Gathering place

. . My name sounded over the speakers and I stepped up onto the podium. A medal engraved with sixth place was handed to me. Pride filled my being as I stood facing the stadiums. Mingled throughout the audience I could see my family who had supported me, friends who had laughed and trained with me, and coaches who dedicated their time to teach me. Although I did not place a personal best, or become a state champion, I learned knowledge worth more than any athletic title or achievement…

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…

James hobbies we learned are reading and playing Magic the Gathering. James favorite type of books are books on philosophy, religion, history, and science. James favorite go to book is the book; 1984 by George Orwell. James second hobby is playing and bettering his skills at Magic the Gathering. He enjoys Magic the Gathering because of the way the game is set up, it’s a very big game that realizes on strategy and is very enjoyable. The second…

insignificant can have a valuable representation. Lois Lowry implements elements of symbolism throughout The Giver series, some elements more obvious than others. The red sled, the color blue and the Forest all consist of a deeper meaning in The Giver, Gathering Blue and Messenger, respectively. All three novels contain elements of symbolism. In the first novel The Giver, one object that stands out as a symbol is the sled. The sled stands for the process of transmitting…

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…

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…