The population of the Walls Town (also Town of Walls) area has been head towards a slow increase since the 2010 census with the promise of economic growth. According to the 2012 demographic projection of the U.S. Census there was a .77 % population increase in 2011 with 1,171 persons, and a 5.21% population increase in 2012 with a total population of 1,232. (It is important to mention there are many discrepancies with this number, some report a population of 725, +/- 185) The Town of Walls boosts an overall population increase of 6.02% within two years. The distribution of men and women in the community is slightly even, with men at 45.7 % (531 +/-) and women at 54.3 % (631 +/-). The median age for men is 24.1 and for women 27.8. There is a higher presence of women especially in the pivotal age group of 11-19, and 20-29, possibly meaning men are more prone to exploring opportunities outside of Walls. The women in this community may be sedentary, with the men embracing mobile opportunities. The women may also have more familial responsibilities, and feel a stronger connection to the area and security of familiarity to Walls. There is a big shift in the female population age distribution of 30-39, and 40-49. This is age, where that responsibility may taper off. How are the people within this small community? Where do they live and work? What are their ethnicities? It seems that with a small community like the Town of Walls diversity would be limited, especially since it is located with surrounding communities that have stronger identities and opportunities. The predominate ethnicity in Walls is African American, consisting of 60.8% (707) , the next is White Americans of a single race making 34.7% (403), Hispanics are 3% of the p... ... middle of paper ... ...ties and communities with established entities. However, this could propel the growth of Walls into a well-planned and define area; sensitive to the needs of its community members and the environmental impacts of its location. Some of the first steps to approaching this case study was to see what types of information was available and how much, if it was repetitive, and if the numbers were generally consistency across the data sets. After compiling data from internet sources and data bases; we then reached out to the Town of Walls, contacting the Local planner Bob Barber and sending emails to the Town of Walls information system. Many of those email were not returned, but we did receive help and the future comprehensive plan for Walls from Mr. Barber. These sources of information allowed us to make connections about the area and the structure of community life.
The air is cool and crisp. Roosters can be heard welcoming the sun to a new day and a woman is seen, wearing a clean colorful wrap about her body and head, her shadow casting a lone silhouette on the stone wall. The woman leans over to slide a piece of paper into one of the cracks, hoping her prayer will be heard in this city of Jerusalem. Millions are inserting their prayers into the walls of Japanese temples, while an inmate in one of a hundred prisons across the United States looks past his wall toward the prayers he did not keep. Billions fall asleep each night surrounded by four walls and thousands travel to China to witness the grandest one of all. Who builds walls and who tears them down?
In the memoir The Glass Castle, Walls makes the reader feel a certain way. After reading I would say Walls leaves the readers thinking about society, and how people don’t need to conform to how society wants them to be. This books shows us that both Rex and Rose Mary try to teach their children not to conform to how society wants them to be like. For example, Rose Mary didn’t want to become a teacher just because her mother told her to do so. Rose Mary was a happy-go-lucky person. She was an artist. No one could really tell her not to paint her paintings or draw her drawings because, Mary knew what she wanted to do from the beginning. Rex on the other hand kind of grew of depending on himself. Rex was a man who didn’t like authority. He was a self sufficient man, and both parents taught their kids to be self sufficient. They taught them to be strong on their
Living in a city like Houston, diversity is present in every corner. From different races and beliefs to different sexual orientation. However, having grown up in Miami, diversity was not present in most situations. Most of the people in my community were mostly Cuban or from Central and South America. All my friends knew how to speak Spanish and shared similar cultures.
In conducting this assignment we visited the neighborhood of Washington Heights. During our visits we interviewed several of the residences; so that we could get a first hand prospective of what it is like living in the community, why they settled in the community and the many changes that they have witness durning their time in the neighborhood.
Second, I will discuss Brook’s ideas about social groups working together and social groups coexisting in a specific area. According to Brooks, in the United States we cannot see neighborhoods with different races or cultures because people always try “to group themselves with people who are basically like themselves” even in their workplaces (306-307). He makes this asseveration giving just an example on how wealthy Democratic and Republican lawyers do not tend to buy expensive houses in the same neighborhoods (307). However, in our country we can see middle class neighborhoods where we have different social groups coexist together, such as Coral Gables in Miami, Fl or Pembroke Pines in Broward, Fl.
In conclusion, I believe that every place has one building that either makes or breaks the area in which it is located. I believe that my city has areas where some buildings bring the area down. As a resident of Saginaw I didn’t really want to bring the negative to this paper, I’d rather bring the positive buildings to my paper. I hate the negativity the world has on Saginaw. But what they fail to realize is every place has a downfall, and the rise of Saginaw is on its way!
NOTE: This assignment is about the experience of using databases to locate information about your community. Keep in mind as you complete this assignment that you may not be able to locate all data fields listed in the worksheet.
