Chapter Summary: The Dehumanization Of Old Watertown

Urban growth is described as the increase in the number of people who live in towns and cities and suburbanisation can be defined as the outward growth of urban development.

     Some say that people never change. They may be right, but no one really knows. What people do know is that every living person has one thing in common, something that will never change. Everyone will die, there’s no way around it. Every “new” and “old” generation will succumb to the same ghastly fate. The differences in the “old” generation and “new” generation sometimes collide in life. The contrast between generations in James Joyce’s “The Dead” is similar to the contrast in the generations today. The “baby boomer” generation is the old fashioned generation preoccupied with hospitality and tradition, where as, “generation x” is the new generation, preoccupied with knowledge and intellect.

In the novel The Dead, Gabriel Conroy, who is the nephew of Julia and Kate Morkan, is the main character of the story. One night he and his wife attended a party, which was given by his two aunts, and there were many other members in the party. The story revolves around their life and memories.Gabriel Conroy felt a blur between his soul and the dead. Some people died, but they are still alive because they have true love. Some people are alive, but they are still dead because they never love.I like the story for three reasons.

There is a saying that “Sometimes what is left behind can grow better than the generation before, if given the chance” (Darrell Rooney, Rob DaLuca). Fort Repose had bitter sweet luck. They did not experience much fallout, yet were isolated due to the radiation in the neighboring cities. The people of Fort Repose were given a lucky chance to rebuild and change even though they were alone. Many people stepped up to the plate to save the town. Dan Gunn took the much needed role as the local doctor and Randy emerges to be the new law enforcer of Fort Repose. There are issues that go through the town during the reconstruction of the community.

Prejudice is when we have a preconceived opinion about someone or a group of people that is formed without knowledge, or even a real understanding about them.

Infectious epidemics and pandemics have happened all through mankind's history. “They remain the prime cause of death worldwide and will not be conquered during our lifetimes.” The flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. “It infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet’s population at the time–and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population became sick, and some 675,000 Americans died during the pandemic.” No one knew how the virus spread, there were no antibiotics to fight it, and no flu shots to prevent it. In the final year of World War I, it struck terror in the hearts of people all across Europe and left more death in its wake than the combined military actions of the combatants. “It killed more Americans in a few months than World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the

First, the living vs. the zombies have an overwhelming conflict with the zombies trying to eat the living in all. The living have to find food, water, ammo and shelter to stay alive. On the general’s

Heart of Darkness creates a prejudice way of presenting Africa, Joseph Conrad shows the African Congo through the perspective of the colonising Europeans, who describe all the natives as savages, which perpetuates the stereotype of the uncivilised African in the eyes of the European readers.

According to Anna March from Salon.com, in 2013, Detective Dave Davis reviewed the case and thought Lloyd Welch needed further investigation. He found Welch's 1977 mug shot and connected it to the long-dismissed sketch of the suspect that a witness described. In a recent interview with investigators, court papers say, Welch admitted that he was the long-haired man confronted by the sisters’ friend.

Prejudice is an attitude or opinion toward a specific thing without adequate amount of information. Prejudice is distinguished by specific inherited physical characteristics such as skin color. Prejudice might be positive or negative. The major cause of prejudice might be social class, ethnicity, and religion. From my opinion, we can judge other things or person after getting adequate amount of information. Otherwise, prejudice cause major negative effect on our society. From the story “Inside the Vicious Heart”, they stated that, there is no similarity between Natzwiller-Struthof and American Civilian Conservation Corps. Natzwiller-Struthof camp was designed as labor camp in which most of prisoners were died due to extension of labor and poor

It had been 2 days since the virus was revealed to the masses, and it was just getting worse. It was march 22, 2054. I forgot who I truly used to be before the outbreak, but I remember my name. Chuck Baron. My wife and son were killed in a military raid on our town. They preformed a test to see who was infected, and who wasn't. I had jut got back from a business trip when the outbreak started, so I had no idea this was happening. I was the only one in my neighborhood that made it out alive. I didn't look back. I just started walking.

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

“At its prewar height, this region boasted a population of over thirty-five million people. Now, there are barely fifty thousand.” – Max Brooks, World War Z

In today’s world, there are many social issues, like poverty, vandalism and unemployment. However, prejudice has become the most dramatic one. Prejudging people for their appearance is a common practice that humans perform. People are not only ridiculed for their color, but also by their religion, sex or age. Therefore, I consider that racism, ageism and sexism are the three major problems in our society and we need to cease them immediately. Much of our world’s history were based upon racism. In the 1600’s, white men used Africans as slaves and treated them as they were not human. "Colored" people were not even allowed to use the same drinking fountains as white people. Fortunately, in the last three decades, race

Since the beginning, humanity has overcome diseases that could potentially wipe out the human race. From earliest forms diseases such as measles to modern day pandemics such as AIDS, mankind has survived throughout history. Though diseases have plagued society it was only after the outbreak of the HIV virus in 1981 that brought to attention the dangers of incurable diseases. Before this time, with World War I and II, and the Cold War, public fear was based on the potential chance of a nuclear destruction of the planet. Since the outbreak of the HIV in 1981, public anxiety has been displaced from nuclear winter to that of microbial plagues. The enemy was now no longer a visible foe but that of an unknown contagion with no knowable cure. Recently in 2009, with the outbreak of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Virus public alert of the dangers of contagions increased. Science Fiction films since the outbreak of HIV have reflected the public fear of the unknown and unbeatable contagions. Films such as Outbreak (1995), Contagion (2011) and the recent World War Z (2013) have shown audiences a creative window of possible outcomes of an epidemic and what man would do in order to stop the