...anything they can for relief, money, power and overall success. Three films that demonstrate this are The Grapes of Wrath, El Norte, and City of God. In these films, characters struggle to find their idea of “paradise” or their “Promised Land”. The Grapes of Wrath is a film about a family who is forced off of their farms and out of their home due to the immense draught that has plagued the Midwest during the Great Depression. The actors in this film were not made up to look like the typical perfect Hollywood type. They look like real farmers and hardworking people and the lighting is manipulated to show this. The family, the Joad’s, travel from Oklahoma all the way to California when they hear about the jobs and opportunities out there. Throughout their journey they face a lot of difficulties in keeping their supplies and money at a constant flow. They stop to work small farming and harvesting jobs along the way but never make enough money. They keep their hope alive and the family close so that no one is left behind as they finally reach a dreary camp for people to find work. The main character, Tom, who was just released from prison, gets into a fight with another worker and knows he can not stay with the family because it will get all of them into trouble, so he goes off on his own. Tom is willing to risk the possibility of getting caught on his own so that the family does not have to suffer even more. There is a clear notion that the idea of his family comes first...
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...North South University Assignment 1 Submitted To: Dr. Shaikh Abdus Salam (SBS) Lecturer, North South University Submitted By: Md. Bellal Hossain ID: 1120960030 Section: 3 Course: PBH-101 Healthy Lifestyle: Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Lifestyle is defined as: In public health, lifestyle generally means a pattern of individual practices and personal behavioral choices that are related to elevated or reduced health risk. A healthy lifestyle means doing what you can to keep your body and mind in optimum shape. This involves making wise choices in your daily diet, performing the right amount of physical activity, coping well with stress and controlling your weight. The end results will be feeling your best, looking your best and living your best life for a long time. The Most Common Ways To Lead a Healthy Life Style: There can be few recommendations which are: 1. Routine Exercise: In Bangladesh exercise is not a quite popular option but it needs to be followed to lead a healthy lifestyle. Regular exercise strengthens your heart, lungs, muscles and bones to prevent illness and injury, especially as you age. Exercise helps to control your weight by burning the calories...
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...In my opinion it’s obviously better for children to grow up in a big city rather than growing in the countryside. It has some specific reasons. First of all, even there are some important dangers and difficulties, which make the life harder; in the other hand there are really useful opportunities which provides the individual many ways to develop themselves. The system of education is definitely more advanced in a big city, and education is the main step for being ready for the life and to gain your own life standards. Also the job opportunities are much more excessive. An individual who grows up in a big city has the advantage of getting a better education and afterwards by the support of this education, finding a better and more esteemed job to maintain their lives. Secondly; an individual who grows up in the countryside lives in a kind of gallipot which he/she is void of the competition and the dangers at the outside world and because of this situation they also have no opinion to fight and get over with these kinds of problems which they have to face with. A person who grows up in the countryside will definitely have a lots of problems about getting used to the hard life because the difficulties and the distresses in a big city life will easily beat them up as these kinds of people has a totally different perspectives through life and because of this the solutions they produce against the challenges will be also totally different and useless...
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...people get sick from it I would first try to contact the City Hall. After contacting them I would get the number and location of the nearest water testing business where they could tell me if there is anything wrong with the water. After I would do that I would contact one of the families that have gotten sick and find out if they also think there is something wrong with the water and find out more about what illness they have gotten. I would also try to contact the mayor of the city I have moved to, to let him know about my concerns and find out if anyone else has been asking or worried about this problem. Lastly I would contact an inspector or someone to come to my home to test the water themselves and take a look to be sure it is not something that is personally wrong with my house and that is indeed the water I am getting from the city water. The first question I would bring up is ask if anyone else has been asking about the water being contaminated and also I would ask if there has ever been a problem with this before in the past. I would try to find out when the last time it was that they checked to see if there was contamination in the water and how often they check for these kinds of problems. The last question I would have to ask these people would have to be about where the water is coming from and if it is possible that something has been broken and leaked into the water. Five websites that I have found about contaminated water include: http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/uscities...
