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The short story, “Interpreter of Maladies,” written by Jhumpa Lahiri, is about an Indian tour guide who has an epiphany once he realizes that one of his clients finds his side job, an interpreter for the doctor, romantic. Mrs. Das, the one who appears to show interest in the tour guide’s occupation, struggles throughout her married life to remain loyal and loving to her husband. This characteristic of Mrs. Das’ is highlighted through the author’s use of tone, which is defined as the way the author feels about a certain character. As well, the use of tone, seen specifically in the diction, syntax, and detail of this story, helps to identify and support various themes. Lahiri’s use of a condescending tone towards Mrs. Das bolsters the theme that unfaithfulness causes someone to become alienated from their family.

Edelman opens her essay by recalling the countless hours early in her marriage in which her husband spent working (50). With his hours increasing, she unwillingly cut back on her own work hours to care for their child. Edelman then spends time sharing her disillusionment with the newfound reality of her

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In the passage, “Planet of Slums” by Mike Davis, the author has a dystopic view on urbanization and argues that urban poverty is increasing and has a negative impact on the world. His dystopic vision can be written off as a society with undesirable traits such as poverty, oppression, and overcrowding. Davis’s vision on these people’s lifestyle can be compared and contrasted with Robert Neuwirth’s view of this lifestyle in his passage, “Shadow Cities” and the film “Sleep Dealer” by Alex Rivera.

Urbanization is a concept that is deeply rooted in the increase in a population within a region in response to the availability of unique opportunities. The opportunities may include the availability of employment chances in factories, investments opportunities in the urban areas, and the presence of sufficient housing and social infrastructure. It is apparent that urbanization began centuries ago in different regions of the world. However, the development of suburban areas has also been an interesting phenomenon over the centuries. Initially, people strived to live in the luxurious houses in major towns and cities. Nevertheless, there was a gradual shift in the desire to live in the cities when various negative impacts of overpopulation

An urban environment can majorly effect on an individual itself or others around them. The effect on them can either be positive or negative depending on the environment. In the short story ‘The Pedestrian’ by Ray Bradbury, the urban environment has made a negative impact towards the individual, however in the poem ‘Homo Suburbanizes’ by Bruce Dawe the individual has found a happy place in a busy environment.

When thinking about the space of East Asian studies, we often only look at China, Japan, and Korea based on their physical boundaries on the world map. However, retaining one understanding of East Asia means we are not considering the problem of geography. In order to manoeuver with or around the problem of geography, we must constantly reinterpret and criticize the space we take for granted. The objective is not solving this problem, but to think of ways which can aid in our approach to it. Space is shaped by and for a political purpose, and our understanding of it plays out in our everyday lives. Scholars have criticized these dominant modes, and created alternate understandings. However, these new concepts should not be understood as alternatives to these dominant modes. Power may create and sustain the dominant form of geography, but the cultivation of alternate comprehensions aids in the endeavour of continuously revolutionizing its concept, as Li Dazhao does to “Spring” in his poem. By rejecting a single analyses of space to be the most correct, we begin to realize the discourse of geography is constantly criticizing and revolutionizing itself. From our understanding of this, we begin creating perspectives that make us more critically aware of our surroundings.

Depression is a silent disease that others around may not pick up on. Depression affects many human beings and without proper treatment can lead to one taking their life. This is a very real disease that has been around for a long time. In the past depression was not really talked about as it was a shameful and embarrassing thing. People did not want to talk about their feelings because society and media had put a stigma on sadness and hurtfulness.

“Cities are not approached simply as forums for economic and political confrontations but as places rich with meaning and value for those who live, work, and play in and near them” (Borer 2006). People assign characteristics and personality to cities. These traits are assumed to be as permanent and concrete as the physical city (Borer 2010). However, like the characteristics of a person’s identity may change over time, the identity of places is fluid and dynamic (Borer

Since the earliest days of our history, cities have served as the center for economic activity, social diversity, and religious inquiry. As renowned sociologist Joel Kotkin would say, cities are sacred, safe, and busy. When we look at the modern city, we see these concepts in action. Today, cities are defined by mass populations surrounding and creating major centers of commerce and economic activity. This density creates a diverse social climate in which fosters creativity and conversation, which can often times feed into the religious historical significance of cities. This density brings along with it a whole host of issues and various challenges that must be faced by the community in which they involve. One such issue is the idea of socio- economical inequality that comes as a result of dense populations sharing the same resources within a certain area. Within any community there are limited resources, and one such resource within a city is that of land and property availability. Gentrification, or the process in which developers purchase cheap properties to turn them over into more expensive and desirable assets, is a common practice in modern cities in the effort to reclaim some of this precious resource. In looking at the city of Chicago in the United States as well as the city of Lisbon in Portugal, I will

Throughout the course of the film “In Time”, the truth in relation to social class and identity are represented by Marxist and Psychoanalytic theories are: the distinct disconnections that time creates between the lower class and upper class, and the ability to self-express one’s feelings is consumed by time, as it is both currency and needed for survival. In the film, time is not represented as money, rather it replaced it. But it still creates the same or bigger disconnection between the social classes as money does in our society.

In this part Lynch argues that people in urban situations orient themselves by means of mental maps. To un-derstand the role of these mental maps in our urban lives, he conducted a field research of the visual qualities of the cities of Los Angeles, Boston and Jersey in the previous chapter, and deduced that these visual qualities can conveniently be classified into 5 types of elements: Paths, edges, districts and nodes.

Henri Lefebvre (1991) asserted that the production of space concerns the “performances of power through (as cited in Aitken & Dixon, 2006, p. 332). Space is power. Large spaces between the rich and the poor in the buying area underline the performance of space. The representation of space is much more crowded for the poor as shown in the Piazza Vittorio. Gonzaga (2017) would call this the “cinematographic unconscious of slum voyeurism” (p. 102). Representational spaces are filled up with the power of the government and the rich. The scene of the linen being brought up in the warehouse of linen characterizes society’s gross inequality, suggesting that the rich steals from the poor the most. Depicting the poor as they are illustrates the spaces denied to them. If they are concentrated in any space, it is the space of neglect and impoverishment.

Yi-Fu Tuan discussed “Place ' as a location created by human experiences (Tuan, 2001). Whereas ‘space’ may have no human connection, a ‘place’ carries meanings given by humans. It can be any size - a city, neighbourhood or a

In the article, “Gender, Class and Urban Space: Public and Private Space in Contemporary Urban Landscapes” Liz Bondi, puts forth her perspectives about the possible interconnections between gender dichotomy ,urban public /private space or city/suburb dichotomies and how separable or intertwined they are with each other. She attempts to further provide evidence that ‘the ideal of separate spheres’ (Bondi, Pg.162.) continues to affect our lives .She states that gentrification and class is intertwined in this dynamic interaction between gender and space. Bondi identifies these ‘dichotomies’ as duos, be it city/suburb, public /private or male/ female. She points out to the associations between masculinity -public space - city and femininity - private space - suburbs and that these interconnections are look upon as ‘ideologies rather than reality’ (Bondi 2013). The conclusions Bondi presented are based on the empirical evidence she collected which seem to lack abstractness, i.e they are specific to certain location at a certain time. But the interpretations and the data collected reflect the complex character of the urban realm, gender and the interplay between the two. They exhibit characters of being separate as well as being interwoven, distinct, ‘disentangled and a dismantled’ as well as overlapping each other. Although Bondi seems to acknowledge this complexity; she overlooks its importance in her selection of the research site and sample size.