Essays on Inner City

Introduction

The area under study in this paper is the region of Greater Brisbane. The capital city of Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia, and has recently launched a detailed Infrastructure Plan towards 2031 to improve the city and to plan for projections of increased future population and changes in the age demographic of Greater Brisbane. Data from the recent Australian Census is not yet publically available, so data in this paper is based on the latest available figures, which in some cases are derived from the previous census in 2011, and in other cases are government ...

The theater experience is primarily a collaboration of fine arts that include the contribution of live performances and typical actors in a bid to present an experience of an event that is either real or from an artistic point of view. The performance is usually given to a live audience in a particular place, mostly a stage. The main aim is to make a particular scenario look real and evoke various emotions and attention from the audience. The performance makes this experience possible through a combination of music, dances, gestures and speech. They also include different elements of art ...

The living environment shapes who people are. Naturally, in neighborhoods with a negative criminogenic environment, people often go deviant, and, when they do, it often is at a relatively young age. Researchers have gone to great lengths to study the underlying causes of delinquent behavior of young residents. Poverty appears to be one of the principal driving forces of offenders long with income disproportion, albeit to a far lesser extent. The blockade of opportunities or the means to achieve culturally acceptable norms in the society is also an important motivation. While race is not universally found to cause delinquency, ...

Introduction

This literature seeks to explore the correlation between class issues and schooling based on an Australian model of study. Most of the authors in this review agree that there is a correlation between class issues and the way schools are perceived and operated. The rise of neoliberalism has led way to an induction of creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. Australian schools have shifted from the dynamics of the 1970s and 1980’s where the idea of a more balanced school system was part of educational reform. However, as of 2009 this has shifted and ...

Because Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from Langston Hughes’ poem about the dangers of deferring dreams due to racism, many people assume that the primary theme of the play is the corrosive effects of racism on the souls of African Americans. Indeed, this play is about a family of African American extraction who runs into racism as they try to move from the inner city projects of Chicago to the suburb of Clyborn Park. However, there are other themes at work in the play as well, such as the ins and outs ...

According to Eisner (1991), there are two concepts involved in educational evaluation, and these are educational connoisseurship and educational criticism. The educational connoisseurship is likened to the art of evaluation appreciation, which purpose is to gain an awareness of the qualifications that comprise an object or a project. Appreciation does not necessarily mean liking something; rather, it means having an understanding and an awareness of what one has experienced, which then becomes the basis for judgment. As an example, conducting a qualitative research that uses the observation method would require the researcher to appreciate and be aware of what ...

Winnipeg, Manitoba is a thriving Canadian city whose economy is to an important extent based upon cultural industries. After the 1970s economic crisis, the city started to reduce its manufacturing industry and to invest more in services and in cultural businesses. The city reinvented itself following the downtown rehabilitation process. This project included the rejuvenation of the Forks, a historical site which now attracts millions of visitors each year. The city also invested in its digital media educational programs in order to form skilled workers for the newest technological companies in the fields of film production, advertising, graphic design, ...

We begin by reading a tragic denouement ending of Mark’s story. Jesus is arrested by the authorities and leads to desertion. Jesus second sermon speaks of powers that are toppled by Human. When Mark narrates the moment, disciples were caught off guard. The passion narrative is filled with execution. We cannot understand this message and the hope it bears unless we come to terms with terrible realism. Mark begins the Passion narrative with two stories where Jesus is the King and the other one a Banquet. Each prepares the reader for the tragic turn. The plot is about to take ...

Question 1

According to the article by Joseph Johnston, he argues that stakeholders’ interests are worth in a social aspect, but they prove to be hard in imposing them. In this case, Joseph explains the objective of starting a business enterprise and compares with the social responsibilities a company is obliged to fulfill. Additionally, the social responsibilities of a company usually conflict with the main objectives of starting a business enterprise. Generally, managers are owed the responsibility of social welfare and benefit for the community at large. Therefore, a business enterprise is expected to function in favor of both shareholders’ interests and stakeholders’ interests. In practice, stakeholders ...

Who are the minority groups and what are the challenges have they been facing currently? Why blacks do commits the highest homicide or crime rate, and even kill among themselves despite the abolishment of slavery and segregation systems? These are some of the questions that I am going to handle in this paper. It is a fact that the minority groups in the past have gone through hard times of their life, whereby they were discriminated by the majority and the elite whites. Some were even killed by whites. But at present, blacks continue to indicate the highest rates of ...