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...great city of Sienna, Italy with my dear husband and my two young children. My life isn’t going so well right now it’s falling apart, all due to the outbreak of the black plague. I bet you have already come across it because it’s spreading without stop from city to city, but if you haven’t yet let me inform you that it’s the most horrifying thing I have ever experienced in all my life. This disease has killed millions of people including my neighbors, relatives, and my loved ones, no one is safe. The black plague starts off with painful swelling and almost tumor like lumps on your body called buboes usually located in your groin and underarms and can be as large as the size of an egg. Next you will start vomiting and have an extremely high fever and you will start seeing dark blotches all over your body caused by bleeding under your skin. If you haven’t passed away yet the disease will attack your nervous system and create you to have excruciating painful spasms. Lastly the buboes will pop and there will be black liquid discharge from it. All in all most victims suffer a painful death; it is just so depressing to see your whole city perish this way. The black plague had such a major impact on the world, it affected it socially, religiously, and it even affected the economy. It affected the world socially for many reasons the most obvious being the population shortage. About 50-70% of people died in cities and 20-30% of people died in the countryside. My city was getting so small...
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...Tania Moshirian A10023469 USP 100 September 3rd, 2014 Website Final Draft The Collapse Detroit, Michigan: a city where more than 1.1 million people have vanished in the past 60 years. The city has dropped 25% in population just in the last 10 years. The city crumbled apart, which forced people to abandon their houses and businesses, leaving them with nothing. Even hospitals and religious structures were abandoned--and are still abandoned--with no demand to fill them. Ultimately, the auto industry was hit the hardest. With a systematic city, there was nowhere for the people to find jobs, since the auto industry was also hurting. More than 200,000 people worked in the auto industry in the mid-20th century. Since the slow migration out of Detroit, the number fell to 100,000 people in the early 21st century. People have compared the migration out of Detroit to the whole city of San Francisco being deserted. More than 1.1 million people have left the city over the past decades. With economic downward spiral, Detroit hit its lowest point. With less than 750,000 people living in the city, it has been hard for local government to get money for the federal government for urban aid--leaving people still living in the city to suffer more. Detroit was named the poorest city in the nation, with one out of three people living below federal poverty. (1) With so many people suffering, it led to many fires. Buildings and houses were burning rapidly. There were two...
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...JERSEY CITY COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT EVELYNE WILLIAMS JAISAMMA THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN COLLEGE OF NURSING NUR 419 NURSING PROCESS IN THE COMMUNITY In many ways, the history of Jersey City is the history of America. From the earliest Dutch settlement in 1660 to the present day, Jersey City has seen its share of exploration, innovation, slavery, reform, immigration, industry, commerce, terrorism, war and peace and survived. Jersey City's population reached 299,000 in 1950. Residents and businesses, lured to suburbs accessible by new highways, began to leave the city in the 1950s. In response, older brownstone row homes were rehabilitated and massive downtown redevelopment projects were sponsored by private, municipal, state, and federal government dollars. Liberty State Park opened in 1976, and the first New Jersey Waterfront Marathon was run in 1985. By the late 1980s, Jersey City had become an alternate site for businesses fleeing high rent and other business costs in New York City. Jersey City was the only one of the state's six largest cities to gain both in population and employment during the recession of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1994, ten major firms relocated to the city, bringing more than 6,000 new jobs. Nearly 30 firms moved to or began operations within the city during the 1990s, and the skyline was transformed from rail yards and warehouses along the Hudson River to modern office towers and trendy artist's neighborhoods. Massive...
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...California’s Sanctuary Bill Sanctuary cities are not a new thing. Sanctuary cities have been in place for many years. Los Angeles was one of the first sanctuary cities in the late 1970s.(Sanctuary Cities:). The Sanctuary cities have been made more aware of now that we have a sitting president that has made known he is admittedly against undocumented immigrants in his campaign speeches by mentioning, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best . . . They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”(Green). Also by bringing up that the United States needs better border security, the President used suggestions to build a wall along the southern borders in his campaign and has used rhetoric instead of evidence (Green). The president is so against the sanctuary cities and state, that he has even gone as far as having the Justice Department sue the state of California over it becoming a sanctuary state, because it is not following federal laws. While a sanctuary state is believed to be a safe haven for all undocumented immigrants, those that have commit serious and violent crimes are subject...
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...company or workplace. One way to fix the problem in the City of Harlingen is to be able to make a program that will let each department input their comments and reviews. This will make it easier on other departments to be able to see the plans and what the other department has made changes to or commented about to see if it was approved or not. The purpose of the structure that will be needed for the City of Harlingen in order for the employees to have a better communication is to be able to explain the process of solving the problem and developing the program in terms of the programming development cycle. The purpose of this structure would be to have all the employees in the City of Harlingen to be able to communicate through a program that will let them see the comments and reviews of their colleagues. The employees from each department will be able to make any changes needed within the program. The program will have a section in which the different departments will be able to write their comments. These sections will be readily available to each department. Each department will be able to have access to what other departments commented on and make the appropriate changes if needed. Being able to have access from each department will help other employees within the City of Harlingen by making sure that there was not something that was skipped or missed. The program will allow for any employee within the City of Harlingen to be able to access the program. The program...
