Compare and Contrast - London's social housing

Thèmes abordés

CAPES anglais, Compare and Contrast, capitalism, working-class, middle-class, London, violence

Résumé du document

Cette dissertation de type "compare and contrast" a été rédigée dans le cadre du CAPES d'anglais.

Extraits

[...] Therefore, the most intelligible theory comes specifically from The Guardian which finally dares to imply the political interest and orientations of local authorities only engaged in a «short-sighted race » for money which takes to « regenerate » social housing. Therefore and with the contribution of these three documents, we have an enlarged vision and some enriching insights onto the sensitive and emerging issue of London's social housing. It comes as an undoubted social conflict as true facts and observations are made here completely visible. [...]

[...] As a « nearby estate agent » has also been attacked, we could but only consider that the action also targeted the social housing policy of some private companies, whose role into changing London's aspect was then clearly identified. Nevertheless, and through a complete display of the violent means used, the article refers to the subdue question of symbolism and representation as it repeatedly mentions the specific elements « effigy» « target» and « symbolism » to then raise the question of « sense » behind the action as the owner opposed in a genuine way his independent business to « conglomerates and big companies » offering therefore some new comprehension keys to the issue. [...]

[...] In the video, the upper-class appears as unlimited as ambitious. This is also this very point that the newspaper article point out when highlighting the previous controverse about the prices of the Keery's Cereal Cafe which with £3,20 a cereal bowl were first discussed and targeted as too high for the « locals » enforcing the owners to « defend » their economic choice. Then, the novel enables to enrich the discussion explaining how a Bukharian dog-taker had to move out from Chelsea to Wandsworth in order to find a more affordable house as « the rents became (too) high » and creating in the meantime new suburbs aside. [...]

[...] The novel expresses a lot too about this new form of modern segregation in which two opposed categories are presented and involved in a complicated mutual bond. If Jonathan Coe tells and reveals most about new interdependency, clientelism and some due economical submission of one social group to the other, the two other documents focus on some mutual incomprehension among people who have been « ripped apart ». The BBC engages spectacular pictures of the London's basement reorganisation, the viewer may only be stunned by the huge and disproportionate efforts displayed along the video to reach some hard-to-understand goals. [...]

[...] This way and by creating some highly contrasted observations, all the documents are to put two different social classes face-to-face. Then comes the crucial question of who's to blame for all this, which is the point in which our different resources offer some various viewpoints. If the labourist Guardian mainly insists on the conflictual encounter between the two sides allowing the position of defender to the Keery's and the one of attacker to the other employing a large panel of contrasting words, the newspaper identifies the economical gap between the haves and the have-nots. [...]