life. Assuming the role of Manhattanʼs ghost-writer, Koolhaas calls Manhattan a mythical island, whose land became the testing grounds for the theory of ʻManhattanismʼ. Coney Island: The Technology of the Fantastic As New York grew into a dense metropolis, Coney Island offered to become its resort. It became home to the super-natural where artificiality was embraced and nurtured. Amusement parks emerged and became the laboratories for experimentation. Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland came up
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it can able to hire more work personnel for its operation. B. Location of the Business The Daily Perc will open its first drive thru facility or mobile café at ___________________________. Five more facility will be placed throughout the metropolis over the next two years. The first drive-thru will serve as its commissary. Physical and demographic requirements for drive thru location are as follows: a. Traffic at 40,000+ at store side b. Visible from road side c. Easy Entry of
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT THE DIGITAL DIVIDE The digital divide, simply put, is the gap between those people and communities with access to information technology and those without it. Yet, the fact is there are many divides, characterized by community, ethnic, economic, and age groups. These differences provide the basis for much research into internet use, and for the identification by some of the digital divide as an increasingly important feature of the growing economic and
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Imperialismo es la doctrina política que justifica la dominación de un pueblo o estado sobre otros; habitualmente mediante distintos tipos de colonización (de poblamiento, de explotación económica, de presencia militar estratégica) o por la subordinación cultural. Dentro el siglo XIX nace una nueva tendencia de las grandes potencias europeas en ampliar su dominio sobre las otras naciones en el mundo a los modos de conquista o colonización. Teniendo como base del imperialismo al mercantilismo.
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RENDERING * is the process of generating an image from a model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file), by means of computer programs. * The term "rendering" may be by analogy with an "artist's rendering" of a scene. Though the technical details of rendering methods vary, the general challenges to overcome in producing a 2D image from a 3D representation stored in a scene file are outlined as the graphics pipeline along a rendering device, such as a GPU. GPU (graphics
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nails hammered into both his hands, crucifying him to the car. In Chris’ later works he deviated from hurting his own body. Although his pieces were not as shocking as his others, they still provoked a lot of questions, and emotions. In his piece Metropolis II (2011) he created a sculpture that was a tiny city that had tracks making roads around the city buildings. This piece created a feeling of anxiety and was mesmerizing because as the 1,100 tiny cars moved around the
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Urbanization/CASE Urbanization refers to the reallocation from a rustic to an urban social order due to shifts in global variants. It is a product of economic, political and social advancement that has paved the way for the emergence of large metropolis, cause a spike in the population density of the region. A survey predicted that half of the earth’s inhabitants would reside in urban centers towards the end of 2008 (United Nations). Intimately connected to the processes of modernization, industrialization
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IMICRO-FINANCE OF MOBILE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CASE STUDIES IN BENIN CITY BY DADA ADEYINKA PSC0709051 DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FACULTY OF management SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BENIN BENIN CITY. DECEMBER, 2015. MICRO-FINANCE OF MOBILE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CASE STUDIES IN BENIN CITY BY GLORY PSC0709051 IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE BACHELOR OF
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PMI® Case Study QUARTIER INTERNATIONAL DE MONTRÉAL: 2005 PMI Project of the Year The Quartier International de Montréal (QIM) project was an enormous urban revitalization project that comprehensively revamped a large portion in the center of Montréal city in Canada from bottom up. The QIM team used standard project management techniques to coordinate the project’s many complex activities, plan for risks, and accommodated last-minute changes to the project plan by the City of Montreal. As
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forest. While others think of nature as being everywhere, those that think like this know that nature surrounds their daily lives, even if they live in the most rural area or just an urban neighborhood. Even Los Angeles one of the world’s biggest metropolis still nature is still everywhere. Although some will argue that nature in Los Angeles is non-existence because LA is known as having nothing other than cement in most parts of the city. The current state of nature in Los Angeles is great and is
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