...heroin addicts in London. After this, she landed more magazine assignments and even worked on film sets as a still photographer. One film Mark captured in still photography was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Jack Nicholson. To continue her traveling experience, Mark also took several trips to India and the Middle East to photograph the many subcultures of the area. While she was there, Mark spent time with Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic humanitarian worker, in Calcutta (Figure 1). During these trips, Mark created a photo series on Indian circuses. Included in this series is a photograph of a monkey trainer’s daughter, Figure 2, in New Delhi, India. The most gripping photos by Mark are said to be included in her series Streetwise, an assignment for Life magazine in 1983 on runaways and street children in Seattle, Washington (noteablebiographies.com). Mark and reporter Cheryl McCall chose to shoot in Seattle because at the time it was known as America’s most livable city (maryellenmark.com). When she arrived in Seattle, Mark met a 13-year-old girl who looked even younger than her age. She wore very...
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...Through her expressive photographs, Mary Ellen Mark takes us on a journey without barriers into the lives not often seen of others. My main focus in this paper is to analyze Mary Ellen Mark’s social documentation through the connotative and denotative aspects of her photographs, which capture a scene but say a thousand words. A humanization to all her photographs, which is a true gift of Mark’s and is a style that seems to be disappearing today. I have always been in “aw” of Mary Ellen Mark” since I was 12 years old. I wanted to travel around the world and capture life in a different perspective. She was my inspiration on many photographs I have taken in my life. When I was 14, I was living in another country and joined my first photography group. I used Marks inspiration to photograph poverty, war, and to capture portraits of lives not seen by others. At 15, I was given my own exhibit and I was able to show others photographs that said a thousand words. It was a success and after that moment I knew what path I wanted to take in my life. Mary Ellen Mark has a very distinct style, typically narrating the lives of people that are in extremely heartbreaking situations, such as physical abuse, prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction. Marks ability to capture the brutal honesty of her subjects is extremely unique to her style of photography. She blasts through the scarred walls of her subjects and exhibits their raw vulnerability leaving no room for sentiment. Mark...
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...urban poverty remain pressing challenges which the United States has yet to address. Changes in the global economy, technology, and race relations during the last 30 years have necessitated new and innovative analyses and policy responses. A common thread which weaves throughout many of the studies reviewed here is the dynamics of migration. In When Work Disappears, immigrants provide comparative data with which to highlight the problems of ghetto poverty affecting blacks. In No Shame in My Game, Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants are part of the changing demographics in Harlem. In Canarsie, the possible migration of blacks into a working/middle-class neighborhood prompts conservative backlash from a traditionally liberal community. In Streetwise, the migration of yuppies as a result of gentrification, and the movement of nearby-ghetto blacks into these urban renewal sites also invoke fear of crime and neighborhood devaluation among the gentrifying community. Not only is migration a common thread, but the persistence of poverty, despite the current economic boom, is the cornerstone of all these works. Poverty, complicated by the dynamics of race in America, call for universalistic policy strategies, some of which are articulated in Poor Support and The War Against the Poor. In When Work Disappears, William Julius Wilson builds upon many of the insights he introduced in The Truly Disadvantaged, such as the rampant joblessness, social isolation, and lack of marriageable males...
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...Brief History. 1968: A Pretoria-based concern, Praetor Monteerders begins assembling BMWs at its factory in Rosslyn. 1973: BMW acquires Praetor Monteerders and establishes BMW South Africa. The South African plant is the first to be established outside Germany. 1986: Unique to South Africa, the BMW 333i, with its sport suspension, low profile tyres, aerodynamic styling and 6-cylinder 3.2 litre engine, quickly becomes known as South Africa's most agile streetwise performer. 1994: BMW South Africa becomes the only local motor manufacturer to achieve ISO 9002 certification. The certification proves that BMW South Africa is capable of producing cars and components within a quality management system that meets the highest international standards. 1996: BMW AG invests R1 billion on the upgrade of the Rosslyn production facility, bringing the plant in line with motor manufactoring facilities worldwide and earning it the title of "BMW World Plant, Rosslyn". 1998: BMW celebrates 25 years in South Africa. 1998: Then Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, visited the upgraded World Plant Rosslyn. 1998: BMW South Africa launches the new 3 Series built at the Rosslyn Plant. 1999: BMW South Africa's Vehicle Distribution Centre - the central holding and distribution area for all BMW vehicles - opens in May. 1999: BMW South Africa becomes the first motor manufacturer in the world to achieve certification for its integrated (Quality, Health and Safety and Environmental) management...
