cloudy for an April day. The wet track squishing beneath our soles didn’t help, nor did Alicia’s whining. She kept wondering out loud why she even wanted to jump over 10 three foot high metal bars in under 20 seconds, and Sarah and I were pretty much zoning out as we rounded the final bend of our assigned…
Similar to Harlem, many cheap mom and pop stores in Bensonhurst have been closed down due to gentrification. The physical fabric of the neighborhood has experienced the displacement of stores, restaurants, and residents. Places, where Italian businesses used to be located, have been replaced. Evidently, there is a new cultural image being consumed, pertaining to its new beginning. For instance, two blocks away from Gino’s Focacceria is a Szechuan restaurant called Spicy Bampa, which is generally…
On April 20th 2016, I’ve entered into this black hole that I wasn’t proud of. Ignoring calls from friends and family and when I did answer I responded with no emotion temporarily zoning out. Apart of the reason why I did this was because I was mad at the world and had some angry towards my dad because we haven’t seen each other in 17 years and just when everything was perfect and I was planning my trip he was gone. This concept is described as emotional cutoff by the Bowen theory “people…
forces generated by large avalanches can damage most man-made structures. Avalanche impacts in India, includes fatilities, is summarize for public and residential area like ski areas, roads, and resource industries. Avalanche hazard methods, in which zoning, explosive control, forecasting. Problems of current avalanche hazard is solving these problem is identified with resources industries, backcountry recreation and residential areas. Snow avalanches are a significant natural hazard that…
THE PROLOGUE: Clara turns six years old today, but little does she know it's about to take a turn for the worst. Clara’s father gets out on proel today, and her mother, Dawn, has put a restraining order against him. She wouldn't let him anywhere near Clara, not now, not ever. Dawn hasn't even let Clara know about her father, as far as Clara knows, her father left you when she was one year old, and has never returned. Clara has made it through with their two best friends by her side, Emily and…
Introduction Disaster management is a complex activity which includes pre and post disaster activities. Pre disaster activities are those of mitigation and preparedness, post disaster activities are those of response and recovery (Clary 1985; Prater & Lindell 2000; Haddow, Bullock and Coppola et al., 2008). Taken together these activities are referred, by emergency management practitioners and scholars, as (a four phases) the comprehensive emergency management cycle which comprises four phases…
(1999) of people who were incarcerated in 1997 “83% reported past drug use.” Most prisoners that come into the correctional system use drugs as a recreational use, which should not be allowed. Why should they have the option to enjoy getting high and zoning out and forgetting why they are in prison in the first place. Using drugs is too easy for prisoners, they need to understand why they are truly there and face their…
School is one of the worst places for me to be. It 's a place full of strangers and stress. Teachers throw all of this work at you, and each of them expect you to have it done. But they never stop to think about the individual. They don 't think about what 's going on with their students and whether or not they are capable of doing the work. Yes, you may be physically capable of it, but no one cares if you 're mentally capable. cafe People don 't care how you 're really doing. They may ask but…
Jose Chavez is a 30-year-old Latino man born in Montebello, CA who moved to Lancaster, CA due to his parents divorcing. Growing up, his family consisted of three older sisters, mom and dad additions preceding the divorce of a step-mother, step-sister & step-father. The new household in Lancaster, CA consisted of one older sister, one step-sister (went to boarding school), step-mother, nephew and dad. His mother, step-father, and sister lived in Walnut, CA. The older of the siblings lived in…
Abstract In today’s society, in Missouri, we view dealing with crime in two types of criminology: Classical criminology and contemporary criminology. Both are still used today to study and see which is better for dealing with crime and criminals. Philosopher Cesare Beccaria developed and was credited with, rational classical criminology, which raises the question, “if you were caught by the police while shoplifting, would you be more afraid of: receiving punishment or a formal sanction from…