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Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I). Petraeus was leading a military operations surge in Iraq. One of the goals was to counter Shia militia, especially in Baghdad. My team, Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA 5136), was tasked to target Shia militias in the Sadr City area of Baghdad.

In his article, “Future Megacity Operations – Lessons from Sadr City” Major Christopher O. Bowers argues that future conflicts will meet the challenges of megacities. The purpose of the article is to show that present lessons from Sadr City can be scaled up and used by U.S. commanders to solve upcoming challenges in a future conflict in a megacity. The article was published in Military Review May-June 2005. Major Bowers served in Sadr City, Iraq, from 2005 to 2006. In the first part of the article

Transportation & Greenways System Plan In Transportation Alternative's "Bicycle Blueprint" for the five boroughs of New York City, John Kaehny, executive director, states: Making greenway networks a reality will require partnership between planners and advocates, on the one hand, and public officials controlling purse strings on the other. Local elected officials, particularly city council members and borough presidents, have to be reminded that greenways can multiply the value and variety of open space

According to Bemis (1936) “A new conception of the structure of our modern houses is needed, better adapted not only to the social conditions of our day but also to the modern means of production: factories, machinery, technology and research”. Albert Bemis, US housing manufacturer in the early twentieth century has a vested interest in using technology to advance new concepts in the design of houses. Nevertheless he points to the important relationship of the use of technology in the structural

examples. With the cities under a monopoly headed by the wealth of each neighborhood, one is left to wonder how such a system is fair to all groups. Relatively speaking, it isn’t, and the only ones who benefit from such a system are white-skinned. With the deterioration of the economic status of Rhode Island, and especially in the city of Providence, more and more educated Caucasians are leaving to seek a more fertile economic environment. “Gentrification is a general

the overflow is about a person from the city who met a drover/ shearer named Clancy. After meeting him he becomes jealous of Clancy’s lifestyle which is better than his city life. In this poem Banjo uses a variety of poetic devices to get his message across like the use of suggestive language, descriptive language and imagery. Banjo uses suggestive language to make the reader realise that country life is much better than city life where it

country and into the city because that was where they worked. There were enough farms to support the

to formations of Major Street Traffic Plans, written by Olmsted, Bartholomew and Cheney from 1929. When implemented, the plans altered urban form in American cities with new openings, extensions and street patterns to reduce barriers to traffic (Roth, 2007). Figure 1. Proposed Plans for Downtown, Los Angeles (Traffic Commission of City and County of Los Angeles, 1924) To an extent, the Major Street Plans and motorways were planning measures to limit social and environmental externalities.

Case 2-1 Starbucks keep it brewing in Asia Discussion Questions: 1- Starbucks is an American company who try to expend its business to other country around the world. However, each country owned and has an identity, a history, and culture. This requires to Starbucks to analyze the current market and adapt his offers according to the needs and mores (usages). There are several barriers facing Starbucks to the “teaching” people to change their consumption habits from tea and instant coffee. First

better known as South Fork because of the co-op with the schools around us in sports. This town is approximately 20 miles southeast of Springfield, and is only seven miles west from the nearest town, with many opportunities that my town did not offer (City-data). With a total population of 1,495, including the town of Tovey about a mile away, as of July 1, 2015 Kincaid is ranked as number 587 of 1,367 as being a small town in Illinois (Kincaid, IL). Kincaid is only about 0.62 square miles in land areas