Abstract
This paper focuses on homelessness and poverty in the east side of downtown Vancouver, which comprises the poorest postal code in Canada, and suggests ways to combat these problems. The paper states that the area is renowned for drug addiction, homelessness and prostitution, and is also the home of the highest HIV infection concentration in North America. The paper adds that despite such poverty, crime and disease, the east side of downtown continues to grow in size and population. To conclude, the paper suggests that increasing low-cost housing is a possible solution, which will require that the government inject a large sum of money into the project.

Outline:
Problem
Background
Alternative Courses of Action
Recommended Course of Action

From the Paper
"Another problem involves the trickiness of the welfare program and difficulty in obtaining eligibility. In 2001, it was found that 15% of the street homeless were not on welfare. By early 2004, this number increased to 50%; shockingly, the number rose to 75% by summer 2004 (City of Vancouver, cited in Raisetherates.org). If Vancouver's street population were eligible for welfare, at least they would have a chance of using money to pay for rent and move indoors. However, eligibility for welfare has been tightened and many who were once eligible for welfare no longer are."

Tags:poverty, crime, drug, addiction, prostitution

Abstract
This paper explores the ongoing issue of homelessness on the east side of Vancouver, B.C. The paper asserts that it cannot have escaped the attention of the B.C. Government that the east downtown region of Vancouver is a thriving centre of homelessness, illegal activity and disease. Conditions have worsened over recent years so that many regions of the downtown Vancouver region are downright dangerous, in addition to being aesthetically horrific and unsettling in atmosphere to the extreme. The paper also notes that the east Hastings Street district is overrun with HIV infection, homelessness, illicit drug use and crime.

From the Paper
"The east side of downtown Vancouver comprises the poorest postal code in Canada. The area is renown for drug addiction, homelessness and prostitution; it is also the home of the highest HIV infection concentration in North America. Regional constant infighting exists between drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes and police; it is a ..."

Tags:British, Columbia, poverty, street, transient

Abstract
This paper illustrates the role played by the Lower East Side in the development of Jewish culture in the United States. The paper presents the key element in Diner's argument that the Lower East Side neighborhood represents every aspect of the Jewish experience in America. The paper discusses how the Lower East Side neighborhood emerged as the emblem of American Jewish history and became the vehicle through which American Jews presented themselves

From the Paper
"Diner used a wide variety sources and evidence to support her argument. "Images of the Lower East Side circulated across New York and around America through words and pictures (157)". She presents many types of literature for support. Books, poems, newspapers, and magazines, even if the geographic focus was not New York City, still referenced streets or sections of the Lower East Side. "In representations of Jews in America, the Lower East Side served as the standard of Jewish measurement. A 1980s "docudrama" about a young Jewish peddler who learned about America and about himself while on the road bore the title West of Hester Street, obviously a big swath of geography (33)." "

Tags:hester, street, new, york, city, shtetl, holocaust, culture, heritage

Abstract
The paper looks at how local policy decisions in Vancouver have caused the current housing shortage - one in which many Vancouverites are without homes of their own and are either living with relatives or are on the streets. The paper looks at the homeless situation as it existed in the early 1990s and shows how the problem of affordable housing has been ill-addressed in Vancouver. The paper delves into the ancillary problems which will arise because of Vancouver's homeless blight, and also looks at how homelessness in Vancouver appears to disproportionately impact newly-arrived immigrants. Finally, the paper considers what the city should be doing from a policy-standpoint in order to curb the homeless problem.

From the Paper
"The following paper will look at how local policy decisions in Vancouver have caused the current housing shortage - one in which many Vancouverites are without homes of their own and are either living with relatives or are on the streets. The essay will look at the homeless situation as it existed in the early 1990s and explore how much - or how little - things have changed; in fact, the paper will reveal that the problem of affordable housing (a critical contributor to the homeless crisis) has been ill-addressed in Vancouver and that the city is seeing its homeless problem grow more acute just as the Winter Olympic Games of 2010 approach."

Tags:vancouver, housing, decisions

Abstract
This paper discusses "Vancouver's Hoboes" by Andrew Roddan and explains that Roddan's book provides us with an account of the lives of the homeless and jobless during the Great Depression and an insight into a desperate culture many of us have only glimpsed even during these difficult times. Whilst modern society reels from the growing problems of unemployment, expensive consumer goods, and the temptations of gambling, alcohol, and other horrors, most have not lived at the very depths of despair these homeless people are familiar with.

Tags:vancouver, hoboes, review

Abstract
The paper looks at the promises of Arab independence made by British foreign policy decision-makers during the First World War. The paper also looks at the post-War settlement in the Middle East and how the conflicting assurances of the Great Powers did not cause any undue strain in the relationship between Great Britain and France, but did cause plenty of discomfiture in the Arab world when it became evident that Arab independence was simply not going to happen. The paper argues that the aforementioned promises did shape the post-war settlement in the sense that, by offering Arabs one thing (and, as it turned out, Jews something else) while delivering something else, ensured that the post-war Middle East would be carved up by a few powerful European countries while Jews and Arabs were forced to live side-by-side with the hopes of neither party realized. The paper also notes that the collapse of the old Ottoman Empire made it more difficult to distance themselves from unpopular rulers. In the final analysis, the paper highlights how promises made during the "fog of war" can easily lead to strained relations later.

