...shaina The 9/11 memorial has received different visitors from the entire world and the 50 states of United States since its creation ranging from dignitaries to the meek in the society. It provides a sense of serenity, and reflection to those who understand its deep symbolic meaning. It is situated at the location of the former World Trade Center, and sits on 8 acres of land. The Memorial comprises of two big waterfalls and pools that provide reflection, with each waterfall occupying an acre. The pools are set at the original Twin Towers footprints. The 9/11 Memorial has been described as “one of the most eco-friendly plazas ever constructed”. The memorial was designed to provide a sense of revival and spirit of hope creating a contemplative social space that is separated from the ordinary scenes and noise of the busy New York City. The White Oak trees surrounding the memorial, aesthetically provide a canopy through it rustling leaves. Blair,...
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...address on religious tolerance in New York immediately began changing the views of his citizens on religious tolerance. Most people of New York were not comfortable with a muslim mosque being built just a few blocks away from the 9/11 memorial, because the attack was carried out by Muslim extremists. Bloomberg understands why people do not like the idea of a mosque being built, but he realizes that the Muslims of New York along with the majority of the Muslim population are very peaceful people and mean no harm. Bloomberg understand that the muslim community is no different than anyone else in New York and mean no harm. They are only trying to follow their peaceful religion, bringing no harm to others. Bloomberg uses the...
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...New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads). Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs. New York City in the 18th Century In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany;...
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...|"A number of Indian cities and territories have been renamed over the years, mostly in an effort to erase the supposed | |'colonial hangover'. This quiz deals with some of the more popular name changes over the years." | |[pic] | | | |1. After contributing a new word to the English language, which Indian city decided to officially change its name on 1 | |November 2006? | | | |[pic]Shimla | |[pic]Bangalore | |[pic]Trivandrum | |[pic]Hyderabad | | | ...
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...Finding New York SUSANNAH GRIFFEE T he Port Authority, Central Park, subway stations, Broadway, Coney Island, Brooklyn Bridge, Downtown, Times Square, JFK: Colson Whitehead’s essays tunnel into the heart of New York City, revealing it to be both a bastion of cruelty and an alluring symbol of hope, both an executioner of dreams and a mother of new beginnings. Whitehead writes about the city as if it were human, and about its people as if they were buildings. Yet these personifications constantly interchange. Whitehead never represents living beings as wholly mechanical, or the city as wholly human. The key to this interchange lies in the way Whitehead projects his own reality upon the city, and his own multifaceted identity upon the legions of anonymous selves that populate the city’s streets. Whitehead’s constant creation and re-creation of characters and metaphors reveal a fear of being held to one identity, to one existence. And behind this urge to escape a solidified selfhood lies a desire to evade the confines of time, the inevitability of death. This yearning marks where our version of reality and Whitehead’s version overlap. It is the one immutable monument in a city of constantly shifting perceptions. From the very beginning, Whitehead dismantles the vision of New York as a glittering, perfect metropolis. He writes about New York as a complex force rather than a commercialized idea, as a being capable of doling out both salvation and destruction. In...
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...On May 11 we are going to New York City. We are going to visit the 9/11 Memorial, Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Coney Island, Empire State Building, and the Empire State Building. We are going to visit these places over the span of 3 days. Not only is this trip going to be a fun trip, but also a historical one. There are multiple historical places in New York. Times Square is a popular commercial strip in lower Manhattan. It’s name Longacre Square. It was named Times Square in 1904 when New York Times moved its headquarters there. They built subways through there to be sure the newspapers got out. New York Times made a marketing plan and started introducing the new year with fireworks. Theaters moved in after New York Times came in. Once...
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...For me, that place is the one and only New York City. My thirteen year old self was welcomed by the Big Apple with pouring rain in the middle of July. Drops bounced off the fluorescent screens, crosswalks were flooded with puddles too big to simply jump over, and my clothes were practically a second layer of skin they were so drenched, and I was in love. The buzz of the cars mixing with the murmur of voices together, as each of us individually carried on our way throughout the city, the way my eyes raced back and forth trying to capture it all at once, the struggle over what restaurant to eat at next, or what five story tall outlet...
