Shanty Town Analysis

Dreams of being a mother during the 19th century were demolished when the birth rate of babies increased dramatically, for the only way to “care” for a child, was to abandon them. A mother’s instincts are loving, protecting and caring unconditionally for their child. Through the early times, the birth rate of newborns was insignificantly high, due to many reasons, one being the lack of a way to avoid pregnancies. The consequence of mothers was having to "get rid" of their babies, for their dreams of becoming future mothers were "smothered by poverty and want" (p.68). Therefore, thousands of helpless unwanted infants were left out in the dangerous slums of New York City

The game of baseball evolved immensely during the 1900’s. There were new rules and rule changes, new teams in new states, and then there was Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was a true legend from the day he was born in 1919. Baseball had it all in the first half of the 1900’s, fans filled the stadiums day after day, even during the war times. There was a big-name player on almost every team, children and adults admired these professional baseball players. The only thing professional baseball didn’t have during these times were African American players. Learning about the hardships that he had to overcome as a young boy, and the accomplishments he made from his college days at UCLA, to becoming the first African American professional baseball player, Jackie made it known that he was an American hero.

Drugs can ruin your life, family, career and future. Jude Hassan author and main subject of the novel Suburban Junky, has a lot of similarities and differences with Chris Herren, former NBA player and star of the ESPN Documentary, Unguarded, regarding their addictions to drugs. The major similarities are their rehab time, painful withdraw and the major difference with them is that Jude did it to be popular and Chris did it to deal with the stress. Both Jude and Chris served a long period of time in jail because of their problems with drugs.

Washington Heights is a unique and ever changing neighborhood at the mezzo-level, but affects the macro and micro. It located in upper Manhattan that is north of Harlem and south of Inwood. Begins on 115th street, it is typically thought to end around Hillside Avenue. This neighborhood has the Hudson River on the west and the Harlem River to the east. New York City’s Community Planning has designated Washington Heights and Inwood as Manhattan Community District 12. These two communities are similar in their ethnic populations, make up the tip of the borough of Manhattan, and are often assessed by the government as one district. The 2003 New York City Community Health Profile reported that 270,677 people living in District 12 and “one in two

first person about his struggles in the beginning of his baseball career, and how he miraculously turns his

The book The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century by Robert Roberts gives an honest account of a village in Manchester in the first 25 years of the 20th century. The title is a reference to a description used by Friedrich Engels to describe the area in his book Conditions of the Working Class. The University of Manchester Press first published Roberts' book in the year 1971. The more recent publication by Penguin Books contains 254 pages, including the appendices. The author gives a firsthand description of the extreme poverty that gripped the area in which he grew up. His unique perspective allows him to accurately describe the self-imposed caste system, the causes and effects of widespread poverty, and the

Beginning in the 1960s, middle and upper class populations began moving out of the suburbs and back into urban areas. At first, this revitalization of urban areas was "treated as a ‘back to the city' movement of suburbanites, but recent research has shown it to be a much more complicated phenomenon" (Schwirian 96). This phenomenon was coined "gentrification" by researcher Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the residential movement of middle-class people into low-income areas of London (Zukin 131). More specifically, gentrification is the renovation of previously poor urban dwellings, typically into condominiums, aimed at upper and middle class professionals. Since the 1960s, gentrification has appeared in

This Neighbourhood Study aims to examine the demographics of Hillingdon Primary Care Trust (HPCT) such as age, gender, ethnicity, social groups in relation to the prevention of obesity. An insight into the prevalence of obesity as well as the causes and its effects shall be evaluated. Public health strategies regarding the prevention of obesity and its effects in comparison to Government strategies shall be addressed. The nurse’s role as an educator in relation to this public health issue, strategies formulated by HPCT to prevent obesity and how it focuses on other diseases associated with obesity shall be discussed. The following section gives a definition of obesity, health education and health prevention.

The research paper problem that the authors, Von E. Nebbitt, James Herbert Williams, Margaret Lombe, Henrika McCoy, and Jennifer Stephens are trying to answer are the reasons that affect African Americans and other minorities that lives in Urban Public Housing. The author’s wants to figure out why minorities are so poorly represented in different data findings like the Census Bureau and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA). The many methods they employ to answer their questions are that the authors of this article included surveys and case studies from there research and also other individuals research. The authors also included study sites which were major inner cities. When they had the study sites, they also took administrative

People have always fantasized of a perfect world. Some want riches, others want peace. It seems that people are never capable of agreeing on what the perfect world should include. So a perfect world is impossible because of the fact that people can't agree. Therefore a perfect world could not be created.

According to Dictionary.com, “gentrification is the process of renovating houses and stores in urban neighborhoods to fit the middle or upper-income families, raising property value, but often displacing low-income families.” Gentrification has been an idea since the 1960s and had an effect on countless cities and neighborhood communities. Gentrification was first used by Ruth Glass in her book London: Aspect of Change in 1964, she noted that ¨gentrification can progress rapidly until all or most of the original working-class occupiers are displaced, and the whole social character of the district is changed.” Nonetheless, gentrification has helped revive many cities and revolutionize them, especially with technological

In a society that values materialistic and useless items, there’s still the overbearing detail that it is a society overruled and essentially run by naivety and selfishness. Today’s society is most definitely not what it was in 1880s, and with good reason. People would much rather ignore what they can then accept someone else’s opinion. An example of this is in politics. No matter how much someone tries, they will never be equal. Especially in recent elections, families will go to drastic measures and essentially remove a member from their family if they don’t agree with another’s opinion. Not only is this showing that they are naïve, but they’re also selfish. Granted there are reasons to agree with their actions, there’s still the voice in their head that is turning them in this direction to the idea of ‘good versus bad.’

Where the divided goes beyond city blocks, different “territories” as, we like to say on the South Side.

Gosavi vasti slum located in Hingane in Pune is divided into two slums one comprising happy colony and the other is Gosavi Vasti. Happy Colony slum is a declared slum while the Gosavi Vasti is not declared. The slum is located in Karvenagar which is one of the older parts of Pune. The irony of the name is striking as you visit the slum with the name Happy Colony.

In the 1990s, Housing program in South Africa in general, and in Cape Town in particular, was still influenced by earlier housing policies and constrained by the pattern of low-income urban settlement inherited from the apartheid era, the main issue was the provision of houses for the poorest growing population, the outline of the governments’ approach to this issue is the concept of state assisted self help housing and commitment of incremental approach to housing, this policy has undermined the ability at least some of the households to utilize the kinds of urban housing which is promised by this policy .the article studied here “ Housing and difference in Cape Town , South Africa” explains that the reason is that this policies assumes that urban households are small , settled and stable in composition ,and that the ties with rural areas diminish as they embed themselves in urban community and secure , reliable , income-generating work ,which falsely disregard the fact that urban households coming from rural areas , are stretched , in the sense of including , as members , individuals who live in different parts of the country for a greater or lesser period , and who contribute to , or draw from a common resource pool .the aim is to maintain the members of the households , and to develop a secure long-term resource base for them ,in other words to “consolidate”, The article clarifies this fact through analyzing four cases of different households in Cape