Third Street Promenade

7.3 million visitors annually who spent $1.72 billion” in 2014. With so many constant visitors, Santa Monica encourages environmental consciousness and green living (Santa Monica Task Force for the Environment, n.d.). This emphasis on green living materializes in many parts of the community but especially in places like the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, where shoppers walk and bring their own bags and wagons. The Farmers’ Market also acts as a de facto meeting place for the community. The culture of the Farmers’ Market also represents the overall tone of the city, a mellow beach vibe combined with healthy living. One will observe many populations (including the homeless) at any given time at the Farmers’ Market and the adjacent Third Street Promenade shopping area. This outdoor lifestyle also translates to the many parks and recreational centers, which one can find all over town, another of the city’s strengths. There is even a newly built aquatic center and YMCA. These various centers facilitate activities for everyone from children to older adults and exhibit the different kinds of social networks that exist within the community. One park, Douglas Park, pulls from many diverse populations. Advertisements for toddler camps and activities for children litter the billboards. There is a playground and duck pond as well as a large area for lawn bowling, a league in fact, which attracts many local seniors. Similarly Santa Monica’s multiple public library branches also draw…

As time goes on, the question of whether humans are selfish or not becomes a controversey and is widely disscussed. After reading true stories of unfortunate situations and observing many reaserches, it all becomes clear that mankind is greedy and will do anything to benefit themselves. Authors such as;Charles Montgomery, Todd Schwartz, Richard Lemiux and John Chapman knew this all along and that is why they chose to share their eye-opening stories and research with the public. In any time of…

disconnected clues. With the information given from a variety of other climbing boys, she is capable of determining the region in which the master sweep currently containing Tommy can be found. While roaming the streets, Emmaline comes across a boy who knows of a deaf sweep who fits the description of her brother, however, has a different name; Moony. Named for the way he watches the moon and the fact he is only able to communicate the letter “M”, she then works with this knowledge to conclude…

dogs and smoke, and the boring view of towering concrete buildings. People scurry like ants through the maze of streets attempting to make it to their subway train on time. Hundreds of people fill the streets, creating a wall that is nearly impossible to push through. They look straight ahead, making a point not to talk to anyone. Others have their noses in their phones and a coffee in their hands. People standing outside of hotels shoving pamphlets into tourists hands and screaming for the…

It was a good idea that you used logical reasons from the beginning especially after the story you started about the parents that do not like the trash around there children at school. You stated, “City Hall needs to respond to your needs, and to meet those needs on the street, by cleaning the streets and keeping it clean for the youth.” That itself covered the reason behind why you did all these things such as the trash cans. You gave a logical reason of why you are doing this and why we should…

walk out of my hotel and look to my right and left. I’m trying to orient my street map in the dark. Les Jardins d’Eiffel is on a side street, Rue Amélie, in the seventh arrondissement in Paris. Emily walks out behind me, giddy with excitement. She’s 17, and I’m the only adult student on the trip, having just turned 18, so her mom has allowed her to go with me to see the Eiffel Tower at midnight. “Are you sure you can find it?,” shes asks nervously. “Yes, just let me focus,” I reply The truth…

a whole as a result. As of today, many of the people who desperately need healthcare cannot afford it. Having healthcare available to everyone is something that the government needs to prioritize. Allowing only those who can afford treatment is wrong and will cause people to continue to distrust the government to the needs of society as a whole. In order for the government to improve, the voices of everyone must be heard. With a topic such as universal healthcare, where everyone would benefit…

job of the police officers and detectives to maintain order in the streets. Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, is also a writer for the Los Angeles times; and she took the liberty of noting every murder that occurred in her city. What would follow was a collection of stories and personal accounts from the streets in the eyes of the gunslingers and the law. South Central Los Angeles is a far cry from Beverly Hills and that is something that gang members took…

All though the poem Silverstein gives the reader little nuggets of description, especially details using the ideas of nature and industrialization. To make a point Silverstein alters words and ideas of a city and country life together. Line 7-9 state, “Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black / And the dark street winds and bends / Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow” (Silverstein 553). Here Silverstein uses the phrases smoke blows black, the dark street winds and bends, and…

literature because without the description of the forest and the crossroads the readers and the traveler wouldn't know which road he wanted to select. The overall image illustrates how life is about making choices and decisions and how Throughout the poem, Frost change the tone from apprehensive and uncertain to encouraging to bring his points across.Going back to the first stanza, the traveler is very alert and contemplates on which crossroads to take. The persona feels unfortunate and sorry…