For instance, Brooks himself confesses that he has himself in the past gravitated towards places where he believed he could be most comfortable in and where he also felt he could be his true self. He further states, that the majority of his friends are middle-income level Caucasians and conservative Christians. Brooks’ main argument in the essay is that many individuals in the United States often do not even bother to show that they would like to build diverse communities. The essay, Brook says, is about the public discourse on race and is meant to make us ponder about the stereotypes and assumptions we have when we think about diversity or people from other ethnicities. It is also meant to make us look where we fit in the diversity debate? Are we truly for the integration of
At this point in time, seniors at Mira Costa feel trapped, as if they can't get out of Mira Costa and Manhattan Beach soon enough. Imagine being physically trapped in their city, surrounded by nothing but a big concrete wall holding them hostage. The Berlin Wall kept half a city hidden behind, what was known as, the iron curtain. The wall was “...a symbol of oppressive and divisive government, not only to the East Germans it contained, but to the rest of the world as well.”("Transitional Justice.") The people of Germany were separated from their jobs, their loved ones, and were forced to live under communist rule.
From the quaint café on the corner of First and Main that booms on Sunday mornings, to the community park and pond where families feed the ducks and children play in the midday sun, reminders of an urban area’s identity are scattered within its limits. This identity is composed of a certain level of community shared by the inhabitants of urban areas, and this sense of community develops over generations as people become personally intertwined with other people and structures contained within the fabric of their environment. This sense of community is the heartbeat of thriving urban centers and is what encourages people to take pride in their city — to take pride in their home. It is therefore alarming when one rounds the corner of Main to discover their favorite café has closed up shop, or the duck pond is gated because of contaminated water, or the historical home is deserted and falling apart. As building blocks of community like the café, pond, or the home are eliminated, the identity of urban environments is lost. Cities’ sense of being erodes and the vitality and joy of the area and its inhabitants decays.
Very few people would want to live in a place where they don’t have security. Whether it be in cities or subdivisions, Jacobs, if alive, would ascertain that there needs to be a sense of connectedness to maintain communal safety. Public living “bring[s] together people who do not know each other in an intimate, private social fashion and in most cases do not care to know each other in that fashion” (Jacobs 55). Now that families typically center themselves around suburban lifestyles, residents should understand that the same connections that Jacobs says were to be made in cities need to now be made in subdivisions. Jacobs was scared that with houses being spread out in the suburbs, little interaction between neighbors would take place. In order to avoid this, neighborhoods need to promote a sidewalk lifestyle that they currently do not (Jacobs 70). With Kotkin stressing how urban areas are no longer preferable places to raise a family, saying only seven percent of their populations are children, he lacks compassion for the transients that now inhabit cities. Undoubtedly, those who now inhabit the city should also feel safe in their environments. Nowadays, members of a city isolate themselves from interactions with other citizens making it difficult to establish a social
The "Mending Wall", by Robert Frost is about two farmers whose properties coincide with one another. Every Spring they meet at the boundary of their land to restore the stone wall that divides their two properties. Solely by what they sow you can tell how truly different these two graphic symbols are from one another. Despite the perpetual acts of nature to destroy the barriers created on land by man, it is in fact the fixing of these barriers that makes them so alike and yet so very different.
Diversity is an observation of a mixture of different races, cultural backgrounds, and perspectives within a large mass of people. This observation is significant because people of different backgrounds are able to approach a single questionable situation in several different ways. Today, we are able to see diversity within the mist of large and small communities. A community is a group of people who interacts with one another, share commonalities, and tends to have a sense of empowerment once they’re united. When comparing the meaning of diversity and community, there is a clear connection between both words. There is diversity within a community, and such component strengthens the minds and lives of the people
Prior to reading the course materials concerning ethnic space, I initially sought to predict possible descriptions for an ethnic space, by incorporating class discussions and themes into my thought processes. As a result, I contemplated that perhaps, the definition closely resembles either an area with one main ethnic group, or conversely, an area filled with many diverse ethnic groups. Subsequently, I read the essays regarding ethnic space, in order to infer the meaning of an ethnic space. In particular, the essay by Robert J. Rodino provided considerable insight on the subject of ethnic enclaves. According to Rodino, an ethnic enclave occurs when a particular ethnic group of people live amid the dominant ethnic group (Rodino 94). Even though this definition carries a political connotation, it still provided a degree insight to my understanding. However, when Rodino used the term “ethnic community,” in the context of an ethnic enclave, I recognized the relationship between the two (Rodino 100). That being said, an ethnic community, or space, is a component of an ethnic enclave. The idea of an ethnic community resonated with me to appropriately express an ethnic space. Therefore, I decided to incorporate that into my interpretation of an ethnic space, along with my personal experiences. All things considered, an ethnic space is when a city displays a prominent cultural ambience, due to the prevalent ethnic group within that area. Similarly, due to my contrasting cultural experiences, Rowland Heights displays this prominent cultural environment, due to the prevalent ethnic group of the city. On the whole, these factors contribute to the ways in which Rowland Heights appropriately exemplifies this classification of an ethnic
However, women have made optimistical progress towards equality and their role in the society has been changed dramatically since the last century. Many women stepped out of their home and start to work at factories and offices. The number of working women with children has more than doubled in the past 50 years. While working conditions for women may have improved, there is a lack of appreciation for the notion that work for most women doesn't end at the door of a factory or office. Despite an increase of women's participation in the labour force, women's share of housework has hardly changed in 50 years.