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...involvement. Operation Peacekeeper has reduced very positive results gun homicides decreased by 35% between 1997-2002. Prior to the intervention there were 2.9 gun homicides the monthly average then dropped to 1.9 during the intervention. After the peace keeper intervention ended there was a slight increase in gun homicides with the monthly average being 2.1, which was still a significant reduction. Operation Peacekeeper was responsible for a 42 percent decrease in the monthly number of gun homicide incidents in Stockton. I feel that the success of this program is due to the youth outreach workers serving as not only mentors but positive role models and these youths were able to relate to these outreach workers because they were considered “streetwise”. When at risk youth have people, they can relate to on some level serving as a positive role model I feel that these workers became much more effective. The less effective program is the Gang Reduction Program (GRP) found in Richmond, VA. GRP was funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). GRP collaborated with federal law enforcement agencies and members of the community to combat local gangs specifically African American gangs, Latin Kings, and MS-13. GRP tactics included using probation, law enforcement, social services, schools, and other services providers as intervention teams and street outreach workers. Some of the 2.5 million dollars invested in the GRP also went towards...
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...The story of A A was a sensible, hard working 25 year old. She had a secure and successful career and worked hard during the week to enjoy her weekend. She had never been in trouble with the law and considered herself to be streetwise. She lived about 30 minutes from the city centre and regularly got public transport in to the city for nights out. To get home A would share taxis with her friends who would get out at different stops along the way. A had experienced the journey home dozens of times and knew how long the journey should take. A was the last stop and was responsible for paying the taxi driver at the end of the evening. After A’s night had ended, as usual she joined her friends in finding a taxi to take her and her friends home. A and her friends found a taxi and agreed a price for the journey. A told the driver that they had half the cost in cash, but that A would withdraw the rest of the cash from the cash machine at the top of her road. A and her friends were actually putting themselves at risk by not pre-booking a taxi (finding a taxi on the street invalidates the taxi drivers’ insurance). A and her friends did not think anything of it; they were not particularly drunk, they just didn’t pay attention. There was only two stops that evening, A’s friend first and then A. After dropping A’s friend off safely at home, A was alone in the taxi. The taxi driver drove around a mile down the road and suddenly pulled over. He aggressively demanded full upfront payment...
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...knowing her plans, and she used this to cause misery to those around her. The issue of taking advantage of another’s gender is present. Hedda used being a female as a disguise for all the nasty things she was doing. Looking at this teaches us that not everyone can be trusted and people often have ulterior motives. In today’s society, people still manipulate others. Just as Hedda Gabler, women still marry men for wealth and reputation. People claim that if you are against gun control, you are for violence and the killing of school kids. Media uses manipulation to get consumers to believe a certain way. Sales-persons and bogus tradespeople easily manipulate elderly citizens. Homeless and lost children are easily manipulated by pedophiles, streetwise adolescent addicts and other undesirables lurking to make a fast buck. We live in a society that is dependent on communication, and the newest fad is desired. People will go to endless means to get their fix. All people have an addiction, and some people use manipulative ways to get what they want. Mass media is used to persuade voters how to vote and consumers what to buy. Commercials trick people into purchasing specific products. Manipulative people do not care about other people’s boundaries. They do not understand that by hurting someone else, they are also harming their self. The only thing the person is interested in is the power that comes along with it. People today are self-centered just as Hedda was. Hedda pretended she loved...
