Suburb

of Josie Alibrandi, a young Catholic woman, who is Australian of Italian descant and the protagonist of the novel, she narrates the reader through the final year of high school at St Martha’s, a wealthy catholic school situated in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Her academic scholarship grants her placement at the school, where she endures prosecution for being financially less off and for being of Italian heritage in a largely wealthy Anglo-Celtic populous. Growing up in a single parent…

Globalization has effected the lives of everyone across the globe and certainly that of African Americans. With globalization comes increased knowledge and cultural awareness; with what used to take three months by ship can take 3 seconds by text. In turn, our societies have a greater range of impacts. In particular it has led to a more diverse group of black Americans. In the Patterson reading, it stated that the “34% [of blacks] living in the Miami metro area are immigrants” and “the New York…

monuments in Washington, D.C. I drift in and out of sleep to the sound of Khalid's soothing voice as I make my way to my family's new home. My life changed drastically during the Summer of 2017. I graduated from high school. I moved from a quaint suburb in Connecticut to Charlotte, North Carolina, an up-and-coming, bustling city in the Bible Belt. I began my studies at my dream university a thousand miles from "home". One of the only constants on my extensive quest was Khalid's latest album,…

Up from the Holler: Della Mae Justice grew up in “the Holler,” a poor area of East Kentucky. She lived with her mother and stepfather until the age of 15 when she was forced to live in foster care for 9 months before going to live with her cousin, a successful lawyer, who lived in the wealthy area of Pikeville. For Justice, who has since become a successful lawyer herself, “class is everything” (Lewin 2). It was and still is a difficult adjustment to go from living in poverty to being a part…

Have you ever wondered who Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P (The Big Bopper) were and what there life was like before there death? Buddy Holly, born in Lubbock, Texas, and just 22 when he died, he began singing country music with high school friends before switching to rock and roll. He then was opening (performing) for various performers, including Elvis Presley. By the mid-1950s, Holly and his band had a regular radio show and toured internationally, playing hits like “Peggy Sue,” “Oh,…

How does an African-American male from the suburbs of the North Carolina south, plagued with financial struggles at home and faced with an inadequate education system find himself falling in love with lacrosse, discovering the value of a liberal arts education at Bowdoin College and reveling at the opportunity to improve his coding skills in his spare time? I believe that the individuals that I have encountered over the course of my life should be credited for developing the person I am today.…

thereof. As developers gentrified, revitalized neighborhoods and higher rent segregated residents from one another based on income, and resultantly, race. Lower income, minority families searching for affordable housing must move further into the suburbs, and further from the epicenter of a city, where most people work. These families are now dependent upon private transportation and are responsible for incurring all costs coinciding. “Drive ‘Till You Qualify” is a temporary solution to the…

only happens in foreign countries .There are many forms of human trafficking such as prostitution. Another misconception about human trafficking is that it only exists in poverty stricken neighborhoods but that is incorrect it is also found it the suburbs. In many instances people think human trafficker dress a certain way. Nevertheless quite often they look like everyday people luring young victims by posing as a caring individual trying to gain there trust. People also some time believe that…

Another way low income families are hurt by failures of city planning and protection is through today’s gentrification. Residential segregation have only changed forms as the decades went on. Gentrification is when business owners renovate and improve buildings and districts to appeal to a higher-class demographic. The common effect is that property taxes skyrocket, low-income families get displaced by rising prices, and that culture gets diluted () . Positive effects like more school funding…

My childhood house and memories exist in Woodbury, Minnesota. Woodbury is the most cookie cutter suburb in the industrialized world. If Woodbury were a person, she would be similar to the “cool Mom” in Mean Girls. Woodbury is delusional; she believes that she is welcoming. She is actually extremely white. However, to prove that she is welcoming, she clamors for an inordinate amount of attention whenever there is a slight token of color to her complexion. Additionally, Woodbury is materialistic,…