Proposal(ENG 102)

Wenbo Suo

English 102

Prof Aaron Kerley

Fist draft

05/08/2011

                                          Proposal

I do decide to change my topic today. After I finish my TOEFL test in Blue Ash, I take the 67^th bus home. On the way home, I saw a lot of brand and tons of transport companies. I suddenly came up the question one of my friends asked me several months ago: Cincinnati is the home for more than 500 famous companies, but why its city level is not that big? I have no idea about this question at that time. Actually I can`t believe that Cincinnati has so many famous companies at that time.

Back to 2009, the time I first came here, I don`t think this is a big city. The first place I went was downtown. I was a little bit disappointed because that was not like what I imagined. My stereotype at that time was: the downtown is the center of a city`s business. The memories I had for the first glance of downtown Cincinnati was the empty building and the massy streets. I have to say that it used to be part of the city but it is not the whole.

Today I did some research and I found that there are a lot of famous companies here in Cincinnati, like P&G, Macy’s, Kroger, 5/3 bank and so on which are very success in their area. But my question is: if there are so many companies in Cincinnati, why the city level is not big? Or it not looks like a city with so many businesses?

There are some views with my glasses: I think a city with very successful companies should have very busy town where a lot of companies gathered; the city should own very convenient transportation; most people should have jobs and its downtown should be very crowded and beautiful.

So in my paper, I would like to know what part is Cincinnati playing in these famous companies in order to figure out why Cincinnati is not a very big city, I think it will answer my questions about Cincinnati downtown and the job options; what are the advantages and disadvantages for business in Cincinnati, I think it will related to the transportation issues, the natural resources, the geology location; and why it is not the big city as I thought, I think it will related to some other cities I went.