...Review of Religions of Atlanta – Religious Diversity in the Centennial Olympic City This nonfiction book was edited by Gary Laderman, a professor of theology at Emory University. Each chapter is written by a different author or authors. The book was published in 1996 by Scholars Press in Atlanta, Georgia. The book is a composition of essays by various authors on the history, growth and impact of the selected religions present in the city of Atlanta at the time of publication in 1996. The introduction to the book was written by the editor, Gary Laderman, and includes a well written and interesting historical perspective on the origins of the city of Atlanta and the initial growth of a few of the religions present in the population from the beginning. Laderman also touches briefly on the history of African Americans and the civil rights movement in the area and mentions more than once that Atlanta was known over the early years as the “the city too busy to hate”. (Laderman 1996). He feels that this general attitude is what helped develop the face of the religious communities of Atlanta today. Laderman then introduces the twenty one essays which follow in the book as providing a broad and diverse perspective on some, not all, of the religious communities that make up Atlanta and the area around Atlanta. He states that “Instead of providing readers with authoritative account of each community, the contributors explore some of the concerns, commitments, and motivations...
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...Atlanta (city) About Atlanta Atlanta is the main city of the state of Georgia and one of the largest cities in the Southeastern part of the United States. With a population of about 550 thousand inhabitants, Atlanta became the center of a powerful urban agglomeration with at least 5.5 million people. Modern and dynamic, it adheres to the fashionable high-tech style, but it still manages to retain its historical roots as well as the unique charm and elegance. Atlanta has no clear geographical boundaries, so the metropolitan area is very large - 8,480 square miles. The city of Atlanta covers 131 square miles. The constant growth of the population is a positive factor for the growth of the economic potential of this region. Atlanta - is an important...
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...Atlanta United Found Its New Home In DeKalb County Atlanta United has already made the site in DeKalb County its new home. According to the news reported by the Atlanta United FC, On Tuesday, DeKalb Interim CEO Lee May and members of the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners officially confirmed on Tuesday that the headquarters and training facility of the Atlanta United will soon rise on DeKalb County. A warm welcome was served by May to their new partner saying: “We are excited to have Atlanta United FC as the cornerstone of our new “Downtown DeKalb” and as the catalyst for revitalization of the Memorial Drive corridor,” “Not many people know this, but this location is right across the street from the first Home Depot store. In a way, this is a homecoming, and DeKalb County welcomes Arthur Blank back home with open arms.” The economic development facility would be 41 acres of county-owned land lies near Kensington Road and Memorial Drive. The project will be provided by the DeKalb County via ground lease to Decide DeKalb. And a demolition will be made to those existing buildings that are no longer useful to county assets----Decide DeKalb will be in charge of it. Decide DeKalb will be also responsible in some land preparations of the property. http://atlutd.com/atlanta-united-fc-selects-dekalb-county-for-training-facility/ According to the news reported by the AJC.com, the soccer complex project costs for about $30 million which was made possible by the...
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...The Atlanta Braves have been a big major league baseball team in the south. They have conquered the game of baseball for many years. If you haven’t heard of them and their famous managers and players you must not be an avid baseball fanatic. To begin with, I will tell you about some of the most memorable current and past moments in Brave`s history. Next, many of the Braves players and their Managers belong to some of baseball`s big clubs. Finally, I will tell you how the Braves famous player Larry Jones became a Brave. The braves might not be the best or the richest team in baseball but they have the players and the determination to have many future winning seasons. To begin with, the braves have probably about 5 highly known memorable moments. Hank Aaron is most likely the biggest moment ever in Brave`s history, he was born in 1934...
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...Ryan Care/Prevention of Athletic Injuries December 10, 2010 Final Paper The Impact of Chipper Jones’ ACL tear on the Atlanta Braves One of the most well known and successful baseball players in the modern era of Major League Baseball is Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves. Chipper is famous for being one of the best switch hitters of all time, his success in the postseason, and his classy style of playing the game of baseball. He has led the Atlanta Braves franchise to 14 division championships and a World Series in the 1995 season. Ever since his rookie season in 1993, Chipper has been a fan favorite and has been a team leader for the Braves organization. Currently, Chipper is 38 and is nearing the end of his career. Throughout his career, Chipper has sustained several injuries that have plagued him as he has gotten older. This fall, Chipper was in the news a lot because of his injury he sustained during the 2010 Major League Baseball season. Chipper tore his anterior cruciate ligament and could not play the remainder of the season for the Atlanta Braves. The injury to his left knee, the impact that it had on not only himself, but also the Braves team, the Atlanta Braves franchise, and society will be discussed. This past season, in August, a groundball was hit down the third base line and Chipper fielded the ball and jumped in the air to throw the ball to first. When he landed on his left leg, he twisted his knee and fell to the ground in excruciating pain...
