Essays on Urban Life

Among the greatest TV show that ever graced the screens in the mid-20th century, The Andy Griffith show and I love Lucy can be considered as among the biggest shows of their times. The two television shows offered great memorable times to the viewers of those early days and gave the society a platform on which to reflect upon their daily challenges. In fact, the two shows still remain to be popular and bring nostalgia to the older generations that were wowed by the sheer adventures the characters. Indeed, the importance of these two TV shows cannot be underrated ...

It is believed that Islam as a religion is designed for the urban community rather than is of a nomadic nature. However, it was shortly changed during nine AD when its religious role was replaced by political incentives when the Muslim world broke its ties with the caliphate in the East. It is also believed that Islam has had an enormous impact on the architecture of the cities it was once dominating (Saoud, 2002, p. 2). This essay is divided into four chapters: 1st part will compare and contrast the medieval European and Islamic cities between 9-13 centuries by ...

The timespan between the post-colonial era and the early 20th century was marked by a specific rise in the urban culture (‘city life’) in America and there were some uniquely identifying characteristics of this emergence of the city life. This essay aims at exploring the various identifying aspects of the American cities that separated them from the rest of the country and conditions that led to a widening social stratification between the lifestyles of the rich and the poor in these cities. In order to understand the various unique characteristics of the American urban life during the chosen era, ...

The excerpt provided has reflected the life in New York City as challenging especially to the girls who are leaving home at the age of eighteen. From the excerpt, it is easy to note the different forces that are present in the city that can help the girl become either better or worse. The forces may seem appealing and attractive but in reality, the forces may be misleading. The excerpt also shows the city to be having human beings who have hidden agenda but present themselves as people who are willing to help others. Life in the city is ...

In modern globalized world, an intertwining of numerous cultures takes place. Western values and lifestyle are known to be specifically actively spreading all over the world. Urbanization is one of the trends brought in Asia from the West. For instance, according to the research of the World Bank, from 2000 to 2010 around 200 million people from East Asia moved to urban area; it can be assumed that this tendency is to a great extent associated with the imitation a Western urban lifestyle by Asian people (“East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape”). It is in particular captivating to observe ...

Impact of Foreign Employees in Saudi Aramco

Introduction In the entire Saudi workforce, foreign workers comprise the majority. Reports by the Ministry of Labor in Saudi in the year 2014 indicated that there were about 10 million foreigners. Statistically, this workforce populace in a country of about 30 million people is huge. The report further stated that expatriate labor constituted two-thirds of the workers while the private sector provided for about 95 percent of the Saudi work. Saudi Aramco offers varied employment opportunities to both foreigners and the locals. It is prudent to note that Saudi Aramco is the largest energy company in the world. Exploration, ...

1. How was the rise of the postwar suburb an articulation of citizenship?

The period during the World War II and several years after this war marked the emergence of the women emancipation and the awareness of African American identity in America’s urban life. As such, women were becoming active representatives of the social life, being involved in the economic dimension as participants in the labor market, allowing them to have a voice in the society and to leave the domestic sphere with which they were traditionally associated, making no distinction between their domestic and social identity (Avila 3). ...

There are different discussions concerning city studies. This paper looks into some of the debates on the whole structure of cities; social, economic as well as political organization. It uses four different sources to review city life.

In part two of the book, City Reader, LeGates, Richard T, and Frederic Stout talk about “Urban Culture and Society.” Cities comprise of a sequence of institutions. They include; the economic market segment, the government fort as well as the community. The community or society is considered as the most authentically communicative form of the city population, the city’s local culture ...

Introduction

Somewhere around the midst of the twentieth century, policymakers, and activists were anxious about the decline of the inner city across the United States. The reason was that the people with money were going for the suburbs. However, the widespread reports and notions of the demise of American cities proved to be untrue. At the start of 1970s (What is Gentrification 2003), the urban life began to revive, and one finds most of the cities thriving once more and with more vigor. What we find here is Gentrification. It means the arrival of a wealthier lot in the already existing ...

