Community Displacement in Philadelphia Essays

  • Essay On Gentrification

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    higher-income households move into low income neighborhoods, escalating the area’s property values to the point that displacement occurs.” Gentrification generally takes place in deteriorating urban or rural areas. The purpose of gentrification is to take struggling neighborhoods and stabilize them by increasing property value. Naturally the system isn’t perfect, as it has the side effect of displacement, which can cause some people to have too move to a different location, but overall this gentrification is

  • South Africa: Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement

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    alternative agricultural arable farm lands at the resettlement host sites (in the form of payments for Permission to Occupy) however it is the households duty to find adequate alternative agricultural farm land In the new settlement(s), because the community of Makobakoba is not moving to the same village as a one group i.e. others are moving to Mongatana Village, Seokodibeng Village, and Magobading Village there is a great loose of social fabric and kinship. ‘’Dismantled social networks that once

  • Newark and Philadelphia Policy Review

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    review the programs that the cities of Newark and Philadelphia implemented and why these issues are important. The analysis will also examine the programs each city created to address the violence in the specific urban areas of their city and the impacts the programs have had to date. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of police foot patrol as a means of deterrence through apprehension and as a means of risk reduction, community and problem oriented policing, high crime neighborhood

  • Gentrification Pros And Cons

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    groups of people from different races, backgrounds, cultures, and ideas to make improvements in the city; However, there continues to be high levels of inequality and poverty in these areas. Gentrification has caused tension and conflict in many communities where a dynamic and culture had already been established.

  • The SARA Model

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    The Academic Justification (2300) The SARA Model will define the following section of the essay as the Assessment section, the purpose of this is to collect data to evaluate where the proposed response had a beneficial effect and illuminated the problem at hand (Greene, 2007). Both prevention strategies proposed, incorporates a range of ideas from Situation Prevention; the aim of all theories under Situational Prevention is to, reduce or remove the opportunity to commit an offence and amend criminogenic

  • Difference Between Reform And Orthodox Judaism

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    The Jewish population has a deep and important history. Today over 1,138,200,000 people all over the world identify as part of the Jewish community. The Jewish religion is constantly growing and developing to coincide with modern times. As the world changes, more controversial questions arise in the Jewish faith. Through these concerns, Judaism is encouraged to evolve with the modern times, and, through this development, two different types of Judaism emerged: reform and orthodox Judaism. Reform

  • The Housing Act of 1949

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    complications that would exacerbate the urban crisis farther. Affordable high-rise housing built as a result of the act would force people who could afford it to move out into the growing suburbs and the poor devour the structures. As a result of displacement and previous Supreme Court decisions blockbusters would move African Americans into previous white neighborhoods which caused the movement of segregated districts within the cities to change. Spirits in the United States were high after World

  • Murder Capital: “Chiraq, Drillinois” a City at War

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    Gang life exists as a lifestyle because of a lack of access to resources. Gangs are classically viewed as a by-product of social disorganization, the weakness of traditional institutions, like the schools, to replace the lost primary networks of the traditional world. Home of the Chicago Bulls and great players, such as, Michael Jordan and Derick Rose, who have won six rings and it is considered to host one of the greatest NBA teams of all times. It is the adopted hometown of the 44th President of

  • History and Effectiveness of a Police Foot Patrol

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    processing at a simplified level. It is the hope of this essay to accomplish the main goal of proving that police foot patrol in hot spots is an effective deterrent. The National Research Council summarized that police foot patrol was an unfocused community policing strategy that provided only weak-moderate evidence of reducing fear of crime (Ratcliffe et al. 2011). In a study done in 2005, (Braga 2005) concluded that there was a significant difference in residence opinion of police foot patrol in

  • Rail Transportation In Los Angeles County

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    Congested freeways in Los Angeles are well documented in today's pop culture and the impacts on the city's residents are very real. Angelenos experience the effects through wasted gas costs, pollution, and an average of 89 hours spent in traffic (Jones). In hope of relief, 70 percent of Angelenos voted to pass measure M last november, a measure which will allocate $29 billion to rail transit expansion (Metro). However, with the enormous cost of these developments, it is reasonable to question if

  • The Film Swades by Ashutosh Gowariker

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    Indian Cinema Abroad” in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture. Ed. Shilpa Dave, LeLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren. New York: NYU Press, 2005. Sunaina Marr Maira, Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Vijay Mishra, Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire. London: Routledge, 2002. Arvind Rajagopal, Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India. Cambridge: Cambridge UP

  • Ruby Daniel’s Ruby of Cochin: an Indian Jewish Woman Remembers

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    from the Indian community of Cochin” (Irene Eber). Situated within the context of Cochin Jews, Daniel attempts to interlink a series of personal lived histories with the larger national histories. Using the case study of Cochin Jews, the writer examines the hitherto socio-cultural historical representations and their underlying political agenda. Through her memoir Daniel critically addresses questions like, who benefits from claiming authentic representations of Jewish community in Kerala? What does

  • What Is Bruce Springsteen's View Of The American Dream

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    Reflection on the American Dream in the Views and Songs of Bruce Springsteen ABSTRACT: When promoting his album Wrecking Ball in Paris on 2012, Bruce Springsteen told journalists that his work had always been about judging the distance between American reality and the American Dream. This article explores one founding myth of the United States, the American Dream in some songs of Bruce Springsteen and tries to measure the gap between the dream and real life in the U.S. today. Keywords: American

  • Homeless Families in America

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    “Home is where we start from.”(T.S. Eliot) “Home …is …the human point of ultimate return.” (John Hollander) Although most people know what homelessness is and it occurs in most societies, it is important to define because the forces of displacement vary greatly, along with the arrangement and meaning of the resulting transient state. The Stewart B McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 defined a homeless person as “an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence