Vice City

. The term "womanhood" merely means the state of being a woman; "femininity" is used to refer to a set of supposedly typical female qualities associated with a certain attitude to gender roles; "womanliness" is like "femininity", but is usually associated with a different view of gender roles; "femaleness" is a general term, but is often used as shorthand for "human femaleness"; "distaff" is an archaic adjective derived from women's conventional role as a spinner, now used only as a deliberate archaism; "muliebrity" is a neologism meant to provide a female counterpart of "virility", but used very loosely, sometimes to mean merely "womanhood", sometimes "femininity", and sometimes even as a collective term for women. As we say in these parts, our welcome may not always be friendly, but it's always warm.". There are various words used to refer to the quality of being a woman. Besides, we serve the best tacos in the south-east, and there's no denying the Vice City orange juice is the finest in the USA. A number of other derogatory terms for women are also in common usage. Mary Clam, President of the Tourist Board, told us 'Vice City has a deservedly bad reputation as a very dangerous city, but as long as visitors stay out of the downtown area, only go out in daylight hours and never leave their car, they stand a very good chance of survival. Some regard non-parallel usages, such as men and girls, as sexist.

As Mrs. In this sense, girl may be considered to be the analogue to the British word bloke for a man. Still, it's not all bad. In more informal settings, the use of girl to refer to an adult female is also common practice in certain usage (such as girls' night out), even among elderly women. Vice City now boasts the highest murder rates, the highest amounts of drug-related crime and the least respected police department of anywhere in the USA. Referring to an unmarried female as woman can, in such a culture, imply that she is sexually experienced, which would be an insult to her family. Initial attempts to control the troubles by the Police Department failed following revelations of wide spread corruption and drug trafficking within the force, and the problems have escalated in the last five years. Conversely, in certain non-Western cultures which link family honor with female virginity, the word girl is still used to refer to a never-married woman; in this sense it is used in a fashion roughly analogous to the obsolete English maid or maiden.

The once-peaceful Rastafarian community has become a haven for Yardie criminals who found the going a little too hot in Kingston, and their clashes with the Colombian drug lords have given western Vice City an unenviable reputation. The use remains commonplace in several other English-speaking countries. More than anywhere else in America, Vice City is the archetypal 'melting pot', with large Caribbean, Colombian and European communities, always feuding with another, often with very violent consequences. Since the early 1970s, feminists have challenged such usage, and today, using the word in the workplace (as in office girl) is typically considered inappropriate in the United States and United Kingdom because it implies a view of women as infantile. Modern-day visitors might feel slighlty-less fortunate if they take a wrong turning and stumble into the nastier corners of Little Dominica. Nowadays girl is also often used colloquially to refer to a young or unmarried woman. The down town area of Felicity is so-called to reflect the fortune early settlers felt at arriving at such a beautiful place. The word girl originally meant "young person of either sex"; it was only around the beginning of the 16th century that it came to mean specifically a female child.

From the retired doctors and lawyers of Vice Beach to the cocaine dealers of Little Bogota, everyone is desperate to show off just how much they can spend in this subtropical paradise. As previously mentioned, the term man continues to carry its original sense of "Human", though this usage results in an asymmetry which is sometimes criticized as sexist. "A former Spanish slaving colony, Vice City, or City of the Fallen Angel, holy mother of all and yet of nothing, to give it it's Spanish name, is a city that revolves around just one thing; money. The equivalents for "man" in Old English were wer (a cognate of Latin vir, "man") and wǣpnedmann, literally "weaponed person". From the official website:. This formation is peculiar to English. Leith Links is where the earliest record of golf is found in the world, and Leith bolster's its claim to be "the home of golf" because the first official rules were formulated there. The English language's original word for "woman" was Old English wīf, akin to German Weib; it later became the modern word "wife." The modern word "woman" etymologically derives from wīfmann, with the addition of mann, "person", from Germanic mannaz.

The name "Leaf Links" is possibly inspired by "Leith Links", a park in Leith near Rockstar North's HQ in Edinburgh, Scotland. These changes and struggles are among the foci of the academic field of women's studies.
. Leaf Links may also be inspired by the number of country clubs scattered along the eastern coast of Miami, including the Bayshore Country Club and La Gorce Golf Course in Miami Beach, Normandy Shores Golf Course, Indian Creek and Haulover Park. Despite these advances, modern women in Western society still face challenges in the workplace as well as with the topics of education, violence, health care, and motherhood to name a few. The logic of a country club in Vice City may be attributed by the presence of wealthy residents and ideally sunny weather in the city. Through a combination of economic changes and the efforts of the feminist movement in recent decades women in most societies now have access to careers beyond the traditional one of "homemaker". Indeed, golf carts are constantly seen in and around the club as a form of transportation, including on the open road surrounded by the club compound. The difficulties of obtaining this recognition are due to historical factors combined with the habits and customs history has produced.

