Saturday, November 26, 2011

urban parks in NewYork.

           There are many urban parks in New York City. New York City is the largest city in the United States and one of the largest in the world. New York City is a diverse area. It contains hundreds of different tracts with one different from the other.New York city, the city for immigrantion.  There is a different variety of races living in NYC.  Large quantities of people are immigrating to America. According to the chart of Nativity and Place of Birth, only 35.9% are foreign born in NYC as a whole, so the public spaces and urban parks are diversity.
       However, people always think why some parks are many people there, some are cold and unuseful. The main reasons are culture and ftnance. After 911, the public spaces are security and fear of the other. After attack, most pubic spaces in New York are control by security policy. As New Yorkers are very concern about their personal information were divulged, however, for the safe of the whole city, people could understand the policy as well as.
        The New york city is a city for diversity. At public space and urban park, there are also diversity. In this case, we could understand why some parks are cold and less people , some are not, because of some parks are concern about diversity cultures and other not.
       Today, the urban parks is a sign for New york.  As the biggest city in the world, New Yorker are trying to enhance the function of pubic spaces in the city.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

emigrant, who are you, where are you

      There are many emigrants in  The United Stated. The majority of them come from The third world countries. For example, Ecuador and other developing countries.In Ann's article , the author tell a personal experience whose mame Vicente, by  his experience, we could better to understand the reson emigrants come to America and how change after they come.
       The most important reason emigrants left their homeland because their economic situations. People coud not find job opprotunities in their countries, they would like to make money and change lives. Most time, they work hard, it is not only for themselves, but also for the whole families.
        In addition, mot emigrants feel they have responsbilities for the whole families, so they sand large money to their homeland, even they work longer hours everyday and make less money. However, many of them do not want to go back their country anymore, because od some family membes think them as" Americans" and there are more opportunities in this country.
      However, even they do not go back anymore, they still send money to their homeland. The process is testing the global transaccton. However, in my opinion, there are some risks are being even we are trying to enhance thw  system as well as we can.
         In conclsion, I believe The United States is the best choice for emigrants, there are more opportunities for them , either they need to make money or kooking for right positions for themselves.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

community garden and New York City

            How public space and community gardens effect people who live in New York?  Without doubt, more pubic and green spaces will enhace the level of social lives for New Yorkers. In Sokolovsky's article,he was mentioned that the community gardens is not only to grow food but also the spaces people would communicate with each other.
    Indeed, for the city, community garden should be a kind of landscape. The function of gardens should be diversity. In another word, it should be a center place for a community, and make different ages people get benefits and information in there. For example, younger people can learn about some heritages from older adults and share the experiences with themselves generation;  old adults will be more and spaces to enjoy their lives.
       In fact, the community garden  is a important for New York. More and nicer community gardens will enhance our social lives. The reason we need to build more commiity gardens and green spaces for our city beacuse of we want to enhance quality for our lives.  There is a movement abot opening more community gardens and green spaces in New York. Many New Yorkers get benefits sinces that time. 
         The big city as New York is looking for the best public green spaces for residents.  On the other hand, we realized that the green spaces and community gardens are parts of civil cultures.  They enhance quality for whole city.
       In conclusion, The community garden is not the place where we just stay there and waste our time, it is also a place we can enrich ourselves and will become a sign for New York city.

Monday, October 24, 2011

New generation, less education experiences

                Education exoeriences can change our lives, this is common sense for people. However, there is a gravely situation in some countries: many teenagers give up educational opportunities and going to their full time jobs at their early age.  In the article" office work and the crack alternative among puerto Rican drug dealers in East Harlem" explain this situaton in puerto Rica, however, the situation is not only in puerto Rica, but also in other third world countries.
           In fact, younger ages out of school and going to job  market is a risk for the society. Teenagers need to grow up and educated in their teen age, if they out of school so early, it is easy  to lost ways in their lives.
           An important reason these teenaggers give up their education because of poverty. They need to make money to enhance their lives. However, after few years they worked, they always realized that their educational experiences are not enough,  they are less educational experiences and make less money t.han people who have educational experiences, so they work, but still poverty.
               Lower ages going to work is not a good ideas for them even for their their families and the whole society.  
                   In conclusion, our socirty need more people to get work, but we are not would like to see more and more teenagers to give up their education, less education lead poverty, it is not beneits for society.
     

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Why the social system need to enhance

                In recent years, more and more people leave their homelands, move to big city asSao paulo and other large cities in this world. In the article" In Motion Transportation and Knowledge in San Paulo", Derek Pardue mention that even people leave in the same cities, different classes live in different city spaces. For example, Sao paulo, the biggest city in Brazil. The author explain his ideas by expounding the transportation system in Sao paulo.However, for authropologists, they pay attention about equally rights in the cities and systems.
          The transportation system likes a sign to show the equally of city's population. Diferent classes of cities uses different tools of transportation, however, different classes of people use different tools of transportation, the tools of transportation effects people's mental maps of the city, in another world,what teansportation tools they use, affected the moods they have.
       In addition, as I have said, our goal id to discuss the equally and reduce poverty for whole society. Poverty is lack sufficient economic resources to meet daily needs. Eliminate poverty is an important problem we should face and solve. Even in developed country as America, eliminate poverty is still first problem we have to solve.
     Indeed, there is a truth we are better to realize, absolute fair and equally are not exist in societies, the reason is our society need to develop, without doubt, the different social classes will be exist. However, the main point is how we consummate our public social system, and make different classes get the most benefits.
       In conclusion,for today's society, there are different social systems being in every nation. In this case, the social public system need enhance itsel, to take care the most people

Thursday, September 22, 2011

urbanism--- the way of life.

           Urbanism is a direction for society. urbanism became the way of life. Unbanism effects people in many ways. By LouisWirth's article" Urbanism As a way of life" the author suggests that urban way of life make people's relationships like strangers. people who live in cities have same feature, never know each other even they live in same building.Anonymity make cities become disorder and being in danger. 
         However, in article" Urban Danger" by Sally Engle Merry" mentions that the most important problem for urbanism is how make different groups people understand  each other as well as.
         I often thinfk about if urbanism make people have cold-heart and isolate from each other. However, the phenomemon is only appearance. For example, the cultures are multifarious in The United States. How make different cultures understanding and blending with each other is the major problem sociologists need to pay more attentions in the future.
            In conclsion, urbanism is actuality for today's world. It promoted progress of society. On the other hand, there are some problems appeared during this progress, but we should not negate unbanism..

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Anthropology and urban life

       Anthropology is an important part of socal science. The earliest record about anthropological is after World War Two. Then, in 1960- 1970 urban and anthropology were concern about. At this time, it widespread, but it is still for professional field. Today, people concern about anthropology as major part in Social Science.
            Unlike other sciences concern about people and technologies in developed countries, anthropology always interested about people who live in Latin Anerica, Asia and Africa. because in these countries, major population is peasants, however as we developing today, many peasents move to cities for some reasons. By the population moving,there are many  problems that cities need to face, even the big city as Tokyo.
          Tokyo is capital of Japan, it is the most popular city in  Japan even Asia. However, more and more population is to this city in recent years,make Tokyo disorder, this is unquestioned. The problems Tokyo has, it not only for Tokyo itself, but also for other cities.
       people move to city for unban lives, but how they adjust to unban life? Unban life is not only people live in cities, it is more inportant how they find the right ways to live in cities.  I think anthropologists will be contiune interested in the future. If people move to cities but could not adjust to urban life, it is not news for unban and themselves.