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    Canadian poet, Raymond Souster, explores the thematic implications of the individual’s urban experience, representing the Canadian city center as a place of isolating corruption that maps an unchanging Toronto. Drawing on the modernist impulse to criticize the industrialization of society, Souster moves away from the Canadian tradition of writing naturalistic visions into the sphere of the cityscape. In his poems, “Robinson Street”, and “The Coldest Winter”, Souster uses images of isolated…

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    and spread their traditions in the form of recipes and shopping accessories. Enoteca Regionale Palatium, Colline Emiliane, etc are famous restaurants in Tridente. 4. Colosseum to Capitol Hill Colosseum is an amphitheatre built at the centre of the city of Rome. Needless to say it is the most popular of the Roman monuments and most people around the world know about it to a certain extent. Annually millions of visitors come to watch this monument which justifies its construction and effort. The…

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    Dharavi is home to more than a million people in Mumbai. These people live in slums concentrated in just one square mile of land. With significant government and market pressure to develop into a world-class city, and increasing population growth continuing to limit housing opportunities, the fate of Dharavi has become a highly contested and politicized issue (Boano, Lamarca & Hunter 2011). As King Solomon, I will ultimately have control over what becomes of Dharavi. Before deciding, however, I…

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    “Families that used to work in or near their homes were now living in crowded conditions in cities and now are working for long hours and receiving small wages”- According to yahoo.com/questions.au. This statement is rather true. This is stating that now that families were living in cities, towns and were receiving small wages which could not afford to feed themselves or their families, pay house rent and send their children to school. Many…

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    percent live in 638,000 villages while the remaining 27.8 percent live in only 5,480 towns and urban agglomerations (Population of India 2016, 2016). While urban cities have some paved roads and public transportation means such as trains and subways, much of the country is still exceedingly rural and lacks modern roadways. Very few cities of India have an adequate public transport system (Singh S. K., 2012). A Minneapolis-based company, Bepex, is considering outsourcing to India,…

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    Hendrick I. Lott House is a Dutch-American neighborhood house that has been sustained since 1720 (Croghan, 2015). This house is interconnected with slavery that occurred within people of African decent along with serving as a safe house along the Underground Railroad. The Hendrick I. Lott House is located at 1940 East 36th Street in Brooklyn, New York. The Lott House rests in the neighborhood known as, Marine Park. The house was originally purchased by Johannes Lott. Johannes Lott was a farmer…

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    His novel “Notes from the Underground” portrays an amoral and self-conflicting character who indeed lives in everyone at some point of their lives. In “Notes”, Dostoveysky deliberately, and quite playfully (though that 'playfulness ' presents itself more as a suicidal tendency than…

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    In “Notes From Underground,” Fyodor Dostoyevsky explores the Underground Man’s rationalism, emotions, impulses, and conflicts. The nameless narrator introduces himself as a spiteful man that lives underground, but then admits he is not spiteful because he can only be nothing. He is beleaguered with a mindset that causes him to exaggerate insults until they are altered exceptionally beyond the original context. The Underground Man is unable to become a character and is consumed with inconsistency…

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    Environmental education exists in a multitude of forms. Some argue that any interaction with nature is environmental education, some would say that is not enough, that environmental education must be facilitated. Regardless of these opinions, environmental education is critical to the education all types of children. It is especially important for children living in urban settings to gain better understandings of their roles in the environment. It is vital that children understand that they are…

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    to argue that a city is necessary because humans need to rely on one another in order to accomplish tasks. Socrates begins his argument when he states, “So if you approve, why don’t we start by finding out what sort of thing it is in cities? After that we can make a similar inquiry into the individual, trying to find the likeness of the larger version in the form the smaller takes” (line 369). He first proposes the dissection of a city. First, you must look for justice in the city, and once you…

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