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...1936, the wife of a NBC executive was murdered and the killer caught partly due to fibers from twine used to bind her during the murder. Ted Bundy was convicted of the murder of a 12-year old girl partly due to fibers found in his van. The trial of Wayne Williams, also based on fiber evidence, differed from other cases in several significant ways. From July 1979 to May 1981, thirty black children and young men were reported missing or found dead in the area of Atlanta, Georgia. The Georgia State Crime Lab found yellow-green nylon fibers and violet acetate fibers on the bodies and clothing of victims. The fibers from the different victims were generally similar to each other, linking them to a single source and tying them to one killer. The Wayne Williams case was the first time fiber evidence played a significant role in a case involving a large number of murder victims. An Atlanta newspaper wrote an article about several different fibers being located on the bodies. After the article, bodies located in the Atlanta area rivers were nude or clothed only in underwear. The release of the information caused a change in the way the suspect disposed of bodies, in an apparent effort to eliminate fiber evidence. Media attention appeared to result in a change in pattern of the suspect. Media attention on the murders and the Williams trial was unique due to the amount and detail of the coverage. After Williams was discovered on a Chattahoochee River bridge, police ultimately discovered...
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...or not, Georgia has a state song-Georgia On My Mind. The capital of Georgia is Atlanta. Some of the major cities are Macon, Augusta, Columbus, Athens, Savannah, and Atlanta. Some major features in Georgia are Stone Mountain, Providence Canyon, and Tallulah Falls....
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...Biography of Andrew Jackson Young Jr. Who was Andrew Young Jr.? Most people immediately associate him with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and the Civil Rights Movement. I chose to write about Andrew Young because of his strong feelings about the rights of black Americans. He felt that everyone, black or white, should have equal rights. Andrew fought along the side of Martin Luther King, Jr. and continued the work after King's death. The Civil Rights Movement required many dedicated and determined souls. Andrew Young, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of peace who believed in using love vice hate to settle disagreements. He accomplished many wonderful things to help Martin Luther King's Dream live on. Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born March 12, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the depths of the Great Depression and Jim Crow segregation. His grandfather had been a successful businessman who had operated a drugstore, a pool hall, and a saloon. His father, Andrew Young Sr. was a dentist and his mother Daisy Fuller Young was a school teacher. The Young’s were among the elite of the city’s black population, which was largely poor and uneducated. Dr. Young Sr. could have afforded to live in a well-to-do white neighborhood, but no one would sell to him.(African American pg 104) .His parents were always very supportive of Andrew and his brother Walter. His parents always taught them the importance of religion and education and to treat others with respect...
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...and raised in Inglewood, CA for a while but I moved to Atlanta, GA with my father. I have not live in many cities but the one in which I live are quite different from the one I grew up. Atlanta, GA is the city where I live now. “Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia as well as the urban core of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States with a population of 537,958.” Atlanta is also known to have many actors, singers, and music producer that live here. Atlanta once held the 1996 Summer Olympics. Atlanta is the home of the National Football League Atlanta Falcons, National Basketball Association Atlanta Hawks, and Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves. Atlanta is the city to have Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site, Carter Center, and The World of Coca-Cola Museum. When I was growing up I never paid any attention to how people look and what ethnic group he or she belong in. The community I grew up in was mainly Caucasians and African Americans. We had a few Hispanics that was living in the city but they mainly came in the summer to work. As, I grow older then I realize what ethnic group I came from and was many different types of ethnic groups. I am African American and I take exceptional pride in my ethnic and religion. He or she will not find many people who will sit there and say they are proud of where they come. Because I have been living in Atlanta, GA I noticed that Africans Americans dominated over the...
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...Maynard Jackson Maynard Jackson was the first African American mayor in Atlanta, Georgia. He was also a member of the Democratic Party. Maynard Jackson served three terms an two consecutive terms from 1974 until 1982. Maynard Jackson’s grandfather was a civil rights leader. Maynard graduated Morehouse college in 1956 when he was only 18 years old. Also Jackson’s mother was a French Professor at Spellman in Atlanta, Georgia. Maynard Jackson was part of alpha phi alpha. He had a wife and three children. His wife name was Burnella burke and their three children name was Elizabeth, Brooke, Maynard. After his divorce, he got married to Valerie Richardson in 1980 an also had two children named Valerie and Alexandra. His daughter Valerie Jackson a host for wape FM radio station. Jackson was mayor when Atlanta was selected as the host city for the summer Olympic Games in 1996. . He helped arrange for the rebuilding of the Hartsfield Atlanta International Airports and this airport was renamed Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in his honor. In 2001 he lost the election. Jackson received the backing of the president candidate, Bill Bradley. Jackson was mayor when the Marta obtained a large amount of Federal funding for rail-line system. Marta began its first rail transit service in Atlanta and in DeKalb County in 1979 .He also fought against the construction of freeways through in town neighborhoods. Jackson's first term as mayor also coincided...
