Define difference and inequality and provide an example of each on City Road Difference is a word used in social science to define the variance between groups within society. For example‚ one person can be a male Asian who is a pensioner and disabled whereas‚ another person can be an African male who is a youth‚ homeless and a baptist. They have various differences. Differences like those mentioned are determined to assist social scientists in identifying patterns‚ comparisons and irregularities
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I have chosen India‚ in specific the Pune Pavement dwellers‚ for my report on the plight of the urban poor. Poor people from rural India migrate to cities for various reasons such as the result of famine or drought back home‚ search of employment‚ lack of adequate housing‚ landless status‚ and lack of irrigational and good agricultural facilities despite owning land. These particular groups of people called pavement dwellers move from the rural areas to the urban areas thinking their chances
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Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: New York Demographics and Cultural Differences Introduction Globalization has brought together people from varied cultural backgrounds (Gerstein & Canel 188). Different professionals have found themselves working with people whose cultural backgrounds are very different from their own (Mahadevan 8-9). This paper discusses New York City’s demographics and the associated cultures. New York City Demographics New York City is the United States’ largest
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Immigration‚ Urbanization‚ and Industrialization are directly related. Immigration causes urbanization‚ which causes industrialization‚ but industrialization also causes immigration and urbanization. These three things work in a cycle. Immigration causes an influx of people into a certain area. There general trend is that immigrants look towards cities because of jobs. Often times immigrants are very poor‚ and very desperate for work. This means that they will relocate to an area
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Urban form is how people are related to the city. The parts of the city that were built by the people who live there shows the relationship between the city and the residents. In the reading Why Aren’t Our Cities Like That? by Witold Rybczynski‚ he spends time explaining how Montreal and other cities in the United States are different than Paris and other European cities. He says how Montreal has individual houses and has a commercial district. The people of Montreal built the city with what they
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Parks are wonderful places were children can play and be social with others. Children are able to explore and develop their motor skills while having fun and at the same time be physically active. Milam Park has both good and bad qualities about it‚ but overall I believe that it is not an ideal park. It sits on a 1.02-acre lot and has a fence on only the back and sides of the property. The fence only marks off the property line from the homes around it. There is no fencing or railing in the front
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Agriculture: The Great Discovery That Changed the World Agriculture changed the world with its discovery by helping people socially‚ building communities‚ and learning to trade. It brought people closer and they became more social with other villages and people in a large region. Because it allowed people to live in one place and not move around to find food such as animals and berries‚ they were able to build houses and start communities. It was the beginning of civilization. They developed
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The fact that the world’s cities are getting more and more crowded is well-known. Cities such as Tokyo‚ Sao Paolo‚ Bombay and Shanghai are now considered ‘mega-cities’‚ because of their enormous size and huge populations. There are two main reasons why these and other cities are becoming so crowded; one economic‚ the other socio-cultural. First‚ the primary cause of cities becoming so crowded is economic. As a country develops‚ its cities become the engines of development‚ thus jobs
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29 Palms Land: The new opportunities zone We see today that urban life has covered all possible spaces within the habitable territories. It has been a great advantage that large cities have been established‚ providing shelter and development opportunities for a good part of population (infrastructure‚ business‚ commerce‚ education‚ healthness‚ a wide range of leisures)‚ and facilities for good performance of daily activities‚ such as public services (water‚ sewers‚ electricity‚ gas‚ telephony and
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I’d Know You Anywhere‚ Laura Lippman Laura Lippman‚ an accomplished author in the crime fiction genre‚ strikes gold with her stand-alone novel I’d Know You Anywhere‚ loosely based off of real events. For the first section of the novel‚ Lippman flawlessly switches the setting from present time‚ mainly in Maryland to 1985 with almost every chapter. Eliza Benedict‚ the main character‚ frequently refers to 1985 as “the summer she was fifteen”. To her‚ it is much easier than saying “that time I
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