Literature is normally presented through several mediums among them written work and film. Yu Hua’s novel To Live has been given an interpretation through film and this presents a couple of similarities and differences when examining the story though film and written work. These interpretative variances present phenomenal differences of the same storyline but then, the end result is that they communicate the same story that the author intended. The storyline evoke different interpretations because of a number of reasons. But then, both follow the story of Xu Fugui and his family over a time frame of four decades focusing on a ...

Abstract

Introduction Bringing the wilderness in the city is a concept brought by the establishment of public parks. Typically, public parks are characterized by green spaces which are typically filled with a diverse array of plant species that can provide the city with a viable breathing space. In fact, public parks can even host certain kinds of animal species, although such is reasonably regulated for the purpose of keeping city life safe for residents. As a viable space for greenery, public parks provide residents of the city with an escape to the stresses of urban life, which is also compounded by different environmental ...

Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential female writers of her time, published a short story called “Spunk” focused on a rural, all-black town in the south during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. The fact that Zora had the courage and determination to publish such an influential piece of work, far removed from the urban renaissance she would later be credited with revolutionizing, is another testament of this author’s phenomenal literary ability and personal tenacity. was born in 1891 in a small town in rural Alabama. When Zora was three, her family moved to Eatonville, Florida, one of ...

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Socialization is imperative since it enables one to acquire a personal identity. In his book “On the Make”, David Grazian brings out the experiences of urban nightlife in Philadelphia. The author lays emphasis on how wider populations of relatively conventional groups and individuals have been shaped by their social circumstances. The organization of the urban life has indeed experienced a tremendous shift since cities that were formerly known for industrial manufacturing, have gradually transformed into centers of tourism, leisure and entertainment. The book, therefore, takes the nightlife out of the shadows and demonstrates how it is an essential concern for understanding ...

Sprawl may refer to the extensive development of the undeveloped land near the city. Sprawl shows growth of a region that is beyond or outside the city because of the influence of the city. It may be characterized with the low-density in comparison to the population limit of the city. Also, sprawl may be characterized with the transitional period between the rural and urban use of the land. The new developments take place in a segregated land with the dominance of the automobiles. It is true that the pattern of growth is unplanned and occurs in an ad hoc manner (Bhatta ...

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One of the most crucial issues that are faced by modern day human beings is the degradation of land as well as the surround ecology and its eventual consequences on the very survival of the human beings (Bhalla 1). In this background the term Ecofeminism becomes notable and pertinent. Does Atwood’s novel gets a happy ending or is it an ambiguous one? This paper tries to answer the above question by conducting a comprehensive study of Margaret Atwood‘s Surfacing, written in the year 1972, and present the analysis from the perspective ...

- Literature produced in early Old English, a Germanic language with a Celtic imagination, expressed in Arthurian legend - Legends of knights and honor - Chivalric code - Origin - How chivalric code was passed on - Definition Dark Ages or commonly known as the ‘Middle Ages’ or the medieval era. This period is called ‘middle’ because it was midway between the end of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifth century and the beginning of Renaissance in the fourteenth century. However, this period in history does not have precise dates and most of the ...

Numerous studies and research have been conducted in the recent past to assess and explore how urban space and urban life have changed over the years. With continuous increase in population in most urban centers, towns and cities, it has compelled those in charge of urban planning to restructure, strategize and redesign policies and rules that guided urban development. As a result, it has led to formation of new policies, rules and guidelines that tries to address current and present differences that have resulted due to the increased population, which has in turn increased demand for social amenities that serve ...

Tribeca is a neighborhood in Manhattan’ Upper East Side. Though the area has a storied history dating back hundreds of years, it is one of the most posh areas to live. The crux of the neighborhood is Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, which is an open green area at the north end of Battery Park. Prominent in the park is an open-air pavilion that was the design of Demetri Porhyrios. The park’s function is served of providing Upper East Siders, and visitors a place to jog, fish, have a place to read a book, and also to take their kids with the recently added ...

