Our Town

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 them.” This really applies to all of the pictures that are in our presentation, but it really speaks loudly for the pictures on slides on four and five. Over time towns either grow or become obsolete. Lots of towns in rural America…

and had continually resided in a small, overpopulated town named La Reina, in El Salvador. In this town, houses, though structurally unstable in the 1800s, were closely grouped together and therefore called barrios. To the east of La Reina there was mountainous terrain, or terreno, on which harvesters would grow crops under the scorching and unforgiving sun. In addition, due to the disastrous conditions of the roads, cars were uncommon in the town, while horses served as the main source of…

name of Nettie Jones that has become a frequent subject of gossip in our town. She’s a pretty little thing, with silky brown hair and warm brown eyes. Her voice is sweet and melodic, and she has a soft spoken and kind demeanor. She lives a fair distance away from the rest of the town, in a little cottage in the foothills of the mountains to the north. Every morning, she comes down from her home to go about her business in the town, buying groceries, chatting with shopkeepers, and humming merrily…

devotion to the natives’ land are major themes in this novel, which is reinforced in chapter 9 through their reflection of how the physical landscape affects the social dynamic. This chapter illustrates the challenges of the development of the shanty towns within South Africa, and specifically how the natives are suffering due to this change. As the dying child’s mother, she is aware of her child’s upcoming death and how strongly it influences her personal connection between the serenity of the…

who were affected returned to their homes, they saw the unimaginable and the unspeakable. Their once beloved homes were torn to bits by storm surged waters and huge amounts of water flooding the streets, the homes, and the schools. The people of my town, Union…

depended with town fate. There are a lot of interesting buildings in relation to Jewish culture. Some of them were destroyed. Some of them are residential houses till our time. They all are guardians of memory, witnesses stories and legends, unrepealed secrets and local events. Kiev in relation with names of many popular Jewish peoples… Without knowledge about Jewish history in Kiev, it is really difficult to understand all parts of town history. One of the most important parts of the town…

her grandparent’s during her childhood, so she always emphasized how important it is to treasure your elders and spend all the time you can with them while you have it. This was essential to our family, as we are burdened knowing that our loved one’s will one day no longer be the same person they once were. Our family has a long history of the tragic disease known as Alzheimer’s. As it is a genetic based condition, we have long seen the suffering it brings to the one diagnosed and the people in…

We all remember our first solo trek into the world. It might have been the first time we were allowed to go downtown with friends or even a solo plane ride to visit relatives. The journey awakens a freedom and independence in each of us that changes how we view our place in the world. In Alice Munro’s Wild Swans, Rose’s journey on the train symbolizes escape from her childhood innocence and small town life to the adult world of secrecy and anonymity. This journey is also highlighted by Flo, who…

Our Guys: the Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb, an outstanding novel based on the Glen Ridge rape case by Bernard Lefkowitz, explains in the great detail about the rape between the victim and the suspects. Lefkowitzs goes into great detail about the Glen Ridge rape by explaining the social problems of the town, how the community heavily influenced a social role for young men and women. The all-star jocks in Glen Ridge picked Leslie Faber to be their victim of rape…

dragon. All of these connotations are associated with darkness, immorality, something that can be reflected in several residents of the town. The judge was the person that needs to be impartial and have high standards suggest to Trescott “the poor fellow ought to die” (26). Maybe we can think as an act of mercy for someone that is suffering. However, it is not in our hands to take anyone’s life, especially from a doctor, whose mission in life is to do everything in his hands to preserve life.…