The film Sin Nombre depicts the issues that currently plague Central America. Gang affiliation and the increasing violence that is taking hold of the communities as well as migration out of Central America. The increase insecurity and violence has propelled many to head to the United States in search of a safe and prosperous future, as was the case of Sayra and her family. Benito or “Smiley” introduced to the gang as the gang acts as a source of order in the town that appears to have been…
This media material is actually Graffiti Art that can be found on a building in Mayfair, London, on November 20, 2011, by a famous street artist known as Banksy, true identity yet still unknown. This graffiti piece displays a dark figure of a woman falling alongside a shopping cart with a shadows cast from them. The women appear to be in a fully cloth along with a set of heels and in a skirt, as with the shopping cart it appears to have objects of jewelry and wine/alcohol and other more luxury…
The value of neoliberalism lies in the idea of free market enterprise and the ability for non-public actors to facilitate market…
The structural reforms initiated by CCTs are less obvious than the electoral appeal. Bolsa Familia may contribute to a culture of dependence upon CCT programs – reflecting a shift in politics away from the social sector towards a much greater reliance on social safety nets (Hall, 2012: 31). Structural dependence on cash transfers could be linked to the ‘much faster electoral returns are more obvious than visible structural reforms’, such as those in health and education (Hall, 2012: 37).…
The Sustainable Development is a systematic concept which translates in a model of global development that has as its main concerns to incorporates the aspects of the system of mass consumption in which nature preservation and the extraction of raw material are done in a responsible way to ensure that the necessity of the actual generation is satisfied without compromise the necessity of future generations. The Sustainable Development field is conceptually divided in three main components:…
Equality of opportunity is a political ideal that is mostly opposed to hierarchy. How individuals rank is society is based on a competitive process where all members in society are equal to compete, regardless of their background. According to this idea agents have the opportunities to reach a goal without being set back by any obstacle. An example of a statement of equality of opportunity is “All Irish students should have the chance to get a college degree without the hindrance of racial…
Introduction The purpose of this report is for me to develop critical awareness and self-reflection of core social welfare competencies experienced while volunteering with the Healthy Living for Seniors Program (HLSP). The HLSP is a UnitingCare community day program for people over the age of 65 years thus the field of practice is “aged care” (Chenoweth & McAuliffe 2012, p. 141). The program is designed to support the health and wellbeing of their clients through a focus on social participation,…
large companies such as the world bank, IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the WTO (World Trade Organisation) tie in with globalisation and make a profit in keeping the global south poor and in debt to them since colonialism and introducing neoliberalism. The author argues that the global south will not be able to catch up in the race of globalisation unless the global north make an effort to reduce the debt along with rejecting the global north’s neoliberal policies that make it easier for…
One of the most prevalent trends of the 20th and 21st centuries has been the process of globalization. The effects of globalization have had great effects upon the field of economics, as increased interconnectedness globally has given rise to increasing international economic interaction. This interconnectedness brings with it an increased prevalence of neoliberal economic policies globally. The impacts of these policies upon developing economies in particular are a central area of analysis in…
Sexual Agency is not a Problem of Neoliberalism: Feminism, Sexual Justice, & the Carceral Turn is an essay written by Kari Lerum and Shari Dworkin in response to Bay-Cheng 's production of the Agency Line. Within their essay they critique the limitations and presumptions that Bay-Cheng makes in their own work, and suggest routes of deeper examination and possibility towards a more inclusive ideology. I will first summarize Lerum and Dworkin 's essay, and then position myself in dialogue with…