Slum

Annawadi and Mumbai and its corrupt nature. Throughout the course of the novel, many of Annawadi’s poor commit corrupt acts to propel themselves to the top. The top means economic prosperity, power over others, and the chance to advance out of the slum. Corruption was a large aspect in many people’s lives. Katherine Boo’s main message is to show how corruption can exist at all levels, whether someone is poor, rich, sick, old, or young. It can happen to anyone, anywhere. And it can change someone…

Bleak Streets: Connotation, Tone, and Symbolism in William Blake’s London When one thinks about the city of London, they think of all the good things. Concepts like a fairy tale monarchy and citizens with delightful accents are the common allure for those born outside the monarchy. What they do not remember are all the horrible things that happened there, like the Black Plague and the reign of King Henry VIII. Even today there is crime and corruption throughout the city. What William Blake wants…

would vote “guilty” to arrive at the consensus to report back to the judge, but the voting casted a new "not guilty" vote. Here is where the cognitive biases comes to play – juror #5 who was raised in a slum was verbally assaulted by juror #3, of changing his vote out of compassion towards slum children. However the cognitive error was made as it was juror #9 who had altered his vote, agreeing with juror #8 that there should be some…

Slumdog Millionaire In the Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire, directed by Danny Boyle, Boyle constantly used flashbacks to tell the story. In this film the main character, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), was on the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The show was made to be very difficult so that nobody would win. When Jamal continuously got the correct answers, the men running the game show claimed that he was cheating. The film began to flash back and forth between three different…

of growth in the industrial city stretched infrastructure to its limits and beyond. As a result of infrastructure stretching, public services of sanitation, water supply were overwhelmed and this led to grosseous living conditions where inner city slums were unhygienic, since there was poor sanitation with people’s ablutions on street and rivers, overcrowding in…

The quality of life in this slum was quite pathetic but the slum mainly comprised of Italian immigrants. These people were languishing in poverty in the new world where they hoped that their poverty would end. This shows that the Italian-American experience was not always favorable to the immigrants…

Andrzej Diniejko describes Whitechapel in his article “Slums and Slumming in Late-Victorian London” as an area that was prosperous at the end of the seventeenth century but changed into an area of crime in the middle of the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century. This change was caused by an…

back down when he saw no one agreed with him. In addition, juror ten represents the racist in our society.Juror ten makes an awful comment about how the boy was probably not guilty because he was not white and grew up in the slums. He thinks that everyone who grew up in the slums are all the same. “They’re violent, They’re vicious, they’re ignorant, and they will cut us up. (pg 65)” Juror ten describes them. This demonstrates Juror ten thinks his race is superior and based a whole group of…

La Viuda Negra Who exactly is “La Viuda Negra,” or formally known as “Cocaine Godmother?” Many know this criminal by her first name, Griselda Blanco, who was a powerful drug trafficker and murderer. Anyone who crossed paths with her or did her wrong in any way, would pay with their blood. Blanco’s criminal career started at a very young age, she was born to a physically, abusive mother in Medellin, Colombia, which then lead to, “her as a pickpocket,” (Ovalle, 2012). Blanco became notorious in…

houses and apartment buildings as you would see in a regular neighborhood in America. Art is a Substantial piece of NYC history, and most of it is developed by New York’s citizens themselves, such art as graffiti and sculptures are commonly found in slums that were once congenial places in New York society. Just like some apportionments of the world, some places in New York are colonized with certain races of people for example, China town, and little Italy are the homes for many Chinese and…