Haines City

areas poverty is so massive that education, lack of insurance, healthcare, and unemployment make it hard for the low population of social workers to handle the amount of social services that are needed. Although there are plenty of opportunities in a city, people with better insurance or transportation would receive these services first leaving a vast population not able to acquire services although they qualify. In this instance the ethical principle of access to resources would apply. In…

American life and society have created through time. The first settlers on this territory were those that had trouble with finances and other situations and were forced or “pushed” to leave their homes. Around the mid 1700’s through the early 1800’s these individuals were determined to make a new way and ventured out to the frontier. In a few routes, life on the Tennessee outskirts or frontier was altogether different than the way we live today but some components were amazingly comparable. Life…

If you look around, you notice grids are used everywhere in day-to-day life. For example, the keyboard on your laptop, the pixelated squares on your TV screen, and the apps on your IPhone all consist of grids. In the article Grids, Rosalind Krauss discusses the significance of grids in artwork, specifically in modern art. Krauss describes grids as the “modernity of modern art” and examines the impact behind the grid’s centrifugal and centripetal existence. There are two ways in which Krauss…

possibilities; The San Francisco Bay Area is one that cannot compare to any other area in the world. Not less than one year ago, my family and I traveled to the beautiful city of San Francisco. Originally this trip was so we could spend time with my aunt who lives in the area. Although that was fun, my trip had a much deeper meaning to me. The city made a huge impression on me. I learned that I would like to spend my life and attend college in this stunning area. From the cultural diversity, to…

(1) What do you think about the "settlement" movement? What might be some of its strong points? What might be some of the drawbacks? The settlement was “a social experiment in which young university men of Addams’s class were trying to bridge the widening gap between social classes by going to live among the poor” (67). I think that the settlement movement was a great way to actually understand the gap between social classes. Instead of the students observing from a distance, they decided to…

San Francisco is a city of freedom. It doesn’t want you to change for it and loves you just the way you are. You can be whoever you want in San Francisco and in return we take care of each other and our city every day. Today, a large looming problem in San Francisco is the right to live and stay in your own home. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Since March, the number of eviction notices filed per month with the San Francisco Rent Board is up 32 percent compared with the previous…

Urban College shopping has changed many situations in today’s social living with the wealth of Information and Communication devices in use. Today’s advancements in devices may allow several informational query of response ,it may all vary by search queries and personal interests. Living in today society by all means associated with some means of technology of Global Positioning Satellite that has location signals .GPS will support urban college shopping by integration of location signals.,…

evidence base for 'positive gentrification’. She believes that although the new middle classes' desire for diversity and difference, they tend to self-segregate. “Gentrification is part of an aggressive, revanchist ideology designed to retake the inner city for the middle classes” (Lee, p.1, 2008). Lee highlights a major critic of gentrification, the displacement of the lower-class. Although this displacement may be true, with the closure of the General Motors the previous basis of Elizabeth’s…

This week at city experience has been packed full with lots of amazing visits to places all around Melbourne. The work load has also been very full on, but it has come together and now looks much better than I expected it to. I don’t think that I really have a favourite place as I enjoyed most of the outings we went on. I also liked the interview as I found out things that I didn't know before. I think that the main message from the interview that I got was that to help people without a home,…

Industrialization Sweeps the Nation The Industrialization period was a big turning point for the United States. Throughout the Industrialization period many different things occurred. Urbanization became popular due to more jobs being offered in the city. The population of rural areas went down, while the urban population began to increase. Immigrants began to come at a heavy flow because the other countries had heard about the great things happening to America. The immigrants wanted a new life…