Essays Tagged: "Public space"
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies - The Manufacturing of Human Culture.
rld. She went to Export Processing Zones such as Indonesia and the Philippines and she also visited public institutions such as universities and elementary schools and the Roots Lodge in Ucluelet, Van ... ent things that impact everyone, everywhere. It is a book that shows how the commercial takeover of public space, the destruction of consumer choice, the replacement of real jobs with temporary work, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Territoriality in Public Spaces
Territoriality in Public SpacesWould you linger in an area, such as a telephone box or car parking space, if somebody ... leave the area quickly, but research shows that in some cases territorial behaviour can occur in a public place.Territorial behaviour often occurs in areas of private ownership, such as a person's ho ... st expected. The area of interest to psychologists, however, is when this behaviour does occur in a public space.A lot of research has been done into this area. Altman (1975) was one of the first psyc ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The Advertised Life According to Vanderbilt
ducts orthe lifestyle behind the product essential to the consumer. In today'ssociety every sort of public space like billboards, walls, Internet, andradio waves are used to assimilate people into thi ... ion commented negatively on the CoorsBrewing Company, freedom of speech, freedom of expression in a publicarea, and representation of the individual was overruled. A Coorsrhetorical spokesperson respo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Black Men and Public Space
epting of others. Nevertheless, there are still those who simply cannot. In his essay Black Men and Public Space, Brent Staples describes something that most young black men experience on more than on ... he pockets of his military jacket. This when he realizes the power he possessed. The power to alter public spaces by simply being black.Staples notices the sounds of car doors being locked as he passe ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
When is it acceptable to use a cell phone? Should we be punished for having bad manners?
de a restaurant, you'll probably say that it is not polite of him or her to use the phone in such a public place where people go expecting to have a good time, without too many noise or loud talking. ... she will probably say that he/she knows that it's not completely right to talk on the phone inside public places but the call was tremendously important, they couldn't help talking back. If we focus ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Athens / Rome Planning and Structure.
efined by colonnaded stoa, serving as the covered, market stalls.The point is that the shape of the public space was not symmetrical, and public spaces didn't become symmetrical until the Renaissance ... mmetrical until the Renaissance "discovery" of perspective and consequently, the "invention" of the public square in 17th century France (Place des Vosges).Similarly, ancient Rome was a mixture of, wh ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History
How Public Space Reflects a society: Old Pasadena
Public space is an open environment which is created and given lives through forms of human interact ... ording to Jack Soloman's Interpreting the Built Environment, "[these] spaces of everyday life, both public and private, personal and architectural, are packed...with complex codes that we violate or i ... n place through semiotic method, one will be able to discover to what extent that place serves as a public space and how it reflects a larger area on the whole. The Old Town Pasadena on Colorado Boule ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
A research paper on Agoraphobia
in 1871. Westphal felt the term was appropriate because it described how people felt vulnerable in public places and in particular where there was no obvious exit. In his original description, Westph ... it. In his original description, Westphal described his four patients who had attacks of anxiety in public places. He described how several of them used alcohol to reduce their fears. The term agoraph ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Rhetorical uses in "Black Men and Public Space" by Brent Staples
up in Black and White which won the Anisfield-Wolff Book Award in 1995. Beside that, "Black Men and Public Space" was also his interesting work with numerous rhetorical uses adding more effects in des ... , but his race does for the reason that it's black. According to him, this is "the ability to alter public space in ugly ways." This "ability" is the main reason to make the author "surprise," "embarr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Banning Smoking
gle positive effect smoking does to people and any reason that will prevent banning smoking.Smoking publicly is another major issue because smokers are not only hurting themselves as they smoke in pub ... it seems like non-smokers deserve less right as they are forced to breath fume from smokers in the public and end up suffering from diseases or eventually die? If the government cannot do a total ban ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Baning Cigarettes
aws for years, ranging from the reduction of smoking areas to the outright banning of cigarettes in public places. There has always been pressure from health organizations but with the recent uproar o ... the past few years for example, smoking has been banned from school property as well as many other public places. Hillary Clinton has banned smoking in the White House, and in New York City advertise ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Banning Smoking
gle positive effect smoking does to people and any reason that will prevent banning smoking.Smoking publicly is another major issue because smokers are not only hurting themselves as they smoke in pub ... it seems like non-smokers deserve less right as they are forced to breath fume from smokers in the public and end up suffering from diseases or eventually die? If the government cannot do a total ban ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Brent Staples
Altering Public Space in Ugly Ways In his essay "Black Men and Public Space", Brent Staples attempts to ... tion. Despite its few weak points, Staples essay serves an important purpose. "Black Men and Public Space" exposes the racism to those who are not conscious of it, even though they may be ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Brent Staples
"Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power To Alter Public Space"� Stereotypes affect different individuals regardless race, religion, sex, and c ... ardless race, religion, sex, and creed. In "Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space,"� Brent Staples demonstrates how a stereotype on race and sex can intervene wit ... negative outcomes on the audience Staples is trying to enlighten. His thesis, the ability to alter public space through racial stereotypes, affected him as well as many other persons of his stature a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Male Bashing on TV
d beyond.Work Citedhttp://www.answers.com/topic/stereotype. 8 Nov 2008Brent Staples. "Black Men and Public Space". The Bedford Guide for College Writers. 8 Nov 2008. 4793. "Stereotypes of African Amer ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Comsumption and shopping experiences
y in a world of official order (Sorkin 1992). However, in modern times, a market place is seen as a public space serving democratic societies by reconciling relation conflicts between society and the ... isation of retail culture and the standardization of urban architecture (Voyce 2006). This situates public space under control of private corporations. A modern market place disintegrates the locally ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Litter Essay
ts vermin and bacteria. Broken glass and other sharp objects also cause harm to people when left in public places. And most importantly, no one would like gum on their shoe, when walking on streets.Li ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays