...shaina The 9/11 memorial has received different visitors from the entire world and the 50 states of United States since its creation ranging from dignitaries to the meek in the society. It provides a sense of serenity, and reflection to those who understand its deep symbolic meaning. It is situated at the location of the former World Trade Center, and sits on 8 acres of land. The Memorial comprises of two big waterfalls and pools that provide reflection, with each waterfall occupying an acre. The pools are set at the original Twin Towers footprints. The 9/11 Memorial has been described as “one of the most eco-friendly plazas ever constructed”. The memorial was designed to provide a sense of revival and spirit of hope creating a contemplative social space that is separated from the ordinary scenes and noise of the busy New York City. The White Oak trees surrounding the memorial, aesthetically provide a canopy through it rustling leaves. Blair,...
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...On September 11, 2001 there was a terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. Nearly 3,000 people died in the event. The 9/11 Memorial is dedicated to the memory of the greatest tragedy in American history. The Memorial honors the lives of those who died during this terrible incident. It occupies eight of the sixteen acres at the World Trade Center, and it’s a tribute to the past and is a place of hope for the future. This Memorial is a very powerful monument due to its physical appearance and design, history, and its ability to make its visitors really think and have strong feelings about that tragic day. The 9/11 Memorial is located on Greenwich Street in New York City. It is located at the site of the former World Trade Center....
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...address on religious tolerance in New York immediately began changing the views of his citizens on religious tolerance. Most people of New York were not comfortable with a muslim mosque being built just a few blocks away from the 9/11 memorial, because the attack was carried out by Muslim extremists. Bloomberg understands why people do not like the idea of a mosque being built, but he realizes that the Muslims of New York along with the majority of the Muslim population are very peaceful people and mean no harm. Bloomberg understand that the muslim community is no different than anyone else in New York and mean no harm. They are only trying to follow their peaceful religion, bringing no harm to others. Bloomberg uses the...
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...That honor goes to Daniel C. Kimball who in 1911 had the first classified ad for “monument works” in city directories. He advertised himself as “D. C. Kimball, the Tombstone Man,” who used Scotch, Norway, Swedish, Denmark and Barre, Vermont marble at his shop at 346 American. The following year Kimball decided he needed a name for his business and decided on Long Beach Monumental Works. Business was good and he expanded his operations, moving to 1020 E. Willow in 1916, but he soon had competition from Frank Stewart, who along with Stewart’s Scottish partner Donald A. Blake, established a business, Stewart-Blake, at the southwest corner of California and Willow, just next to the two local cemeteries. Blake pulled out of the business the following year, and it was Frank M. Stewart who took over the company which he began to call Sunny Side Monument...
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...New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads). Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs. New York City in the 18th Century In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany;...
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...|"A number of Indian cities and territories have been renamed over the years, mostly in an effort to erase the supposed | |'colonial hangover'. This quiz deals with some of the more popular name changes over the years." | |[pic] | | | |1. After contributing a new word to the English language, which Indian city decided to officially change its name on 1 | |November 2006? | | | |[pic]Shimla | |[pic]Bangalore | |[pic]Trivandrum | |[pic]Hyderabad | | | ...
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...Finding New York SUSANNAH GRIFFEE T he Port Authority, Central Park, subway stations, Broadway, Coney Island, Brooklyn Bridge, Downtown, Times Square, JFK: Colson Whitehead’s essays tunnel into the heart of New York City, revealing it to be both a bastion of cruelty and an alluring symbol of hope, both an executioner of dreams and a mother of new beginnings. Whitehead writes about the city as if it were human, and about its people as if they were buildings. Yet these personifications constantly interchange. Whitehead never represents living beings as wholly mechanical, or the city as wholly human. The key to this interchange lies in the way Whitehead projects his own reality upon the city, and his own multifaceted identity upon the legions of anonymous selves that populate the city’s streets. Whitehead’s constant creation and re-creation of characters and metaphors reveal a fear of being held to one identity, to one existence. And behind this urge to escape a solidified selfhood lies a desire to evade the confines of time, the inevitability of death. This yearning marks where our version of reality and Whitehead’s version overlap. It is the one immutable monument in a city of constantly shifting perceptions. From the very beginning, Whitehead dismantles the vision of New York as a glittering, perfect metropolis. He writes about New York as a complex force rather than a commercialized idea, as a being capable of doling out both salvation and destruction. In...
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...On May 11 we are going to New York City. We are going to visit the 9/11 Memorial, Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Coney Island, Empire State Building, and the Empire State Building. We are going to visit these places over the span of 3 days. Not only is this trip going to be a fun trip, but also a historical one. There are multiple historical places in New York. Times Square is a popular commercial strip in lower Manhattan. It’s name Longacre Square. It was named Times Square in 1904 when New York Times moved its headquarters there. They built subways through there to be sure the newspapers got out. New York Times made a marketing plan and started introducing the new year with fireworks. Theaters moved in after New York Times came in. Once...
