When talking of John Dos Passos’ style, James Steel Smith writes; “His newsreels and camera eyes are collections of such impressionistic bits to suggest something has happened to American society or is about to happen.” (Smith:1958:332). John Dos Passos amongst other members of ‘The Lost Generation’ were exposed to war, travel and essentially bore witness to the many shattered dreams of people who viewed America as the land of opportunity. America was suddenly a place to be cracked, a place to conquer, a place full of hope and dreams where anyone could find success, no matter their social standing. In fact John Dos Passos brings the excitement and the buzz of New York City direct to the reader, yet also brings a sense of impending doom, that there will be no fairy tale ending for the characters in the book, often using biblical references to suggest the downfall of New York City. Phillip Arrington writes; “In the third section of John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer, both the opening and closing chapter titles are direct quotations from two rather obscure Old Testament Prophets.
This also shows the contrast of the two worlds, with the high buildings and bright lights of Manhattan in contrast with the dark world of the docks. Joey’s jacket becomes a mantle, a symbol of defiance that handed on those who stand up to the corrupt union. The jacket is first given to Dugan who like Joey testifies to the Crime Commission about the corruption on the waterfront. After he dies, it is returned to Edie who gives it to Terry. This creates suspense as it can be foretold that Terry will too testify.
Yufei Hua 1000067205 GGR124 Assignment 1 Professor: Deborah Cowen TA: Madeleine Cahuas TUT 5301 Word Count:393 Engage the City Institutional racism, as one of the causes of urban inequality, is slowing down urban gentrification. Institutional racism is “discrimination based on both formal rules and common practices that are so widespread and so well established that they are taken for granted” as defined in the book “Starting Points: A Sociological Journey” (Tepperman, 2011, p.266). Thus, people sometimes are being racist without realizing it. Similarly, collateral damage might be already happening in the city before people’s awareness, urban inequality, for example. In Professor Hulchanski ’s work “Three cities within Toronto”, the existence of urban inequality and a trend of polarization are apparently admitted as
In 1877 Riis became a police reporter for the New York Tribune. Knowing the struggle of life in urban poverty, Riis was fixated on utilizing this opportunity to employ his writing abilities to communicate and raise awareness of this inhumane treatment that was present in a “civilized society” to the public. He ceaselessly claimed that the "poor were the victims rather than the makers of their fate.”
William Bratton walked into a number of challenges when he was appointed Commissioner of the New York Police Department in 1994. He stepped in to police a city that had been experiencing high levels of crime and that housed an agitated public eager for its needs to be met. His task of reducing crime, and effectively improving the quality of life for the citizens of New York City, was made more difficult due to the constraints imposed by working in the public sector as well as the organizational inefficiencies and demoralization of the department that he inherited. The NYPD was desperately in need of an overhaul internally if it was going to achieve any sort of success in improving crime control. First of all, and most importantly, was the
saadsaexplains, “but also, and perhaps chiefly, as one of mystery, of fantastic experiences, of marvelous transformations.” While David Levinsky and millions of other Eastern European Jews were motivated to emigrate because of dangerous pogroms and mandatory military enlistment, we assume that many of them also shared some of David’s fascination with America. What do you know, from your own family or others, about immigrants’ motivations and feelings about coming to America? 2. One of the themes running through this book is the chasm between the world of the scholar and the world of the businessman. As Cahan describes it, in the scholar’s world one is learned, devoted to Judaism, modest, and humble whereas in the business world one is aggressive,
DuPont must have an especially strong economic presence in Wilmington, to the point at which it might invoke anxiety and intimidation towards the people in the city. Later in the poem, the speaker discusses how the protagonist, Wilmington, is so
They often used trigger words, metaphors, repetition and dramatization to capture the imagination of their readers and to sell as many newspapers as possible. Words like “filth, festering and rotting” were used (Mayne 1990 p.74). the journalist play on the insecurities of peoples attitude towards immigrant, “The Chinese are likewise branded repulsive”(Mayne 1990 p.74). Also because the journalists often accompanied municipal officers to the slum areas they were only shown the worst areas as the municipal officers were there to condemn the buildings. “Bourgeois efforts to impose their definitions upon the cityscape” show that the slums were socially constructed by the bourgeois.
It fits in with Charles Tilly’s theories outlined below. Misogynist comments made by a male police officer, a group of people (mainly but not exclusively women) have challenged his statements in a radical way. Because of this constant interaction between power holders (the police) and the challengers (original organisers) SlutWalk can be defined as a social movement. When SlutWalk gained all important notoriety it shifted to a broader group of people challenging the whole of society’s attitudes towards women’s sexualities. It is this sustained challenge presented by the global SlutWalks that ensures its place among social movements (Tilly, 2003).
The Danger of Stereotyping Many concerns have been raised about the relationship link between gender, and societal pressures to terrorism. Authors, Michael S. Kimmel, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Noel Sturgeon, a professor of women’s studies and American studies at Washington State University, use different circumstances and examples to discuss this relationship, its validity, and which societal pressures are causing such anomalies to occur ( Kimmel 646, Sturgeon 574). Throughout each piece of academic writing, rhetorical strategies are used to boost the author’s points. Although their arguments are solid with valid points, the authors do have holes in their essays that I disagree with. The