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    Critical Review: With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets By Marni Finkelstein In this critical review of Marni Finkelstein’s ethnography “With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets” I will analyze and evaluate some of the strategies and methods used by this author. One primary issue I will discuss is the sample population. Finkelstein may have set the population limitations to strictly for this ethnography. Her limited observation

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    (253) “In contrast to government-commissioned public art, street art is illicit and subversive in nature. Therefore, most street artists, including Banksy, use pseudonyms to avoid legal prosecution for vandalism.”(Chung 27) Banksy’s street art does not focus on competing with rival artists, but focuses on engaging with a broader audience in a deeper level. He provokes his audience by deeply expressing

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    television program Sesame Street. In 2006, Kevin Clash released a book called My Life as a Furry Red Monster. This was the first time that the public began to know the person behind the voice of Elmo. In a way you can say that Clash was the one to bring life and energy to Elmo. Elmo was not even a main character on Sesame Street until Clash took over. In 2011, he also release Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, which includes rare footage, and behind the scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop

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    the discipline. There are two individuals from different generations who have made a huge contribution in how the field is regarded. The first person I want to talk about who had a big influence on the photography community was a Harlem Renaissance street photographer James Van Der Zee. He captured the life, culture, fashion and daily life during this vibrant era (Biography.com). Van Der Zee first started to develop a passion for photography at a young age taking pictures for his high school. At

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    it of its roots, protesting about the hated ‘candle rents’, levied upon its domestic properties. This led to further peasant protests that King Richard soon brought to a brutal conclusion. Trumpington Street Corpus is one of a cluster of impressive colleges and buildings facing Trumpington Street, the south approach road into central Cambridge. On the east side is Corpus and Pembroke while on the west side is the fabulous Neoclassical Fitzwilliam Museum along side Peterhouse and St Catherine’s College

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    1, Bluewater Shopping Centre, based in Greenhithe, Kent, is used by many people on a daily basis to get their everyday needs and presents for their loved ones. It is 150,000m2 containing 330 UK and international brands and 50 restaurants and bars. It also has 13,000 parking spaces surrounding it with 20 hectares of parkland and 7 lakes, so is not like any other shopping centre in England. (Bluewater, 2008) Below; (BBC/Lion TV, Telegraph, 2012) 2, The idea of Bluewater was developed in 1994 when

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    Palestine. He began his work in the streets of Bristol, England as a free hand artist painting his graffiti all over the walls of the city. He later started using stencils to make his work easier cleaner and faster. Banksy has moved up in the art world from stenciling the streets to showing his work all over the world. Despite now being internationally known as a “Graffiti Street Art Legend”, his work hasn’t slowed down one bit. He still paints the streets with his critical political view and imagery

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    lawyer's and Bartleby's outlook on society. The walls of Bartleby conflict with the lawyer's walls, but both are designed to keep both the lawyer and Bartleby safe from the outside world. The lawyer's safe haven is where his office is: Wall Street. On Wall Street, the lawyer knows exactly what society expects of him. He is content with himself and his sense of conventionality and considers himself a representative human being. The lawyer considers Bartleby to be representative of humanity. The lawyer

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    Homeless in America

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    Families live, die and are born on the streets of vast cities of United States. Less attention are shown to those who are homeless, people focus more on bigger issues when this is a major problem that has occurred for years. Statistics shows that 1.6 million youth run away from home each year between the ages of 12 and 17. The predominant race for runaways is White non-Hispanic (57%), Black non-Hispanic (17%), Hispanic (15%), and Other (11%) follow (Blaha). Homeless children most likely leave their

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    benefit from this. Supermarkets are not located on high streets but they do have smaller convenient stores such as Tesco Express offering a selection of what the supermarkets do at the same price. This dominance allows supermarkets to make a lot of money, which allows them to reduce prices even further, which then brings in more money. Making the supermarkets winners in a consumer society. Due to the big supermarket dominance the local high streets in towns and cities are suffering and are considered

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