Describing a Place Essay

jacket was clean and pressed, his shoes had been polished until they were gleaming, his bowtie had been tied perfectly around his starched collar, and his hat was placed neatly upon his head. He was clean-shaved, his hair was combed and gelled into place beneath his hat, and his hands and fingernails had been cleaned. In the more than fifty years since Mr. Jenkins had moved to Mulberry, he had only ever missed one single service. And, just like every other Sunday, after the service had come to…

gingerbread man. One day while the elves continued to make presents for the kids, there came a green figure knocking onto the door, “all elves are reported to be sent to another place to work for the presents. The elves assuming that the green figure worked for Santa, they agreed to come with the green figure to the mysterious place known as a huge igloo. When they have come to the huge igloo they had realized they had made a mistake of…

How humans interact with a place, says more about them than location itself. The idea of place and how people relate to the area around them is an on-going topic of sustainability. This unseen connection is the string interwoven into our daily lives that allows us to feel the desired feelings of being at home, safe, or connected. Many of the books we have read revealed the author's personal connection to place, but I feel as though Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest…

2.4 Place attachment Essentially, the term place attachment refers to ‘affective bond’ between people (individuals or group) and a significant environment, which is developing over time (Scannell and Gifford, 2010). However, due to ‘the proliferation of concepts and measurements proposed for characterising emotional bonds between humans and places’ (Manzo and Devine-Wright, 2014, p. 125), place attachment has a diversity of definitions. These definitions, however, remain scattered in the…

around us. When people hear a song images pop into their heads. Music plays a key role in the sense of place. The articles Place or Space and Sacred Spaces and Tourist Places, the way images are presented, and the things I learned all contributed to our project in the way music corresponds to geographic sense of place. In the article Place or Space by Mike Crang, Mike writes, “Spaces become places as they become ‘time thickened’. They have a past and future that binds people together around…

Naming is a constant in our lives. Names can apply to people, places, things, physical objects and hypothetical ideas. We use names to identify, but what is the connection between the name and what the name represents? In her essay, “In History,” Jamaica Kincaid discusses the importance of naming and the impact of multiple narratives. The first half of Kincaid’s essay focuses on Columbus’ journey to the “New World.” Kincaid tells of sailors’ stories of far away treasures while discussing…

common to come across many people who have travelled to various places all over the world, romanticizing the idea of wandering and experiencing the world without, however, taking a moment to think about the people in the places they may visit. It can be easy for those who live in big, important countries to be blind to issues happening in the smaller countries they visit, and how that can impact the people who live there. In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid uses a bitter, accusatory tone, directly…

The store I choose to write my Close-reading on is “ A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid. In the beginning of In a Small Place I had some mix feelings about it somewhere good and some bad. As the story starts it her telling use what’s happening and what she seeing for example. She describing her country by telling us how non-locals see the country as beautiful, but the locals who see it as a trashy and a bad corrupt place. I want to know why the author makes this point in the beginning? I can only…

expresses a critical tone towards tourists through the use of imagery, parallel sentence structure, and the connotation of her words. In the opening paragraph of this essay, the author describes a tourist visiting a new place and describing what this tourist is seeing as they visit this place. One usage of imagery would be the authors description of the ocean."...the colour of the water is navy blue; nearer, the water is the colour…

age Carl was bullied into a decision despite his wishes to age in place. However, the desire to age in place has not gone unnoticed by policymakers. Aging in place has become so prominent that housing policies are adopting this concern into their works. In the article “New Approaches to Housing and Aging in Place”, Pynoos and Cicero explain how aging in place is viewed by housing policymakers, “Policy responses to support aging in place, however, have been piecemeal and fragmented, leaving many…