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Matthew Alavanja SOC224 Urban Sociology- Professor A. Howell The City and Suburb in Film Paper December 16, 2015 Sources; Movies Watched- In Time, Elysium Movies Referenced- Blade Runner, Matrix Article Used- Decent People Shouldn’t Live Here A common theme in literature, television, and cinema, are societies and their drive to reach perfection. Strives towards building a utopia are the basis for most science fiction works. However, no such perfect true utopia may ever really exist. Even if things

At the top of the cartoon Greenwich includes a quotation by Edmund Burke that reads “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.” By starting with this quotation Greenwich instantly inserts his main opinion that is presented in this work, which can be easily analyzed just from the quotation that leads into the visual drawing. With reference to the situation that the cartoon is about, the evil that is succeeding is the Nazi Party, symbolized by the swastika flag, and this

Greenwich Theatre: Be My Baby Staging ======= The audience was seated in a "square u" shape around the square stage, which faced the audience at a right angle. There were two exits, one at right back and one at left back stage with room to walk between them. There was a curtain in the style of a hospital ward, which was pulled around one of the exits; the exact one depended on the scene, which worked well when it was pulled across the whole stage when Mary was giving birth. The stage

“Friends of Dorothy” Unite Homosexual, gay, queer, faggot, fairy, queen, dyke, all words to describe an individual with same sex proclivities. To be a gay in the 1950s and 1960s was to be asking for a death wish. Gay individuals in America were subjected to an anti-homosexual legal system that denied these individuals with their basic rights and freedoms. In 1952, Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder by the American Psychistric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual. Communities

Stonewall riots in New York. The Stonewall riots were a series of impulsive, violent protests by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to have established the single most significant event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for gay rights in the United States. Very few places welcomed

protest against the norm, war, government, civil rights, etc. Music was the main force for the younger generation to rebel against the older generation. In the documentary Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation, Tom Bernadin stated that “money was not the driving force behind your existence” (Greenwich Village). In Greenwich Village and other places around the United States, younger people would settle there as a place for those who did not buy into the social norm that the older generation

The Importance of the Stonewall Riots and Their Lasting Effects on the Gay Rights Movement Before the 1970s, while it was not illegal to sell alcohol to homosexuals, it was illegal to run a disorderly bar. New York’s State Liquor Authority saw bars who served homosexuals to be “disorderly houses” and would refuse to give liquor licenses to gay bars and would often revoke issued license for "indecent conduct”. Due to this many mafia groups saw profit in owning gay bars. The New York Mafia would

Before Breakfast Before Breakfast is a short gloomy play by Eugene O'Neill. Eugene O'Neill was born in 1888 in New York City. He is the only American dramatist to ever win the Nobel Prize for literature. Before Breakfast is set in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, in a small one room flat on Christopher Street. The flat consists of a kitchen and dinning area. There are only two characters in this drama. Mrs. Roland who is the only speaking character and her husband Alfred.

Immediately after the Second World War, Robert Moses’ power increased exponentially. He then, got a control over city’s housing authority. Huge amount of money was spent by the federal government on the public housing and low income housing. This money was spent in New York at the command of Robert Moses. Up to that point Moses had been building mostly parks and bridges, now, he was going to build inside the city. No one could have predicted the magnitude of explosion that would overtake New York

My mom always tells me that the first time she heard me sing was when I was two-years-old. We were at the supermarket and I was attempting to use vibrato to sing along with the music playing in the background. Music has been a part of my life ever since- I started to play piano when I was four (I would always try to impress my music classes with my super up-tempo version of Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turka) and started to play the flute in 5th grade. It would be a disservice to myself to pursue anything