Slum

Literature Review: Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums Assignment # 3 Date: 13-03-2016 Ahmed Muttasim Billah Email: muttasim.billah@brac.net Perspectives on Caesarean Section in Urban Slums Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 3) demand countries “By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births” (The United Nations, 2015). Emergency obstetric care has important role to reduce maternal mortality. Caesarean section (CS) also known as…

3: The group memberships that people have because of their location in history. Social location applies to the real slum dog’s video because all the families that are in this film are in the same social location. Gender, race, social class, age, ability, religion sexual orientation, education and geographic location can determine social location. All the members from the real slum dog’s video are from Dharavi, India. They all seem to be very family orientated as well. I believe that this video…

by J.C. Mathes and Donald H. Gray, and “Slums and City Planning” by Robert Moses, had several different parts that stood out to me as interesting. Each article had their own main focuses, Winner speaking about how objects and technologies in society having politics, Mathes and Gray about engineers being radicals or conservatives and technologies advancing in our society, and Robert Moses spoke about slums and how he would work towards the removal of slums in New York City. In “Do Artifacts Have…

hands of the residents not the government or law enforcement. In many cities in developing countries it may seem the government has forsaken certain neighborhoods that are deemed irrelevant or lack potential. Those areas are also known as ghettos, a slum area that is majority populated by minority groups.…

In the book, Behind the Beautiful Forever’s, cultural differences are present within Annawaadi and Mumbai. Annawaadi is a slum located in Mumbai, a slum that is surrounded by beautiful skyscrapers, luxurious hotels, and the local airport. "Everything around us is roses," Abdul's younger brother, Mirchi, put it. "And we're the shit in between” (xii). Within this slum, thousands of lower class citizens work every single day to stay alive and support their families. The jobs of those who work…

The living conditions of slum-dwellers are way too miserable that it sounds like a long way away story or even a hypothetical scenario. It is hard to imagine what it is like to live in the slums without actually visiting and observing it. However, not everyone gets the opportunity to have this experience; and thus, the best replacement would be to read Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Throughout her book, Boo proves that the poor blame each other for every problem and that the rich…

The literary works by Katherine Boo and Evan Osnos are essential in understanding the Indian and Chinese societies and the challenges facing people in the two societies. Behind the Beautiful Forever: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum Life and Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, are written after deep examination of the two societies, which reveals the aspirations of the local people. Through living with the societies, the writers managed to document the daily…

The story takes place in Mumbai, India. Westernized trade has increased over the past few decades, but this has taken a toll on the people in one of India's major cities, Mumbai. Annawadi (a slum) is filled with disease, poverty, and crime. Annawadians will do anything to get out of the slum and into the middle class, even if it means breaking the law and hurting their neighbors. Furthermore, many people envy one another for their worth and accomplishments. The character’s morals and beliefs…

Social structure relates to “The Real Slumdogs” because, without the mega-slum that is Dharavi, other cities and countries would not be able to purchase goods nearly as cheap as what we have come to expect. In Dharavi, there is no minimum wage; there are no labor laws – or, at least, there seemed to be none according to the movie. In the movie, much like the migrant workers in “The Harvest,” families work long, strenuous days with little pay and, in order to make the very most they can, they…

ministry to establish through medical needs. Thus, to specifically look at urbanized slums or barrios we need to look at the needs and the resources at hand…