After reading Chapter 9 thoroughly, please respond to the ideas presented in the chapter and apply them to your own experiences. Please get as specific as possible and use terminology from the chapter correctly. I am looking for a clear application here. Two full paragraphs.
Throughout thi chapter the main idea is abotut space and how is is described or catergorized. When it comes to the chapter one part that I can relate to is how space is catergorized and how people refer to it . Recently I had to drive to Detriot Avenue to see a friend, I had gotten lost and had to call my dad for directions I had told him I was on Washington Street. He immediantly told me to lock my doors and drive back to the highway he called this the bad side of town. When it comes to the idea of naming an area I understand how people call certain areas the bad side of town or the "safe" side. When people ask me where I live an I say Sylvania they tend to imply that I am well off. Like when my teacher assumed that I lived on the right side of town. He was essentially sterotyping where I live. This is one way people describe locations.
Another part of the book that I found ineresting was the section on public pools and the mall.When it comes to public pools I never went. My parents found them dirty and I was forced to swim in a private pool such as a neighbors or family members. I found this section of the book intersting because of how the idea of public pools has changed and how they are somewhat less wanted. When it comes to the mall section I was suprised how they thought of the idea "public" mall. Which means a place that is owned by the public but is free for people to visit. I see this as a lie, when people come to the mall they are there to buy things not walk around so in the end people end up "paying" to go the mall due to the fact that it is more socially acceptable to carry around a shopping bag then be empty handed.
When it comes to naming places i think that the names can change according to who lives there. to go off of your example someone who might Live in that particular part of town think that it is the best way to live. They may feel completely safe in there neighborhood. And if they traveled to where you lived they may think it to be unsafe because they aren’t used to that particular environment. Depending on how someone views an area can make they either believe it to be bad or good.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there are good and bad sides of town. But whereever you are may be determined by who the person is. People who live in certain places like you were expressing may not be able to do any better than that so to them its an okay place to live. Honestly I didn't swim in many public pools growing up either, but I'm not sure that i would classify every one of them as bieng "dirty".
ReplyDeleteI agree on what Shelby says about the naming a place I belive it is more what your comfort level is. I only being 17 feel that most any part of toledo is a bad part of toledo. only because I dont know my way around and so therefore feel unsafe.
ReplyDeleteI cant agree with you to a certain point on your post. As far as space, Im from Detroit, Mi and people like to say its the most dangerous in the world. Well actually Baltimore is. I think every city has it's bad parts but now days you are more safer in the qoute un qoute hood/ ghetto. I say this because car jackers and bluggers are now going to the subarbs and breaking into thier houses and selling the foreign automobiles, why bec. My father stay in the subarbs and he got broken into almost 2x last year. No more is totally "safe" and "unsafe"
ReplyDeleteI agree with your post in some aspects. But the whole public mall thing you lost me there I dont' quite understand what you are saying, whether or not someone at a mall has a shopping bag or not in there hand really doesn't represent what you are saying at all.
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