Shanty town

The location of the school and isolation of the city is a demonstration of the country’s segregation. In the city, the rich white areas were almost absent, the focus resting on the poor shanty towns and crime-ridden neighborhoods inhabited by black residents. Also, there was not any real interaction between the blacks and the whites (Fitzgerald 2011). These conditions made Paton realize the racial discrimination throughout the nation as a whole. In the novel, Paton displays issue of segregation through Kumalo’s train ride on jhis way to Johannesburg. The train carts are separated by white and black passengers. Paton describes the scene that Kumalo is dealing with, “ As all country trains in South Africa are, it was full of black travellers….Kumalo climbed into the carriage for non-Europeans…. ” (Paton 13). This instance of segregation is the cause of mutual fear between the races. It is also a tactic that is used to reduce…

A.) Conflict Theory / pg.27: Theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources After watching this video I realized that there was a conflict theory going on in these "mega slums". One of the biggest resources that is most competed for is water. Water is so scarce and is distributed unevenly throughout the slums of Dharavi. It 's causing many conflicts. The allocation of water resources is also an issue. More water from the dams is…

A global trend that seems to impact every country in the world one way or another seems to be urbanization. Worldwide the idea of living in a big booming is becoming more and more popular. Cities mainly appeal to people as social, commercial, and political hubs. Their allure also comes from the unique culture that every city has. Although seeming glamorous, there is a dark side of urban life. Overpopulation, high unemployment rates, poor infrastructure, discrimination as well as many other…

Brazil's government was still a military regime but it had learned from the Favela Removal Program. It learned that no matter what you do Favelas will still pop up in other locations. So they tried to instead hide the realities of the Favelas by making them look nicer. What it did was it created more amenities near Favelas like stores and parks and connected Favelas to the other parts of town with roads. This made it so a person in a Favela could travel across town to go to work. This open the…

This is an area of a city where poor people live and buildings are in bad condition. The district or city that’s inhabited by people of the lower class and another term of a slum is (ghetto). In my own experience, when I came here in September 26, 1990, from the Dominican Republic, with my family. I used to live in front of a project called Hope Garden, where a lot of low class people live. I used to see them smoking marijuana in front of kids and spending all day in front of the building…

Poverty and Inequality Poverty and inequality are very prevalent in every society in the world today. Both of these are effected how the society develops and grows. As of today, the majority of the population growth is occurring the Global South also known as the lesser-developed regions of the world (Perlman, 2009, p. 41). Thus, as the world population skyrockets, we are seeing a surge of population in poor areas. These poor areas have the least amount of education, little to no access to…

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a favela as a settlement of jerry-built shacks on the outskirts of a Brazilian city. Oxford Dictionary refers to a favela as a Brazilian shack or shantytown; a slum. There are many problems with these definitions of a favela. Most of the problems with these definitions is that they have not evolved with favelas and give a negative connotation to word favela. The definition of a favela may have been appropriate for the favelas of Rio in 1960, but modern day…

experiencing slums through tourism. The authors point out that there is some truth to the good and bad stereotypes that are depicted in both slum tourism and films. From her experience, there were stereotypes about the slums that were reinforced and she also noted the nuance of differences between the portrayal of slums though the movies and tourism and the everyday reality. The other readings touched on the pros and cons of slum tourism. The positive side of slum tourism was that it gave…

issues incorporate insufficient water and sanitation, absence of waste transfer, and modern pollution. Unfortunately, decreasing the issues and improving their consequences for the urban populace are costly (Fuller 2015). Human wellbeing may be in a bad way as an aftereffect of the natural corruption. Zones presented to poisonous air toxins can bring about respiratory issues like pneumonia and asthma. A great many individuals are known not kicked the bucket of because of aberrant impacts of air…

excavation of the salt dome underneath the town of Grand Saline. With the newly discovered abundance of salt there were plenty of jobs to go around as The Great Depression began to settle upon the market. By the year 1945 there were 950 people employed by the mine in Grand Saline, and that number doesn’t include the transportation jobs that were created by the mine either. The added income in town from the jobs created allowed for the local prices to fluctuate without dropping as far as they…