Abstract
In Jane Jacob's "Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life", she explores the five economic forces of city-region expansion. These five forces are markets, jobs, transplants, technology, and capital. Jacobs posits that in order to be a successful city-region, the city-region must have an import-replacement economy where all five forces work harmoniously. In order to determine why cities and city regions fail and/or do not expand; the author of this paper explores the principles of Jacob's economically successful import-replacement paradigm and uses Los Angeles county as an example to illustrate his points.

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"Second, let us suppose that technological advances in agricultural production further displaced agricultural workers of Los Angeles. Let's say for examples sake that people were no longer needed for fruit harvesting (orange harvesting to follow from the previous example). While import-replacement city-regions would not have as large of a setback due to economic diversification, the agriculturally focused community faces clearances and redundancy. "Any nation where sufficient productive city work is lacking, [as in this example], improvements in rural yields and productivity must leave large numbers of workers idle and redundant, or else rural yields and productivity must remain low. ... The costs of idleness and unproductivity of displaced people, along with the accompanying poverty, demoralization, violence, drug addiction and crime, are incalculable but they are enormous" (Jacobs 88,85). Clearances and redundancy would further shrink the dilapidated region as people look to the cities to find new opportunities. However, those who have no other option and must stay face ever-more depressed living and economic conditions."

Tags:economics, markets, jobs, transplants, technology, capital, growth, agricultural

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"Jane Jacobs. in Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, uses the approach and method of the Platonic dialogue to describe and differentiate between the morality (or amorality) of the worlds of business and politics. She writes that

I have not invented the two moral and value systems I shall expound. The human race has accomplished that feat during millennia of experience with trading and producing [commerce], on the one hand, and with organizing and managing territories [politics], on the other hand. I have merely . . . analyzed the probable origins and . . . reasons for it, and identified . . . functional and moral quagmires into which organizations . . . sink when they confuse their own . . . moral ..."

Abstract
This paper highlights the main theories in Jane Jacobs' book on city planning, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". The paper presents an overview of Jacobs theories, explaining the core arguments underlying her theories and her effective use of examples that support those theories.

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"The explicit value preached by Jane Jacobs is diversity in functionality. However, Jacobs claims that the designers and planners of cities do not "live in an ideological vacuum" (Jacobs, 24). If this is true, then her attack on the basic principles of the orthodox city planning methods of her time must also be in part an attack on the basic principles of the society that supported such methods. When she condemns the Decentrists for dismissing the city as a "foreground for noise . . . souvenirs, and shrill competitive advertising," the product of "self-centered, ill-advised individuals,"(21) she is, whether she realizes it or not, taking issue with their politics. Competition, advertising, self-centeredness, and individuality are all associated with capitalism, and, as cities are products of business and industry, the very core of capitalist philosophy, to want to truly understand and strengthen the city is to do the same for capitalism."

Tags:political, economic, social, issues, role, reputation, business, integrating, residences, industry

Abstract
This paper reviews Jane Jacobs' article, "Cities and the Wealth of Nations" and discusses her theories of import-replacement - that cities became self reliant and powerful through the forces of social construction and expansion including markets, city jobs, technology, transplants and capital - in turn creating economic expansion. The author lists Los Angeles County as the perfect example of the import-replacement theory. The paper provides a short write up of the geographical range and economic influence of Los Angeles County and explains why Los Angeles is a city region that has successfully implemented Jacob's theory of import-replacement.

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"While many residents had never visited the devastated areas, these disasters reshaped the cities around them and the dominant social consciousness. In addition, the turn of events affected distant cities and regions. As businesses left the Los Angeles area, other cities were positively affected by the influx in economic prosperity. They responded as passive economies."

Tags:urbanization, globalization

Abstract
This paper briefly argues that Bronte's Jane Eyre is a new kind of woman and that she is, far from perpetuating inherited sexism, a prototype for a new kind of feminist woman who is not afraid to be bold. The paper further notes that she is not afraid to stand up for herself as best as she is able. Beyond that, she strives professionally and she is unafraid to resist Rochester's urgent plea that they both flee to France and live as man and wife even though his first wife wife is still alive. Jane does not resist because she values conventionality so much as she declines because she values her own self-respect.

