Eviction

In 1584, Queen Elizabeth I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter for the colonization of North America. He was given seven years to establish a settlement before losing colonization rights. Raleigh funded an expedition lead by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville. Five ships left Plymouth in 1585, but due to storms, ship damage, and loss of food supplies, only four ships eventually arrived on the Eastern coast. After exploring the mainland and coast, Grenville returned to England for supplies leaving…

or foreign-born Japanese to have connection with Japan. Some people in the economic battle with the Japanese Americans supported the internment. However, the Japanese resident could not become United States citizens or own any property. Before the eviction, the government wanted the Japanese American to sell all their property that worth $500 million to not even a fraction of the value (Norton). “Almost, 6,000 out of 120,000 internment renounced United States citizenship and ordered to send back…

Promised a helping hand, security, and affordable living, residents of Chicago’s public housing soon found themselves in dilapidated, drug-infested, crime-filled, isolated centers of despair. During a time in which most American citizens could easily turn their eyes from the struggles of the poor, Sudhir Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day took readers into the depths of the world in which the poor resided. Through Venkatesh’s work, readers are inadvertently introduced to broader sociological…

Canada has several anti-discrimination laws that are meant to protect all Canadians, the definition of which is meant to include Indigenous women. Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, passed in 1982, gives all Canadian equal rights to life, liberty, and security of the person. And yet, the law fails to protect Indigenous women time and time again. According to the 2015 NWAC (Native Women’s Association of Canada)’s fact sheet on missing and murdered Indigenous women,…

Jessica Flood USP 301 11-5-2014 Annotated Bibliography Human Assets Backes-Gellner, U., Oswald, Y., & Tuor Sartore, S. (2014). Part-Time Employment-Boon to Women but Bane to Men? New Insights on Employer-Provided Training. Kyklos, 67(4), 463-481. doi:10.1111/kykl.12063 Uschi Backes-Gellner, Yvonne Oswald and Simone Tuor Sartore are professors at the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich. Their article relates to the human asset of community development because it…

Contrary to what one might think when comparing Octavia Butler’s Dawn and the film District 9 they share more than just solely being in the alien science fiction genre. Though they indeed differ in many ways, both focus on themes regarding manipulation, alienation and xenophobia, consequently leading the protagonist to experience cognitive dissonance and subsequent reflection upon one’s sense of self-identity. Both protagonists, Lilith and Wikus, after experiencing alien genetic mutation exhibit…

Ngawang Chime Sectional essay #2 In the book A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty, and the movie Noho Hewa explores a common theme of the U.S relocating Hawaiians from their land for their goal for strengthening militarization and capitalism. Although, there is exploitation of power from the U.S government to dispossess the Hawaiians from their ancestral land and forced assimilation, the Hawaiians are able to resist back stronger than ever by strengthening their…

Title; Anne Fogarty describes Paula Meehan as a poet who has taken up “a more impersonal and urgent role as an expressive commentator on, and visionary hierophant for, communal experience and social change and dislocation” (An Sionnach 213). Discuss, making detailed reference to Meehan’s poetry. The aim of this essay will be to investigate the theme of death and transformation in Paula Meehan’s decorative poetry collection. I will also shed light on Anne Fogarty’s controversial description of…

In a hectic world, people of society look for things they can control to feel secure. Through control over one’s surroundings and peers, they can feel powerful. However, power can often go to one’s head if they are not responsible with it. An example of such is Reinhard Heydrich who played the role of a perpetrator in the Holocaust due to his influence and leadership positions pertaining to the Nazi Party, Final Solution, and Czechoslovakia. Reinhard Heydrich was a perpetrator of the Holocaust…

to many economists, one of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression that took place in 1920s. The crisis threatened the collapse of many large businesses and stock markets dropped worldwide. The housing market also suffered causing evictions and a large unemployment rate. Many people were afraid for their future and the future of their companies during this time, as they turned to the media for information and seeking help. The fields of journalism, film, television, advertising,…