to a person and taking more of a focus on myself. B. Hook-up culture’s risk is that STD numbers have risen. 1. For those who did raise their hand who’ve had an association with Tinder, have you ever seen someone list that they’ve had/have an STD or state that they’ve have/had one in conversation? 2. “The recent uptick in STDs in Rhode Island follows a national trend. The increase has been attributed to better testing by providers and to high-risk behaviors that have become more common in recent years
DC is unique when compared among other American cities, because it was established by the Constitution of the United States to serve as the nation’s capital. Like many decisions during this time period in American history the location of Washington DC was a compromise, between the northern states that wanted the new federal government to assume Revolutionary War debs and southern states who wanted the capital placed in a location friendly to slave holding agricultural interests. This will prove
point for much of Idaho and Western Wyoming. While conducting demographic research on the metropolitan area, I found some interesting stats. Using the demographic indicators of age structure, racial diversity, and family makeup, provided me essential data that describes the makeup of its metropolitan area. Basic Facts about the Metropolitan Area Idaho Falls is the states largest city outside Boise metropolitan area. The Snake River aids water to crops such as sugar beets, potatoes, peas and more. Idaho
History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Originally founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is known to be the largest art museum in the United States and one of the most popular. According to the Museum’s website, the Museum and its offshoots present over five thousand years’ worth of historical artifacts. These artifacts range from paintings and Roman sculptures to Egyptian tombs and ancient mummies ("Metropolitan Museum of Art"). Despite its overall success, the Museum has still faced
from one census to the next. They then calculated poverty across metropolitan area using the American community survey data from 2010 to 2014 to find the amount of concentrated poverty. The calculate the extent of concentrated poverty in a metropolitan area as the percentage of a metro area's poor population that lives in high poverty neighborhoods. They then operationalize the independent variable racial segregation. The research states that they use black and white metro poverty rates in race-specific
Introduction The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is one of the largest transit systems in the United States. It is the ninth largest system, transporting over 550,000 passengers daily. MARTA provides bus and rapid rail service to the most of the metropolitan area of Atlanta. The transit agency was established in 1971 with the passage of an authorizing referendum by voters in Fulton and DeKalb counties and the city of Atlanta. MARTA is a public authority that operates under
As metropolitan areas across the America have grown overtime, it has become the home of very diverse social and ethnic groups. However, when analyzing the communities that make up these metropolitan areas, most remain consistently homogeneous, particularly on the basis of race and socioeconomic status. The combinations of many of these segregated communities have created metropolitan areas that are socially, economically and politically fragmented. As a result, rather than metropolitan areas working
government in which sovereignty of a nation is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units which can be states or in other cases provinces. Federalism is a system of governance based upon democratic rules and institutions in which the power of governance is shared between national and provincial/state governments, thus the creation of what is often referred to as a federation. During the drafting of the U.S.A constitution, the federalist party were in
Oklahoma is located in the south central United States. Oklahoma is placed in the south, but is partially in the Great Plains by definitions of hypothetical geographical-culture regions. Oklahoma is the 20th most expanded state and also the 28th most populous out of the total 50 states in the United States. Residents living in Oklahoma are often referred to as “Oklahomans” or “okies”. A major part of Oklahoma is its capital city Oklahoma City, which is where I was born and raised. Much of the western
because of self defense, hunting, target shooting, and just for fun. In the New York Metropolitan area mainly people want guns for self defense. Due to strict laws, the New York Metropolitan Area has some of the lowest gun violence in the entire United States of America. New York has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. No permit is required for the purchase of a rifle or shotgun in New York State except in New York City. A license to posses a pistol or revolver is required to purchase
Foundry, defined by Joel Garreau in his book called The Nine Nations of North America, is an area compiled of cities in the Northeast Corridor such as New York City and Philadelphia to the cities near The Great Lakes. The Foundry is located in the Northeastern section of the Continental U.S. With cities such as NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, and others, The Foundry is by far the most populous area in the United States. The common characteristic that ties most of the cities in The Foundry to each other is
Transit Oriented Development Introduction Policy makers across the country are focusing on numerous ways to combat sprawl throughout the United States. New movements, such as new urbanism, have come to the forefront in this fight. This review is looking into a new concept in the fight on sprawl, called Transit-oriented development or TOD. Although this new tool to fight sprawl is rapidly becoming a popular method, it is still a new concept and needs to be studied further. This review
cosmetics company in which began in 1995, the brand Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics now operates 72 concept stores across Australia and New Zealand with its cosmetics sold from 4,500 locations. Napoleon Perdis has also expanded its operations into the United States with 2 concept stores, followed by 5 different independent retailers offering the Napoleon cosmetics line across 500 stores. Napoleon Perdis not only offers a wide variety of products in relation to cosmetics, with the provision of a Makeup Artists
“ In rural America, 27 percent of children live in low-income working families, compared with only 21 percent in metropolitan areas”(O’Hare, 2004). In rural areas there tends to not be as many job choices as in a large city and people get paid more for working in a larger city. Being in a rural area does not mean families don't work as hard as people who live in metropolitan areas because they might even work harder. Rural families are willing to work very hard for money and to support their family
Reshaping Metropolitan America provides an outlook of the next fifteen years for infrastructure development in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of the buildings that will be necessary to handle the projected half billion residents of the Untied States by 2030 are not built yet. We also need to reshape our cities to handle the inversion trend; families and the next generation want to move back and live near downtown. Richard C. Nelson, the author, supports this population shift but does not strongly
Topics of race and inequality are critical topics we continue to debate everyday in America. My research synthesis paper is about school segregation, and I wanted to identify how and why schools continue to be racially and socioeconomically segregated today. I will use these questions, as well as knowledge gained from scholarly articles, as a platform for my analysis of school segregation and its implications for students and communities. So I wanted to discover if integration still matters, do
parts of the United States to the north, midwest, and west during the early to mid-20th century. It had significant effects on urban centers, the causes bringing about the migration, and its sociopolitical consequences. Due to a mix of push factors such as racial discrimination and economic hardships in the South and pull factors such as industrial work opportunities in the north however this crucial event changed the demographic composition and social circumstances of metropolitan regions. As a
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In this article, Squires and Kubrin argue that place, race, and privilege interact and combine to play a large role in the unequal opportunities that different citizens have in metropolitan areas across the United States. They first explain the existence of “bad” neighborhoods in these metropolitan areas and attempt to describe their development over time. They discuss how place has played a role in this. For example, they discuss sprawl, which they define as “a pattern of development associated
over the past three decades and have become a growing concern for the people of the United States. It has appeared that approximately every few months, media outlets report incidences of tragedy involving a sole gunman targeting groups of people with the intent to harm or extinguish life due to various motives. Recent research data indicated that over 80 public mass shootings have occurred in the United States since 1983. Some of the more recent shootings to date are: Marysville-Pilchick High