Gentrification Essay

In an age where people rely heavily on their smartphones, Tinder is the most popular dating application on both Android and IOS, with over ten million users on it every day looking for their match. Therefore, Tinder has an unique opportunity for targeted advertisements, whether for local hotel rooms, or classy restaurants for a first date. However, this can only be done effectively if Tinder has the correct demographic information. Additionally, accurate demographic information will allow Tinder…

“Every American deserves [their] own home.” This ideal has been echoed since before the creation of America as an independent country. But does this particular sentiment serve the American public? Jefferson himself claimed that living in rural areas granted Americans, “health, virtue, and freedom.” This form of anti-urban bias transformed into the preference of owning one 's own land and eventually the single family home ideal. Single family homes are the number one priority in the United…

The Battle for Souls In the midst of an ever changing political spectrum, that is affecting the African-American community in non-optimistic ways, a theoretical, theological conflict within the Black Church will have great impact on the directions of politics and how to combat and address future challenges to bring forth progress for the Black Community (Harris p. 75). Historically, one of the most important institutions within the Black community, the Black Church has been instrumental in…

Cynthia Franco Sociology 2 Fall 2016 Life in the Streets Have you ever caught yourself complaining about something so meaningless? Like not getting enough likes on a social media post, breaking a nail, not wanting to get out of bed in the morning or even someone stepping on your shoes. Perhaps, we should begin to really appreciate the meaningful things we posses. For example; good health, being employed and having a roof over our heads. It is important for us as humans to avoid…

Blurred lines and confused explanations comprise the difference between culture and social structure in the public eye, but sociologists tend to see culture as a unifying set of behaviors, attitudes, values, and beliefs that hold a group together, while social structure is the de jure framework - governments, institutions, businesses, groups - that people inhabit. In this sense, culture can be broadly defined as the ties that bind, those intangibles that give individuals an identity and a…

The movies La Mission and The Wedding Banquet shows fear of queer contamination and also cultural genocide. There is a cultural difference between different countries in different parts of the world. These movies compare the cultural differences between Asian and Latino with Western culture. These movies not only show cultural differences but also show family tradition and problem with homosexuality with the non-westerners. The fear of not being able to continue family lines because the only son…

2017 Capstone Project: Yvonne Sneed Racial tension has been a constant issue in the world similar to the way volcanoes stay inactive from eruption but there is always a chance the hostility can boil over. During the 1960s, Detroit experienced gentrification and Black Americans moved into White neighborhoods and there was discrimination amongst both races leading to scarce job opportunities for Blacks (Miah). My grandmother, Yvonne Sneed, lived in Royal Oak which was a suburb of Detroit. I…

Since the founding of America in 1776 when the colonists declared their independence from Great Britain, the idea of the “American Dream” has come under serious debate. It’s been altered and revised by each epoch of American innovation and individualism, which ultimately has slowly shaped the citizens that now inhabit the USA. Whether or not a human being inside the USA has held a home has not always entirely fit the narrative of the American Dream, but whether or not they had the opportunity to…

With one dramatic no, a major artist has just escalated the culture world’s war against Donald J. Trump. For more than 20 years, the artist Christo has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would draw thousands of tourists and rival the ambition of “The Gates,” the saffron transformation of Central Park that made him and Jeanne-Claude, his collaborator and wife, two of the most talked-about artists of their generation. But…

Invisible City is a documentary filmed by Hubert Davis. Following the lives of Mikey and Kendell, two youths currently situated in Regent Park’s community housing during the beginning of Toronto’s ‘Revitalization’ plan for the area in 2005. During this development of the city, Davis explores the issues that affect these adolescent boys and their mothers. My initial interpretation of the film is how well the documentary addresses the concerns around public housing. The policy in the film such as…