Think about the concept of poverty. How would a macro-level sociologist study this concept differently than a micro-level sociologist?

There is a variety of differences between macro and micro-level theories. Micro level deals with people and their interactions. The critics of micro level argue that they focus specifically on older people instead of social conditions and policies that force them to act the way such people do (Jones 112). Macro level concentrates more on social processes and problems, social structure and their interrelationships, as well. The best example is the way in which the impact of industrialization on older people’s status plus how income and gender influence older people's wellbeing. Bot micro and macro theories can take the ...

Greenfield Development vs. Brownfield Development

There are many factors to consider while doing planning for an upcoming development. These factors have led to the development of policies around to try to maintain minimum environmental effect depending on the type of development that is to be put in place. In addition to the environmental and ecological factors, the type of land and the developments present determine the mechanisms and techniques that will be put in place to ensure that the project is successful while minimizing the cost. If it is a Greenfield development, projecting the overall impacts on the undeveloped land is essential. Furthermore, while considering a ...

I set out to document the Haitian American culture which is representative of one of the many cultures within my family. My father is of Haitian descent. of my Dad. He is a Haitian American, born and raised in Bronx, New York in 1970. Both of hHis parents were born in Haiti and migrated into to America in the 1960s. Hewas born July 11, 1970. The culture of a person is extremely vitalCulturally identity is important especially, especially when one experiences migrationmigrates from their homeland to another country. and into America. It is more interesting to learn about the culture of ...

Evidence-based Practice

Evidence-Based practice (EBP) is a problem solving approach to the provision of healthcare to patients and families (Bennett, 2009). The history of EBP as a concept can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s to the works of epidemiologists at McMaster University, Canada. EBP developed partially as a response to the scathing critic of the practice of medicine by Archibald Cochrane (Cohen, Stavri, and Hersch, 2003). Cochrane accused medical practice at the time of not being evidence-based. He argued that the treatments, tests, procedures, and interventions used at the time had no evidence on their effectiveness (Cohen, Stavri, and Hersch, 2003). ...

i) the similarities and differences between L1 and L2 ii) psychological factors iii) social factors.

Then, drawing upon relevant literature, consider implications for language teaching/learning [250 words max].

This question as worded below specifies the student’s age, gender, L1 and country of origin. However, you may vary this question for gender, L1 and country of origin, if this would render it more useful for you. The student’s age, and other details as below, must remain the same. Ahmed is a nine-year old boy of Arabic background who immigrated to Australia through the family reunion scheme one year ago. He is living with his parents and two younger sisters in ...

“Getting a Job in the Inner City” by Katherine Newman

The article “Getting a Job in the Inner City” by Katherine Newman is about how people from the inner cities motivate themselves in participating low wage jobs. The suburban places like the Long Island usually have low supply of labors so some of the job seekers benefit from a relatively high wage. However, the labor supplies in the inner urban places are very high that most of the jobs ended up with low wage. The main objective of the author is the article is to evaluate and analyze the main factors that make the people in the inner city stay in ...

Johanna Smith’s letter to her father, from the colony of Virginia in 1660, represents a key primary source of historical value. Its exemplary evidence poignantly records the conditions, and plight of white indentured servants in the period. Johanna is afraid, doubting whether her father had even received her letters. This essay focuses the discussion on the working and labor-class conditions, particularly concerning the plight of whites under the auspices of indentured servitude. Johanna (1661) writes “The plantation grows good tobacco for England. I also tend to the small house garden, the kitchen, and the house. My labors are many” ( ...

Gentrification is a complicated phenomenon that has become a hot topic during the previous several decades since the baby boom due to its controversial impact on society, politics, economy and culture. There are many definitions of gentrification due to the notion’s complexity, but in its essence, it is a process of change of the urban inner city community, during which the low-income population is gradually substituted by the middle class one, with this change being followed by the increase in property prices, renovation, inflow of investment and general improvement of the neighborhood’s well-being. Gentrification is caused by a number of factors, ...

