East Village

Oh, how the times have changed. My once small and serene neighborhood is transforming into an expansive and raucous city of its very own. Yes, the hospitable community of Julington Creek is gone forever, instead being exchanged for the bustling city life. My home, Julington Creek, is now a vastly different area than it was when I first moved to Florida, it is growing at an uncontrollable rate, loosing sizable plots of wooded land, and has lost its true identity as a community. When I first moved…

In this week’s reading we read Chapter 6 titled Spatial Perspectives: Making Sense of Space and Chapter 8 titled Social Psychology: The Urban Experience. Inside both chapters, author John Macionis and Vincent Parrillo make an incredible showing of how environment effects the people and urban. Additionally they give a smart and understanding thought of urban geography and space. Spatial Perspective is the title of chaoter 7. Individuals established urban areas at specific topographical locales…

The last century has seen the rapid growth of the urban areas which is likely to be one of the milestones in the current ages. Also known as the urbanization process, this situation is defined by the unprecedented rural population shift to the cities which stems from the Modern period as a result of the Industrial Revolution. However, the key aspect is the universal nature of the issue which has effect on an exceptional transformation in a global scale but on a drastically impact in the social,…

In todays ever connected and forever growing society, it has become more socially acceptable for groups of people to be divided by the state of their bank account. Not only is this an issue in the developed world, but also it has a large influence on the developing world. I noticed this on my trip to Ecuador with my school in which I spend a month in both urban society and rural society. The wide range of economic disparity demonstrated through the difference in living conditions was a clear…

The Fate of Tessie Hutchinson The term lottery creates a vision of winning something of value. In the short story, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, Jackson took the meaning of the lottery and put a dark twist to it. Jackson gives an everyday feel to the story as if the annual ceremony “the lottery” is a peaceful day for the towns people. The reader infers that this is a positive outcome based on society’s understanding of what a lottery is; however, the lottery takes an unforeseen twist that…

Imagine brutally murdering a friend, all for a useless ritual. Watching someone's life end so slowly can hurt a person’s mental self-being. In the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, the members of a small village witness the morbid events of their annual ritual. Jackson really gives insight of how helpless some Homo sapiens can be at times. Jackson's inspiration was a result of the anger that was inside her about the persecution of the Jews. She uses the ritual to symbolize the…

Balzac and the Little Seamstress follows two boys that have to be re-educated during the Maoist Revolution up in a small village. They meet a Seamstress and find banned books with Western ideas to read to each other. Grass on the Rooftop is a story of a boy that is being re-educated that is believed to have saved a picture of Mao and becomes famous and travels around. Both stories have to do with re-education and how people from this time feel and background information to Maoism and China at…

They took them back to Yele as civilians. They lived there for a while peacefully. Then all of a sudden the rebels started to surround the village and the soldiers were being killed too quickly. So the lieutenant told all the boys that if they didn’t help fight the rebels then they were no longer welcome in the village. So Ishmael and his friends had no choice but to fight in the war. The lieutenant started giving them drugs and telling him to kill the rebels because they killed…

The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World is the story of a drowned man who washes up on the shore of a tiny coastland village. The people of the village care him over night, and soon become enamored with his great beauty. They proceed to more for the drowned man, who they name Esteban, and decide to make their island home better in memory of their handsome man. Using the conventions of character, setting, and tone and mood a possible theme for the short story could be “inspiration can come…

Many people, families, and or groups of people have their own traditions that make them who they are; but what is tradition? Tradition is the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. Being a part of tradition is something to be proud of but what if that tradition is hurting others? “Tradition was the name given to those cultural features which, in situations of change, were to be continued to be handed on, thought about, preserved and not lost (Graburn 6). Tradition as a…