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    The role of city planning should be targeted and revolved around the city’s residents and not based around the business aspect. The residents of the city are a huge factor on the cities stability and protraction. Without the specific individuals playing their part in the city, the whole system will fall apart. The well being and mood of the resident have a huge impact on the city’s productivity. The factors that need to go into the city planning would have to be limiting gentrification and…

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    connection to the creator's part as a social equality pioneer. A minority of faultfinders have remarked contrarily that the social and political messages in Sonny's Blues are introduced in a blundering way. Like quite a bit of Baldwin's composition, fiction and in addition true to life, Sonny's Blues addresses particular racial issues and subjects with respect to the human condition. Baldwin delineates a world in which suffering describes man's fundamental state. The story's key characters, be…

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    In Novella Carpenter’s book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, the author describes her adventure of creating a farm in an urban area she called “Ghost Town Farm” on a dead end street in the ghetto of Oakland, California. This non-fiction book is based on a true story of Carpenter’s life of creating a sustainable farm in an abandoned lot next to her apartment. Carpenter is the daughter of two hippies and believes that she is connecting to her roots by living out this farm city dream.…

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    Poverty, hunger, starvation and women injustices were everywhere. It goes to Kamala Markandaya’s credit that she uses fiction as a vehicle for communicating her feminine vision.” (Bhatnagar 55) Her first novel Nectar in a Sieve (1954) is a realistic picture of rural Indians and their cultural and traditional values. The female protagonist of the novel, Rukmini suffers a…

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    issue 13. In reading the essays and fiction in both issues 12 and 13, I wasn’t looking really at the poems or photos as I am not very creative, I found little to work with. I wanted a piece that I could connect with or relate to and I was unable to or found them difficult to relate to Lowell. I read and skimmed countless pieces, these ranged from “Santa Anita” by Sean Bernard to “Meandering Zone’ by Rachel Pastan. I looked over every essay and piece of fiction in both issues and read a handful…

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    In Jane Jacobs’ “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Jacobs sheds light on the thought process behind city planning, how that thought process came to be, and how that thought process is corrupt. Through giving specific examples via different big cities (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, etc.), she weaves in her overall message: that the base of city planning, and therefore cities in general, are a “hoax”; cities are built on a “foundation of nothing”. The founders on which modern city…

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    Bambara was a writer, teacher, and publisher and also was an activist in the civil rights and women movement in the 1960s. (Approaching Literature, pg. 1373). During her career, Bambara used fiction writing to teach people about living better lives and how to get more out of it. She had a collection of short stories called the Gorilla, My Love where critics said they saw a realistic voice. Which then drew the attention of the African-American…

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    Indian English Literature received an international status. After independence, women writing have acquired an importance more than even before. They have started questioning the age old oppression and colonization. Indian women writers in English fiction have been presenting women as the centre of concern in their fictional world. Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004) is unquestionably one of the most popular Indian women novelists in English of post-independence period. She won fame and success with…

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    Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon Analytical essay of Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon by Jackie Kay Today, living in the city can be a lonely affair for many people. To combat this, some use their imagination to envisage the life they could have had. But, what happens when you cannot separate fact from fancy? This is the problem Jakie Kay deals with in her short story “Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon,” which deals with a middle-aged woman, whose quiet life is far from what she envisages. The short story takes…

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    Urban sprawl is an inattentive issue that continues to harm the future of the world, unless the problem is addressed. The concept of urban sprawl is the “uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions” (“Urban Sprawl”). Across the globe, there has been urban sprawl in major cities, without consideration of future consequences. As society focal point is on celebrities and fashion, the focus on the destruction of the environment is not being acknowledged. The sprawl leaves…

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