The Leaf Links country club consists primarily of golf courses, as well as tennis courts and the clubhouse. The women's movement is in part a struggle for the recognition of equality of opportunity with men, and for equal rights irrespective of sex, even if special relations and conditions are willingly incurred under the form of partnership involved in marriage. Much of the eastern island's narrow waterways are formed from the partitions between Leaf Links and Vice Point. Eventually, restricting women from wage labor came to be a mark of wealth and prestige in a family, while the presence of working women came to mark a household as being lower-class. A road cuts through the middle of the island cluster, where the clubhouse-cum-entrance is located, requiring a pedestrian bridge to connect both half of the clusters. For poorer women, especially among the working classes, this often remained an ideal, for economic necessity has long compelled them to seek employment outside the home, although the occupations traditionally open to working-class women were lower in prestige and pay than those open to men. Leaf Links is a collection of three islands located just west of Vice Point encompassing the Leaf Links Country Club, each island connected to another island with bridges. Traditional gender roles for middle-class women typically involved domestic tasks emphasizing child care, and did not involve entering employment for wages.

Whether or not the studio was previously used for filming of more decent movies remains unknown (although several movie sets that seem relatively unrelated to pornography were seen in the studio, including a movie set for a moon landing). In more recent history, the gender roles of women have changed greatly. Interglobal Studios, the sole film studio in the island and in Vice City, presently serves as a pornography film studio for pornography film director Steve Scott and was bought off by Tommy Vercetti later in the storyline (the name "Prawn" may be a play on pr0n). Because of their intimate knowledge of plant life, most anthropologists argue that it was women who led the Neolithic Revolution and became history's first pioneers of agriculture. Most of these premises and homes, however, have long been abandoned, and the mansions are now occupied by the Streetwannabes', a street gang. In hunter-gatherer societies, women were generally the gatherers of plant foods, while men hunted meat. Like Starfish Island, Prawn Island consists of several mansions, in addition to several adjoining businesses and a film studio. In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular cultural role.

Prawn Island is a small northern island linking Downtown Vice City in the west and Vice Point in the east. Main article: gender role. The main interior of the mansion strongly resembles the home of fictional drug lord Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface, only missing the "The World Is Yours" globe and the lavish master bedroom. Matthew 19: 3-12 ^[NIV] provides detail on early Christian views on divorce (there are many other passages that speak of marriage and divorce both in Old and New Testaments, however) by relating:. The largest residence Starfish Island is the Diaz Mansion, previously owned by drug baron Ricardo Diaz and acquired by the player part-way through the game (and renamed Vercetti Estate), which comes complete with a rooftop helipad. Moreover, if the virgin brother refused to carry out the duty, he did not have to fulfill the duty, and the woman was given municipal compensation. The area is also supplied with their own security guards, who patrol the island and open fire upon any troublemakers; this gives the residents of the area a feeling of safety, and not at least because of the island's proximity to the gang-riddled townships of Little Havana and Little Haiti. It was possible for a divorced or a widowed woman to get remarried, but, if a widow was childless (and if her deceased husband had no children before he married her), she was to marry her deceased husband's brother if the brother was not married himself already.

Starfish Island is a community of upper-wealth residents, most of whom live in large houses and mansions, some with their own jetty. The vow of marriage could be disallowed by her father, and daughters could inherit only in the absence of sons (and then they were required to marry within their tribe). Starfish Island is the third largest island in Vice City and is based on Miami's exclusive Star Island; or perhaps other island communities such as North Bay Village, low-density residential islands along the Venetian Causeway, and residential islands ajoining the MacAuthur Causeway. Besides these instances, there was much legislation dealing with, inter alia, offences against chastity, and marriage of a man with a captive heathen woman or with a purchased slave, and a similar set of rules applied to man as well. In addition, Vice Port does not cater for cruise ships, unlike Miami Port (which has operated a cruise ship terminal since 1968), focusing instead on solely cargo shipping. The ordeal was suppose to cast a curse on the adulterer (Deut 22:13~30). However, Vice Port is located in the mainland, while the Port of Miami is located on an island, covering much of the southern entrance of Biscayne Bay. If the evidences were lacking, then the guilt or innocence of a wife accused of adultery might be tried by the ordeal of the bitter water.