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...their unique, occasionally contentious alliance...” (Movielocity 2001). Basically, the relationship between them was tense at times because trust ran thin. This is important because when there is a lack of trust, it takes more courage to help one another because it is not always possible to know what the other’s intentions are. This matters because it is the extra courage in both parties that makes the relationship work. Being around new people makes people need more courage than being around people they know. People need more courage in places they are unfamiliar. When Jamal starts attending his new school, he needs extra courage because he is now surrounded by people and places he has never seen. Berardinelli (2000) states, “... his streetwise background makes him a social outsider amidst a sea of rich, pampered kids...”. In other words, Jamal is all alone in a big school where he is the outcast. This connects because Jamal needs more courage to perform because he does not know anyone in his new school where he has to go every day. This matters because it proves that when people are in places they are unfamiliar or new, it takes more courage to function the same as they used to, or at least on the same level as those surrounding them. Forrester needs a lot more courage to go outside his apartment to go to the school or the basketball game. Jamal helps Forrester break the shell he has made around himself from the outside world to realize everything he has been missing (Movielocity...
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...The Streets are not A Home for Youth Carlton Crayton English 147 August 31, 2015 University of Phoenix The Streets are not A Home for Youth The United States of America; the "Land of Milk and Honey," also known throughout the world as a place of prosperity. While this may be true for some, there is a significant percentage of the American population who lives in poverty. There are many who are so impoverished that they do not even have a place to call home. While homelessness has always existed in America, never before has this nation seen such a high percentage of its youth population living on the streets. Even though Young people often become homeless due to family conflict and substance abuse, youth is at a higher risk for homelessness than adults ("Starry Children At Heart Ministries, Inc.", 2015). In order to reduce the number of homeless youth, society needs to address the high rates of substance abuse, mental illness, and sexual trauma that is experienced by today's young adults. Substance abuse of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs are prevalent amongst homeless youth. Many, young adolescent young people who became or on the verge of becoming homeless, were brought up in households where drug and alcohol were being used on a regular basis by parents or guardians. Domestic violence and some form of abuse within the home was present. Therefore, prompted the youthful pre-adult youth, encountering a horrible and traumatic adolescence. Subsequently;...
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...revenge for the stereotyping in ''Fatal Attraction,'' even though both films were written and directed by men. The movie, which opens today nationwide, also exploits an ugly undercurrent of class warfare. Its star, Jennifer Lopez, plays a spunky working-class woman suckered into marriage with a rich yuppie master of the universe who brutally abuses her. In the movie's climax, she faces down her husband in one-on-one combat, armed with brass knuckles and fortified by a crash course in martial arts. Will honest working-class pluck and self-reliance triumph over spoiled upper-class privilege? You don't have to ask. Throughout, Ms. Lopez holds the screen in a star performance that has less to do with acting than with embodying a forceful, streetwise woman who stands up for herself. The movie's yuppie monster, versions of which you may have already met in ''Sleeping With the Enemy'' and ''American Psycho,'' is a handsome, homicidal rageoholic and control freak named Mitch (Billy Campbell), who operates with an unlimited sense of personal entitlement. A successful contractor, he enters the life of Slim (Ms. Lopez), a tough-talking waitress, like a toxic Prince Charming and sweeps her off her feet in an elaborate scam cooked up with...
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...Milton & Lennie Small being the two ranch workers who always find themselves fleeing from town to town, ranch to ranch; never being able to settle down they find themselves moving up northwest after Lennie gets himself into a bit of trouble back in their previous location Weed. As of after he winds up in a situation where he saw a red dress of a nice fabric that he had liked and decided to grab, this frightening the woman and resulting in her screaming rape and leaving Lennie and George with no other option but to run away as he too would have faced the death penalty as being an accomplice of Lennie. Steinbeck describes George as the more complex character(Quote) for the reader to get to know, he is given the description of quite a streetwise and aware character from Steinbeck’s definition using the phrases "small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp strong features” suggesting he is like a mouse and lets us in on some visual imagery early on in the story as he tells us “Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and...
