Is Saving Money on Rent Worth It?
When you are looking for a place to live what goes through your mind? A new house, a big yard, or maybe just a great location, but what you don’t think about is the chance that it will affect your health. In “The Health Risks of Small Apartments” Published in the Atlantic Magazine, journalist Jacoba Urist informs the reader about how micro-apartments have a potential health risk that outweighs the benefits of affordable housing. Her use of effective word choice, pertinent evidence, pathos, and imagery were very effective in creating a negative viewfeeling about micro-apartments and thus encouraged the reader to agree with her opinion.
The author Jacoba Urist relates to the audience by essentially influencing the reader by using effective word choice and use of pertinent
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Urist’s use of the word’s “claustrophobic”, “trapped”, and “crowding” to pull the reader in, which she uses to her advantage to keep her opinion about micro-apartments always in one’s mind. Therefore, her argument about why micro-apartments are a health risk are backed up by the words “claustrophobic”, “trapped” and “crowding”, as it makes the audience feel trapped in the text and keeps a negative opinion regarding the idea of micro-apartments. When the aAuthor uses the word claustrophobic it creates an image in the reader’s mind in which he/she pictures walls as if there is no place to move essentially trapping them in a small and confined area with no way out. Also, Urist’s word choice targets readers who are on the edge (or are somewhat uncertain) about the idea of living in such a confined spacesmall restraints and explains why people will feel trapped living in such quarters. However, Urist is very persuasive with her word choice but if that wasn’t enough, she effectively uses
Lance Freeman tackles the issue of gentrification from the perspectives of residents in the gentrified neighborhood. He criticizes the literature for overlooking the experiences of the victims of gentrification. The author argues that people’s conceptions on the issue are somewhat misinformed in that most people consider it as completely deplorable, whereas in reality, it benefits the community by promoting businesses, different types of stores, and cleaner streets. These benefits are even acknowledged by many residents in the gentrified neighborhood. However, the author admits that gentrification indeed does harm. Although gentrification does not equate to displacement per se, it serves to benefit primarily homeowners and harm the poor. Additionally,
Audience (Who was the audience for this work? What evidence from the author’s writing leads you to this conclusion?)
The miserable surroundings Riis discusses throughout the length of his entire document focus on the tenement. The tenement is a building,
Riis demonstrates and shows his audience that a writer can make simple changes to their text to change the impact of what he or she is talking about and continue to always have their readers’ attention.
Being trapped in a room is what it would be like if you lived in Pleasantville or if you were Holden Caulfield. The novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger and the movie ‘Pleasantville’ both make a similar claim, the claim that isolation is very harmful. In Pleasantville the people of the town are isolated from the real world and live in their own isolated environment, and in Catcher in the rye Holden Caulfield isolates himself from the people around him, and it proves costly for both.
A suburban life is a paradise full of shopping, colorful gardens, and well-groomed homes. Despite all these benefits, a suburban life is an isolated life. People living in suburbs are rarely exposed to miseries in society. One of these conflicts is homelessness. When living in an environment surrounded by homes, individuals often have difficulty imagining not being able to sleep in a warm bed, eat a proper meal or even receive necessary medical attention. This grim situation is depicted in the writings of Jeannette Walls. In the autobiography The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls accurately portrays homelessness by explaining its causes, its impact upon daily life, and its effect on victimized families.
Authors are able to impact their readers through non-fiction literature, and through specific ways, such as the importance of
Under the orders of her husband, the narrator is moved to a house far from society in the country, where she is locked into an upstairs room. This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental health, but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serve to physically restrain her: “the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.” The narrator is affected not only by the physical restraints but also by being exposed to the room’s yellow wallpaper which is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide – plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
In conducting this assignment we visited the neighborhood of Washington Heights. During our visits we interviewed several of the residences; so that we could get a first hand prospective of what it is like living in the community, why they settled in the community and the many changes that they have witness durning their time in the neighborhood.
In discussions of Gentrification, one controversial issue has been with displacement. Gentrification is the process of renovating and repairing a house or district so that it complies to wealthier residents (Biro, 2007, p. 42). Displacement is a result of gentrification, and is a major issue for lower income families. Gentrification is causing lower-income residents to move out of their apartments because they’re being displaced by upper class residents who can afford high rent prices and more successful businesses. Throughout out the essay, I will discuss how gentrification affects lower income residents and how it results in displacement. Then I will follow on by discussing some positive and negative effects that take place because of Gentrification.
Overall, they argue that the goals of rent control can be reached if they are
On the very first page, Riis states, “Long ago it was said that ‘one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.’ That was true then. It did not know because it did not care (5).” In first-person, Riis discusses his observations through somewhat unbiased analysis, delivering cold, hard, and straightforward facts. Following the War of 1812, New York City had a population of roughly half a million, desperately in need of homes. The solutions were mediocre tenements: large spaces divided into cheaper, smaller rooms, regardless of whether or not there were windows. Some families were lucky, being able to afford the rooms with windows, while others had to live in pitch-black, damp, and tiny rooms literally in the center of the building. These tenements contained inadequate living conditions; disease murdered many citizens, causing a shortage of industrial workers. The Board of Health passed the “Tenement-House Act” in 1867,...
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...n abuser, but without the city’s financial support and the acceptance of the general public this would not be possible” (Petska, “Organizers of safe house withdraw”). Since Malden and Brodowicz work for women’s shelters, the statements they provide are firsthand opinions; because they know what it takes to run a shelter, it is very important to them to stress the importance of funding for the shelters.
A simpler, easy-going way of life is being adopted by people young and old, single and married, employed and not so, across the nation. Tiny houses are residential buildings typically less than 600 square feet – larger than a shed, but not quite big enough to be called a cottage. They have nearly all the facilities and rooms a regular home has, but in a more compact area, without all the “excess” space. This trend of down-sizing, also known as the Tiny House Movement, isn’t a new one. Rather, it’s the revival of a past idea. In the 1950’s the average American single-family home was 980 square feet. As of 2009, that average has increased by 275% to an enormous 2,700 square feet. Garages take up about 15% of that size while appliances fill another 10%. American refrigerators are double the size of those in Europe, and use enough energy to power six televisions for 10-12 hours per day (Strobel). The purpose of tiny houses is to reduce the amount of space in one’s home in order to reduce the amount of clutter in one’s life – to realize what is a w...