From the Paper
"The following paper will look at the promises of Arab independence made by British (and, more indirectly, by French) foreign policy decision-makers during the First World War. The paper will also look at the post-War settlement in the Middle East and how the conflicting assurances of the Great Powers (promises entirely at odds with their real intentions) did not cause any undue strain in the relationship between Great Britain and France, but did cause plenty of discomfiture in the Arab world when it became evident that Arab independence was simply not going to happen."

Tags:middle, east, britain

Abstract
This paper addresses the use of public space within the context of the city of Vancouver. In particular, the paper discusses the mixed-use Office Tower in Surrey, Vancouver, British Columbia. While there are many excellent public space projects underway in Vancouver, such as Canada Place, the Art Gallery, the Airport, the Greater Vancouver Regional District Project, and the English Bay, the aforementioned mixed-use office tower designed by Bing Thom is a very interesting glance into how public space offers both the promise of inclusiveness at the same time as it presents the threat of public space slowly becoming overwhelmed by private interests to the exclusion of inclusiveness.

From the Paper
"The following paper looks at public space within the context of the city of Vancouver. In particular, the paper looks at the mixed-use Office Tower in Surrey, Vancouver, British Columbia. While there are many excellent public space projects underway (or recently completed) in Vancouver - Canada Place, the Art Gallery, the Airport, the Greater Vancouver Regional District Project, and the English Bay - the aforementioned mixed-use office tower designed by Bing Thom is a very interesting glance into how public space offers both the promise of inclusiveness at the same time as..."

Tags:public, space, vancouver

Abstract
The paper discusses how the Olympic Games are a chance for people from different nations to meet each other, and to communicate with each other. The paper explains that the city that hosts the Olympics experiences positive changes, such as getting publicity, so that tourism is boosted, and, the Olympics may stimulate the economy, and also create jobs. The paper relates that Vancouver has the opportunity to experience these benefits home in 2010, when it hosts the winter Olympics. On the other hand, the paper reveals that most cities that have hosted the Olympics have experienced a negative effect on their economy and their environment (Holden, 2000). This essay discusses how Vancouver's Olympic organizing committee, VANOC, can learn from previous Olympics, such as Beijing, so as to make the Olympics a positive experience for Vancouver.

From the Paper
"The Olympic Games are a chance for people from different nations to meet each other, and to communicate with each other. The city that hosts the Olympics experiences positive changes, such as getting publicity, so that tourism is boosted. Also, the Olympics may stimulate the economy, and also create jobs. Vancouver has the opportunity to experience these benefits home in 2010, when it hosts the winter Olympics. On the other hand, most cities that have hosted the Olympics have experienced a negative effect on their economy and their environment (Holden, 2000). This essay will..."

Tags:olympics, vancouver, sport

Abstract
The paper discusses how the Vancouver Region, like most other cities in North America, has experienced considerable urban growth over the last ten years. The paper reveals that over 40,000 people have flocked to Vancouver's downtown peninsula over the fifteen years ending 2005, and the population is expected to reach 110,000 by 2015 (Baker, 2005). The paper looks at how the key readings identify the Vancouver Region as a North American region whereby strong growth management plans and policies have been enacted to curb this urban sprawl (Tomalty, 2002, p. 431).

From the Paper
"The Vancouver Region, like most other cities in North America, has experienced considerable urban growth over the last ten years. Over 40,000 people have flocked to Vancouver's downtown peninsula over the fifteen years ending 2005, and the population is expected to reach 110,000 by 2015 (Baker, 2005). The key readings identify the Vancouver Region as a North American region whereby strong growth management plans and policies have been enacted to curb this urban sprawl (Tomalty, 2002, p. 431). In general, the literature tends to view planning in the region as well-intentioned. However, is..."

Tags:vancouver, region, growth

Abstract
The geographic location chosen to be the central focus of this essay is located in Vancouver's West End, about a ten minute walk west of downtown. The writer describes that the city block is bordered by the four streets of Haro, Barclay, Broughton and Nicola and that the most famous landmark in the park is the Roedde House Museum. The writer notes that originally, all of the houses except for this one were intended for demolition. Further, the writer mentions that only through the efforts of many diligent historic preservationists was this area saved and restored to its historic form.

From the Paper
"The city of Vancouver is located in a popular region of North America that is known for breathtaking scenery, cultural diversity and historic residential areas. Vancouver proudly boasts several such neighborhoods, which have been the most densely populated on the continent for the better part of the 20th century and beyond. One of the most famous and distinctive of these is Barclay Heritage Square, a virtual jewel of historic Victorian gardens, benches, even a gazebo, that encompasses a single city block. It is all nestled modestly among the mostly residential streets of the neighborhood just west of the downtown core, most commonly known as the West End."

Tags:geography, vancouver, barclaysquare