Gentrification

Introduction Birch Coffee is a curiously quickly growing franchise in New York City. One of the reasons is that turning a profit was not the main goal in the birth of the operation. Rather, the Birch creators wanted to serve the world’s best brew while making a worldwide impact on the coffee trade as a whole. Only purchasing beans from fair trade farms that are completely environmentally sustainable, they wanted their shops to benefit “everyone from the tractor to the table” (Birch, 2017).…

New Orleans, LA. and Memphis, TN. are two cities that have more in common than just sharing a border along the Mississippi River. Both are responsible for birthing a music legacy that has defined American Music, not to mention bragging rights for a culture rich in food and southern folklore, owing to a tourism industry which keeps the local economy afloat. Unfortunately, they often unintentionally compete with each other in having one of the highest poverty rates in the country. As a result,…

Community Description My agency focuses on helping people of low income and also the homeless population in San Mateo County. Low-income individuals and families find it extremely hard to find affordable housing, especially in San Mateo County. San Mateo County has become a very expensive county to live in and it is only getting more expensive each year. Because of the rising prices of housing in this county many people are unable to afford housing. The housing situation in San Mateo County…

From Natives to Foreigners: The Mechanisms of Modernity Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians? This question sets the tone, of the overt “events ”of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, which begs the question, how can these “events” be recognized by both, the Armenian Republic and the Turkish State; but, does not create a discourse to clearly answer what transpired? Regardless of the label used, the result was destruction of virtually every Armenian community in the Ottoman…

Harvey Cox’s work The Market as G-d is an analysis of “The Market” and religion—exploring their shared natures and functions as forces within the lived human experience. Cox (in all but name) dissects the structure of a neoliberal economy to discover that the notion of “Free Market” moves and speaks much like that of religion. As Cox explores the relationship between “The Market” and religion within the paradigm of neoliberalism, one witnesses how a neoliberal economy elevates and enthrones the…

In May 1939, the United States sent nearly 1000 people to their deaths when they refused to allow a ship named the Saint Louis to dock at American ports because of immigration policy. Now we hold holocaust parades and have memorials just to say we will never again sit idle and let people like them die, whether they be foreign or not. Yet every year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants die from international terrorist groups such as ISIS or the National Liberation Army (ELN) while sitting on the…

Emma (Yujie) Chen AMS330: Ethnic America Professor Dennis Deslippe Nov 30th, 2015 Lecture Proposal Project Remaking Immigrants’ Culture through Commercial Enclaves There have been many ongoing debates regarding the significance of including studies of immigrants’ cultural and ethnic identities in American historical studies. Within the United States’ racialized landscape, issues about assimilation and acculturations of immigrants by the dominant whites or developments of immigrants’ cultural…

It 's a steaming task to scribe a literate piece of work after the society supposedly living on the fabric of innovation has contorted the entirety of its ethos through one political election. That being said, it 's foolhardy to encompass a society so handcrafted on the fable of autonomy while the larger duality seems to serve the exact anti-thesis-- As surprising it is to hear, we live in an America catered to the bigotry of Trump and his supporters. As repulsive as he may be, our voices are…

An exploration of the surrounding cultural impact from interactive public installations, based on the piece of Open Air by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Yuan Yuan Zhang Introduction:More and more digital and interactive art installations have been accommodated by various museums and venues recently. In the past, people usually appreciated static public installations and architecture, but now they…

Social workers who reach out to people and explore their environments will successfully acclimate to the population they serve and it’s challenging conditions. Naturally, this can be of mutual benefit to clients and providers alike. It can be the basis in which an augmentation in services occurs or when a change in policy is needed. When a deep understanding of an environment is developed, social services can be tailored to address the needs of the community. In order to produce a rounded…