Unit 4 Assignment
Kenneth Peter Smith
CM115
November 11, 2014
Prof. Sally Anello
On Saturday November 9, 2014 from 12:00 PM to 1:00PM EST I sat in the Centre of Salisbury mall in Salisbury Maryland. I sat on the north side of the mall near the entrance and at this end of the mall there is a movie theatre, a Game Stop video game store and a large sporting good’s store called Dicks Sporting goods and not to far off from where I was sitting on the east side from where I was at is the food court. I was sitting in a square shaped bench that had four sides to it and I was sitting on the bench facing in. Overall the environment was very nice with a large skylight type archway that let in the sunshine and made it feel warm in the mall and its was already decorated for the holiday season with xmas trees and flowers strewn throughout the corridors. About twenty five feet from where I was sitting was a wooden kiosk where they were selling throwback video game systems that attracted a lot of customers.
Because of the time of day and the ideal location of where I am sitting I had the fortune of seeing hundreds of people of which some sat next to me or around me on the benches to rest. Because of my ideal location I would see people coming into the mall and leaving the mall and in that hour saw a vast array of people of every race, creed, color and culture. Off to my left where the video game store is I see small groups of kids and teens hanging out and of the three groups I see one group appears to be into the Goth culture based on the black clothes, make up, hairstyles and jewelry they were wearing. They had 5 teens in their group and there was three boys and two girls and what appeared like flirting and laughing and fun dialogue. The girls were standing there with their arms kind of crossed at their bodies and they both had one leg bent and they were swaying and twisting in the standing position and showing complete