Neighborhoods

I have experienced both exceptional and terrible teams. The most profound group/team example I have experienced was during boot camp. To provide background and context, here was the situation. Members of my platoon were all transferred from our first assigned platoon to an overflow platoon, created to decrease overall group size. Amusingly, because everyone was selected alphabetically, the last name closest to the beginning of the alphabet started with R. Because this happened after the first…

When someone says they grew up in a four bedroom, 2 and a half bathroom, furnished basement house you would assume the environment was warm and inviting. This house is the most beautiful one on the block and the largest one due to an extra bedroom built in 1991. From the outside looking in you would want to visit this home but everything that glitters is not gold. This house is located in University, MO and it is in what most people consider the safe part of the community. This house was…

the shortest route. I walked down Coldwater Canyon to Vose. Proceeding up this street, I reached Alcove where I turned left. Advancing further, I came to Barbra Ann Street. Here, I entered an enclosed alleyway. It would lead to my classmates ' neighborhood. I soon came to their place of living. I had taken the inversion of course returning to Coldwater Canyon Apartments. I recall quite vividly those…

steadily after World War II. Many homosexual veterans remembered San Francisco as a open-minded city and returned after the war. Seventeen percent of the city’s population was homosexual by 1980. Next to the Castro is its very affluent neighborhood Eureka Valley, a neighborhood that popular with LGBT community and family. The Market & Castro Street Cable Car line opened in 1886,…

Hillwood Neighborhood is a neighborhood subdivision community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee located one mile off of the Interstate 24. The developers have designed and crafted single family real estate properties in this trendy multiple neighborhood community cushioned into the countryside. Prospect homebuyers with enjoy nearby cities tree lined with local shops and cafes keeping a time honored tradition of the county’s treasured history. Interested homebuyers can selected between a variety of…

When I was younger the neighborhood that I lived in was filled with new families and there were children running about the streets every day, and you could always hear the sounds of hockey sticks in the street and trampolines across the yards, jump rope, or laughter. The only quiet times were during the school hours and at night, after the street lamps had gone on and all the children had retreated into their respective homes. My neighborhood was a Kid Friendly neighborhood. Stereotypically, it…

Changes in the Park Slope Neighborhood Research Question: What are some long-term effects the changes in the commercially centralized area of Park Slope, specifically 5th and 7th ave, have on its residents? How do these effects change the overall view one has on their own neighborhood compared to what outsiders believe? Research Proposal: Long-term effects in Park Slope differ when looking from the view of one resident to the next. Growing up and adapting to the changes is different when it…

The easiest way to explain this piece is with an example. In the article by New York Times “Here Comes the Neighborhood,” a group of lower class primarily African Americans from a dirtier crime infested city, moved into homes in Mount Laurel, a rather wealthy town. In time, they found that the new residents of Mount Laurel were doing substantially better than the…

preventing neighborhood crime efforts. Informal social control does not involve any formal social institutions such as the police. Instead, it involves a group of individuals outside the government spectrum that come together to try to prevent crime for the common good. This concept is often hard to achieve when individuals cannot conform and help define social norms. On the other hand, it can be very helpful when preventing neighborhood crimes because it brings people from the neighborhood…

The real eye opening experience for me was the during this summer when I participated in an anthropology study of three Brooklyn neighborhoods. Imagine this I never thought was going to need to speak to large groups people, now I am required to go talk to strangers in neighborhoods I never been to. This was the equivalent of throwing me into the deep end of the pool and watching if I sink or float. The first day of fieldwork, I get off the G train and step out into the street of Greenpoint,…