Slum

Community Impressions The community I have been assigned to is Community board 16, Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn. I have never been to this part of Brooklyn before but I heard from my peers that there is a lot of violence in this community. I do not know how cohesive the community is but I will have a better understanding of it after walking through the neighborhood. To find out more about this neighborhood, I also researched Brownsville and the first few articles that came up all…

impoverished cities such as areas of New York. He believes the culture of poverty is the coupling of reconstruction and reaction of the poor and their place in a “class-stratified, highly individualistic, capitalistic society.” He stated that “by the time slum children are age six or seven, they have usually…

of 16, Chaplin was already a seasoned actor which would give him a very successful start to his acting career. Charles Chaplin Jr. was born in England on April 16, 1889, the child of Hannah and Charles Chaplin. Charlie’s first home would be in the slums of South London. These…

Annawadi slum outside the Mumbai Airport. However, it is through these people’s stories, she is able to display the reality of the lives and condition of India’s poor. One of the people mentioned in the book is Kalu. He works as a thief, stealing metal from construction sites. Early on, the reader learns that he is one of the many users of Eraz-ex, a brand of whiteout, as a drug to help him have enough courage to steal from tough places. He also acts out movies for the other boys in the slum to…

Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."”. The very word of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has shared the much unforgettable speech ever known. His speech leads us to Repetition, Parallelism, and Comparison. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. repeated a lot of all the right things in his speech as of…

The Descent Into Poverty John F. Kennedy once said, “We can no longer tolerate the growing patches of poverty and injustice in America- substandard wages, unemployment, city slums, inadequate medical care, inferior education and the sad plight of migratory workers.” This was said in the early 1960’s. It has been fifty-seven years, and we are still dealing with the same problems today in Kentucky, one of the poorest states in the country. Kentucky is one of the poorest states in the United…

The main claim of this speech is that people in the world suppose to share the same civil rights regardless of their ethnicities. The assumption is that racial discrimination will be eliminated from the society and African American will not be treated differently from other Americans in the United States. Martin L. King constructs his argument by pointing out the fact that most African Americans do not feel that they live in the land with freedom and justice; he also repetitively states his…

Many people moved to the city's and they lived close to the factories and mills. The living conditions were terrible because of all the air pollution because some lived very close to the factories. Some people lived in slums which were crowded poor neighborhoods near their work. Some other people lived in tenements which were six story apartments were whole families were crowded into tiny rooms. And there was no police or firefighters at this time there was not even a…

Floating School Iwan Baan’s series of photographs called, “52 Cities, 52 Weeks: Floating School illustrates the resilience of a fishing village of a pulpous slum area of Lagos, Nigeria called, Makoko (Guardian). The Nigerian government claimed that the homes on stilts had become unsafe, then ordered the homes to be demolished because of the “…heavy rains and rising sea levels…” that have reeked havoc on the community for decades (Guardian). Between the innovation of the architect of the…

Inside Looking Out In general, it is natural to want to assume the best of human behaviour. Even when faced with devastating extremes, would not we all like to believe that humanity is still capable of good? The book Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo is a testament to the resilience of the human race, although perhaps not to its integrity. The book speaks volumes about the complexities of human life and the lengths it will go to in order to continue. It offers a glimpse into the…