Clifford Pape, Urbs 240 , Tutorial #4 (Reading Comprehension- Razing Africville) If I had one word to express my feelings about Africville I’m sure that word would be anger. Razing Africville provides a look at the process of Africvilles destruction delving into the deliberate planning on part of city officials against a community of people without the means to defend themselves. This reading makes me recall the chapter on Birmingham and the black community’s struggles, except that Africvilles residents don’t get the happy ending. In 1945 a Civic Planning Commission report recommended the removal of a town on the outskirts of Halifax, where a majority of blacks resided and instead build a more desirable residential section. Early in Africville’s life, the government began to put in effect its own plans for the town, starting with a railway placed in the middle of the town forcing residents to cross tracks to visit neighbors.
He argues that children who are living in these cities need the most help, racism is the cause of the in equality in schools, and more funding could be extremely beneficial to the students, schools, and communities but the media and politicians will not allow it. His discoveries are shocking but true. The first city Kozol tells the reader about is East St. Louis. The inner city is filthy and lies on a flood plain. Major companies built factories here and drain their waste into the city causing the children who live here to be at risk for many illnesses.
Case Study 3-2 The FBI 1. What do you think were the real reasons why the VCF system failed? I think one of the reasons the VCF failed was because the FBI agents were so used to doing everything on paper that the thought of doing something electronic scared them. They also were taught to keep information to themselves so I think this made them keep everything from everyone and this included information that could help other agencies. I think the book was dead on when it said that other reports uncovered issues of control, culture, and incompatible organization systems.
Swift is also targeting an audience that he believes is ignorant. He is mocking the politicians of Ireland and how they are creating illogical plans to bring Ireland out of the debt crisis that it was in during his time period. Swift was simply providing another plan to help alleviate Ireland of this debt. Swift and Larkin may both be writing satires however they are not approaching these in the same fashion. Larkin points out a problem and offers a solution but does not defend it because it is an insolvable problem and does not have a solution.
The narrator claims that the hallway of the building in which Winston lives “smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats”. This initial image exposes the dilapidating condition of this society, for it is a world that smells and is offensive to its citizens. Not only does this society offend the sense of sight. The imagery of the “rotting nineteenth – century homes,” suggest that the society of Oceania is not moving forward because it is still trapped in the past. The citizens of Oceania are made to feel the decay of the society in their own body.
Journal #1 Why Blacks Get Mad- Cecil Foster 1.What exactly is Celcil Foster's thesis? Cecil Foster's thesis was to get the point that racism was still a huge problem and people weren't noticing how bad it was actually getting. He mentioned that the Rodney King verdict triggered the worst outbreak of violence since the Watts riots. The Rodney King riot began because an African-American known as Rodney King was badly beaten by the Los Angeles police officers. After this problem had occurred, Rodney became the main focus for how bad race issues were.
Ray Bradbury talks about Fahrenheit not so much being about censorship but about being a society that didn’t read. People in the story are not intrested in reading because they think books are the cause of depression and how books carry on myths and legends. Also how technology has replaced books and that it has also affected relationships. To begin with people are siimple and unquestiong. They depend upon technology so much they think is a waste of time to open up a book.
Much of his work was critical of the Egyptian government and condemned social oppression. The truly analytical and symbolic film of his style and fixations is Cairo Station (Bab el Hadid, 1958). In this film, Cairo’s main train station is the setting of the Egyptian society; a small community that encompasses of luggage carriers and soft drink sellers. The film displays the story of a crippled and sexually obsessed newspaper seller in Cairo station who is in love with a pretty soft drink seller; the story ends with a tragic death. Through this story, the film explores and represents the lives of deprived and underprivileged people who must put in much effort to manage a living for themselves to survive, no matter what the likelihood is.
Technology seems to be subtly destroying the meaningfulness of human interactions, disconnecting us from each other and the world around us, and leading to a menacing sense of isolation in society. We need to go back to simpler times and back to simple communication. People tend to exaggerate the personas they portray because they have much more time to revise and calculate the content rather than a spontaneous face-to-face interaction. Some psychologists and sociologists who have studied usage habits on Twitter, Facebook and popular dating sites say there's little correlation between how people act on the internet and how they act in person. Not to mention, Face to face communication had been the "norm" for thousands of years.
For example, if you were part of a very poor family and could not afford to pay for daily needs such as food, you might take the risk of robbing a grocery store. In this case, you are risking being caught stealing and thrown in jail, for the reward of feeding your family. Would that be worth the risk? A recent example was in the news article written by Malcolm Foster and Elaine Kurtenbach about the tragic Japan earthquake of 2011. When the citizens of Japan found out about the earthquake, riots broke out as people started to hoard more than they needed.