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"The following essay will briefly argue that Bronte's Jane Eyre is a new kind of woman and that she is, far from perpetuating inherited sexism, a prototype for a new kind of feminist woman who is not afraid to be bold (Jane has little reservation, it seems, about speaking the truth as the truth manifests itself to her) and she is not afraid to stand up for herself as best as she is able. Beyond that, she strives professionally for things (even if the things to which she can aspire are limited by the institutional barriers of her time) and she is unafraid to resist Rochester's urgent plea that they both flee to France and live as man and..."

Tags:character, analysis, jane

Abstract
This paper considers the way in which Charlotte Bronte's autobiographical details allow for a feminist message in her novel, "Jane Eyre." The paper contends that Jane's true ambition is to overcome the repression of the male-dominated society of the 19th Century.

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"In many ways Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" may be read as one of the earliest feminist texts in English literature. While Bronte employs many of the standard elements of the Gothic novel, it is clear that her true ambition is in her depiction of the title character, a woman who endures great trials in order to overcome repression in the male-dominated society of the nineteenth century."

Tags:feminist, autobiography, jane eyre, charlotte bronte, female, male, patriarchial, inequality, victorian

Abstract
The essay entitled On Jane Eyre is a study of certain chapters from the famous nineteenth century novel about a plucky English orphaned girl trying to survive and established herself as an autonomous woman in a world. The paper cites how this was extremely difficult because of the social and religious constraints in which she lived. The paper concludes that the character Jane was able to do so through a combination of pluck and luck.

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"Charlotte Bronte subtitled her novel "An Autobiography," and there doubtlessly was much in the novel that was autobiographical in the sense that Bronte had to struggle against the confines of Victorian England. Social and religious conventions sharply limited what women were able to do. Jane Eyre could not consider marrying above her station. She was expected to follow religious examples, many of which involves seriously destructive attitudes. As a woman, she was expected to produce children, but even modest displays of sexual activity were considered shocking. When Mrs. Fairfax see Rochester kissing, she regards it as such a serious..."

Tags:b /ronte, jane eyre, victorianism

Abstract
The paper relates that Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860 to Sarah and John Addams. The paper explains that because of a congenital spinal defect, Jane was not physically active as a child, and despite successful surgery for her spinal condition, she never enjoyed robust health. Yet, the paper relates that despite these obstacles, she lived a long and active life of service to the poor and the underprivileged, and earned worldwide acclaim as an historical leader of social reform and a pioneer of social work in the United States.

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"Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860 to Sarah and John Addams. Because of a congenital spinal defect, she was not physically active as a child, and despite successful surgery for her spinal condition, she never enjoyed robust health. Yet despite these obstacles, she lived a long and active life of service to the poor and the underprivileged, and earned worldwide acclaim as an historical leader of social reform and a pioneer of social work in the United States."

Tags:jane, addams, biography

Abstract
This paper discusses the works of Jacob Riis and Jane Addams. It explores the work of the Populist Party in the U.S. in the late 1800s. The author expands on the solutions of all three to pressing problems of the day, including solutions or reforms they proposed.

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"Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States from Denmark with the hope of making enough money to marry the daughter of a wealthy man in his native Denmark. Riis he was not prepared for what he found when he arrived in New York City. America was in the grip of a depression. There were thousands of people in New York City alone who were homeless and jobless. For three years Riis suffered poverty and near starvation ..."

Tags:Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, and Populist Party, pressing problems

Abstract
This paper discusses Robert Moses and his remarkable ability to garner power and positions for his massive public works projects. It examines his ability to obtain funding and his relationship with government at the city, state, and federal levels. The never-finished Lower Manhattan Expressway is discussed and also the controversy surrounding Moses' approaches.

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"One of the most polarizing and controversial figures in American history is urban planner Robert Moses. Jeffrey Pfeffer in his book 'Managing with Power' notes that Moses was included in Life magazine's list of the most influential people in the twentieth century along with Roosevelt Churchill Gandhi and Einstein. Pfeffer states 'I suspect that if I asked you to choose a position in which you could wield enormous power you would probably not pick the job of parks commissioner but Robert ..."

Tags:Robert Moses, New York City, federal, state, local, government, funding, parks, highways, Lower Manhattan Expressway, Jane Jacobs, Caro, power, controversy