Urbanization: trends, impacts, and contemporary challenges
Globalization has created a profound impact on society. Through globalization, emerging markets continue to grow and develop. New and innovative products are created that provide solutions to societal problems. As such, wealth is created that is distributed to nations that provide services to humanity. As wealth is distributed, urban areas are created and cultivated. These cities, over time, become populated with the new inhabitants, and continue to thrive. The development of cities and urban areas correlates directly with economic growth and development. With an economic system that continues to innovate, produce product and provide jobs, urban areas cannot be properly developed. The documentary, Urbanized is a testament to the merits of a market economy and how the city of the future may be fundamentally different from the city of today
World War Two: causes, course, and consequences
Memoirs and oral histories are sources that, when reliable, can bring you very close to the time, place, and people of any historical period. Select Sledge's work on Okinawa in With the Old Breed and answer the following question:
According to the source you used, what exactly was the "real war"? We have images from books, scholarship, films, memorials, and testimonials of what World War II was like in theory and in practice. For the United States, it was the "good war," the conflict that made this country a superpower. Using your source, can you find the real war?