Essays on City Page 3

Land is a key component of any nation’s wealth. It is a source of food, shelter, income and social identity. In merely physical terms, most land is used as an input to agricultural production that in many developing countries continues to be a key factor that provides the backbone of economic sustenance for the majority…

Orhan Pamuks’s Istanbul: Memories of a City pseudo-memoir weaves an intimate and often meandering portrait of Istanbul and its inhabitant’s collective experience of hüzün. The narrator creates dual, often conflicting thematic trends, unfolding Istanbul both internally and externally in terms of past and present, East and West and black and white. Exploring the vicissitudes of…

Kathmandu is a city that blends modernity with ancient traditions. It showcases its cultural heritage, breathtaking natural landscapes, and diverse culture. Geographically, Kathmandu is located between 27°38’32” to 27°45’7” North latitudes and 85°16’5” to 85°22’32” East longitudes. This area in the Himalayas has been inhabited by humans for many generations. Despite now being mostly flat,…

Corporate social responsibility, as defined in Chapter 5, is the obligation of a corporation to generate wealth through methods that avoid harm to, safeguard, or improve societal assets. In the Welch era, did GE fulfill this duty? Could it have performed better? What actions should it have taken? According to point a, during Welch’s era,…

The Ancient City Pompeii’How democratic was Pompeian politics?’;In order to answer the above question, it is first necessary to consider the exact meaning of the term ‘democracy’;. Whilst it is difficult to give an exact definition of the word, it is certainly possible to create a list of the implications of democratic government for a…

My favourite place is Hyderabad. I like it for it’s culture, location, good connectivity with other cities, somewhat moderate climate, the economy, infrastructure, education, different markets and lots of other things. It’s a city where you find all the useful things in one place, it’s also an IT-BPO hub, the daily goods and services are…

The year is 1599 in Quito, a Spanish colony, only a tiny part of which is the modern-day Republic of Ecuador.  Quito is an enormous city with a great diversity of ethnicities.  The people of the city are dealing with circumstances such as shipwrecks, attacks by pirates, unsuccessful efforts of missionaries, civil problems, changes facing…

The city council of Houston’s publicly released minutes of the council meetings for the month of October primarily discussed issues on land development, ownership, and awarding of various major contracts that are within the mandate of the city council. Among the ordinances discussed on the table is the move to amend Chapter 42 of the…

As organizations have established their power base we have also seen the emergence of a number of leadership strategies. As Daft (2011) suggests the concept of leadership has changed over time and has included a range of theories; all of which contain elements that are still applicable to the study of effective leadership today. Sparked…

In a letter to H.P. Lovecraft dated March 2, 1932, Howard recounts the tale of a wild, wide open town south of the Rio Grande that flourished during the Civil War only to be washed out to sea a few years after the war ended: But to get back to the Valley. It’s more historical…