Essays on Shanty

In Orlando Patterson’s The Children Of Sisyphus, the biggest problem is poverty, destitution, and poor living conditions. The situation is so bad that people eat from the dump site, and there is no access to clean water, food or good housing. Patterson highlights the plight of the slum dwellers in the downtown Jamaica, Sisyphus, showing the inevitability that the residents find themselves in, with grinding poverty that reduces their humanness to the level of scavengers. To Patterson, the slum dwellers represent a collapse of government institutions and the threat of discrimination on race. Noteworthy, it is the racism ...

Abstract

The calamity at the Bhopal Union Carbide manufacturing plant in 1984 is still one of the world's deadliest modern catastrophes. It is settled that in its prompt outcome a large number of individuals passed away as a consequence of the inhalation of dangerous vapor. A great extent of these passings were most likely because of intense respiratory harm. The presence, nature and degree of ceaseless respiratory ailment in the survivors is far less entrenched. The consequences of the contextual investigation depicted emphatically in numerous reports, recommends that such illnesses exist independently of the foundation of infection in the city's populace. The ...

Inner-city Food Deserts, Neighborhood Blight, and Shantytowns

Food deserts are localized areas wherein the residents have a limited physical access to fresh fruit, vegetables, and other sources of healthy and affordable nutrition that contributes towards a balanced diet (Beaulac, Kristjansson and Cummins 1). It has been estimated that 46 percent of the world is restricted within such areas (Anna). There are various factors which lead to such regions emerging largely in urban areas racial, socioeconomic and cultural, these factors often intersect to with the net effect being staggering rates of obesity and diabetes and various forms of heart disease (Beaulac, Kristjansson and Cummins 3).. Their history ...

Sociology

Outlaw motorcycle gangs have gained remarkable attention at the national and international level in the recent years. The problem of the motorcycle gang is, however, growing and pervasive (Bennett, and Hess, 2006). They are posing serious threats to the societies and more and more people are concerned about controlling this problem with the imposition of the rules and regulations. Further, an increase in involvement of individuals in the such criminal activities that are connected with the gangs have influenced the law enforcing bodies, and officials in order to take strict measures for controlling the involvement of the organized gangs ...

Organized crime has become a menace in today’s world due to the danger it poses to various nations. Organized crime involves the formation of criminal groups based on shared interests or shared enemies. It has become especially common due to the financial and technical assistance that various groups within the cartel offer each other. Organized crime may arise due to illegal activities such as child trafficking, drug tracking, militia groups and terrorism (Shanty and Mishra, 2008). One of these gangs is the Mexican Mafia Prison Gang. Prison gangs have become a force to reckon with in America, both within ...

Introduction

Organized crime can be defined as crime perpetrated by any grouping that could be international, nationwide or local that is highly centralized with a central point of control that exist for the purpose of committing illegal activities. Most organized crime gangs exist for the sole purpose of financial gains by engaging in illegal activities such as racketeering. Other gangs such as terrorist groups may be politically motivated. A familiar association that exists among organized crime groups is the manner in which they carry out their activities. Some criminal groups are extremely organized and are said to influence the highest and ...