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...For me, that place is the one and only New York City. My thirteen year old self was welcomed by the Big Apple with pouring rain in the middle of July. Drops bounced off the fluorescent screens, crosswalks were flooded with puddles too big to simply jump over, and my clothes were practically a second layer of skin they were so drenched, and I was in love. The buzz of the cars mixing with the murmur of voices together, as each of us individually carried on our way throughout the city, the way my eyes raced back and forth trying to capture it all at once, the struggle over what restaurant to eat at next, or what five story tall outlet...
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...to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776). So what did happen on July 4, 1776? The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes. July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation. So when people thought of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 was the date they remembered. In contrast, we celebrate Constitution Day on September 17th of each year, the anniversary of the date the Constitution was signed, not the anniversary of the date it was approved. If we’d followed this same approach for the Declaration of Independence we’d being celebrating Independence Day on August 2nd of each year, the day the Declaration...
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...Eng105 06/14/2011 Should The Islamic Cultural Center Be Built Next To The Ground Zero? The Lower Manhattan Extension remains to be the busiest spot on the globe for a couple of centuries. A home for hundreds of operating businesses, New York City’s financial district represents a strategic center of the world managed by IT geniuses, Investment Banking giants and other brilliant minds that push and pull the necessary buttons to control a massive and complicated mechanism called “The Global Economy” from their downtown offices. Consuming the whole city, contagious rush of the east coast misses only one place – The Ground Zero, a grave for thousands of people including around 300 Muslims, killed by Islamic terrorist group attack on September 11, 2001. In almost 10 years after the attack, the proposed construction of Islamic Center next to the American nation’s tragedy location became the heart of controversy that started with a small group of anti-Muslim activists who suggested the proposal was a scheme used by anti-American Muslims to conquer the site of the 9/11 attacks (Steve Rendall, Oct. 2010). However, according to the Community Center’s official web-site, the key points of the opponents turned out to be false: “Inspired by Islamic values and Muslim heritage, Park51 will weave the Muslim-American identity into the multicultural fabric of the United States. We will foster cooperation and understanding between people of all faiths and backgrounds through relevant programs...
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...because, if the colonies did not want to break away from Great Britain then the United States may have never been formed. This also helped our new government know what kind of government they wanted this country to be ran by and how. 2. The second most important event in U.S. history was the Civil War because, it was the United States in war with itself and it determined the fate of Slavery in the country. This war lasted from April 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865. This war was between the Union and the Confederate States of America. The most important thing that started the war was Slavery. This is the deadliest war in American History. The Civil War lead to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This is an important event in the history of the United States because, it...
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...military camp in Xinjiang, China after his father; Ai Qing was condemned as a “rightist” in 1957 (Shengtian 6). When asked about his life in the military camp, Weiwei did not have a clear recollection and only saved a few traumatizing memories. He recalled the time when their military camp fired the first shot of China’s Cultural Revolution on January 26th. “I remember hearing lots of explosive noises. I saw my family boarding up the door. I heard running footsteps on our rooftop. Because the rooftop was made of tiles, which were not soundproof, I could hear the bullets whistling by” (Shengtian 8). Seeing dead bodies, including classmate, Ma Lu, is still very much a vivid memory for Ai Weiwei. Such scenes would distress any child but for 9-year-old Ai Weiwei, a sense of curiosity and confusion ensued. “I had been desensitized by the constant exposure to these kinds of verbal attacks since I was little. I was aware that something bad was happening, but I was not intensely frightened” (Shengtian 8). At such a young age, Weiwei’s interest in social perception piqued. He wanted to understand the...
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...…………………….…….…………………4 1.3. Background of Oxford city. …………….………………………..4 2. Literature Review 2.1. Urban Tourism................................................................................5 2.2. City Typologies...............................................................................8 2.3 Tourism in historical cities...............................................................9 2.4 Urban tourism supply and Jansen-Verbeke Model (1986)………...9 3. Methodology 3.1. Methodology and Methods...........................................................11 3.2. Field work.....................................................................................13 3.3. Research Limitations and Ethical consideration….......................13 4. Results and Discussions.......................................................................14 5. Conclusion...........................................................................................23 Bibliography............................................................................................25 1.Introduction 1.1 Justification and structure of report This report examines the perception of tourists towards Oxford’s tourism supply and analyses Oxford’s tourism supply in great detail using the Jensen-Verbeke’s (1986) model. Thereby, identifying the key features that attracts tourists to Oxford city as well as areas that city needs to develop, promote or rectify for development...
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