The Tenant

individual. As scholar practitioners, Walden students are charged with contributing social change to enhance society. As we go through our different degree programs social change is the one common basic denominator all students have in common. The tenants for social change according to Walden’s Task Force are knowledge, skills, and attitudes. The Task Force uses a matrix to map out the features that are parts of social change. These features are: scholarship, systematic thinking, reflection,…

beginning, but this was ignored and not tended to for a long time. The owners of these dwellings were blinded by a want of money, and refused to see or understand what their tenants were living in, as the text states, “It was the rent the owner was after; nothing was said in the contract about either safety or the comfort of the tenants. This issue spiraled out of control in a very short period of time, as more immigrants came to live in New York City, in these tenement houses. Hundreds of…

Introduction Dual economy is an economy in which different sectors are growing at different rates. For example manufacturing and services industries or rural and urban areas many show significant differences in economic performance. Less developed countries have generally a dualistic economy, consisting of a large backward agrarian sector and a small modern manufacturing sector. During the process of development, an economy moves from a dual structure to one characterized by a larger…

venerated by all, she in every way enjoyed a happy early childhood. In spite of poverty, discrimination in the face of Jim Crow laws and dangers from the Ku Klux Klan, the Walkers made sure that their children attended school. Her father worked as a tenant farmer on a white-owned farm. Overcoming the Klan, he was the first black man in their country to vote. Her mother worked in the cotton fields and later as a house keeper. Walker recollects her as the wellspring of her own solid feeling of…

jobs to anybody willing to for them. Which lead to politicians winning because of criminal activity. As cities continued to grow transportation became an issue. With some factories not a quick walking distance from some residential areas and tenant buildings. To help with this carriage on rails that ran on railroad tracks, called horse cars were invented in 1832. It was later changed into the tram which runs on electrically powered rails. Then eventually some cities implemented subway,…

1. One of the central tenants of the paradigm of Hauntology is that bad things that happen in the past will continue to haunt our society. Another central tenant is that minorities facing problems in the past will continue to suffer in the present and in the future. For example, Warren Cariou describes a situation in which past events continue to haunt our society when he writes about how native people were killed or exiled from their land by Europeans, so the ghosts of the native people…

The Progressive Era was marked by a movement to correct social, economic and political problems in America. However, one area in need of reform that was mostly overlooked by white Progressives was the plight of African Americans. Examples of that can be living in a different neighbourhood or drinking from a different water fountain. During the Progressive Era, racism affected many aspects of American society. Particularly in the South. Jim Crow was the way of life for blacks, thanks to the…

both passenger and freight trains until it closed in 1969. Almost a decade later, the depot was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Since then, the 5,000-square foot building has housed a number of restaurants, including its current tenant, “The Depot.” The Norfolk and Western Railway originally connected Petersburg, Virginia with City Point (now-called Hopewell), Virginia and was called the City Point Railroad. It and other railways companies combined in 1870 to become the…

LEO FRANK Last night, August, 16, 1915, Leo frank was lynched by the prominent citizens of Marietta. Leo frank was put into court after the murder of Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain. Mary Went to Frank’s pencil factory to get her $1.20 that he’d owe her from the twelve hours she worked that week. Frank was the last person to see her alive. The young lady was found in the cellar by the night watchman, Newt Lee. He called the police, and told…

and McAllister 2009; Alexander et al. 2012; Nyikos et al. 2012). The certification of a green building or constructions provides information, including a likely higher construction cost and an expected lower operating cost in the long term, to the tenants and…