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...Imagine you’re a teenager walking on the street, and then a loud horn blares throughout the city, a strange sound you have never heard in your life. The horn means that all children under 18 years of age are required to be indoors. No exceptions. You are over a mile away from your house, without a written note from your parents. If a police officer detects you out on the streets, you can be fined and taken to the police station. No exceptions. Curfew has been an issue in a mass of cities throughout the United States, which leads people to wonder: Are curfew laws that target teens unfair? A bunch of cities need it to prevent juvenile crime and to enhance safety. This has become a problem as a result of some people thinking that cities...
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...The bell above the door rang through the quiet cafe. The city was bustling with people trying to get to work, kids getting to school or people getting ready to meet up with another. The sun radiated against all the skyscrapers and towers that made Halstad city. Bono's Cafe stood in the far side of the city where they weren't so popular or known as Starbucks. It was a small cafe but, comfortable to be at. The walls were covered with murals done by the owner and the twenty one year old, Aiden, always enjoyed coming everyday. It was comfortable aura that surrounded these four walls by the love and dedication that was put into every inch of the store. "Good morning, Aiden!" The old woman chirped from register. "Good morning, Mrs. Bono." Aiden cordially greets. The new employer...
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...Tomorrow was Jordan’s birthday, he was turning 16. His mother had baked a cake and bought some new clothes for him with as much money as they had. She finally got a job working at a factory about a mile away and worked 12 hours a day on minimum wage to make Jordan’s birthday possible. Everything was going fine until the animatronic billboards flickered to life with the emperor’s face on them. “ Greetings all citizens, it is my pleasure to announce that this city is going to be renewed to it’s former glory, I have dispatched troops to eradicate all...
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...The condition that Flint is undergoing, it’s very dangerous, after Flint’s switched water supply to save some money, residents started to notice the water was yellow and it smelled like ewer. Residents were told that this was the result of getting used to the new water system and that it was safe. “The Flint water is highly corrosive: 19 times more so than the Lake Huron Supply, according to researcher from Virginia Tech.” “According to a class-action lawsuit, the state Department Environmental Quality wasn’t treating the Flint River water with an anti-corrosive agent, in violation of federal law.” Residents started to complain, their water was brown and some people developed rushed, become sick. The city and state officials told “people to bowl their water before drinking it” which was a mistake which can actually increase the level of lead. Describe how the current Flint water crisis came about....
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...Moving to American Cities Why did people move to American cities in the late 19th century and what problems did they face there? Many farmers and immigrants moved to American cities in the late 19th century after the Civil War because they had heard of many great opportunities like getting jobs that paid well and to start a new lifestyle. Many people moved into cities also to work in industry jobs that working and also mining jobs. Reconstruction between the North and the South had people moved West in hopes of discovering new fortunes which were found when mining. By building factories it had provided reconstruction for the cities and ended up being able to connect a city with another when building them due to the fact that they needed people to work in them to come out with products. In order to get factories to transport other manufactured goods they needed railroads, so then railroads started to appear as much as factories were as well. By making items like clothing, furniture, and weapons they get paid a decent amount and are able to afford what they are making. Factories would produce so much wealth that after a while factories would produce factories and that is called Ionization. A factor was a lot more stable than a job like farming because of consistency....
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...Background Transportation services are a must when it comes to major cities. It helps the crowds of immense density to move together and more effectively to get everybody where they need to be. A big improvement was made when linked streetcars were introduced. It seems as if a machine that is run off electricity and can get through a mile in a little more than a minute was established not to long ago, but the streetcar has actually been around since the late 1890’s. They have been around since and are still one of the most effective ways of getting large amount of people anywhere in the city. That is only a few of the benefits it contains. One of the most prestigious and most known streetcar networks is that of the city of San Francisco, in California. The streetcars have added to the cities identity and when San Francisco is mentioned people tend to automatically think streetcars/cable cars. San Francisco’s streetcar network can carry more than 13,000 passengers per hour during rush hour and 173,000 passengers on the weekdays. Ed Reiskin, the SFMTA Director of Transportation adds on to the statement about, the amount of people who ride the streetcars, by saying, “This goes to show that while people come from all over the world to ride these vehicles, there are thousands of San Franciscans who rely on this line for their daily commute.” Showing that maybe without this streetcar network, the city would not flow so effectively. San Francisco has embraced the popularity that...
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