What, according to Wilson, are the causes of poverty today, particularly among African-Americans in inner-city communities? What does he mean by racial vs. non-racial policies? Wilson (2008-2009) states that the long term poverty among African American has been due to structural causes. In his article entitled The Political and Economic Forces Shaping Concentrated Poverty, the author argues that poverty among them is not due to their fault, but the societal fabric. In the current economic downturn, many of them have lost jobs due to recession and not due to lack of effort or unwillingness on their part. Some ...

Over the course of American history, one particular group has had, arguably, the most unique and challenging struggle since the end of the Civil War – African-Americans. Having come to this country in the holds of slave ships, been asked for hundreds of years to work as property for white men, and only receiving emancipation from slavery as the result of a bloody civil war, African-Americans already had a long road ahead in terms of asserting their place in American society. All manner of significant events and developments have occurred since then to mark their unique struggles – the fallout of Reconstruction and ...

The juvenile justice system is one of America’s biggest failures; in doing a research on juvenile recidivism there are certain questions, such as demography location, the number of parents in the home, that need to be answered, before one can give an unbiased report on juvenile recidivism. As much as I would like to ask more questions, this paper limits my investigation. What is juvenile recidivism? Please go to your text and write the definition for the meaning of Juvenile recidivism, the will make three sources. In some cities, especially inner cities, juveniles can easily become repeated offenders ...

Teaching, once a noble and admirable profession, has been experiencing a decline in respect in recent years. Occasionally forced to deal with student’s discipline problems or act as babysitters, teachers are now typically expected to act as fulltime police for children. Not only that, but teachers are often held responsible for children’s disciplinary issues. Over the past several years the education system has seen declines such as this, as well as certain successes. Many are within urban areas of inner cities, where teaching can come with its own set of rewards and challenges for any teacher brave enough to ...

A Quantitative Study of Preschool Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes toward Diversity, Diversity Experiences, Ideal Vision of a Diversity Curriculum and Implementation of a Diversity Curriculum in their Classroom

ABSTRACT

This quantitative study with forty respondents, examined preschool teachers’ beliefs towardsdiversity, diversity experiences, ideal vision of a diversity curriculum, and implementation of a diversity curriculum in their classrooms. The study examined the kinds of curriculum (traditional or multicultural) that preschool teachers use throughout the year and what are the factors that serve as barriers to their use of a diversity curriculum with a focus on race/ethnicity, if any. This study will show the impact of cultural ...

Introduction

Because of the increasing number, geographical expansion, and demographic changes of the menace of street gangs from the 1990s, there has been a consistent call for a policy guideline on the best way that could be used to deal with the gang challenge. Mostly, the gang problem is an urban problem, and is usually a protection unit for poor minority youths in the inner city. By mid 1990s, the age for gang members was increasing and so was the ethnic diversity. Some of the gang members spread across the country. Law enforcement attempt to deal with the gang problem mostly did not ...

Jonathan Kozol’s book The Shame of a Nation discusses and examines the incredibly prevalent issue of wealth and income inequality as it relates to education. In short, the kind of segregation that occurred between black and white during the Jim Crow era of the 20th century is still happening to a large extent, and it is dramatically affecting the lives and educations of many families. Wealth inequality dramatically dictates who goes to school where, and the quality of their education at present prevents them from uplifting themselves into any kind of better future. Social mobility is at a standstill, as the ...

In regards to readers’ curiosity concerning Jonathan Kozol’s book Shame of The Nation, the researcher will take this time to discuss about his main theories. The book makes the point how Jonathan Kozol has this notion that apartheid schooling was not doing well at all and in fact was its worst time since 1969. Kozol utilizes this book with the agenda of opening the eyes of his readers to the certainty of what is going on in most of the urban public schools of today. Kozol makes the point that segregation is not caused by any kind of ...

Chapter 4: Pages 92-93, Exercise #4

a. If Mrs. Siegal can only choose one alternative, and if she wants to maximize the most healthy days per dollar that she gets, which option will she choose? b. If the price of a pill increases to $3, which option will she choose?

Alternative 1

If Mrs. Siegal decides to visit the physiotherapist, she will lose her wages and will have to incur the billed by the physiotherapist. Thus, cost incurred by visiting the physiotherapist will be given by the following equation cost incurred in the visit=Wages lost per hour*time spent+ cost of physiotherapist visit =20 dollars ...