Fascell Port of Miami-Dade (Port of Miami), located on the southern edge of the bay, similar to the Port of Miami's in Biscayne Bay. A husband could sign a certificate of divorce if he found indecency in his wife, but if the husband accused his wife of misconduct and if proven otherwise, he was whipped and fined and could not divorce the woman until his death. Southeast of the EIA compound is VicePort (short for Vice City Port Authority), the city's seaport, and a possible play of the Dante B. In most cases, divorce was carried out when the husband or the wife commited adultery, in which case the adulterer was stoned (unless shown mercy). Further north in the airport peninsular is the Fort Baxter Air Base, a military installation that houses military equipment and personnel. In the Mosaic law, divorce was not to be performed easily—only under certain circumstances. Both structures are separated by lawns and a car park, and it is unknown if the terminals are connected in any other way aside roads. Some early legal systems that are the antecedents of modern systems formalized female dependency.

The EIA consists of two terminals, one at the north which is basically a standard blocky terminal (with the addition of below ground entrances), while the other in the south is more distinctive, with its weaved roof and roof-high windows facing the airport's southern airside. In general, women suffer from the same illnesses as men; however there are some sex-related illnesses that are found more commonly or exclusively in women. Also, all airports in Miami are located inland, but the EIA is located on a peninsula. Women generally reach menopause in their late 40s or early 50s, at which point their ovaries cease producing estrogen and they can no longer become pregnant. Although mildly similar in location as Miami's international airport (neighboring Little Havana), the airport structures and layout of the compound do not appear to be based on any airports seen in Miami. The study of female reproduction and reproductive organs is called gynaecology. Vice City's airport is known as the Escobar International Airport (EIA), or Escobar International in short, a possible pun on Pablo Escobar, an infamous Colombian drug lord. After the onset of menarche, most women are able to become pregnant and bear children.

Kaufman Cabs, a local taxi cab company, is also based in Little Haiti. Out of the total population there are 101.3 men for every 100 women (source: 2001 World Almanac). Phil Cassidy's home and weapons armory is located on the northwest end of Little Haiti. Women have a lower death rate than men, even in the uterus, living on average five years longer due to a combination of factors: genetics (redundant and varied genes present on sex chromosomes in women); sociology (such as not being expected in most countries to perform military service); health-impacting choices (such as suicide or the use of cigarettes and alcohol); the presence of the female hormone estrogen, which has a cardioprotective effect in premenopausal women; and the effect of high levels of androgens in men. A large printing press, which would be purchased by Tommy Vercetti later in the storyline for a money counterfeiting business, is located at the border between Little Haiti and Little Havana. Although fewer females than males are born (the ratio is around 1:1.05), due to a longer life expectancy there are only 81 men aged 60 or over for every 100 women, and among the oldest, there are only 53 men for every 100 women. Little Haiti is noted to be more run-down than Little Havana, with the presence of poorly maintained buildings, and low wealth businesses and smaller homes. Most women have the karyotype 46,XX, but around one in a thousand will be 47,XXX and one in 2500 will be 45,X.

The gang's solvent, located at the west side of Little Haiti, was destroyed in a Cuban ambush, aided by Tommy Vercetti. In terms of biology, the female sex organs are involved in the reproductive system, whereas the secondary sex characteristics are involved in nurturing children or attracting a mate. Also inspired by a real-life district in Miami, "Little Haiti" is believed to be predominantly inhabited by Haitians and is home to the Haitian gang, led by Auntie Poulet, from her shack in the center of Little Haiti. (See gender identity.). The Cherry Poppers ice cream distribution center, an asset open for purchase by Tommy Vercetti is also located within the vicinity. Some women can have abnormal hormonal or chromosomal differences (such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, complete or partial androgen insensitivity syndrome or other intersex conditions), and there are women who may be without, at least for an earlier part of their lives, typical female physiology (trans, transgendered or transsexual women). A Vice City police department is located at the southeastern tip of Little Havana. Biological factors are not the sole determinants of whether persons are considered, or consider themselves, women.

Due to Little Havana's proximity with Little Haiti, occasional fights and gun battles between Cuban and Haitian gangs erupt in areas bordering the two districts. Alchemists constructed the symbol from a circle (representing spirit) above a cross (representing matter). The area is controlled by the Cuban gang, led by Umberto Robina from his father's cafe, located in the southwest end of Little Havana. The Venus symbol also represented femininity, and in ancient alchemy stood for copper. Drawing from the real-life Little Havana in Miami, Vice City's "Little Havana" consists of a predominantly Spanish-speaking Cuban population. The symbol for the planet Venus is the sign also known in biology for the female sex: a stylized representation of the goddess Venus's hand mirror: a circle with a small cross underneath (Unicode: ♀). An unnamed beach is also located west of Downtown, but it receives no visitors or attention, a stark contrast to Washington Beach in the Ocean Beach area. [1] (See also Womyn.).

