Urbanisation Essay

The existence of transportations is one of greatly human creations that benefit them to use in daily lives such as cars, buses and trains. It helps humans to commute to one place to another. Yet, it comes with several disadvantages; it affects the nature. The photos above taken around the city area on 12th August 2014 whilst I was out for groceries shopping. It displays the traffic congestion are common happening in any cities around the world and this did not exclude Auckland city. To certain…

Homelessness has always existed as a complex and contentious issue. Approaches to definition, methods of its analysis and solutions to the problem are constantly changing. Over the past century, there has been a shift of focus towards homelessness as a structural issue, not just a pathological one. On the contrary, since the Poor Laws of the 1500s, England’s fundamental relationship with homeless has been grounded in many clear and unchanging stigmas e.g. the deserving and the undeserving. These…

The statement “One man’s meat is another man’s scarcity” provokes a lot of thought and raises many relevant questions. The statement can be interpreted in a number of different ways, but I myself interpret it meaning that what one man might consider sufficient another man may consider insufficient. The statement is put in terms of food and begs the question is this about perceptions of diet and scale, this perception could be taken further and contextualised as a comparison between developed…

Was the Civil War really about slavery? For over a century, one of a famous conflict in American history, the Civil War of 1861-1865, with Abraham Lincoln and his views of slaves. However, was the civil war exclusively about slavery? Was there more to the equation than just moral and ethical differences on the issues of extreme oppression and human rights? To answer these questions, we must first explain the economic and social landscape of the United States led to war. More specifically, to…

Global change consists of the changes that occur in the earth’s system. The processes of global change are influenced by many factors that affect the land, oceans, atmosphere and the societal and historical parts of life, however, the main driver of global change is the growing human population and their development of industrialisation. This happened due to the demand for energy, such as coal, foods, such as fruits that aren’t in season, goods, such as clothes that couldn’t be made by hand and…

The third hypothesis of Émile Durkheim to be discussed is ties to the concept of social integrity and how a cohesive religious community can prevent suicides from taking place. However, the context and timing of this theory should be taken into account, as Durkheim explored only the Protestant and Catholic communities in the 19th century Western Europe, particularly different Swiss cantons. Although his conclusion of social integration being a preventative factor, as the marriage and family was,…

Marx outlined four components of alienation; (I) alienation from the product of labour; (ii) alienation from productive activity; (iii) alienation from the human species; and, (iv) alienation from fellow human beings. Alienation from products…. Productive activity, or the work process, is another aspect of alienation. It is traditionally highly hierarchised, routinised, segmented and seemingly meaningless. However in the very machinery and processes created by Modernity he saw a means of human…

The present study consists of 100 road traffic injury cases admitted in our tertiary health care centre. In the present study males victims (84 cases, 84%) outnumbered the females victims (16 cases, 16%) with an approximate male female ratio of 5:1. Four wheelers and two wheelers involving mainly pedestrians were the most common cause for fatal head injury seen in 66 cases, 66%. Multiple abrasions were the most commonly seen external injury, seen in 68 cases, 68%. Skull bone fracture was seen in…

The study of the state in India between 1000 and 1700 has become one of the most controversial issues n contemporary Indian historiography. Various scholars, and in some cases ‘schools’, have come forward with different approaches and conceptual models to define the Indian state and its key features. At the simplest level, feudalism can be best defined as a political, economic, social and cultural system that emerged or at least, first came to light, in ninth-century- Europe and lasted till…

2.1) Social effects of the industrial revolution According to Boyer (1990:25) the industrial revolution conveyed great riches to a lot of entrepreneurs who helped set it in motion. For the millions of labourers who crowded into new factories, however the industrial age also brought poverty and harsh living conditions. In time, changes would limit many of the worst abuses of the early industrial age in Europe and the Americans. As living standards increases/improves, people within all different…