Slum

Society today has shown us that more and more families are slowly going into poverty and losing their homes because of financial problems. Jeff Madrick The Cost of Child Poverty and Alana Semuels The Resurrection of America’s Slums both agree on the fact that the human population is incapable of supporting ourselves. Both articles main points are similar to the two discussing poverty within our world and how it affects humanity and the American society. In The Cost of Child Poverty, Jeff Madrick…

As each of us hear the word slum or read anywhere, a picture comes to our mind which is usually dilapidated, dirty, congested having narrow lanes etc. Scholars have extensively defined the concept of slum. Let us look at a few of them. Charles J Stokes in his article “A theory of slums” (1962) writes that in a slum, the housing and also the social activities or arrangements develop differently from that of the city. From this definition it can be said that slums are a part of a city yet it is…

assist the development of Casavela, a fictional urban slum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I have been appointed four million US dollars to spend over the period of two years to improve the social and environmental issues the community faces. I must make educated decisions, prioritising problems based on need and necessity within the community, in order to improve the quality of life of Casavela’s residents. Context/Background on Urban Slums An urban slum is a highly populated informal urban settlement…

and the conflicts that the happen within the slum indicates that the characters feel a degree of fatalism. This can be seen in the opposition between the Colonel, who represents the government, and the King of Beggars who represents the slums, in this confrontation it seems as though the conflict will lead to destruction. Although destruction seems unavoidable, the slums seem to have a degree of resilience to the oppressiveness of the government. The slums and its inhabitants have survived the…

jammed lanes in the slum. This scene in the movie shows that the infuriated security guards understood the aspects of slums that they are not aware of. This is the physical structure of the slum from which the guards and police are estranged, regardless of their everyday happenstance with it. Salaam Bombay’s opening scene shows how slum is disorganized and messy with everything muddled up. But unlike Slum Dog Millionaire, this movie does not portray intense congestion of the slum throughout the…

acceptable receiver operator curves (ROCs) on both test. (Park, Goo, & Jo, 2004, p. 11) Defined ROC as an effective method of evaluating the quality or performance of a diagnostic tests. However, only the SLUMS test is able to identify the mild neurocognitive disorder (MNCD). I have not used the SLUMS screening tool however I am receptive to apply it to some of my geriatric acute care patients since it is quick and easy to administer; in addition, the screening test is similar to the orientation…

many of these topics as important, seeing humans in conditions that were so disgusting and definitely not appropriate for anyone to be living in, was emotional. This lead to me enjoying two videos more than others, Amy Berg’s: Polarized and Chikalwadi Slum: Death and Life on the Margins. I enjoyed these two videos because they added to the reading and discussions by giving us a picture. My least favorite was World’s Largest Statue of Buddha, because the topic discussed in Chapter 1 didn’t seem…

“The slum is the measure of civilization.” (Riis) Jacob August Riis, a photojournalist, and well-known social reformer was born in 1849 and lived to be sixty-five years old. Riis was born in Ribe, a rural part of Denmark and at the age of twenty-one immigrated to the America in the year of 1870. When Riis came to America he had forty dollars and one gold locket. Coming over with that little is the reason Riis experienced, first-hand, the struggles of poverty, suffrage, and so much more. With his…

effects of this had many positive changes that affected society, but it created serious problems that required to be addressed. Through the sources: “Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women” by Lillie B. Chase Wyman and “Waifs in New York City’s Slums” by Jacob Riis, we can piece together how industrialization and urbanization affected the working class and the poor. These reformers during this era spent their time trying to expose the horrors of the working class and poor and the changes of…

Slum Tourism has been the topic of debate and research in the last few decades. From our readings, slum tourism is described as the type of “tourist experience that involves visiting urban area characterized by poverty, squalor and violence” (Dürr 113). This form tourism is a recent phenomenon and scholars have been debating on whether it helps or hinder the slums as a whole. The definition of slum varies from city to city, and country to country. Also, the quality of life, the safety, vibrancy…