Other places of interest include the Electronics District, the Vice City News (VCN) headquarters, the Greasy Chopper bikers' bar, and a venue for a Love Fist concert, just south of the V-Rock radio station. "Man" does continue to carry its original sense of "Human" however, resulting in an asymmetry sometimes criticized as sexist. In addition, Downtown serves as the location for the local heavy metal radio station V-Rock and an enclosed recording studio, where lead singer for rock band Love Fist, Jezz Torrent, was seen recording a song. In Middle English man displaced wer as term for "male human", whilst wyfman (which eventually evolved into woman) was retained for "female human". The area also boasts of the Hyman Memorial Stadium, west of Downtown, which serves as an staging area for events such as stock car races, demolition derbies and dirt bike stunt shows; it is not known, however, if the stadium is used for any other sporting activities, although Vice City does feature at least one sports team (The Vice City Mambas professional American football team, which featured former tight-end BJ Smith). In Old English the words wer and wyf (also wæpman and wifman) were what was used to refer to "a man" and "a woman" respectively, and "man" was gender neutral. Like its real-life counterpart, Downtown is believed to be a more formal, financial district of Vice City, with a number of large office buildings, including the city's tallest building, possibly based on the Wachovia Financial Center and the Bank of America Tower. This is indeed the oldest usage of "man".

Downtown is a play of downtown Miami, where the areas sees the highest concentration of skyscrapers, both residential and commercial. The English term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived therefrom can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their gender or age. The western island is possibly based on mainland Miami. . The western island contains a wide four-lane road at its east side that stretches from the south end, at the seaports, to the north end, at the southern tip of Downtown. The term woman (irregular plural: women) is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both. Two sizable district housing immigrant populations are located in the middle, with one of these districts depicted in a dilapidated state. A woman is an adult female human, as contrasted with a man (an adult male), and a girl, (a female child).

The western island houses much of the city's industrial population, as well as seaport and airport facilities at the south. Vice City's western island is depicted as a less glamorous area of the city, although the business district of Downtown is in fact located on the north end of the island. The mall's layout, though much smaller, also resembles that of Aventura Mall. Its location in the northeastern most point of the East Island is similar to Aventura Mall's location in the extreme northeastern most point of the Miami Metro Area.

The North Point Mall, located in Vice Point, is a parody of Miami's Aventura Mall. This set-up resembles the rows of developments along Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, as well as the residential set-up of that city. Vice Point is a more middle class and residential area of Vice Beach consisting of larger apartment buildings and hotels aligned along the shore as well as medium sized homes and smaller apartment complexes inland. The lighthouse located at the southeastern most point mimics the Cape Florida Lighthouse, the oldest structure in Miami, located in Key Biscayne, and a popular beachside tourist destination.

Most of the buildings alongside this stretch of road are almost exactly like their real life counterparts in architecture and layout. A South Beach-like row of Art Deco and Modernist low rises affront a wide beach, dubbed Washington Beach, is also present; the road stretched along the row mimics that of Ocean Drive. The area is primarily occupied by seaside and beachside apartments, hotels and upper-class businesses. Ocean Beach is an upper-class tourist district consisting of a few skyscrapers and many low rises, directly based on South Beach and located in the southeastern most of Vice City.

The eastern island is clearly based on Miami Beach, Florida. The island also has a canal on its west side, with neighboring Leaf Links forming additional waterways. The eastern island is also known for its wide beach, dubbed Washington Beach, on its east side, which makes up an estimated half of the island's landmass. The eastern island of Vice City is depicted as the more affluent and tourist-oriented side of the city, which is mostly dominated by upper-wealth businesses, as well as residential condominiums, apartments and construction sites.

The population of Vice City is given at around 1.8 million. Each main island is divided into several districts. Vice City consists of two main islands and five smaller islands; both main islands are separated by a large body of water similar to that of Biscayne Bay, which separates Miami Beach with mainland Miami in real-life. The city is also located on the same fictional earth as Liberty City and the state of San Andreas - the locations of Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

This is further reinforced with its theme of the drug business and crime, as well as the presence of new upper-class businesses and residents in the city, with some of them likely to be funded by the drug business. Vice City, as depicted in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, is set in 1986, a reference to 1980s Miami, which became a major transshipment point for cocaine from South America at the time. . It is also suggested in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City that the city is exposed to hurricanes (early in the game, bridges were closed from the public as a hurricane was believed to be approaching the city), as is Miami.

Vice City is geographically similar to Miami; located in the shorelines of Southeastern United States, Vice City receives subtropical or near-tropical weather with year-long sunny weathers, occasional strong winds and rainfall. It is the setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and a level in the original Grand Theft Auto. Vice City is a fictional city in the Grand Theft Auto series that is loosely based on Miami, Florida.