Slum

Rising from the slums to becoming a millionaire is a one in a million chance. Jamal, the main character of Slumdog Millionaire, did accomplish that and became that chance. With his dying, he started off in the slums living pretty much off of dirt and garbage. From experience, Jamal was able to recall certain events and situations to help him answer certain questions in the game show. For example, Jamal was able to answer the question, “What does God Rama hold in his right hand?” by simply…

above, GOD in his wisdom was the supposed cause and the agent of punishment for illness, not a slums unsanitary conditions (regardless, the responsibility of it’s inhabitants). In addition to ignoring and not understanding the consequences of unsanitary conditions, it is also evident that those who were underprivileged and impoverished suffered from religious prejudice and that those who lived in the slum were thought to be ‘outside the help of GOD’. These people were unfairly targeted and…

Mumbai, similar to several other large cities across the world has been undergoing the process of urbanization which has lead to massive spatial restructuring of the city. The urbanisation process has to be understood as one of the many consequences of Globalization and not as a process functioning on its own. The nested economic interest of underlying the process of globalisation include increase in the inflow and outflow of foreign capital in the country, shift from manufacturing to service…

positive results (Stewart, O’Reily, Edelstein, & Gould, 2012). The Saint Louis Mental Status Examination (SLUMS) has shown to be better for testing those with higher levels of education, and its score can be adjusted to a patient’s education level. The SLUMS also tests for logical memory. The other tool is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), which also assesses abstract thought, unlike the SLUMS and MMSE tools. The MoCA tool also has focuses on attention more than either of the other two…

quote illustrates how the young Irish boy has a crush on this woman. There are many literary elements in this short story, but I believe that the settings in this story really influence the central idea the most. The setting is a dark and gloomy Irish slum that helps contrast the beauty of the woman in which he thinks he loves. In the…

Housing for homeless : innovative ideas Once in a winter night, after a long journey in train,I was walking to my home. Working air conditioning in train coaches didn't let me feel the extent of bone-chilling cold outside. But now being surrounded by cold mist and chilling wind penetrating all through my 5 layer of clothes and skin upto the bones, I just had one single wish to get inside my home as soon as possible for which I still had to walk about 1 k.m. While walking at streets that night I…

undesirable, superior or inferior good or bad, beautiful or ugly. In the documentary, The Real Slumdogs by Steve Baker, it talks about the very real slums of India, not the one found in movies. The largest slum in the world is in Mumbai, India and is called Dharavi. One of the major points the documentary mentions is how the people of this slum cherish their personal values. One of them, and the most mentioned, is the value of education. Parents in the documentary want their children to…

adopted from a novel “Q & A” which is written by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. The movie is picturized in slum part of Mumbai, Indian background. The movie is a package of motivation, love, tragedy, action, eagerness and hate. The movie story turns around an uneducated eighteen years old Muslim orphan boy named Jamal Malik and his elder brother Salim Malik from the slums of Mumbai. The movie shows the journey of Jamal from poor to get rich. In this movie, Jamal has no schooling, no…

is a name we can’t get rid of; it is a word associated with race, financial status, and locations. There is a clear connection between poverty, slums, and race in creative texts; when applying theory, some things can be deciphered in a more theoretic way. I argue that many Asian Pacific American works of literature bring to light issues of poverty, slums, and race through creativeness to demonstrate to a mass audience how living in poverty isn’t…

His upbringing in a slum assisted him in reasoning with the other jurors’ of the innocence of the defendant. It is for this reason that he was able to explain the way to hold the switchblade knife. He says: “you don’t use this kind of knife that way.” (Act 2 page 49). Perhaps with the knowledge he has accumulated by living in a slum gives him an upper hand over the rest of the jurors’ as he can relate to it. Accordingly the…