an environmental engineer at Z-Corp. He suspects that for the last few months, the company has been discharging more lead and arsenic than the law allows. The city is testing the waste water, but Jackson knows that their test is not very sensitive, and therefore they are probably not aware of the potential violation. Apparently, the city code is based on a testing method that is not as sensitive as the newer one that Jackson has access to. Even worse, he knows that the company's production will
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Mutafyan Dated: JAN 22,2015 Task #1. Create SWOT tables 1. To live in the city Internal | Strengths * City life is more comfortable. * large shop complexions, banks, offices, cinemas * People in the city have better transport facilities. * There is electricity, highway, communication, telecommuni-cation facilities in the city. | Weakness * The cost of living is very high in the city. Most goods are very expensive. * The environment is polluted with dust, smoke
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automotive manufacturing, a prime location as a transportation route along the Great lakes and a center for technological innovation, the city of Detroit has endured devastating economic changes. The city is under a debt of $18.5 billion. Its population is now half of what it was in the 1950s, as majority of the working population has been forced to leave the city primarily due to lack of employment, among other issues. At the beginning of this year, Detroit’s official unemployment rate was 18 percent
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Community Profile Eth/316 Vera-Ellen Cruz 20 June, 2014 Community Profile The city that I have chosen to complete a community profile on is my hometown Phoenix, Arizona. I was born and raised in phoenix Arizona and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. The weather is great, the people are friendly, and this is one of the largest growing metropolitan cities today’s society. This city is filled with multiple types of nationalities, ethnic groups, cultures, and religions. History Phoenix
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homes can be priced well below the construction cost. In large areas of country, like outside of city or rural areas, the price of purchase will come even closer to construction cost. Cities and suburbs on the other hand is where the prices of homes is much higher than the cost of new construction. Even though they do not represent the norm, this can be construed as pricing certain individuals out of cities and suburbs. Supply and Demand Why do some areas fair better than others when it comes to home
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each other. Cape Town; Grabouw and Stanford are located within the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Cape Town is a very built up area and is a major Metropolitan. Cape Town is also a break of bulk settlement and can be seen as a specialized city that is multi-functional because it serves many functions. Grabouw and Stanford are not as built up as Cape Town. They have fewer high order good and services. This places them both lower on the hierarchy of urban settlements. They can be seen as minor
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Lizhi’s suicide, and Jia Pingwa’s novel, they both reveal a difficult and tired life of lower class Chinese’s in the current social-economic turmoil of China. Over past decades, the rapid growth of the Chinese economy results huge economical gap between city and rural area due to the different of development. Although, China has been an attractive destination for global corporations due to its low wage rate and lack of labor right, however, more than 36% of the population live on less than $2 a day and
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My Impression in Living in the City Living in the city means to have easier access to any resources we may need, like having nearby marketplace, hospital, mall, and school however the common perception about cities is that they were dangerous because it is where criminals usually attack for there are greater mass of people that causes pollution due to smoke from vehicles. Although, cities are where you also find bigger and brighter opportunities for you to live a better life because of advance
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ResearchJamey Calvery Developmental Associations Between Externalizing Behaviors, Peer Delinquency, Drug use, Perceived Neighborhood Crimes, and Violent Behaviors in Urban Communities Jamey Calvery Developmental Associations Between Externalizing Behaviors, Peer Delinquency, Drug use, Perceived Neighborhood Crimes, and Violent Behaviors in Urban Communities Developmental Associations Between Externalizing Behaviors, Peer Delinquency, Drug use, Perceived Neighborhood Crimes, and Violent
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the world. With the world population nearly reaching 7 billion, almost 1/6th of these people have found a way to live in illegally built cities. While some of these cities have found ways to create peace and fluency, such as the Favelas of Brazil, many have planning issues that planners hope to one day solve. Although they are not the typical modern day cities, squatter settlements have formed some of the most fluent new urban ways of life around the world. Louis Wirth, author of one of planning’s
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