East Village

Background Lorne Avenue Public School has been an important institution in London’s Old East Village for 141 years. After many struggling debates between the parent council of Lorne Avenue and the Thames Valley District School Board, Lorne Avenue will be closing its doors this June. As such, a celebration will be taken place to celebrate Lorne Avenue’s 141 years of educated and shaping young minds. However, Lorne Avenue closing has more societal issues. This story is important because it exemplifies the pressing issue of low enrollment rates of Southern Ontario elementary schools. Moreover, Lorne Avenue Public School’s closing is significant to the community as it a central location not only for students but for a wide array of community…

At first it could seem like the conversion of industrial spaces in Williamsburg to housing would bring down prices in the area because it is creating more housing. However, the reality is that since the rezoning was approved, the rent in Williamsburg has continued to rise. The primary for this increase is that the majority of new housing that is being built is for wealthy residents and the rents on these units reflect that (Martucci, 2013). These luxury units have brought up the average rent…

What is Gentrification? Gentrification can have a negative connotation and is often compared to white flight, it also can be seen as a race issue. Whereas, a Caucasian population will take over poverty stricken mixed-race neighborhoods and revitalize them with their newly brought in businesses. Alex Schafran writes in the Berkeley Planning Journal, “residents of gentrifying neighborhoods have been "displaced" from the literature on the subject. [They] are so busy trying to define it, quantify…

Mike Davis Planet Of Slums: Final In this essay I am going to explain why Mike Davis places responsibility on the treason of state, international banks, and lending institutions for the horrific conditions in what he describes as the urban south. I will also explain why there is a vast migration from the rural villages to the megacities of the third world. As well as the ideas of thinkers like Hernando de Soto and what Davis sees as his mistaken ideas. Mike Davis offers a…

It gradually becomes clear that this is not an ordinary lottery and the author uses several situations to express this. As the men gather, they do not approach the pile of stones that the boys in the village have been gathering. It almost feels like no-one wants to be involved in the drawing process because when Mr. Summers arrives with his stool, the villagers keep a distance between themselves and the drawing box. There is also no-one who wishes to help hold the box still while Mr. Summers…

People have turned into an undeniably capable ecological power in the course of the most recent 10,000 years. With the approach of farming 8,000 years back, we started to change the area. What 's more, with the mechanical upset, we started to influence our climate. The late increment on the planet 's populace has amplified the impacts of our horticultural and financial exercises. Be that as it may, the development in world populace has conceal what might be a considerably more essential…

A community environment serves an important function in shaping our personal development and belief system. The community an individual grows up in says a lot about that individual as a person. With strengths, comes weaknesses and every community differs in many ways. The community I grew up in may differ from the community others lived in, and that’s what makes us all unique and different from one another. No matter if you live on Grand View Drive or you live on the south side of Chicago each…

whether the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP), a participatory, agroecological peer farmer education intervention, can be effective at improving sustainable agricultural practices, legume production, food security, infant and young child feeding practices, and nutritional status of children and mothers in Singida District, Tanzania. Survey design SNAP is a clustered randomized effectiveness trial. We have selected 25-30 households in each of 10 villages to receive intervention…

In the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, villagers of a small town gather together on a beautiful day for the annual town lottery. This lottery requires that all the members of the community draw sheets of paper to determine a “winner”. The person who pulls the card with the black dot is the “winner”. The winner of this lottery ends up being stoned to death by the entire community due to an ancient ritual that says their crops will grow better when someone gets stoned (human…

The Fate of Tessie Hutchinson The term lottery creates a vision of winning something of value. In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, Jackson took the meaning of the lottery and put a dark twist to it. Jackson gives an everyday feel to the story as if the annual ceremony “the lottery” is a peaceful day for the townspeople. The reader infers that this is a positive outcome based on society’s understanding of what a lottery is; however, the lottery takes an unforeseen twist that…