Men in Cages: Alienation and Liberation in Collateral (2004) and Phone Booth (2002) The thriller and neo-noir genres have always been preoccupied with lost men in dark cities – the presence of the towering modern cityscape in urban thrillers is often used as a metaphor to demonstrate mankind’s alienation in a sprawling, dehumanizing, technology-obsessed city. “What makes the portrayal of the city [in film] as a wild, savage place plausible to us is at least in part our cultural memory that the city can legitimately be described as a jungle” (Light 155). The urban thriller often depicts city life as a depressing, shallow ...

Introduction

The urban world is a term used to refer to the kind of life and existence that is found within urban centers. The term tries to reflect on the on the urban life as an institution of life activities within the urban arena. In this case, the urban world is destined to mean the activity and functionality of the occupants of an urban centre with respect to the existent environment. Compared to the rural structure of human activity, one realizes that there is a distinct difference between the rural and the urban world (Guthrie 2003). From each environment precipitates a dominant way ...

The growth of the American urban centers dates back to the colonial period. Urban cultures have emerged since the early nineteenth Century to the modern cities. Boston was among the first cities to develop, from its trading advantage over other cities such as New York and Philadelphia. The three distinct periods in the history of the development of American cities are the provincial, commercial, and industrial periods. ‘The first was a provincial period, which lasted from the foundation of Manhattan down to the opening up of ocean commerce after the War of 1812, This was followed by a commercial period, which ...

Exercise 1

Emile Durkheim is remembered for many ideas that he brought in the field of Sociology. Among the ideas that he came up with are the ideas about time and ritual. This quotation falls under his ideas of time and ritual. Therefore, after reading the quotation, it is apparent that we comprehend what he essentially meant. In this quotation, what Durkheim is meaning is that a religious group is essentially not a ritual precautions simple group that a human being is held to take in given circumstances at given periods of time. He in fact means that it is a system of varied ...

Introduction

A documentary is a movie that attempts to present events, people and places in real life for purposes of instructing or maintaining historical records (Aitken). Documentaries are characterized by carefully chosen and arranged scenes just like movies. Unlike movies, documentaries are not scripted and the people in a documentary are not actors. In most cases, documentaries rely on voice-over narration to explain events in a given footage. In other cases, the story in the documentary is told through interviews with the people featured.

Documentary analysis

The 1929 film, Man with a Movie camera by Vertov Dziga fits the description of a documentary for several reasons. First, ...

Concerns about health and hygiene figure prominently in modernist urbanism and urban planning. Using Ebenezer Howard's Garden City and Le Corbusier's Contemporary City for Three Million as your point of focus, explore how this might be the case. What particular health concerns vis-a-vis the metropolis did these urban theorists have? How did they believe they could remedy the "ills" of modern urban life? What specific spatial strategies did they adopt in an effort to execute their ideas? What role, if any, did technology play for them? What are the major simiarities and/or differences between the Garden City model, as ...

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The United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities estimates the world population of people with disability to be approximately 10% of the world population. As a minority, people with disabilities have been greatly overlooked. In fact, very little is actually understood concerning the relationship between community mobility and urban planning. Urban planning not only influences settlement in the neighborhood and accessibility but also plays a big role in determining the inclusion or exclusion of people living with disabilities in the day to day happenings of the city. Is there justice in the urban life for the people with ...

The portrait of black urban life that emerges from the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks is a very mixed one. On the one hand, she uses colloquial language to describe the lives and destinies of black youth in urban areas, although she also mixes very informal language with highly ornate expression as if to show how barren their lives are. Elsewhere she presents a largely pessimistic view of the black experience of urban life, but manages, at the same time, to demonstrate signs of hope.

In “We Real Cool” she uses the language of young black men to comment on their self-centredness ...