Gentrification has evidently been transforming countless aspects of society that we need to consider and reevaluate in order to ensure we are living the way we desire as well as awarding others that same privilege. I found the New York Post article “When Brooklyn juries gentrify defendants lose,” a perfect example of that. It highlighted an aspect of our judicial system […]
I should start by saying that I do believe that some symptoms of gentrification are not intentional, a belief presented in Recent Trends: Gentrification and Globalization. As an amateur artist, I can confirm that there is a need for low-cost workspaces. Art supplies are quite expensive, yet as art projects can pile up, affordable places […]
I always hear about gentrification, but I never really understood the catastrophic impact it has aside from people being forced to move. The fact that low-income citizens are forced out of their homes, whether explicitly or implicitly, is awful. Gentrification is chaotic and destructive when low-income families are forced to move because their landlords increase the rent […]
This is a couple of hours late for the extra credit, but I got really engaged with it so I figured I’d share anyway. Link to the original: Earrings One of these earrings comes from a pair that my great-grandmother owned, the only jewelry she ever had. The second earring was made to match the first, […]
My grandmother was a victim of the horrors that the Holocaust wreaked on the Jews of the 20th century. She was deported to Siberia on a cattle car. She and her father caught malaria and she watched her father perish. She was starving, freezing and suffering through awful conditions. Through it all, she held on […]
Since I was 12, the ring that I wear on the fourth finger of my right hand has been an integral fashion accessory. There has hardly been a day that I haven’t worn it in the six years since my mom gave it to me in honor of my bat mitzvah. At 12, a girl […]
My family originates from Sri Lanka, a tropical island country that is dutifully coined “the teardrop of India”. This ordinate statue represents my late paternal grandfather’s documentarist works. Throughout the majority of his life, my grandfather recorded video of the predominantly arborous landscape of the rural city of Paradenia. These recordings were a means of capturing […]
Arresting a criminal for breaking a law is just, given that the law itself is morally sturdy. Is jumping a turnstile truly immoral? On the one hand, it deleteriously affects the MTA workers whose salary depends on the meager $2.50. On the other hand, many people, who live “in poverty,” may rely on the subway […]
In my hands are grains of Jasmine rice: bought from the supermarket, imported from Thailand, grown by Thai farmers. Just like the bags of Jasmine rice, my grandparents and parents originated in Thailand and moved to the United States. With them, they brought over their food. The food I eat today is the food my […]
Over Passover, I was in my grandmother’s room looking for an object that represented my family’s story. In her jewelry box, I saw a ring that I’ve never seen her wear. I lifted the gold ring with a puzzled look on my face. My grandma took my hand and put the ring on my left […]
