Mr. President, the results from the November 2010 midterm elections have exposed a divide between coastal cities and less-dense areas of the Midwest. The Republican Party’s big gain in the house came largely from cities that were older, less educated and highly blue-collar areas. Nineteen of the twenty-three seats that were picked up by the Republican Party were in the Midwest states. With the increase in blight from the loss of jobs, and the loss of population, many of the vacant homes are beyond repair; therefore, even if the land banks were to purchase them they could not restore them. We recommend that you publicly show support to the green idea of urban farmland.
She mentioned that Rosa’s adopted home of Detroit “is the most segregated metropolitan area in the nation.” She also noted that segregation in schools was worsening. Ellis said that it’s hard for people to see the harm in today’s “softer form of segregation” because it doesn’t leave physical evidence with its devastation. She implied that the psychological, economical and social harm of today’s segregation was equally damaging as it was 53 years ago. She stated that today’s form of segregation is far from the brotherhood that Rosa Parks tried to
Samantha Torres Professor Kuiters Criminal Justice 28 April 2014 Homicide Detective “Historians say that homicide rates were extraordinarily high in Europe during the Middle Ages and high in the United States during the early 19th century. Then the rates declined steadily until the 1960's. And for centuries, it was villages that were often the scenes of violence. These findings, published in recent papers and presented at the annual conference of the Social Science History Association here, contradict a basic tenet of criminology, that violence is endemic to densely packed urban and industrial centers where traditional social ties and values necessarily break down” (Butterfield, 1). When people hear the word detective, they automatically assume that all detectives do the same type of job title.
The setting of A Raisin in the Sun is a ghetto in Chicago, where most blacks lived. Colas goes on to explain how these districts consisted of over priced, over crowded and poorly maintained apartments and homes; and that in the ghettos the crime rates were high and public services were limited. Colas also lets us know that most blacks living in the ghetto had hopes of leaving to move to better suburban neighborhoods, but segregated housing kept them stuck in the ghetto. An interesting fact that Colas brought out was that the housing industry was the greatest cause of segregated housing in Chicago; within the housing industry many social scientist observed that real estate agencies play the largest role in maintaining segregated communities. He also revealed that real estate agents made enormous profits manipulating whites with the fears of integration.
Attempts to end the poverty, crowding, and disease in American cities began before 1900. A well-known urban reformer was Jacob Riis, who used writings and photographs to show the need for better housing for the poor. In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis tells us that three-fourths of people lived in tenements (Document 1). During this time period, the prevalence of tenements and slums was on the rise (Document 1). New York was one of the worst areas for slums and as Riis said, “New York’s tough represents the essence of
Arrie A. Bateman, III 4 February 2013 English 102/014 Essay #1 The rhythmic construction noises outside your home prevent you from getting those extra five minutes of sleep. The noise is a result of the deteriorating houses on your street being renovated for the wealthier residents to move in replacing the previous low-class owners. This is the idea of gentrification. Over the years the descriptions of gentrification have encompassed racial overtones as a result of the certain neighborhoods being redeveloped. These neighborhoods are predominately black with other minorities in the mix while he majority of the new neighbors are white.
This essay will assess the impacts and changes immigration had on British Society in the years 1955-75, additionally it will also evaluate the effect it had on Britain overall. Firstly, I will be talking about racial tensions within communities, secondly I will discuss how the government responded and how they had an influence in the changes in society. Finally I will also talk about how the increment of multiculturalism changed social order. Firstly, the most important impact of immigration was racism. Immigrants would settle in poor inner-city areas such as London, Birmingham and Bradford where most working class whites lived.
Running head: CHICAGO ALTERNATIVE POLICING STRATEGIES Chicago Alternative Policing Strategies Starlith M. Adams University of Phoenix October 5, 2009 Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy Community policing is a popular strategy throughout the policing world. There are several takes on community policing and no one way is right. During the early nineties, in Chicago, crime rates were increasing, the public was living in fear, and the cops could not combat crime effectively. Trust and good relationships between the police and the community were slowly diminishing. The police department needed something to create a new partnership between the community and police.
Littering is a big issue in Chicago as far as living in society, Chicago has a big population which is more a problem because there are bigger communities and more littering and illegal dumping. Chicago spends millions of dollars each and every year cleaning the city; littering is a serious problem in Chicago. During spring and fall thousands of volunteers in the community gather with many different organizations to keep the effort and clean up their city. In Chicago littering causes neighborhoods to look poor and it declines the property value for residents it also causes rats and insects to breed and this causes dangerous diseases to the community. Major sources of littering in Chicago are construction and demolition sites the construction
The major message of the video was that if you are well off, and have a lot of money you would outlive those who are less likely to have accumulated a lot of wealth. Also I think they wanted to point out how impossible it is to move up the ladder of wealth in America because the gap is so huge, and it should not be that way. And what we should aim to do is fix that, and have a better system, because right now it is very unfair in a supposedly fair country. Also the other main point is that we do not have universal health care, while other developed countries do, and it showed that if you have a high level of education and wealth combined you will be healthy and live longer than those who do not. Like I said social economic status has everything