Metropolitan Toronto

history, there is a general sense around the league that the Toronto Raptors have accomplished nothing. 21 seasons of (mostly) underachievement doesn’t help. 1 playoff series win and 7 playoff series losses don’t help. Zero best-of-seven playoff series wins definitely won’t help. Consecutive playoff series losses as the higher seed……well, you get the picture! Are you still reading? Because that’s all the negativity you’re going to get. Toronto has been at or near the top of the conference…

“Being a superstar means you’ve reached your potential, and I don’t think I’ve reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.” Stephen Curry, professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, is the spokesperson for a one-on-one coaching company CoachUp. The most recent commercial advertisement to come out by CoachUp has Stephen Curry reading his scouting report from the 2009 NBA Draft. His readings are about how he will not be a dominant athlete in the NBA. The…

One-And-Done: Age Discrimination “What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player” (Korman). The purpose of basketball is not just to be the best and have the most titles; it should be meant for players to develop integrity and try to set an example for the next generation. But all these characteristics that develop as an athlete progresses are not acquired through college basketball. Former NBA Commissioner David Stern, championed “Article…

The Philadelphia 76ers squared off against the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center. Before the game, Sixers players Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid took a moment during warmups to meet a fan who had a wish to meet them. 16-year-old Marquan, who has never attended a Sixers game, had that wish granted to him. The Make-A-Wish Foundation and the 76ers invited Marquan and his family to see a live game courtside for the first time. Simmons and Embiid greeted and shared words…

city in the Egyptian empire, the nobles cannot be living at the same level or area as the people they rule over. That would be a disgrace! The city designers too this ideal and made all their designs for the city around that image. When any large metropolitan area is created, the organization of necessary buildings and spaces are always taken into consideration. This urban plan has many different terms and criteria it must define and fit. One such of these terms is coordination of buildings and…

In this section, we discuss the relationship between congestion and regional growth by focusing on the estimation results. As shown in figure 3, we predict how growth of population and employment density change in the 86 largest U.S. metropolitan area when the congestion growth changes. Figure 3 presents that population growth of the largest U.S. cities would decline, whereas employment growth would continue to increase when congestion growth increases. These results indicate that population…

Mid-Sized Cities (MSC) are having an increasing impact on the economy although they have formally been unaccounted for. Through analytical examination of four articles, one specifically on two MSC, two concerning England and in respect to France, the varying ideologies about MCS are apparent. For instance the numerous definitions of MSC depending on the region, weaknesses and strengths of MSC, and finally, social and economic attributes connected to policies influenced by the ideas of a…

People have turned into an undeniably capable ecological power in the course of the most recent 10,000 years. With the approach of farming 8,000 years back, we started to change the area. What 's more, with the mechanical upset, we started to influence our climate. The late increment on the planet 's populace has amplified the impacts of our horticultural and financial exercises. Be that as it may, the development in world populace has conceal what might be a considerably more essential…

eventually become the dominant form of transportation because of how dense metropolitan areas have become. Mass transit can serve more people over a large area of space in relation to the private automobile. Furthermore, the Internet could change metropolitan areas in a variety of ways. For one the Internet could allow more people to work from the computers in their home, reducing the need to commute to work. Additionally, as metropolitan areas expand, mass transit networks also extend beyond…

his impoverished family into one of Lima’s innumerable pueblos jóvenes” (1). The quotation proves that people will be moving from rural areas to megacities without anyone telling them to do it. Megacities can be described as a larger geographic metropolitan area with a greater population. People were moving from rural villages to megacities because it was their choice to do so, they thought that their current situation was worse than that of the megacities. Figure 2 in Planet of the Slums shows…