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Asia is the largest continent in the world, with an area of 17,212,000 square miles (“Asia Facts - Top 20 Facts about Asia | Facts.net.”). Asia also has the largest population of all the continents combined with a population of over 4.4 billion as of 2014 (“Google.”) . With this population over two-thirds of the worlds population lives in Asia. Megacities are cities with a population of over 10 million. Asia has seven of the largest megacities in the world (Kotkin, Joel, and Wendell Cox). The…

messy lives as subjects for class compassion, Crane saturates his story with an unexpected tone that embroils the working class peruser in subscribing to the same good deception as that being rehearsed in the slums. Where different authors furnished the perusing open with a window to the slums Crane looked to rouse social change by giving a mirror. Crane esteemed genuineness with one 's self most importantly else and in Maggie he looked to motivate a finer society by depicting the deplorability…

In “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo argues that societies are becoming corrupt because of capitalism’s prevalence in modern societies. Capitalism is creating an economy where products and profits are owned by companies and individuals instead of the government. ("Capitalism" Merriam Webster) Having profits owned by individuals drive owners to create inequitable systems that take advantage of lower class citizens. The systems drive the lower class to compete against one another to…

Affirmative Discrimination In a time when skin color, brain size, and theories such as social Darwinism are no longer factors used to determine social status, it seems that, on the surface, the world should be finally extinct of the conflict among races. Scientifically, no race is the “ultimate” one, because at the end of the day, humans are all just humans—right? Contrary to the popular belief that “All men (people) are created equal,” however, this is indeed not the case (“The Declaration…

city, and, in the years following the war, with the momentous socioeconomic shifts they would bring, the impetus turned to clearing the inner city of factories to make room for its postindustrial future. At the same time, dilapidated housing, vast slums, and creeping blight framed the public’s image of inner…

revolution did bring about quicker transportation, cheaper clothes and well-built houses but these benefits are surpassed by the negative effects such as inhumane working conditions, death of workers and an immense amount of people who had to live in slums. According to Document 1, children began working at ages as young as ten where they would work sixteen hour shifts with one slight break around lunchtime. To keep the exhausted children awake, they were frequently hit with straps. With these…

CHAPTER 1 1.1. INTRODUCTION India has embarked upon the new economic policy in the year 1991-popularly known as liberalization of the Indian economy. Both the supporters and critiques of new economic policy believed that economic reforms would increase internal migration. The proponents believed that the new drive would boost economy and job opportunities leading to increased pull factors conducive for accelerated rural to urban migration. The pull factor has been more important in influencing…

Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss and Hope in an African Slum is a story of two young adults from two very different places. Kennedy Odede grew up in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest slums and Jessica Posner grew up in Denver, Colorado. These two could not have grown up in more different places. Jessica had a relatively normal American childhood, going to school and playing with friends, while Kennedy had an abusive father and was always struggling to find food for him and his family. But one day…

asks the driver if he could ask the boy how old he was. Now like any other tour around the world, tourists are welcome to ask, and do whatever they feel like doing. But the drivers response was “Pointed Questions are not part of his contact with the slums dwellers.” (134) When Way says “not part of his contract” that makes the reader feel as if the whole tour is not acceptable there, or they are only allowed to do certain things. Usually when a tour group is exploring a new environment, they…

Sivam stated, “Most of the formal housing efforts, especially since independence, have catered only to the middle classes and above, so that the only recourse left for lower income groups has been to live in the “nutments” commonly referred to as “slum” housing” (Sivam, 136). This quote demonstrates how globalization in Delhi unequally affects low-income citizens in the city. As the demand for housing increased and the supply remained low, the laws of supply and demand prompted increases in the…