Mirror With A Memory Millions of other Americans were searching for a place in the new industrial society of the late nineteenth century. The Civil War led to people flooding into cities. Urban areas changed from homogenous with Irish and Germans to large groups of European immigrants. New York had the largest Jewish population. The quality of living changed as manufacturing and commerce crowed into cities. The top classes fled to the suburbs. Realtors changed mansions into tenements for
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Michael DePillars Sociology 369-01 Angel Valdivia September 19‚2013 Having been raised in a single family household in urban Los Angeles‚ I grew up with many who suffered from the ill effects of insufficient support and direction and who also lacked a father at home. The risk factors that I endured were detrimental to my direction and purpose. I have a desire to study the causes and influences that impact minority children growing up in inner city communities when there is only one parent
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Introduction The classical definition of a slum is “characterized by overcrowding‚ poor or informal housing‚ inadequate access to safe water and sanitation‚ and insecurity of tenure.” (Davis 2007:23) There is has been a rapid growth of urban cities over the last couple of years and people are migrating out of rural areas and into these cities sometimes bring poverty along with them creating urban slums. There are many slums on earth and most of them are located in the Third World countries although
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Cultural-led regeneration has become an important part of revitalising of old economic and socially deprived cities since it came into existence around 1980s. Cultural-led regeneration is a process that focuses on using methods based on culture and cultural activities as a catalyst to restore cities and regions which have been economic and socially affected due to de industrialisation. The Department for culture‚ Media and Sports (DCMS) mention in the report titled ‘The contribution of Culture to
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Sam H. DeKay‚ a vice president for corporate communications at BNY Mellon Corporation in New York City‚ looks into long existing issues in interpersonal communication in his article “Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace: A Largely Unexplored Region”. This article’s main purpose is to outline the limitations of current knowledge about the subject and to provide solutions which may help to fix this problem. From the beginning author emphasizes the well-known fact that interpersonal communication
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safety is very important for many reasons. One being radiation poisoning‚ which is a risk that Chernobyl showed in 1986‚ when the reactor failed. Chernobyl was a nuclear power plat which blew one of its reactors on April 26‚ 1986. The explosion blew radioactive particles all over the Ukraine and the surrounding countries. “Nuclear energy is energy that is produced when atom change.” (Stoyles‚ Pennie P.6) This same process can be used for building something up or tearing things apart. Is this technology
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Habitat International 31 (2007) 291–302 www.elsevier.com/locate/habitatint Sustainable urban development? Low-cost housing challenges in South Africa Allison Goebelà Environmental Studies and Women’s Studies‚ Queen’s University‚ Kingston‚ Ont.‚ Canada K7L 3N6 Abstract Low-cost housing provision has been a major focus of government in post-apartheid urban South Africa. While successes can be noted‚ there is growing concern regarding the social and environmental sustainability of
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GANG LEADER FOR A DAY The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world’s attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrance into the gang‚ what he learned‚ and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects‚ he was looking
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Başak Erel 108611006 Berke Baş Multiply-city; Representations of Urban Experience Slums During the Urbanization Process of Turkey The word ‘slum’ was firstly mentioned by a writer called James Hardy Vaux‚ in his book ‘Vocabulary of the Flash Language’ which was published in 1812[1]. At those times ‘slum’ was also a synonym of illegal commerce. Today‚ ‘slum’ is used to describe the residential areas of a huge amount of people of the world. According to the UN-Habitat report released in October
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Summary: Lydell Nelson was a senior now‚ but hardly anyone in the class knew him. During lunch‚ he was always writing in a journal. Nobody ever bothered to ask him what he was writing‚ and he never volunteered any information. Lydell seemed to be a lonely person. But when people tried to be friends‚ he just turned them away. Synopsis: Harriet Tubman HS Series-- What was Marko thinking training for the track meet alone in the early hours of the morning? The suspicions and accusations began to
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