal expansion, but also an expansion of modernity in the city. One aspect of modernity that I can see in today 's…

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