Neighborhoods

The history of the neighborhood help increase the mimesis of the characters of the play. In the beginning of the story, Sharon says, “never did the neighbors gave us the time of day… I mean does anyone borrow a cup of sugar anymore? No...” (D’Amour 15). She was cursing and then crying about how people live in solitude even though they have neighbors. She feels a disconnection with the community, “there is no real communication anymore, real communication about real things” (D’Amour 15). At…

Discuss how the presence of drugs in a neighborhood affects a community. What type of social action is needed to help keep this community safe and drug free? The presence of drugs anywhere effects individuals, families and communities. If there are drugs present in a neighborhood, this especially affects the community around it. One way drugs impact a community is the increase crime. “At least half of the individuals arrested for major crimes, including homicide, theft, and assault were under…

to their friends and neighborhoods so it always impacts those ones the hardest. Many of the articles discussed different things because they had different points to prove, but all of them had the most important things in common. Some of the articles went into detail…

New York City has recently been in the news for its numerous attempts to curb the eating habits of its citizens. Earlier this year, New York City passed legislation requiring chain restaurants to display nutritional information regarding sodium content on their menus. The city already requires chain restaurants to post calorie content on their menus, hoping to encourage healthy eating and curb the growing obesity epidemic (Mueller & Grynbaum, 2015). Although this kind of legislation is not…

Normally people recognize the smiling faces they see on their neighbors front porches, but one week a year, neighborhoods all over the country are invaded by scary faces peering out at them. Stranger Danger? Don’t call the neighborhood watch quite yet! Those spooky smiles are Jack-O-Lanterns carved by festive neighbors and probably signal they will have some good loot on Halloween. What someone carves on their pumpkin can tell you a lot about them. Some people who are sports fanatics might…

It was a late summer afternoon in Laredo, Texas. Lamar, Ally, and I were preparing for one of our frequent sleepovers. We have had many of the sleepovers before. Each time, we tried to stay up even later. It is tradition for Lamar’s mom to take us all to Blockbusters and get a few of our favorite movies. This time, we got the Cheetah Girls and Pitch Perfect, two of our most favorite movies. Then, we would go to Walgreens to buy our favorite chips and candy. We got things like Doritos, chocolate,…

The Bridge War of 1845 The first bridge the east side built spanned over into the west side of Chestnut Street; Kilbourntown would not take any part to help finance the construction of the bridge. The disgruntled east-siders felt that the best way to retaliate against Kilbourntown’s lack of funding was to produce the cheapest bridge possible. Yet, over the next few years, the bridge turned out to be exactly what they paid for. This led to a village meeting on May 7, 1845, where the two towns…

The Neighborhood Project - Oakdale Upon researching this neighborhood, the information we gathered was able to give us the gist of how the neighborhood life in Oakdale was like. From what we had discovered, it seemed like an average neighborhood; it was not too shabby, but it wasn’t what we considered to be high class, either. A subject that I would like to bring up in particular in my analysis is the correlation between the educational level of the neighborhood (sourced by the information we…

regarding walkability in neighborhoods and communities, for my Georgetown neighborhood project. In doing so, I have reviewed a number of researches and articles on the topic of walkability, to provide an answer to weather walkable communities promotes a positive health, or even a positive financial value. RESEARCH QUESTIONS: (1) How does one define walkability: What is a walkable environment? (2) Does Walkability effect on property values? (3) Does walkable neighborhoods result an increase in…

ever heard anyone talk about a neighborhood and speak awfully about it? Or even spoken to someone and they begin to talk and say bad things or not true about the neighborhood or the neighborhoods you hang around in. This can easily be, because they have just heard the awful things from the neighborhood and never have really been to that neighborhood and just see how people act from that neighborhood. Here I will show that people can say wrong things about neighborhoods but yet may not mean it…