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...John Randolph an advocate for environmentally conscious land use, sprawl is “land-consumptive, dispersed, auto-dependent land development made up of homogeneous segregated uses: housing subdivisions, shopping centers, office/business arks, large civic institutions, and roadways heavily dependent on collector roads (37)” Sprawl is a term which, in the urban planning vernacular, is used to criticize suburban community’s lack of planning which results in auto-centric residents and inefficient and hazardous land usage. Characteristically, sprawl happens when a large population relocates from the city core to the suburbs. The perfect example of how sprawl is happening in America is Atlanta, Georgia. According to Robert D. Bullard’s analysis of Atlanta’s sprawl, between 1990 and 1997, the greater Atlanta area gained 475,600 people of which, only 2,647 (less than 1 percent) were added to the city. Atlanta’s area boundaries doubled in the 1990’s as people moved to the suburbs to be closer to jobs and to partake in the booming housing...
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...Topic Name Institutional Affiliation On 1st June 1980, the Cable News Network (CNN) began operation becoming the world’s first ever 24 hour television news network. CNN began the news reporting venture at 6p.m from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia with a story about the alleged assassination attempt of Vernon Jordan, who was a renowned civil rights leader in the U.S. The cable news network company went on to change the ideology that news could only be reported at fixed hours of the day (History, 2015). During the launch of CNN, television news was dominated by three major networks: NBC, CBS and ABC. The cable news network company is currently being watched by nearly 89 million American households with approximately 160 million homes on the international front. This venture was instigated by Robert Turner, an outspoken businessman who was nicknamed as “Mouth of the South. After the death of his father, he took over the family business and expanded it consequently. His desire for mass media was evident when he decided to buy the failing Atlanta television station that used to air old movies and transformed the station into a nsuccess through his own personal investment. Later on, Turner went on to create CNN after four years of intense development. This venture became successful because of his resilience, determination and experience in dealing with mass media platforms. Through the first years of operation, the cable news network experienced significant amounts of loses...
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...BACKGROUND Delta Air Lines is a major United States airline headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. The airline's hub at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic (88 million passengers per year) and number of landings and takeoffs. Delta is the 3rd largest and the oldest airline still operating in the United States. Between 2001 and 2005, Delta airlines lost $10 billion. The firm’s cash assets had significantly fallen short of its debt obligation, which stood at $14 billion. Standard and Poor’s (S&P) placed Delta’s debt ratings on “credit-watch” with negative implications, citing critical liquidity problems. The leaders of Delta Air Lines’ pilot union had alerted their members that the firm might have to file for bankruptcy protection under chapter 11 of the American Bankruptcy Code. In a bit to increase the liquidity, Delta sold its subsidiary (Atlantic Southwest Airlines) to SkyWest Airline for $425 million in August 2005. At the time of the sale, Delta was also experiencing a major operational crisis. As Delta was struggling to pull together its restructuring plan to survive, many analysts believed that the airline was under an increasing risk of bankruptcy. However, Delta continue to grow throughout mergers and acquisitions as below: - In 1972, it merged with Northeast Airlines - In 1984, Delta expanded its reach in the domestic U.S market with its Delta Connection Program. Under this program...
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...business and made his way into big international projects such as CNN, MGM and TNT. For years he has been turning small companies into leading empires. These reasons make him the best and most accurate media magnate. This important figure was born on November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Robert Edward Turner Jr, was known as Ed. While Ed Turner served in the Navy during World War II, the family followed him to his Gulf Coast post; every member went, except Ted who was left behind in a boarding school in Cincinnati. When Ted was nine, the family moved to Savannah, Georgia, where Ted’s father, Ed, purchased a small billboard company he renamed Turner Advertising. During his early years Ted attended Georgia Military Academy, near Atlanta. Ed insisted in Ted’s working experience, therefore he began to work from an early age, learning every aspect of the outdoor advertising business, by the end of his teens he had become an effective salesman. Later on he went to Brown University where he was suspended during two occasions for breaking dormitory rules, but due to his grades and better behavior he received his degree. After graduation he returned to Georgia and very soon he got married. His first marriage didn’t last long and besides that deception he had to deal with his sister’s death after a long painful illness. Ted decided to focus on his work and his father promoted him as the manager of his company and future owner after his death. He worked day and night, struggling...
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...Community Windshield Survey Susan Holcomb Community Health Nursing NR443 Chamberlain College of Nursing January 19, 2014 Community Windshield Survey The community I have chosen is Douglasville, Georgia which is about 20 miles west of Atlanta, Georgia and is located inside the Atlanta Metropolitan area. While driving through the community, it seems to be like most other communities in that you can be driving through a beautiful neighborhood and two streets over you can end up in the poverty stricken area where there are drug houses. Douglasville is a very family friendly city. There are lots of young families, middle aged families and a fair amount of young Grandparents who are primary care givers for their grand kids. It is predominately white at 83% with 13% being of African American decent and other races at 4%. Most of the people and families that I was able to see driving through the community were clean and seemed well kept up. Some appeared to be well nourished; some overweight and some appeared to be fit. During the evening survey, I noticed the night life of downtown Douglasville – there were a couple of sports bars in the area with mostly males drinking. It did not appear to be unruly but it was loud. The homes in the community are of a variety. Some neighborhoods, the houses are set far apart, some neighborhoods they were too close to each other; however, this was on purpose. The houses were mostly well maintained; however, there were some areas...
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