Drawing on what you have learned about City Road‚ outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know. The purpose of this assignment is to outline some of the inequalities on a street that I know‚ namely Balham High Road‚ in order to draw comparisons to that on City Road. Balham High Road forms part of the A24 which runs from Clapham to Tooting‚ south west London. It appears a typical high street serving a local population of 21‚000 and provides a variety of retail options‚ banks and numerous
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describe the inequalities I have witnessed on City Road‚ these will be religious‚ cultural‚ gender and financial. The Oxford English dictionary describes inequality as; “a difference in size‚ degree‚ or circumstances.” In the first scene we were taken to “Death Junction” an area where five roads converge. The colloquial name can be a reference to the junction in the modern sense and can equally be a historical reference‚ this area was where the city had its gallows and at a time of religious inequality
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each on City Road Difference is a word used in social science to define the variance between groups within society. For example‚ one person can be a male Asian who is a pensioner and disabled whereas‚ another person can be an African male who is a youth‚ homeless and a baptist. They have various differences. Differences like those mentioned are determined to assist social scientists in identifying patterns‚ comparisons and irregularities within society. An example of difference on City Rd is the
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LEE SHAU KEE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION TMA1 307F Advance Tourism Management The Structure of Hong Kong Tourism And Hospitality Industry Name & Student No.: 1. CHEUNG Man Chung‚ 11284808 2. HO Ka Hei‚ 10772972 3. KEUNG Pui Yi‚ 11287699 4. WONG Wing Suet‚ 11309475 Due date: 21/10/2014 Submitted to: Dr. Ivy Chow Total Mark: /100 Introduction Hong Kong is an international city that attract many tourists from different counties around the
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have learned from the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1‚ describe some inequalities on City Road. ‘Inequality’ refers to the unequal distribution of valued social resources within a society or between societies (Blakeley et al‚ 2009‚ Page. 24). Throughout this essay I will be drawing from what I have learned from the study materials to describe some of the inequalities on City Road in Cardiff. I will be looking at the younger community compared with the elderly‚ the contrast between
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Mitigation strategies: road to sustainable cities? Introduction Society is still growing and rapidly aging‚ one person wants mobility‚ the other wants a green park in front of his house. More people‚ means more traffic density‚ more pollution‚ increasing energy consumption‚ less natural habitats‚ sinking water resources and land shortage for housing. These are some of the problems we‚ as a society‚ have nowadays. By 2050 66% of the world’s population will be urban (Powell‚ 2016). A strategic approach
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City Road in Cardiff is a busy consumer-driven street dominated by restaurants‚ takeaways and shops selling a variety of items from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds. In this essay I will be looking at how these retailers favour some groups of consumers they cater for‚ the younger female population for instance and exclude other members of the population‚ along with how the infrastructure on the road and pavements makes life easier for some groups of people and potentially hinders others
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In United Kingdom and Europe‚ the adults and volunteers working around the school‚ paid or not‚ have various names: learning support assistant‚ classroom assistant‚ special needs assistant‚ but the most common term is the one of teaching assistant. The teaching assistants are very important in primary schools‚ so much that at the moment it is nearly impossible to imagine things running as efficiently as they do‚ without the help of the teaching assistants. In the present there is a big deficit in
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TMA 1 LLS203/05 CROSS CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE Name : HOR CHEE HORNG Student ID : 031140049 Class Code : 3CUL1 Contact No : 012-7665755 Email : cheehorng85@hotmail.com Submission Date: 5th March 2015 Tutor : PERINPARAJAH AL CHINNIAH Course Coordinator: JASMINE SELVARANI No. of Pages : 12 QUESTION 1 COMMUNICATION IS ESSENTIAL IN TODAY GLOBAL BUSINESS WORLD Communication is the basis of business therefore it is essential for us to learn a culture or cultures to help overcome
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The making‚ and re-making‚ of City Road Since the late 19th Century‚ City Road and its residents have gone through many changes. We have seen‚ (The Open University‚ 2015) and read about‚ (Blakeley and Staples‚ 2014) how society has been made and remade‚ reflecting the wider economic climate. The term ‘making and re-making’ implies that; City road has changed‚ is changing‚ and will most likely change again. The residents have also made‚ and remade‚ their own lives. Mark‚ the gentleman who
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