Urban village

Village of Obses Today is Wednesday normally I would be at the training center to improve my swordsmanship, but Father has called a meeting which I am required to attend. Normally I would be dreading the meeting, but today I hope for information about my brother. Bryn left two weeks ago for a trade errand for our Father and has yet to return. I am starting to worry. Today’s meeting isn’t starting until 11 o’clock so I have decided to visit my friend Arian. I head out into the village right…

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…

On the morning of June 28, 1969, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street. This soon turned violent when police forces roughly dragged out the patrons and employees out of the bar. The police arrested the employees for serving liquor without a license, which was their reason for disturbing the peace, and forced multiple patrons into a police van. This unnecessary act sparked a riot, bringing together residents and bystanders as they…

Draco is a constellation that is seen in the Northern Skies. He was first documented by a Greek astronomer by the name of Ptolemy in the second century. In Latin Draco means Dragon and the constellation is a presentation of the dragon Ladon that is the guardian of a garden with the help of the Hesperides in Greek Mythology (http://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/draco-constellation/). The constellation is also said to flip as the year goes on. During the summer seasons it will…

MILLERSBURG — For her role in removing a change machine from a Millersburg area business, a local woman on Thursday was sentenced to local jail time. Kimberly Foster, 27, of 625 Kenton Alley, Apt. A, Millersburg, previously pleaded guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to an amended charge of attempted burglary. In exchange for her guilty plea, a related charge of theft was dismissed. The state also agreed to dismiss an unrelated charge of aggravated trafficking in drugs (meth). She'd faced…

arrangements for the people that worked in the factories and city centers. Urban areas designed to accommodate large numbers of families began to spring up around these factories and city centers. Fast forward to today and we have 78% of the population in North America living in urban areas (Boston University College of Arts & Science, 2012). This figure represents a rapid urban expansion that does not seem to be slowing. Urban expansion isn’t the problem.…

In urban areas where there is a significant population of low-income families, there is an increase of problems with obesity. Rail and beltway communities afford its citizens the opportunity to become more active by promoting the use of shared-use pathways…

The novel, “Girl at War” written by Sara Nović, is a book about the life of a girl named Ana who is 10 years old that lives in Zagreb, Yugoslavia during a time of war. Ana and her family are constantly in fear of losing their lives and so they do everything they can to survive. Ana eventually escapes the war by going to America, but the events of the war did affect her and molded her personality as she got older. Ana eventually goes back to Zagreb to get closure and in a way she does. She…

everything is taken in a scene where is in an Italian village. The setting is filmed around that area, never film in elsewhere. The cinematography of this short film is Darius Khondji, who got many international awards and nominations. There are a lot of repeating camera movement and camera position are used in the film for example the pan and the eye level shots. The whole film has a rich color of red and yellow, the setting is taken in an Italian village, where the place is not that grand and…

Trade/Communication, and Political/Social. In the first part of the book it shows the system of Hierarchy because it goes through all the different social classes and how each of them work. Also, how the people do their own way of running their village. Plus, in this village they have a leader and the leader tells the people what rules to follow and what to believe in. As the book, it says "And to the Master turned; and he made sign That I should quiet stand, and bow before him. Ah! How…