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...to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776). So what did happen on July 4, 1776? The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes. July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation. So when people thought of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 was the date they remembered. In contrast, we celebrate Constitution Day on September 17th of each year, the anniversary of the date the Constitution was signed, not the anniversary of the date it was approved. If we’d followed this same approach for the Declaration of Independence we’d being celebrating Independence Day on August 2nd of each year, the day the Declaration...
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...Eng105 06/14/2011 Should The Islamic Cultural Center Be Built Next To The Ground Zero? The Lower Manhattan Extension remains to be the busiest spot on the globe for a couple of centuries. A home for hundreds of operating businesses, New York City’s financial district represents a strategic center of the world managed by IT geniuses, Investment Banking giants and other brilliant minds that push and pull the necessary buttons to control a massive and complicated mechanism called “The Global Economy” from their downtown offices. Consuming the whole city, contagious rush of the east coast misses only one place – The Ground Zero, a grave for thousands of people including around 300 Muslims, killed by Islamic terrorist group attack on September 11, 2001. In almost 10 years after the attack, the proposed construction of Islamic Center next to the American nation’s tragedy location became the heart of controversy that started with a small group of anti-Muslim activists who suggested the proposal was a scheme used by anti-American Muslims to conquer the site of the 9/11 attacks (Steve Rendall, Oct. 2010). However, according to the Community Center’s official web-site, the key points of the opponents turned out to be false: “Inspired by Islamic values and Muslim heritage, Park51 will weave the Muslim-American identity into the multicultural fabric of the United States. We will foster cooperation and understanding between people of all faiths and backgrounds through relevant programs...
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...military camp in Xinjiang, China after his father; Ai Qing was condemned as a “rightist” in 1957 (Shengtian 6). When asked about his life in the military camp, Weiwei did not have a clear recollection and only saved a few traumatizing memories. He recalled the time when their military camp fired the first shot of China’s Cultural Revolution on January 26th. “I remember hearing lots of explosive noises. I saw my family boarding up the door. I heard running footsteps on our rooftop. Because the rooftop was made of tiles, which were not soundproof, I could hear the bullets whistling by” (Shengtian 8). Seeing dead bodies, including classmate, Ma Lu, is still very much a vivid memory for Ai Weiwei. Such scenes would distress any child but for 9-year-old Ai Weiwei, a sense of curiosity and confusion ensued. “I had been desensitized by the constant exposure to these kinds of verbal attacks since I was little. I was aware that something bad was happening, but I was not intensely frightened” (Shengtian 8). At such a young age, Weiwei’s interest in social perception piqued. He wanted to understand the...
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...…………………….…….…………………4 1.3. Background of Oxford city. …………….………………………..4 2. Literature Review 2.1. Urban Tourism................................................................................5 2.2. City Typologies...............................................................................8 2.3 Tourism in historical cities...............................................................9 2.4 Urban tourism supply and Jansen-Verbeke Model (1986)………...9 3. Methodology 3.1. Methodology and Methods...........................................................11 3.2. Field work.....................................................................................13 3.3. Research Limitations and Ethical consideration….......................13 4. Results and Discussions.......................................................................14 5. Conclusion...........................................................................................23 Bibliography............................................................................................25 1.Introduction 1.1 Justification and structure of report This report examines the perception of tourists towards Oxford’s tourism supply and analyses Oxford’s tourism supply in great detail using the Jensen-Verbeke’s (1986) model. Thereby, identifying the key features that attracts tourists to Oxford city as well as areas that city needs to develop, promote or rectify for development...
