Place

Furthermore, USA’s imperialism has a big impact (both positive & negative) in places like Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. There are major exports that can be taken out of Latin America, the Middle East is at war (meaning that other countries can get involved), and even though Africa does not have the best economy, there are important resources that can be .For example, American companies are in charge for most banana production and exports that are found in Honduras. According to the…

New Jersey is full of places where historical events have occurred. One of these places is Journal Square, which is located in Jersey City, NJ. Its history starts when the Lenni Lenape Indians first settled there. In the 1650s, General Peter Stuyvesant had everyone under his rule. Two years later, Stuyvesant engineered the purchase of most of present-day Hudson County from the Indians in return for materials. On November 1660, the Dutch moved in and claimed Bergen Square (now known as Journal…

Jamaica Kincaid is the writer and narrator of the book A Small Place. Kincaid was able to give the audience a tour to her native Island Antigua. Kincaid wrote the book as a second person where she gets the audience involved in her storytelling. At the beginning of the reading Kincaid addressed tourists. “An ugly thing that is when you become a tourist, empty thing a stupid thing.”(17). It is important because tourists do not pay attention to the native people, corrupted government or the…

After reading “On Entering a New Place” I felt the author was trying to convey we expect everything to fall into place and things just don’t work that way at times, “you expect night to come.” And when it doesn’t go the way we want we’re left unknowing of what to do next. I took Barry Lopez’s writing opened my eyes a little bit more, and it helped me realize that life doesn’t go as planned, and that’s okay we just need to go with it. Barry Lopez’s message relates to my initial perception of…

Medina, Minnesota, “a prosperous, suburban edge City” is the place I call home. Now, living in the 82,575-person college town of Bloomington, Indiana, makes my quaint little hometown of 5,221 seem irrelevant. Being away from home for the first time in my life makes me appreciate the state of Minnesota more than I ever expected; I can even say that I miss my little area of the world, Medina. Initially when presented with this project I thought I would focus on Minneapolis, a city of 400,070,…

‘Aging in Place’,…

Even though Houston is a humongous city with several places to go and entertain yourself, there are many people with obviously different pleasures, of all the places and things that Houston has around it, my favorite place to go and entertain myself is the restaurant Nikos Niko’s which is a Greek restaurant. First reason Nikos Niko’s is my favorite place to go is because of their quantity of desserts they have. For example, one of the desserts they have that I recommend is the loukomades, which…

West Virginia is a place that I will always feel deeply and personally connected. I was born and raised there as a child. West Virginia’s environment always made you feel like you were, “Almost in Heaven”. Fall was always my favorite time of the year in West Virginia. It would be that time of year that we started wearing our sweaters during the cooler weather. Fall foliage would begin, turning the trees vibrant colors of red, yellow and orange. Neighbors would get together to start…

The concept of place can also be argued as having a significant role in the construction of identity. Sparke (2008) argued that sometimes place and identity are so strongly woven, that it is hard to separate them. This conflation can clearly be seen in the home environment as a person’s character is often scrutinised due to the type and up keeping of the domestic space they lived in (Sparke, 2008). As such, place can be a determining fact in our social class, which plays a big role in the…

everyone has the same sacred place because if everyone had the same sacred place then that sacred place wouldn't really sever it purpose now would it. But it OK for people to have a common sacred place it might be exactly the same but they share some of the same aspects. For example a person sacred place might be the middle of the forest where it's quite and your surrounded by trees, plants, animals and maby even a little creek or stream, now someone else sacred place might be corn field. Both…