The Corner

the causes and the evidence for their collapse, and also what happened to the people that inhabited these areas after the complex societies they lived in collapsed. Mesa Verde The Mesa Verde region is located on the Colorado plateau in the Four Corners…

Grover's Corners, NH vs. Worland, WY In the play Our Town, a man very much like a narrator tells the audience all about how small Grover's Corners is and how everyone knows who everyone is. It's very interesting, and most people in the town of Worland, Wyoming would agree with what he is saying. Between Grover's Corner and Worland, Wyoming, people would get along fine with one another. The only way that people from Worland wouldn't get along with people Grover's Corner, is all the…

The inspiration for the piece was derived from many various food performances. The first being “How to Shop” by Bobby Baker. In that work, you can hear the conscience of the customer as she is shopping. “Discomfort from the Corner” was initially planned to be an in-store performance, where the resident is seen shopping for the ingredients needed to prepare the Bon Appétit recipe. Once the shopper realized that ingredients or suitable substitutions were not available the audience would follow…

Problem of the Week Pool Corners Problem Statement: For this problem of the week, we tested out rebounds and corners on a pool table. Our task for this POW, is to figure out where the ball would go if we followed the correct directions. If we hit the ball at a 45 degree angle, starting at the lower corner, and continued to hit the ball until it went into a corner pocket, where would it end up at? We had to figure out a pattern between the hits and rebounds. Doing this, we made many pool…

Sports! Almost everyone loves to play them, but the question is which one? Between soccer and volleyball, many people feel that soccer is the better sport. Both soccer and volleyball are played worldwide by both men and women, but “Soccer is the biggest global sport and a top 10 sport in all countries measured,” as stated by biggestglobalsports.com. Volleyball and soccer are played differently in many ways. They also have incredibly different histories to them. Volleyball is now 100 years…

Yuhao Zheng Northwest Corner Building The Northwest Corner building locates on 118 Broadway, northwest of Columbia University Morningside campus. The different scale and material of the building make it easy to identify and hard to forget, however, not every resident and critics have positive opinion of the building. The critic Mark Lamster says: “This is not the building most New Yorkers were expecting from either Moneo or Columbia. I think there was an expectation of something contextual,…

that separates the corner kids from the stoop kids. The corner kids are those who are not well behaved in the classrooms and are more prepared for a life on the street while the stoop kids are the ones who behave well in class and want to learn. The program that Colvin and Parenti created which separates the corner kids from the stoop kids is successful in teaching the corner kids because it teaches them things about their world. In the beginning of the season, we can see the corner kids being…

arrived was a great deal of garbage as an afterthought walk and road around the corner store. Individuals were littering the wrappers and sacks of the snacks they had obtained from inside. A great many people that were entering the service station were African American, there were additionally a couple Arabs, and just a modest bunch of white individuals. Additionally, the Majority of the general population entering the corner store were corpulent and would turn out with packs of snacks. The…

shantytown, namely, the depressed area where the very poor live”. In South Africa, this will be reminiscent of townships, kasi, and skwata camps. Four Corners is set in Cape Flats, one of the areas in the country that will perfectly resemble the Favela. The Cape Flats for years has been notorious for its gangsterism that literally exists on almost every street corner. The crimes include murder, rape, and armed robbery. The gang groups in Cape Flats consists of The Hard Livings, The Clever Kids,…

In August 1961, the documentary television program, Four Corners, made its debut. One of the first episodes, Box Ridge, is an investigative journalism piece that takes reporting to the unknown and underrepresented area of the Box Ridge Aboriginal Reserve, in hopes to make Box Ridge widely acknowledged and be a new representation for the Aboriginal community. Reported by Michael Charlton, a non-indigenous man, the film is reflective of the deplorable conditions the Aboriginal community endured…