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... *** 8. Airplane 9. Street Dance collection 10. 500 Days Of Summer-uturnbd.com 11. Banlieue 13 12. The Bourne Legacy (2012) m1080p 13. Black Hawk Down 2001. 14. Original sin ** 15. Argo 2012 *** 16. ZerO_DarK_ThirtY.2012-1080p ** 17. The Three Stooges 18. Amelie (2001) 19. The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) * 20. American Hustle (2013) ** 21. Cast Away (2000) *** 22. Life Is Beautiful 1997 *** 23. The A team *** 24. Inception 2010 *** 25. Before Sunrise 1995 *** 26. Before midnight ** 27. Before evening 28. The Notebook 2004 *** 29. The.Impossible.2012 ** 30. La teta y la luna (1994) 31. Artificial Paradise 2013 * 32. Wrong Cops 2013 33. 2 Guns 2013 34. 21 jump street 2012 35. Source code 36. Django Unchained 2012 *** 37. The Monuments Men 2014 38. 3 Days to kill 2014 ** 39. Jack Ryan Shadow recruit 20147 40. The physician 2013 *** 41. Pompeii 2014 ** 42. That Awkward Moment (2014) 43. Magic Mike 44. Don Jon 2013 45. Our Idiot Brother (2011) 46. Fight Club 1999 *** 47. Children of men 2006 *** 48. Brothers 2009 * 49. Training day 50. The lives of others *** 51. The Departed 2006 52. The American President 1995 P 53. The Contender 2000 p 54. Gangs of New York 2002 ** 55. 50-50 2011 56. Madrid 1987spanish ** 57. OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (2013) 58. The Ides Of March (2011) 59. Omar (2013) ** 60. Incendies (2010) * 61. Les Misérables *** 62. Broken city 63. A Case of You 2013 ...
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...[pic] Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential African Americans in history. Raised the son of a slave mother, Washington was self- motivated and committed to his own education from a young age. The tumultuous time in America’s history during which he lived afforded him new freedoms that came from Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the eventual success of the North in the Civil War.[1] He took the first opportunity to attend a formal school, Hampton Institute, which led to professorship and the founding of one of the most prestigious African American educational institutions of the nineteenth century, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.[2] When the Civil War ended in 1865, many newly freed black Americans sought education at all levels. But there were few trade schools or public schools that they were allowed to enroll in.[3] Among the first black colleges to meet the need was Tuskegee University, established in 1881.[4] Booker T. Washington was born a slave on a plantation five years before the Civil War began, near Hales Ford, Virginia, on James Burroughs’s plantation in 1856. The slaves on the Burroughs’ farm learned that they were free in spring of 1865. Booker had survived chattel slavery and the Civil War.[5] He moved with his mother and siblings to Charleston, West Virginia to join his step-father, a Union Army veteran.[6] Washington was called only Booker during his early youth and added the name Washington when he entered...
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...In 1901 Baltimore was graced with a magnificent tower that loomed not only over the city but also across the Eastern Shore. A blue light emitted from 288 ft. in the air, the light source, was blue bottle with the words BROMO-SELTZER inscribed on it (Figure 1). In a town that had nothing going for it except for perhaps the Orioles, this structure was something to marvel at. There is a lot of history behind that historical and humongous clock in downtown Baltimore. The Bromo-Seltzer Tower Building has been a landmark in Baltimore since the early part of this century. This paper is meant to examine the effect that the Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower had on Baltimore and the reason why it is still standing today. By the 1900’s Baltimore was known as the Monumental city due to vast collection of monuments erected throughout the city. Structural architectural was not a focus because Baltimore had hit its peak in the Revolutionary War and been on a down hill ever since.[i] Business was not coming in as it was for other cities in the west and north. Great migrations left Baltimore in a standstill economically it was neither failing nor progressing. The area of Lombard Street was a suburb, serving as a residential area. “Captian” Issac Emerson wasn’t born into the city but rather the opposite; he was raised in spacious Chatham County, N.C. In 1879 he worked out and patented what would become the reason for his success. Emmerson created a simple tablet one can take in the morning after a...
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...of Merewether Tower & its impact on urban morphology Qurat-ul-Ain Rehman Abstract The past should never be forgotten as it constitutes an important part of the civilization of mankind. Historic monuments may contain some bitter and sweet memories therefore it should be preserved for future generations to know the life their ancestors were living. Although important, many historic sites are usually torn down in order to make room for development but there are people who believe that these sites should be saved from the hammer. Conserving these sites takes a lot of hard work and dedication from the local authorities but it can transform the morphology of the region and reward the developers for their hard work. Karachi was home to British troops in the 19th century and is therefore rich in Victorian era buildings. Most of these buildings are in a bad shape but the government is working to preserve them. Although the pace of redevelopment is slow, the fact that work is going on gives a person relief that the historic buildings of the city will be preserved. One such building is the Merewether tower; this iconic structure is one of few structures that are in a good condition, but sources claim that from the inside, it is slowly being degraded. Once the gateway to the city, it has been forgotten by many although its name is very common. The objective of this research is to document the existing conditions of the tower and the surroundings so that it can be redeveloped in...
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