Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto He sat on his windowsill, watching the stars turn in lazy circles above him, like an extraterrestrial dance routine that only the sleepless know. The apartment was unbearably congested by day, his family, his grandparents, his aunt and his cousins, all crowded into a space barely fit for five people. But at night, when the sun sinks into the skyline, and the night sighs, he could be alone. The night was good for thinking, good for remembering. He had a childhood once, not a…

The journey of this Houston community is one of amazing progress! The journey includes the schools, homes and the addition of a Lone Star College. These were the effects of the outgrowing of the qualities that labeled them as a “ghetto” community. Although this community has seen tremendous improvement, the effects of Harvey has ruined homes, damaged vehicles, and affected the beauty of the community. Even though the community wasn’t impacted the effects left the people with an extreme number of…

I live in an area that is a cross between the ghetto and suburbia. In my neighborhood, I can literally see the difference a block makes. The race division, the housing projects that grace Beach Channel drive, the much more elaborate homes a block away in Shore Front Parkway, and the rich versus the poor. We often perceive the rich as well refined, privileged with better education and somehow well mannered. Where as the poor, the under privileged and unfortunate, are perceived to be ill educated…

The neighborhood is quiet, cold, and dangerous. The year is 1928, December. The only light around is coming from the Moon, with apartment buildings covering the better part. Worn out doors for miles and lifeless windows surround the streets as far as the eye can see. This neighborhood is a ghost town. It is not safe to stay out past dark, and no one usually wants to with the kind of dealings that go down. Why does a young adult join a gang? Is it because they are an uneducated, ambitious youth…

suburbs. Although not as residentially segregated as the Vietnamese, often neighborhoods could be considered “Jewish neighborhoods” because of the amount of Jewish synagogues, schools and Jewish population living there. In Louis Wirth’s article The Ghetto he argued that the movement of Jewish populations to areas of second and third settlement is an attempt to improve their social status, get rid of their foreignness and alienate themselves from other Jews. Assimilation is the final step in this…

millions of one race allow themselves to be slaughtered by allowing to be placed in ghettos and concentration camps, being exterminated shortly after? In the United States, about 2.6 million people died in the year 2014. Between March 1942 and November 1943, an approximate amount of 1.5 million Jews were killed in Operation Reinhard killing centers. From the very start of the war in 1939, Jews have been placed in Ghettos, created by the Nazis to confine and segregate them from the outside…

The term was coined in the 1997 novel The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology of Affluence by O’Neil in order to describe “the inability to delay gratification and tolerate frustration, a loss of future motivation, a false sense of entitlement, low self-esteem, lack of self-worth, and frequently a loss of emotional…

American society is founded on the ideal that America is a place of refuge for all those who seek a place to express themselves freely as individuals as protected by the Bill of Rights. Many people would assume that these would create a society that either tolerates or accepts multiple diverging cultures, ideas, and religions. However, the majority of news reports from FOX and CNN would enjoy every opportunity to emphasize on the fractures and dysfunctions of our society where some Americans…

Every time a so-called ghetto neighborhood is mention on television, it is always in reference to the unemployed, under employed, Section 8 or welfare recipients. If you listen to the television, you would think that the aforementioned types of people are the only people who live in these kinds of neighborhoods. Of course you now know from my first hand experience that this is not true. There are diverse population of different professionals like teachers, plumbers, nurses, bus drivers,…

Authors Harold M. Clemens and Tina Fakhrid-Deen have brought up the issue in different ways. In Clemens' 2005 text "'Ghetto' the New 'N' Word," he claims the term ghetto has been negatively applied to and linked to black…