Is the Tarnished Image of Northeastern Being Rebuilt?
Boston - Northeastern University is expanding its campus and student body more and more every year. Just a few years ago it was just a small commuter school, now it is reaching close to the top 100 Colleges and University’s in the United States. The university’s enrollment is now up to over 20,000 students, both undergraduate and graduate students.
Everything is not as peachy as it seems. Since 1990, Northeastern University has almost doubled its size. It used to be on just one side of the Orange Line. Now it goes all the way into Roxbury, Mission Hill, and Fenway.
Residents in the area are a little angry that Northeastern University is coming into their neighborhood and pushing them around.
“I haven’t liked what Northeastern has done ever since they came over the tracks,” said Randall Thomas, 51, a longtime resident of Roxbury.
" In this neighborhood the rents are going up, the students are misbehaving, and the Northeastern police are hassling long time residents, instead of the students. They need discipline and Northeastern has to keep them in check,” said Thomas. Thomas talked about his years living in Roxbury, which is all 51 years of his life.
He said the university has to work with the neighborhood. According to Thomas it is a long standing African-American Community that has its needs and the university should understand that and take that into consideration.
According to city housing assessments, the price of real estate has doubled in some areas of Roxbury. The huge demand for property and the university’s growth has made the once poverty stricken area into a hot commodity for the university and real estate investors.
One building in the neighborhood on Tremont was listed worth of $265, 500. Predictions for the end of the year 2004 have the estimated worth at about $394,000. That is a significant rise in one year.
“Northeastern is taking over, their pushing the poor people out,” said Kenny Miller, 35, and a resident of Roxbury. “Roxbury residents fight to get their homes back, the damn condominiums they built, they’re taking over Mission Hill as well.”
“The students are supposed to be our future leaders, they suck.” said Thomas, “Stop coming in our neighborhood, pushing us. Who do they think they are? Harvard or MIT?”
On the contrary, Northeastern University feels that it is working with the neighborhoods to accomplish good for the community as a whole.
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The history and tradition of Egypt is one of the most greatly studied and admired of all past world civilizations. The lure of the pyramids and the specter of the sphinx have led many archeologists to dedicate his/her life to unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egyptian culture. Arguably, the most captivating aspect of Egypt’s past is that of mummification. Why did the Egyptians mummify their dead? What beliefs did the Egyptians have regarding the after life? What portion of the Egyptian civilization was mummified? What was the Book of the Dead? This is a mere sampling of the questions that come to my mind when I think of ancient Egyptian culture. I hope to lay forth answers to these questions and many more in the following pages dedicated to the history and purpose behind Egyptian mummification.
Empirical literature examining the determinants of inflation has mostly viewed it as a monetary phenomenon. This viewpoint basically stems from Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. However, the conjecture of Friedman has recently come under attack. In fact, there appears to be virtually no correlation between money growth and inflation since the early 1980s. This leads to evolution of the argument known as Fiscal Theory of Price Level (FTPL). To capture the nonmonetary aspects of inflation, a number of economists investigate the main political, institutional and economic determinants of inflation across countries and over time. For instance, Aisen and Veiga (2006) conclude that political instability leads to higher inflation. Their study reveals that an additional government crises and a cabinet change which are used as proxy for measuring political instability raise inflation rate by 16.1% and 9.1% respectively. In another study, Aisen and Veiga (2008) extend their work to further analyze the effect of political instability, social polarization and the quality of institutions on inflation volatility. They argue that politically unstable and socially polarized countries with weak institutions are more exposed to political shocks that result in discontinuous monetary and fiscal policies which in turn result in higher inflation volatility. The intuition is that rising inflation instability creates frictions on market which reduces economic efficiency and causes the prevailing price in the economy to deviate from the price which would otherwise have been determined in presence of stable price level. They also provide evidence that greater independence of the Central Bank leads...
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The neighborhood is primarily immigrants including Dominican and Puerto Rican. On the other hand, this community is beginning to go through gentrification because of more Caucasian coming into this neighborhood. Gentrification is the opposite of white flight because it brings in higher income people and businesses into a community so that lower class who can not afford to live there anymore must move to a more affordable location. In wealthier neighborhoods today, crime is actually increasing compared to the rest of New York City (Simeone). “Meanwhile, precincts in Manhattan South’s historically more crime-addled neighborhoods, including Chinatown, the Lower East Side, East Village and Midtown North, all saw overall crime decline compared with a year ago, figures show”
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According to the ancient Pharaohs believes the mummification was done because the mummified body is the key for the dead man to get to the afterlife and any mistake that leads to the wreckage of the body, the dead person will lose his chance to get to the afterlife. (The British Museum, 2007) If the body of a person was wrecked, he would lose his chance to get the afterlife. For such a reason, so much effort was put in the mummification process to make sure that the body is well protected, especially for the rich pharaohs that have paid a big amount of money for the mummification process. (Burial of the Mummy, 2009) The pharaohs paid so much attention for the mummification process. For example, Khufu, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, spent nearly twenty years building a pyramid as his tomb to protect his mummified body and to assure that he will arrive to the afterlife peacefully. (Smithsonian, 2012) When a king in ancient Egypt die, a great amount of effort was put in is funeral and mummification process, whereas when poor or middle class people died, nobody cared about their death except his family and he had an ordinary funeral. (KingTutOne.com, 2009)
Typically, when one thinks of Champagne they associate it with sparkling wine. However, authentic Champagne may only be yielded in the small region of Champagne in northern France, dating back to the 1700s. Bringing forth the world’s most famous wine, is the Champagne AOC, a region in Northern France.
The most common ancient Egyptian burial practice is the mummification process as depicted in source B. Mummification is a ritual that embalmers performed when a pharaoh died. Source B is a photograph of the canoptic jars which are a main component of the mummification process. The first step in the mummification process is the removal and preservation of most of the internal organs, such as the lungs, the stomach, the liver and intestines. These organs are then separately embalmed and placed into canoptic jars as source B reveals. These jars were often decorated with one of the four animal-headed sons of the god Horus. Each head is believed to be the protector of each organ within the jar and is dedicated to a specific deity. The preservation of the organs is significant as they allowed the dead person to breathe and eat in the afterlife. The internal organs were then wrapped and put into either the body or put in boxes instead of sitting in jars. Canoptic jars were still placed in the tomb but they were solid or empty and provided a symbolic purpose. In Tutankhamun’s tomb the canoptic jars were discovered in a shrine that was found in the treasury room of the tomb. Source B is useful is when understanding the mummification process.
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