A Higher Place

They 're going to brush off the dirt and the dust bunnies and the bits of hair and then place the snacks back on the plate as if nothing ever happened. I haul our grocery bags from the 2 train down Wall Street while Nadia complains about the gaggle of people who obstruct our path by the stock exchange. Metal barriers are aligned along the…

Jennet Wall’s was abused by people around her and her own family, she had many negative experiences and they were most affected by the places she lived in. Throughout her life there has been events that normal people can’t comprehend to be true, yet it started off when she was only three. Where she lived first and the first memory she could remember was in Arizona in an old trailer park. “I was on fire. It’s my earliest memory. I was three years old and we were living in a trailer park in a…

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…

take advantage of. Being able to drive makes getting to a place a lot faster and easier than walking or even riding a bike. Because driving is a privilege, individuals can lose their privilege of driving. However, elderly people should not be excluded from having a driver’s license because of their age if they pass the written test, driving test, and eye exam set by the state of Iowa. Elderly people need to get to appointments and other places too. Therefore, age should not factor in being able…

Aging, Place, and Technology: Toward Improving Access and Wellness in Older Populations In this article, the author states that the place of residence may affect the probability of achieving a public health objective. As he further mentions, aging in place is considered the ability to live in one’s own home independently and comfortably. However, there are certainly many challenges and additional resources needed to satisfy the demands of everyday life particularly in the decline in health and…

(1999) the term third place is used to “describe the public spaces used for informal social interaction outside of the home and workplace.” (Soukup, p.421). Third places are public spaces that provided “unique functions within a local community.” Oldenburg’s criteria for traditional third spaces stated that they must be on a neutral ground, must be social leveler, must be accessible, driven by communication, must have regulars, and a playful mood. Furthermore, third places offered relief from…