1995's Dangerous Minds, the urban school drama directed by John N. Smith and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, tells the tale of real-life teacher LouAnne Johnson, who dramatically transformed the lives of kids at an inner-city school through dedication and innovative teaching practices - all the while dealing with sensitive issues of race and violence in schools and the inner city. While its intentions are noble, Dangerous Minds tends to warp Johnson's story into a treacly, overly sentimental mess that cannot be saved by a strong cast and assured direction. In the end, the overt melodrama and incredibly simplified morality of the film undercuts ...

The poem entitled “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks interprets like an excerpt out of African American history. As a single work, it signifies a small piece of the struggle as experienced by African Americans, women specifically. The poem itself is about Abortion. Ironically, the statistical trend of Abortion is proportionally high in comparison to other cultures to this day. Abortions in the black community peak at about 35% of all abortions in total while the black community (both foreign and those with slave ancestry) only account for about 10% of the entire population of the country. Ms. Brooks’ poem dates ...

Dangerous Minds (1995) is the account of a white teacher LouAnne Johnson who takes a job teaching a class of low-income black and Hispanic students in an inner city high school, and encounters a variety of social issues such as poverty, racism, drugs, gang violence and segregated schools and neighborhoods. Most of the teachers and the school authorities care nothing about these students and their problems, and are simply passing them along without teaching them anything. Miss Johnson does come to care about them and uses highly unconventional teaching methods as well as showing great concern about their personal lives. Although she had ...

The novel “Push” by Sapphire chronicles the life of a young African American teenage lost in a world fraught with desperation and abuse. The main character Claireece (better known as Precious) symbolizes a very stereotypical portrayal of life in the ghetto. Some feel that these stereotypes are too prevalent and are offensive to African American culture. However I feel that by analyzing these stereotypes we also gain a better perspective of issues that may face today’s inner city youth.

Instance of Stereotypes

There is no denying that many stereotypes persist within the text of “Push” Precious personifies many African American stereotypes by being overweight, on ...

Social inequality, despite the rampant advances in social justice in the past few decades, remains high in both school (particularly in the university level) and in the workplace. Social inequality can take place in many forms, but can be defined as a distinct difference in privileges and opportunities (whether social, political or economical) between different groups of people. Deindustrialization has led to rampant social issues within the inner city communities of America. The changing economy and deindustrialization led to higher wages, more time spent working for lower pay, and decreased leisure time; this has affected total income between people of ...

Section 1: Theoretical Perspectives

1) This is something a structural functionalist would say. In structural functionalism, a convoluted system is created that establishes patterns of behavior and attitudes that contribute to its continued existence. In this example, the relationship between individuals and consumption is discussed, as people consuming at the level they are entirely determines just how the system is upheld. If people want to change that system, they have to change their conceptual role in the structure, and find a way to change the structure to keep it stable. If people want to consume fewer products, they have to find a way to make sure that ...

Book review: In search of respect by Philippe Bourgois

About the author

Philippe Bourgois is an experienced writer and researcher. He is also a professor and the chairman in the anthropology, history and social medicine department at the University of California. He mainly focuses his research on political mobilization of the ethnic communities in central and north America, political violence, labour relations in this region and the general life of the marginalized communities within America and especially the street families in the inner city dwellings of North America. He has also done research about the violence and the HIV prevalence in such dwellings, bringing out the suffering that is ...

Urbanization is the process by which human population in the cities grows more rapidly than in the rural areas. It has sparked a lot of interests from the economic scholars and social scientists. As urbanization has increased in the third world, there are social, economic and environmental problems that have arisen. There are differences in the conditions that exist now during the urbanization in the Third world and the conditions that exist at the same time in the First world. There is a shortage of resources in the developing countries. First of all, the West has superior natural resources and ...

Canisius College

Description of Community One of the communities that have the greatest barriers to proper nutrition and weight status is the inner-city. Frequently, city dwellers do not have access to nutritious food that allows them to maintain a healthy weight. Many urban neighborhoods are “food deserts” where the nutritional needs of the community are served by small shops and bodegas. These tiny shops do not have the space or resources to stock large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables. Sadly, with most Americans today battling obesity and over weight problems many do not even have the opportunity to make healthy ...