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Place of Women in Global City, 2004.
This paper looks at the place of women in the global city.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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In this essay, the place of women in the global city is discussed. The writer looks at the changing role of women as globalization evolves. The writer also examines how women need to become involved to demand their rights. The issues of emancipation, rape and decision making are also raised and discussed in this paper.
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"Women's place in the global city has come about primarily because of the reproductive role of women which is seen as more than just reproducing the species but also the reproduction of the culture styles of dress behaviors, relations between adults and children, family cooking styles, domestic labor, roles play, etc. People refer to their homeland as Mother Russia, Mother Ireland and even the whole planet is referred to as Mother Earth. The fertility of Mother Earth has no doubt contributed to the association between collective ... "
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Global City Regions, 2005.
This paper studies the emergence of global city regions.
6,750 words (approx. 27.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 239.95
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In this article, the writer examines the emergence of global city regions. The writer also looks at policy implications and issues. The characteristics of global city regions are discussed. The writer also examines changes in the world economy. This paper also demonstrates structural and socio-economic realities of global city regionsand provides examples.
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"As the world economy becomes increasingly globalized with information capital and people flowing seamlessly across international borders, a new phenomenon has arisen that is the embodiment of this new economic reality at the local level the global city region. As national borders become less distinct, city borders have followed suit. In order to compete in the global economy, cities are increasingly eschewing their borders and realizing that by leveraging their entire region they can provide a more attractive product to ever more discerning international business interests. Global city regions are ... "
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Global Cities, 2002.
A paper which discusses the centralization of international business infrastructures such as telecommunications and finance into "global cities".
2,554 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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Though the effects of globalization are generally perceived as good, this blurring of boundaries also generates concern. Globalization is much more than a liberalization of trade, engendering a series of significant social effects as well. These dual effects illustrate how globalization is much more than the liberalization of trade. This paper looks at one major result of globalization ? the centralization of international business infrastructures such as telecommunications and finance in what Saskia Sassen has termed the ?global city.? Using Sassen?s theoretical framework, this paper examines the factors that characterize a global city and the role these new global cities play, both within their own nation states and in international trade. These factors are then applied to analyze London as a global city. The paper then examines the social costs of globalization as manifested in the city of London. It explores how development policies geared towards creating major capitals of finance have also resulted in greater disparities of wealth, by engendering phenomena like gentrification and the transnationalization of labor. These theories are again applied to the London experience.
Finally, this paper draws on the experience of London as a global city and proposes the integration of ?social development? principles put forth by Susan Fainstein, to propose better globalization policies that promote a global city?s progress on the international economic stage without neglecting the needs of the marginalized members within its community.
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"These increased investments also served to attract foreign banks into London, as well as highly skilled people to provide the much-needed financial and technical expertise. The concentration of networks and people also made London a center of information, where relationships between people and corporations can be built. Though not as significant as its financial resources, the network of personal and business relationships also helped London become an important business center. Not coincidentally, the opening of cafes, restaurants and other such meeting places also increased with London?s growing economy, another indication of the auxiliary facilities needed by a global city.
Finally, in keeping with Sassen?s observations regarding the darker side of global cities, the London government has consistently passed regulations that favor the economic development and the needs of big business, even at the expense of its poorer residents. This is illustrated more fully in its treatment of its worker and immigrant populations, and in the case of the regeneration of the Docklands, at the time the world?s largest redevelopment project that eventually caused the bankruptcy of the world?s largest office developers."
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Hong Kong as Global City, 1997.
Examines globalization, regional factors, impact of China's 1997 takeover. Examines economics, politics and multiculturalism.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 11 sources, $ 63.95
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"HONG KONG AS A GLOBAL CITY
Introduction
This research examines the actual or emerging status of Hong Kong as a global city. This examination focuses upon the economic aspects of globalization, alothough other elements of the process of globalization necessarily are considered.
The Process of Globalization
Sweeping societal changes are being driven by global flows of capital, economic rationalization, material culture, and urban politics and design (Sussman, 1996, p. 541). The transnationalization of production, global transport and telecommunication infrastructure, new systems of economic production, and new trade and investment practices all place intensive and new demands on cities. Tensions develop when cities are pressure.."
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Women's Experience in the City, 2002.
An analysis of two books - "The Sphinx in the City" by Elizabeth Wilson, and "Women in Cities" edited by Dr. J. Little, Linda Peake and P. Richardson.
2,104 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 66.95
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This paper examines the life of women in cities by analyzing two books -"The Sphinx in the City" and "Women in Cities", which explore this phenomenon in two very different ways. The first book by Wilson takes an historical perspective of women's experience in cities, while the second focuses on recent research conducted surrounding women's lives in British cities. This paper gives a short review of each, highlighting the major themes found in each, and then begins to integrate the historical with the present attitudes and problems that women in cities can face.
