Kansas City is a space that has become a place for me. Growing up in Kansas City, I always assumed this city was my place. By that I mean that it was the place I grew up, the place I learned about and eventually knew all there was to know about it. Kansas City is the place where I can close my eyes and navigate my way around, figuratively speaking. I have looked up in the city in terms of geographical location on Google maps. I have noticed that the numerous highways that connect the smaller counties within Kansas City to one another on Google maps but I never truly read or understood how to read Google maps. I assumed everyone used the map for navigation purposes. After reading this chapter I have learned to look at this place I call mine,
When reading this book I began to think of how I grew up and how I am a
Houston is the city that I used to live in on the outskirts of Houston; however, after I have blogged about Houston since day one I have learned a great deal in Houston and where it came from. Houston is a diverse city which is main up of all kinds of race, ethnic background, and religious. It is a great city to settle down and have a family in the suburban. It also a great city to start a career in the medical field, due to all the hospitals around the area. Houston is the “fourth most populous city in the nation” and “the largest in the southern U.S. and Texas.” Houston also has many places that you can go and explore and different attractions you can go to spend time with friends and family. Did you know Houston has “More than 90 languages
Baltimore Maryland is a city known for its charm also known as charm city. The nickname Charm city originated in 1975 by HL Mencken who died in 1956. It is home to the Orioles, Ravens, and to the National Aquarium which show cases thousands of marine creatures.
Many folks go their whole lives without having to move. For them it is easy; they know the same people, have loads of friends, and never have to move away from their families. As with me, I was in a different situation. I grew up my entire life, all eighteen years of it, in a small town called Yorktown, Virginia. In my attempt to reach out for a better life style, my girlfriend and I decided we were going to move to Shreveport, Louisiana. Through this course of action, I realized that not two places in this country are exactly alike. I struggled with things at first, but I found some comforts of home here as well.
There is a lot of way Kansas is unique. Have you ever thought about famous people that come from Kansas, famous inventions made in Kansas, or The famous buildings made in Kansas? If not I will tell you all about them.
...es are located in Oklahoma, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and 65 percent of Oklahomans live within their metropolitan areas, or spheres of economic and social influence defined by the United States Census Bureau as a metropolitan statistical area. Oklahoma City, the state's capital and largest city, had the largest metropolitan area in the state in 2010, with 1,252,987 people, and the metropolitan area of Tulsa had 937,478 residents. Oklahoma is where I was born and raised and I would not trade the experience to live here to live anywhere in the world. Oklahoma is my family and I love being able to tell people I am originally from Oklahoma and this is where I will remain. Oklahoma is beautiful, friendly, and home. Although the weather gets out of control at times, and I never really know what tomorrow will hold. I know that Oklahoma will always be the place I call home.
Within a week of finding out my dad was gone forever, me along with my eight brothers and sisters, my recently widowed ( and pregnant ) mom, and a handful of personal items left the comfort of our small Charleston, home and were packed up in a van and shipped off to Memphis, Tennessee to start a new life. The wound of my father's death was still so raw that I refused to accept that the strange city of Memphis was my new home, and that somehow my father was alive and well, and all we needed to do was go back to Charleston and be with him. And as days in Memphis turned to weeks ,and then months, the realization and acceptance of my new life set in, and I began to embrace Memphis as my new home. as the years passed I made
As I have been reading memoirs about memory for this class, each essay made me recall or even examine my past memory closely. However, the more minutely I tried to recall what happened in the past, the more confused I got because I could not see the clear image and believe I get lost in my own memory, which I thought, I have preserved perfectly in my brain. The loss of the details in each memory has made me a little bit sentimental, feeling like losing something important in my life. But, upon reading those essays, I came to realize that remembering correct the past is not as important as growing up within memory. However, the feelings that were acquired from the past experience tend to linger distinctly. The essay that is related to my experience
Areas all around the country are hypersegregated. A big city that faces Hypersegregation is our very own Kansas City. Hypersegregation occurs in the middle of a city, typically a pretty big neighborhood. “The definition of hypersegregation is ghetto neighborhoods that are highly segregated and isolated, clustered close together, and spatially concentrated” (Chen, 353). A hypersegregated area is normally an area that the minorities live in. “The minorities that live in a central city ghetto do not have much relation or interaction with the higher class areas” (Chen, 200).
