Many immigrants had to deal with poor living and working conditions (OK). Immigrants were paid low wages, so they had to live in tenements (Document 1). Tenements were crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe apartments that were very small (OK). Diseases spread quickly due to the overcrowding (OK). They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built.
Tenement houses within these cities became incredibly crowded and crammed along narrow paths or streets. Whole families were living in attics, cellars, or single rooms, with one house holding up to 60 people in multiple rooms. Sanitation was not common in a lot of cities even making clean water for the rich a luxury. Sewers ran down streets, wide-open, carrying water fouled with industrial and human waste. Tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera were diseases that developed in many cities killing thousands.
#1 Essay 10 of the book Second Thought tells us that money has important impact on issues of mortality and health. “According to the World Health Organization, 1.2 billion people around the world suffer from serious illnesses attributable to poverty.” (p.104) This is because of the poor health care and the bad life quality that low-wage workers have. The fact has been proved through Ehrenreich’s journey in Minnesota where housing was a serious problem. With only 7$ an hour at Wal-Mart, she could only afford a room in Clearview motel with no bolts on the door and no screen on the window. The author felt exposed and unsafe.
The building is large, accessible, and has an associated vacant lot which could also be used. In 1998, a fire of unknown origins destroyed our community center on Baychester Avenue. This was a great loss to the community as a senior citizen center and a daycare center were housed in the building. Without a building, the city was unable to continue the meal service for the senior citizen. This was a source of distress fro the seniors who had no where to go especially during
What community problems might you derive from these data? The community problems are the lack of education, low socioeconomics, no prenatal care, the fact that the same individuals that are running the city also own the primary places of employment. High premature births and neonatal death rate can 3. What health problems are evident in the case study? Tuberculosis, anemia and pinworms.
First of all, the extremely crowded housing estate gives us a feeling of claustrophobia and oppression, which is accentuated during the scenes that take place in the characters’ flats. Another characteristic of life in the Banlieue we can see in this film is that the people who lives there does not have much to do, it is always the same aimless daily routine and the youth struggle to entertain themselves. As we can see in La Haine, Hubert is the only one who has a job with his gym (before it burned down) and all the other characters are unemployed and seem to have delinquent behavior. We can also see this feeling of boredom through the characters’ meaningless conversations and the scenes when the three boys are walking around in the Banlieue, where there are many other youths just standing around and talking to each other, which most of the time puts them under police scrutiny. Moreover, the feeling of rejection from the rest of the society is well demonstrated in the scene where a news crew wants to interview the main characters from their van.
Imagine living in a cardboard box, with nowhere else to go, no food to eat and the rain pouring down hard. This is a horrible way to live. Yet worldwide millions of people are living in these conditions. True, the United States has poverty nationwide, but nothing compared to what is happening in third world countries. In some countries, no middle class exists.
Simon interviews women at a Darfuri refugee camp, where little in terms of psychological help is available for raped women and girls. I also cite research which shows that children at Darfuri refugee camps are suffering from severe malnutrition and this is slowly but steadily increasing. The primary reason is that people just do not have anything to eat. The dwellings in which these people live are made of mud and during the rainy season the women and children are sleeping in the damp and cold. They are faced with the most unsanitary conditions, dead bodies lying in the roads, no way to wash or clean their clothes, and what drinking water they can get is dirty and muddy.
With no job and no savings, thousands of Americans lost their homes. The poor congregated in cardboard shacks in so-called Hoovervilles on the edges of cities across the nation; hundreds of thousands of the unemployed roamed the country on foot and in boxcars in futile search of jobs. Although few starved, hunger and malnutrition affected many. In a country with abundant resources,
The Irish were forced to live in the slums of the city. They were not allowed to live in the upper class parts of the city, mainly due to the fact that were of low income families. Again, they were restricted from many jobs, thus only allowing them to receive minimum income which forced, Gavin, (2000) “people to live in musty cellars with low ceilings that partially flooded with every tide. Old warehouses and other buildings within the Irish enclave were hastily converted into rooming houses using flimsy wooden partitions that provided no privacy.” ( Gone to America, para. 6).