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Johnson uses Henry Mayhew’s work London Labour and the London Poor (1844) to discuss the horrific conditions that bone-pickers went through in their daily journey in their job. Johnson, page 2. 2. In chapter three, Johnson opens with the streets of Soho being more quiet than usual due to the knowledge of the cholera outbreak spreading. Johnson continues to explain that Snow and Whitehead both studied how the Broad Street Water Pump could have been contaminating people. Snow studied in a lab,…

The Museum of Modern Art: Business Model Examination Report The Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art is a non-profit organization engaged in the business of acquisition and exhibition of modern art in various forms for children, adults, and other organizations. The museum was established in 1929 and is located in New York (Museum of Modern Art, 2016). Currently the museum contains, “almost 200,000 works from around the world spanning the last 150 years”, and it “includes an…

Video games have been around for ages. Almost every american household has a gaming console. Video games have become a daily thing to do for most of the youth today. The simulated violence in these games have been said to have negative effects on the youth. There are always people who have blamed video games or games with simulated violence for school/mass shootings and other tragic events. Numerous studies have shown that video games with simulated violence are and cannot be linked to violence…

Being born and raid in New York City, I can proudly, and biasedly say, that NYC is the best city in the world. The fast pace and the discord of NYC is in my blood and quite honestly, something I doubt I’ll be able to live without. One of the best aspects of being from NYC is all the wonderful sights we are given a chance to admire. From Times Square, to Coney Island, NYC is full of eye candy. Despite the advanced public transportation system (that’ll still get me to class twenty minutes late),…

recognize him as a certain Mr. Hyde", this shows Hyde is known to many people around. We get to see the duality of nature in Utterson which we haven seen before, as he shows his hate for Hyde by taking the police to his house in Soho. Showing he is also has evil within him. In this chapter we also see how evil Hyde actually is by how he brutally murder sir Danvers Carew.…

London and Kathmandu are two contrasting cities, with more than 4,500 miles between them and due to the many different circumstances in each city they both have contrasting healthcare systems. London is the capital city of United Kingdom, a more economically developed country situated within the western hemisphere of the world whereas Kathmandu is a capital city of Nepal, a less economically developed country in the eastern hemisphere of the world. Due to their obvious differences Kathmandu and…

Reality TV has been around since the late 1940’s when Allen Funt headlined a show called Candid Camera. This was followed in 1950 with a show named Truth or Consequences. The 1970’s had programs called Real People and That’s Incredible. These shows were, for the most part, considered wholesome entertainment that the entire family could watch and were quite tame in comparison to what is on television today. Reality TV exploded in the 2000’s and it remains one of the most popular genres in…

Voice wrote an article about his artwork/graffiti and that became Jean’s first time being recognized in the media. Unfortunately, in 1979, Al Diaz and Jean-Michel Basquiat were no longer friends. This caused the SAMO Project to end and buildings in SoHo have “SAMO is dead” spray painted on their walls. Also in 1979, Jean had his first television appearance on “TV Party” and that was where him and television host Glenn O’Brien became friends. Basquiat even appeared in Glenn’s independent called…

Argument 2: Brutalism reveals ‘The Image’, an ideal aesthetic of modernism as an unresolved visual. (To each individual has their own ideal view of modernism) Banham’s ‘The New Brutalism’ reveals aspects of ‘The Image’, as an ideal aesthetic of modernism as an unresolved visual. As it is a continuously evolving phrase, there are obvious clarities of meaning and articulations to be made of this notion of ‘image’. From this, many architects have insisted many of their own opinions and…

CHINA Ironically, Birmingham is becoming one of China's favourite places to invests and exporters within the West Midlands are being rewarded for their unique trades. Birmingham has developed a strong relationship with China, with interest expressed through the increase of Chinese tourists each year. This trade relationship has been around since the mid 1800s as in response to defeat in the Opium wars, the Chinese authorities sent its first Imperial Commission to Europe to learn about and then…