Kibera Essays

Imagine getting put in jail for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread. This is what Jean Valjean had to experience. Jean Valjean, the main character of Tom Hooper’s drama Les Miserables, gets out of prison, where he was put for stealing a loaf of bread, at the beginning of the movie. After being told that he’d be let out of jail, his dreams of living a normal life were utterly shattered within a couple seconds. This happened because Javert gave him a slip of paper marking him as a ‘dangerous’

Martin Scorsese is a famous hollywood producer and director that makes real life stories into blockbuster films. His biggest films The Wolf of Wall Street and Goodfellas share the same kind of story even though they are both based on true stories about different people with different backgrounds. Both the stories share how the main character is a success driven individual that strives and achieves a life of excess and the feeling of being invincible. Scorsese uses the same kind of pause stop directing

Affordable housing is a necessary demand in life for people who have low income. According to (Tran, 2015) view that, affordable housing is a worthy resource which has great potentialities in the economy and it has contributed enormously to change the appearance of the city as well as countryside. The target of affordable housing gives the support to the community. For example, affordable housing can give us benefit in all aspects such as it brings profit in business, improving the standard of living

living environments. It resolves a big number of slums in many cities in the universe such as Dharabi in Mumbai, Kibera in Kenya and Kadwe in Zambia where lack of good condition and serious unsanitary. By this way, affordable housing receives positive idea such as “If construct affordable housing, then the remainder of the slum can be raised. This could change the whole lifestyle of Kibera” (Lunami, n.d.). Also, affordable housing always has sewerage system, fresh water and collecting garbage services

Sandy and sun-kissed beaches, pristine sea water, and picturesque island sceneries are among the attractions for tourists to wish to set their feet on. But, have you ever wondered that there are surprisingly horrendous cities advocated by subcultures of pollution, gangsters or poverty? These places have been considered as most polluted, horrible, miserable and violence places in the world. Mogadiscio, Somalia Mogadiscio or Mogadishu, literally means ‘The Seat of the Shah, is the largest city in

causing bleeding and infection. Female circumcision is a tradition in their community. It is for keeping the chastity of their girls, lowering their sexual drive and for keeping them under control. An expert person who does female circumcision with 10-12 patients a day said that it is tradition and difficult to abandon also because it is her profession and her source of income. Although, with another source of income she said she would abandon the practice. The midwife was able to reduce marital

Cooperative agreements between potential or actual competitors are determined by various strategic purposes, which include entry into a foreign market and the sharing of costs. It is also a way of merging complementary skills and assets that neither company could easily develop on its own. Pearce & Robinson (2007) agree with Barla & Constantatos (2006) who argue the need for cooperation arises mostly from the desire of major airlines to offer global services, increase service quality, exploit size

POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A CASE OF NAIROBI CITY A Reflection By: Jack Ong’iro Odeo ED/0274/2002 Presented to: Mr. Edward Bantu Department of Educational Psychology Faculty of Education Maseno University March 2005 Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the course PSY 310: Human Growth and Development 1.0 Introduction It is approximated that two million people live and work in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. Most of these people are young men and women. Kenya was once named