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"Women's experiences of the city, and their lives within them, are often the overlooked element when researching and writing about life in the modern urban environment. For my review and comparison of two books relevant to urban psychology, I choose to look at the way women have experienced the city, and how their lives are impacted by the area of their residence."
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Women in New York City before 1860, 2002.
Discussion of the economic, sexual, and social conditions of working class women in New York prior to 1860.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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New York City's working class women, from the late 18th century to 1860, were hampered by various economic, sexual and other social conditions. Stansell's City of Women explains the factors shaping the women's position within a certain North American and urban environment. It appears that the prime impediment was the prevailing view of the respectable woman's role related to domesticity in contrast with bourgeois life.
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Augustine's Understanding of the "City of God and the City of Man", 2002.
Examines the influence of Saint Augustine on Western religious thought and analyzes his text "City of God".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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Saint Augustine presented the idea that faith and understanding (in the broad and narrow senses) go hand in hand. Because of this, his teachings were that to understand life, one must have faith, and to have faith, one must pursue an understanding of life. Augustine has proved to be one of the most influential thinkers in European and western history. While still a teenager, Augustine converted, became a priest, then the leader of the Church in North Africa, and, before he became Bishop and his writing career was virtually choked off, Augustine was a prolific producer of scriptural scholarly works. The "City of God", which was written between the years 413 and 426, was Augustine's response to the criticism leveled at Christianity by the pagans after they had sacked Rome in 410. This work represents Augustine's most significant contribution to Western religious thought and, like many personalized texts, takes on the Aristotelian method of posing questions to the self in an argumentative fashion and systematically refuting and explaining away each.
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The Port Cities of New York City & Dublin, 2001.
This paper compares two large urban port cities: Dublin and New York City.
2,410 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper illustrates the issues of large urban port cities as seen in Dublin and New York City. The paper provides an in-depth history of each city and compares the social issues of the urban environment, ethnic diversity, poverty and crime.
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"New York City is generally considered the doorway to America. It is the largest city in the nation, seven million strong, and a main hub of financial activity. This is probably the most racially and ethnically diverse of the large American cities, the epitome of the melting pot. A third of the population is of African descent, fifteen percent are Jewish, twelve percent Hispanic. Other ethnic populations have a vocal presence, including the Irish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Indian, and other Asians. If one city has represent urban America over the last 200 years, it would be the harbor city of New York, New York.
" Across the Atlantic ocean lies another city, a little farther from the ocean, though not much. It is the ?fair city? of Dublin, that capitol of the Republic of Ireland. This is a fairly heterogeneous city, for it is the center of 4,000 year old struggle for cultural sanctity and independence. The vast majority of the citizens are Irish or British nationals, Christian and white. Most are Roman Catholic, and the largest ?minority? are the British Protestants. One fourth of the citizens of Ireland, approximately 900,000 souls all told, now live in Dublin and its suburbs, and its name is becoming synonymous with Irish culture and tradition."
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Women and AIDS in New York City, 2002.
A look at the growing rate of women with HIV/AIDS and the consequences for the city.
2,115 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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The paper describes how the problem of AIDS is growing among women and explains why the disease is often difficult to diagnose in women. It discusses the problems of having and raising children by AIDS infected women and shows how AIDS and HIV represent a significant cost to the city's public health services network. The paper also describes New York City's variety of agencies that try to meet the needs of people with HIV or AIDS. The paper also includes a sidebar containing general information regarding the disease.
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"Because AIDS presents differently in men than women, some suspect that AIDS sometimes goes undiagnosed longer in women than men. Chris Morris, who wrote an article on the topic for Ms. Magazine, reports that a significant rise in female deaths between 1981 and 1986 in the Mid-Atlantic States, including New York, has not been fully explained. While some were attributed to AIDS, others were disproportionately attributed to tuberculosis, influence, pneumonia, and pelvic inflammatory disease. It is now known that deaths all these conditions are more common in people with AIDS."
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The Global South and the Global North, 2007.
An analysis of the impact of globalization on the inequality between the global north and the global south.
1,402 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper looks at globalization and discusses how it has exacerbated the pre-existing inequalities between the poor global south and the wealthy global north. It illustrates how globalization forces some people (predominantly in the southern regions of the planet) to work while permitting other people (predominantly individuals residing in the global north) to become wealthy.
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"To start with, it is commonly known that powerful multinational corporations in the global north habitually take their manufacturing operations from Europe and/or America and deposit those aforementioned manufacturing operations in global south countries where they can avoid the onerous regulatory regimes, high corporate taxes, and high wage costs they associate with the north. At the same time, the movement of jobs and plants to the south has the unhappy effect of not only costing workers jobs in the north but also of reducing the south to the subordinate position of being "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for multinationals that are looking for cheap human resources that can be utilized in a working environment that is more permissive than the highly-regulated work environments of America and/or Europe. A good example of this phenomenon can be found in the IT sector where skilled U.S. workers are losing jobs to individuals overseas (Sosbe, 4) - presumably because the "cost of doing business" vis-a-vis wage expenses is lower in global south nations which do not have a strong tradition of labor activism or of government involvement in employee-employer relations."
