Goin To Chicago Movie Analysis

Concentrated disadvantage characterized as an indicator depicting the poverty in a specific area or region. The city of Atlanta has always been true to my heart since I have lived near Atlanta my whole life. I occasionally traveled to Atlanta to watch the Hawks play basketball. On the way home from the games, I would notice the numbers of people that stood on the side of the streets sleeping or asking for money. I never understood the whole concept of why such stuff happened in this part of town. At no time did I notice people in the street begging near my house. Why had I only seen them in Atlanta? When I first enrolled in this class, I knew I was going to learn what causes these patterns and why these patterns exist. Through the main source of my paper “Social Explorer,” I was able to attain the knowledge to interpret the patterns of the inner city and why there was so much poverty. Over the course of my project I analyzed four different maps. The first of the four maps displayed the general population that lives in poverty and in what part of the city they live in. Within the map, I noticed that the majority of people that live in poverty are in the southern region of the city. The northern part of the city has a lower poverty rate; This is due to the northern part of the city is the richest part of the city. The south part of Atlanta most relates to the projects; It is where the gangs are most prevalent. When you are in a city or town that has a numerous amount of gangs, the life style of the people living in the town will be different than those that do not have gang influence around. There are multiple contributions to why poverty skews the way it is. Next, the second map illustrates the number of people that never finished high school and are over the age of twenty-five. As depicted in the second map, the abundance people that never graduated high school live in the same area as those that live in poverty. In society now, it is nearly impossible to obtain a job that doesn’t pay minimum wage without an education. A person making minimum wage ($7.25 per hour) and works forty hours a week only make roughly fifteen thousand dollars a year. The poverty line is around twenty-three thousand dollars a year. People who normally work at a minimum wage job do not work forty hours a week. By making minimum wage people will never be able to sustain the income they need to push them over the poverty line. The key to obtaining a job that pays over minimum wage is education. High schools in the south Atlanta area continue to have a low graduation rate. This low graduation rate is due to gang influence in the area. High school students are more concerned with joining gangs, than they are graduating from high school. Without a high school diploma, teenagers that live in poverty stricken cities have no chance of ever escaping. This …show more content…
When people move there can be multiple factor that cause or pushed them to move. While others factors may pull people to a certain destination. So they try to move to Chicago to find a job and make a sustainable income. When they reach their destination, they were surprised to find that it is tough to find a job there too. The African Americans that moved to the city of Atlanta are still having a tough time finding jobs as long as they do not acquire the education needed to obtain jobs. Also, in the movie, it depicts that the number of African Americans that lived in a house in the city was upwards to about a family per bedroom. The houses that African American resided in are know as tenements. Tenements are the beginnings of what people call ghettos. With all these people living in one area, it is tough for everyone to obtain a job. The movie is an excellent example to demonstrate that when you have a high population in one area, the poverty rate higher in that area. With an influx of people in one area, the amount of jobs provided within that area will not be able to sustain all the demands of the people living