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Sharon Zukin’s “A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook” explores upon the impact of consumer culture on the two types of globalization: street food vendors and IKEA in Red Hook to explain the diverse and complicated concept of authenticity and the circumstances revolving around the authentic urban experience. For the most part, Zukin concentrates on the changes of consumer culture and trends and how they affect the physical layout of the urban space (e.g., restaurants, markets, and…

workers reside in. As time progresses, so does a town, city, state, and even the nation itself; to further assist the understanding of the transitions, three articles will be mentioned. In the article A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook by Sharon Zukin, the author demonstrates how cultural diffusion is present when vendors arrives at a soccer field to sell Central American food to individuals who are or have been raised from the same culture. However, individuals who do not…

The art piece selected is named, “Single family houses provide shelter for 80 percent of Muncie's families”. The piece is by the artist known as Margaret Bourke-White who was an American born in 1904 and died in 1971. This picture depicts “single-family” residential homes in one of Indiana’s largest cities, Muncie. This neighborhood had thrived due to the homegrown business intelligence. Sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd both classified the town as a true representation of “Middletown” United…

and Feminism, bell hooks focuses on the condition of black female life in America. hooks discusses the external social oppressive forces of racism and sexism influencing the oppressive lifestyle for black women. The core of this oppressive social atmosphere as hooks writes is the historically established “social hierarchy based on race and sex that ranked white men first, white women second, though sometimes equal to black men, who are ranked third, and black women last” (53). hooks suggests…

The principle deciding that all students must participate in one extracurricular activity or more is, in my opinion, a bad decision. -Hook- Forcing students to take an extra curricular activity will do far more negative than it will good, for example it will cost the school more money, and take away time from both the students and teachers. By forcing students to take an extracurricular activity you would be depriving them of much needed time at home. Time that could be used with the…

when we examine it, it becomes a much more complex problem. People often define democracy in different ways. Howard Zinn and Sidney Hook, both famous historians, are two of those who define it quite differently. Howard Zinn chooses to define it as a set of criteria that examine the quality of life of our citizens, whether that is access to information, or equal pay. Hook on the other hand chooses to examine it in a more procedural nature, focusing on the criteria that categorize a procedural…

School Shootings Are Not Enough for Stronger Gun Control Laws The Jonna Semeiks article “We the People Confront Sandy Hook” discuses many different factors that contribute towards explaining why school shootings and gun violence are inadequate to inspire stronger gun control laws. The deaths of children are not enough to offset the strong ties that American society has towards guns as a symbol of freedom, which causes people to respond with internal defense mechanisms that numb the pain of these…

citizens of the country base their own beliefs off of. One of the most effective tools presidents use when discussing disaster is an appeal to emotion, or in terms of Aristotle, pathos. After watching Reagan’s Challenger Disaster and Obama’s Sandy Hook Speeches, one must question wether Reagan and Obama use pathos effectively to display their own sorrow, explain the situation, and address how to fix it. Reagan uses pathos to address the audience from the beginning…

become complicated, messy and sometimes alienating’ discusses a post on Tumblr that said, “I don’t need ‘feminism’ because I don’t need a label defining me. It’s the 21st century in America and being female is seriously the best” (Boesveld). As bell hooks would likely argue,…

Well, there are a lot of injuries that can affect children that are toddlers, baby's, and teens. For example in basketball they can use knee braces so they will not scrape their leg on the floor and hurt themselves. In football, they can use pads so they will not hurt themselves, because if you do not use pads it can be a career ending injury, or maybe you can be in the hospital for the rest of your life. First, in soccer you can use shinguard's, and if you do not use shinguard's, It'll hurt…