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...to bear, and the sooner he buried it in the locked vault in his mind, the sooner he would heal. Climbing onto the hood of his Mustang, he sat cross-legged and waited for Booker. Having coordinated their arrival times, he had to wait several minutes, but when the familiar black Cadillac pulled into the school’s parking lot, he jumped down and approached the vehicle. “Hey, Brady!” Booker immediately slipped into character. “What do you want, McQuaid?” he asked, slamming the Caddy’s door closed with a bang. A sly grin curled one corner of Tom’s mouth. “Wanna make some coin?” The urban vernacular sounded strange coming from a man as educated as Tom, and once again, Booker found himself suitably impressed. Hanson’s portrayal of a young, streetwise smartass would fool anyone, including a seasoned professional, and the dark-haired officer knew he needed to step it up a notch or risk being the one to give the game away. Making sure to time his reply so it was within earshot of a group of passing seniors, the dark-haired officer raised a nonchalant eyebrow. “Let’s say I do. Whaddya have in mind?” Tom’s face broke into a mischievous grin. “I’ll explain on the way to class.” The two officers fell into step, their shoulders almost touching, their conversation uttered in low, conspiratorial whispers. Several students watched on, their expressions wary. Brady and McQuaid had only been at Westview High one day, but they already had a reputation for being insolent, disruptive tough guys...
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...Hip-hop is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music. Stylized rhythmic music is music where the rhythm is altered to suit the genre. The culture of hip-hop evolved in the 1970’s and was a movement consisting of streetwise ingenuity. There are four elements of hip-hop; these include rapping, disc jockey (DJ), break dancing and graffiti writing/art. More specifically, rap can incorporate synthesizers (an electronic musical instrument), drum machines and live bands. Some subgenres of rap include alternative, gangsta, political, East Coast, West Coast, crunk and hyphy. The hip-hop movement originated in the 1970’s in South Bronx, New York. African American teenagers living in the South Bronx and Harlem could not afford admission...
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...Introduction This is not only a fine opportunity, but an organization is a place where my qualifications can make a difference. As an executive well versed in the new stock options law, I see this position as made to order. It contains the challenge to keep me on my toes. That's the kind of job I like to anticipate every morning. My long-term goals will be to involve growing with a company where I can continue to learn, take on additional responsibilities, and contribute as much of value as I can. • I see myself as a top performing employee in a well-established organization • I plan on enhancing my skills and continuing my involvement in (related) professional associations. • Once I gain additional experience, I would like to move on from a technical position to management. • In the XYZ Corporation, what is a typical career path for someone with my skills and experiences Long accustomed to playing a pivotal role in corporate expansion overseas, traditional country executives began to fall from favor in the 1980s, branded as an obstacle to the spread of globalization. Seeking to exploit the promises of worldwide communication, product standardization, and economies of scale, many multinationals reduced their country executives’ responsibility for decision making and profit and loss. Geographic prior gave way to worldwide strategic business units or product directors operating from central headquarters. In managing this transition, many companies adopted the transnational...
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...Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty Once upon a time, most young girls grew up watching Disney’s classic princess films. Most of these films ended with the princesses marrying the prince and living happily ever after! For example “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty” they are both princess that have evil villains trying to ruin them, but their stories are not the same. For example, they have different struggles, and how they overcome them. They both sing magically, but have different songs. They may be two of the most known princess in the world, but they also have many differences. However, in the end either the glass slipper fits, or true loves kiss wins. Cinderella and Aurora are two of the most beloved Disney princess of all time. How they got to be the most loved princesses is two completely different stories literally! Cinderella is a good-hearted girl, who is a servant in her own home to her cruel step-mother and two step-sisters because her father died at a young age. As Aurora is a kind hearted princess born into royalty. Although she is living with misfortune, as Cinderella, because and evil fairy named Maleficent curses her to die on sixteenth birthday. So Aurora is a more tragic story. However, Cinderella is a more hopeful and optimistic story that one day things will turn around. She dreams of a day that she will no longer be a servant in her own home. Her chance comes true when there is a ball at the castle, where the prince is looking for his future wife. With the...
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