The population density around Dickson’s Mounds was greatly affected by the introduction of agriculture. During the first fifty years after the first archeological evidence of agriculture appeared around the mounds it is believed that the population in the area may have expanded at a massive rate. Evidence suggests that the population density around the mounds in the year 1050 was two to three individuals residing in each square mile. By around the year 1200 this evidence suggests that the population
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Boston and Cambridge (35 on the Wellesley 100): As someone who adores history but hopes to shape the future, I find myself incredibly at home in Boston. The city has a heartbeat like no other, one that has felt the tremors of war and revolution but also one that beats with the ferocious pace of youth and innovation. To be in Boston is to feel history coming alive, the legacy of liberty and longing and freedom and forgiveness seeming to spill from the streets and serving as a reminder of the potential
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Argument is presented that Maple County is becoming overdeveloped and is debating a proposed measure to prevent the development of farmland. County is reaching to this decision by making comparison with other two counties who practiced same measure few years back. Proponents make comparison with Chestnut county which experienced housing price increase modestly in ten years. Opponents presenting comparison with Pine County where housing prices are more than doubled in last fifteen year. Reason presented
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living has increased, it only brings more hardship on low-income families. There are citizens who have been in DC all their life and now has been pushed out to accommodate the ones who are moving in. Only a few are able to say that they have seen the city migrate before their eyes. That person is Ernest Peterson who has been a Washingtonian for 40 years. He has witnessed his neighborhood shift into a place he does not recognize. A place he has called home and developed relationships with family and
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Politics: Kypseli is a small village on the Island of Thera in rural Greece. Thera was conquered by the Greeks, then the Spartans, then the Romans, then the Byzantine Empire (who introduced them to Christianity and converted the old Roman temples into churches), then the Venetians, then the Turks, and then back to the Greeks. Language: The language used by natives to communicate is fast-paced and uses the “ah” sound extensively. Aesthetics/Art: The people of Kypseli utilize the violin, the acoustic
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In “The New Normal: The Figure of the Condo Owner in Toronto’s Regent Park,” Sharon Kelly uses the peripheral vision technique of revealing concealment and misrepresentation to uncover how new condo owners were emerged as new normal subject to neutralize the stigma attached to Regent Park in the process of neoliberal redevelopment built on “social mix” ideology/discourse (Kelly 191). This peripheral vision technique is essentially looking behind the hegemonic curtains erected by economic and politica
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was that a cow kicked over a lantern in the barn and caught on fire, the grass was so dry that the fire spread to Chicago or a meteor hit the earth left a trail of fire and it spread to the city or a couple of boys were gambling and dropped the cigar that caught the barn that they were in and it spread to the city. The Great Chicago fire was one of the biggest fire in the history of the united states. A cow hit a lantern, a meteor hit the earth, or a couple were boys were gambling in a barn, or couple
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Almost as soon as Austin became the capital of Texas, the city began to grow. However, in recent years, the growth has been so explosive that Austin is now the nation's fastest-growing city. With an influx of new businesses and a population that continues to increase significantly every decade, Austin is attracting a growing number of companies in the high-tech, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and defense industries. However, Austin is also home to a thriving arts scene, numerous small businesses,
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City’s 90-mile network of multi-use paths for golf carts to travel, which we decided to use for our transportation to see and to enjoy Peachtree City, Georgia. This 15-mph golf cart path provides a beautiful wooded scenery that makes Peachtree City so unique. Our golf cart took us to directly to the building that we wanted to examine, the Peachtree City country club golf course, called the Flat Creek Country Club. This exclusive building has a unique structure of design, inside and out. Flat Creek
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October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois, the windy city, the city that would soon be in blasting, blistering flames. A terrible sight for all of it’s citizens. Jim Murphy, the author of the book “The Great Fire,” informed us about many facts that it was definitely “a city ready to burn.” It started at the O’Learys house. Their house was filled with hay to feed the animals and coal for the winter. We’re not sure how the fire started, but there was a rumor that there was a lantern in the barn that a cow
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