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Globalization and Global Labour Patterns, 2005.
An analysis of the factors leading to globalization and global labour patterns.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 10 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses globalization and global labour patterns. The paper argues that in a globalized world corporations are determining the labour conditions in both developed and developing countries. It suggests that the corporations are essentially making cheap, unskilled and flexible labourers.
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"Globalization and Global Labour Patterns Globalization is one of the most controversial issues in politics and economics. In "Note on Terminalogy" David McNally defines globalization as, "The mainstream term for the new world Economy of the past twenty years" (McNally 9). How exactly has the world economy changed? While discussing the political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades Teeple explains, A system of highly integrated world trade was an irreversible fact by the end of the 1970s, confirmed and hastened by the new means of transportation and communications, whose increased productivity were transforming the worldwide distribution of products and hence the global conditions for valorization (Teeple 71)."
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"City Of Dreadful Delight" ( Judith Walkowitz ) and "City Of Eros" ( Timothy Gilfoyle ), 1999.
Compares this works on prostitution in 19th Century London and New York City.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 119.95
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"This research will examine two books that deal with issues relating to the phenomenon of prostitution in 19th-century London and New York City, City of Dreadful Delight by Judith R. Walkowitz, and City of Eros by Timothy J. Gilfoyle, respectively. The research will set forth the general pattern of ideas in each of the works and discuss in detail the similarities and differences in the methods and narratives of social history that each book uses to give an account of the culture, physical environment, and personalities informing the shape that sexual praxis in general and prostitution in particular took in the centers of the English-speaking world during the period.
The differences between City of Dreadful Delight and City of Eros are not confined to the fact that the former deals with London prostitution in the late Victorian era and City of Eros deals..."
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Globalization and Global Survival, 2005.
This paper discusses the effects and dangers of globalization.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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This article examines the cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects of globalization. The writer then looks at the related challenges and dangers. The writer discusses how the existence of international monopolies together with the third world sweat shops and additional factors endanger global survival. The writer further discusses that globalization's exportation of environmentally and perhaps socially unsustainable Western materialism to populous developing nations such as India and China is also worrying for the future of the planet.
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"Evidence of increasing hegemony by an ever shrinking number of multinational conglomerates is fuelling increasing concern regarding global cultural, commercial, political and environmental effects from such inequitable distribution of power. The creation of international industrial monopolies and massive fortunes of unprecedented size, accompanied as it is by equally massive down-sizing, unemployment, environmental degradation and the exponential increase of Third World sweat shops and child labor, seems to be leading to disaster on a global scale."
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City Shoes: The Horseshoe Game for City Kids, 2002.
Presents a marketing plan to produce and market a lawn game for children, based on traditional horseshoes.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 80.95
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City Shoes(tm) is a lawn game based on traditional horseshoes that employs large rubber washers instead of metal horseshoes. It is lightweight, portable, durable and safe. The marketing plan includes a SWOT analysis, marketing strategies directed at sporting goods stores and lawn and garden shops and processes for control and analysis of the plan.
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The Homeless Problem in New York City, 2004.
This paper discusses that New York City is a city with a staggering homeless population, a problem that has persisted throughout the city?s history.
975 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper reports that, in 2004, New York City set a record when the number of homeless New Yorkers residing in shelters reached the highest point in the city?s history. The author points out that 90 percent of homeless New Yorkers are black or Latino, even though only 53 percent of New York City?s total population is black or Latino; moreover, over 60 percent of homeless families previously lived in four of New York City?s poorest neighborhoods, and over half of the homeless mothers have a history of domestic violence. This paper concludes that it will take years of dedication and focus for New York City to ease the problem of homelessness by creating not only adequate permanent housing for the homeless, which actually will cost less than the present shelter and other emergency care programs, but also available services for those suffering from mental illness and substance abuse.
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"According to the Coalition for the Homeless, in the month of August 2004, some 36,400 homeless men, women, and children were sleeping each night in the New York City shelter system, including 15,300 children, 12,700 adult family members, and 8,400 single adults, with many thousands more sleeping on city streets, park benches, and subway trains. New York City?s homeless shelter population has increased by 73 percent since 1998, from 21,000 to the current 36,400. The past six years has seen the number of homeless families sleeping in New York City shelters and welfare hotels increase by 99 percent, from 4,429 families in January 1998 to 8,726 families in August 2004. Moreover, the average stay for homeless families in the municipal shelter system has almost doubled over the past decade, from six months in 1992, to nearly twelve months today."
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