The residents of Lodz Ghetto struggled to survive because they were cut off from the rest of the world. They to solely depend on the Germans for all of their necessities which included food and water, housing, sewage, and heat (D 406). However, the Germans did not provide enough of these life essentials, if any. Communication to anyone outside the ghetto was also almost nonexistent in the ghetto. Radios were prohibited, resulting to no news of the war or the outside world (D 408). The residents had to trust what the Germans were telling them were fact. This caused the residents to build false hope when being deported. Many new residents of the ghetto assumed they were going somewhere better than the ghetto, but instead, were taken to Chelmno Killing Center (F 2-3). Being cut off from the world was one of the catalysts to the acute suffering the residents had to endure.
Mesa Community College is a big community, and a perfect site to implement any service learning because the choices are numerous. I have been part of this Community College for the last two years, and I felt that I could do something for it, but I was not sure what. It had to be a study and service related with students and technology. At the time of the decision, I was reading a book about how technology and personal devices are leading in the lack of conversation, and is also interfering in interpersonal relationships in society, specially in young people. I was observing students at campus, and classmates at classrooms, and it was true, people go and back through the campus and classrooms as robots, without look at each other, or even saying anything. I thought that a Conversation Club would be a good idea for having students talking with their peers for one hour, being aside of devices. Then I thought that it would be a good idea having the Conversation in Spanish, since Spanish is my mother tongue. This would provide not only conversation to students, also the opportunity of improving their skill in Spanish, and the opportunity of meeting other people from different countries and different cultures around the world. Mesa Community College has a multicultural community, with students from all around the world, and this club would take the opportunity to bring different
At the tender age of 23 years, I packed up everything owned that I had in my bedroom and stored in my mom’s garage and followed the then, love of my life to Memphis, Tennessee. Everyone in my family thought I was crazy. How could I leave Southern California, where I had been born and raised, to go to Memphis, Tennessee? A place at the time only known by my family and associates for its famous landmark, Graceland, and its infamous owner Elvis. I remember some of the well wishes and words of my mom and aunt, who each pulled me aside at one point and another to tell me, “No matter what happens, you can always come home.” I felt like the prodigal daughter. But it didn’t impede my tracks. I got in the car the
I grew up in a family full of educated individuals. Most of my family members went to college and had successful careers. I never saw my parents worried about their job. My dad is a teacher at the junior high in my hometown, so he always had a guaranteed paycheck. My mom had multiple jobs during my childhood, and she excelled at every position she was in. Her work ethic inspires me and I admire her determination. The habits of my friends and family only influenced me in a few ways. I have always been an individual that has to learn from their own mistakes. I am often stubborn, and I don’t listen to advice.
I opened the email revealing my acceptance into Northwestern and I immediately began to cry as I ran to share the good news with my parents. Northwestern had been my first choice and dream school. Unfortunately, I did not receive the same excitement from my classmates as I wore my Northwestern t-shirt on College Spirit Day. Being the only student from my high school to be accepted into an elite, private institution commenced rumors on the circumstances of my acceptance. Some claimed that the only reason that I was accepted was because of my race. They ignored my documented academic achievements, demonstrated leadership skills, athletic accomplishments, extensive extracurricular involvement and dedication to serving my community.
A place, for me, is somewhere that I am familiar with and I recognize it in some way as my own special geographic location. It is somewhere I am emotionally attached to and it is a place that I wish to remain at. I personally feel that it has taken me years to achieve this particular comprehension about where for certain that place is for me in my life, and to make out why I feel a certain way about being within the walls of my own home. I have now come to realize that my home is where my heart will always truly be, because I believe it is the only place where I will always be loved without