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New York City: NEXT
A year or so ago, taking a walk down the streets of New York City felt like walking through an enormous construction site. You couldn’t venture out more than a street block without walking underneath one of those tight, dark, and rusting scaffolds with their “Post no Bills” signs, shamelessly posted next to a row [...]
City-State is a Misnomer
According to Humphrey Kitto, our language does not have the equivalent for the Greek world “Polis” which we currently translate into “city-state”. In his essay, Kitto tries to identify the characteristics of a Greek polis to demonstrate that the word is more inclined to mean state than city, even though neither comes close enough to [...]
Brand New Old Shoes
On July of 1997, I moved from a small coastal city in Morocco to Los Angeles California to go to college, with anything in my mind but the idea of pursuing a career. My main reason for moving to the sunny state was to live the surfer life I have been dreaming about for as [...]
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