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there is often a period of time between when cities appear completed and when they are actually prepared to sustain a population. This could be called the “Ghost City” phase. There has been a city in which was originally in the same position as many of these ghost cities, but in 10 years was a boom town, with lots of business, government offices, and of course population. This could all be inflated into a bigger problem than it really is. Maybe if we give these cities time they will start to…

Market investigation is central in order to find out market forces so that an organization can move right to the marketplace they are in operation. Fewer or more product may be required to competition consumer demand during various market period of time. Source: Market Forces (Porter Five Forces)- Own Design Supplier Ability: Present Primark measure how easygoing it is for suppliers to movement up monetary values. This is determined by the definite quantity of suppliers of from each one…

didn't see any harm in it. After lunch, we took shovels from the garage and started to make the jumps. We didn't really have much time so we just made one about a foot off of the ground. I can imagine being on the roof watching this happen. Walker goes off of the jump first and then I go right behind him but I was nervous, just imagine riding a bike for the first time without training wheels. I had hit the jump at an angle and I went over the handlebars. The handlebar had went up and hit the…

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell has two narratives: a young woman named Ree Dolly completing a quest to find her Dad and the story of how she shapes her internal desire to save her family. Typically, culture mediates desire in texts, but Winter’s Bone develops a protagonist that goes against societal oppression to fix a situation typical of her culture. The novel avoids the contrived “journey” story by presenting her desires through flashbacks. This narrative technique is chosen to emphasize…

Transformation is the first step in accepting one’s true potential. In Finding Forrester, Jamal, a talented high schooler, meets William Forrester, a hermit author. At first they seem to be two sides of the same coin, but as conflict occurs they rise above their fears and grow for the better. In chaotic confrontations, people’s faults become apparent, and they transform into who they really are. During confrontation, people realize their transformation into who they really are. Professor…

school years turned me into a free thinker. My bridge became stronger and more robust as I grew up crossing it. I then attended San Marino High School a couple of blocks further down Huntington, where I went to my first prom, where I drove for the first time, and where I met my best friends. This phase of my life is comparable to finishing my journey from one side of a bridge to another. I grew up going to schools all lined up on the same road. I saw the same faces everyday for thirteen years. I…

many of church district gatherings so I knew what to expect, or so I thought. It took me two days to start seeing the other side of the people I was sardined with inside the bus. I know if you have people in a confined place for an extended period of time enemies are made but it is not a guarantee. Intolerance was my biggest pet peeve, and one man was dancing on that nerve more than others; he was the pastor delegated to be in charge of the trip. He would periodically speak over the bus’s PA…

What is Gentrification? Gentrification can have a negative connotation and is often compared to white flight, it also can be seen as a race issue. Whereas, a Caucasian population will take over poverty stricken mixed-race neighborhoods and revitalize them with their newly brought in businesses. Alex Schafran writes in the Berkeley Planning Journal, “residents of gentrifying neighborhoods have been "displaced" from the literature on the subject. [They] are so busy trying to define it, quantify…

school was very unstructured. I would get there at 8:45 and have a basically free period of time, excepting lunch, gym, spanish, and maybe a small instruction time with the teacher. Junior high was meant to be a transition period from this very unstructured environment to the highly structured high school environment. I don’t think I ever correctly made that switch, in that I have kept the love of ‘free learning time’ that was so promoted in my early years, and rejected the structure of Junior…

Shirley Jackson’s symbolism in The Lottery portrays manhood’s nature as meaningless due to a savage tradition. On literature, symbolism is important to understand foreshadowing and distinctions. In some cases, symbols can have a cultural significance and non-changing for the characters in the story. However, sometimes the meaning of the symbols is deeply hidden and understood as the story continues. Characters in literature are fundamental to understand the story being told by either a character…