My mom grew up in California. Thats about all I know. She moved to Kansas after many other journeys around the world‚ and thats where she lives now. Some of my family still lives their‚ my three uncles‚ my grandparents‚ and other cousins. I don’t see them very often‚ but when I do‚ I have a great time with them. Many of them are my age‚ some of them are older and some of them are younger. We don’t visit often‚ because its a ways away‚ but when we do‚ we have a great time. The best trip I have had
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Tytianna Davis Neighborhoods throughout the world are constantly undergoing different changes especially in major cities. Some of these changes can either make a neighborhood or break a neighborhood. A particular community that was brought to my attention while I was doing my sociological research that has drastically changed within the last few years is Bedford–Stuyvesant. A big factor that has lead to this historical community undergoing change is Gentrification. Gentrification has had many positive
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The Old Neighborhood This story talks about a woman named Sharon Hicks-Bartlett visiting her old neighborhood North Lawndale. She has not visited North Lawndale for fifteen years. She was shocked to see how it looked since she left. Sylvan playground as she remembered it was empty‚ full of trash and had curfew signs posted. Old establishments that used to be big are now shut down and abandoned. Movie Theaters wee either torn down or has turned into a church. Everything else was protected by
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Estrella Carmona English III AP Arthur Miller grew up in a time when fear was always prevalent in the United States. The Red Scare was a time filled with fear about people being scared that communist were going to take over the United States. Senator McCarthy was a big perpetuator of targeting of certain types of people. All of this is similar to the Salem Witch Trials during the 1950’s. Communism‚ McCarthyism‚ Puritanism‚ and the Salem Witch trials are all relevant in some form
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A neighborhood generally is characterized based on the layout‚ planning‚ amenities and most importantly the people that reside therein. The neighborhood I live is a newly developed community located in Laurel‚ Maryland‚ the houses in the neighborhood varies in design‚ style and is a residential community with mostly single-family homes. The neighborhood looks like a transition from farmland to residential communities; the area attracts young and working class people because of the outstanding school
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The village that I live in is called MerricK . Merrick is a hamlet in Nassau County‚ Long Island on the South Shore. This village is 35 miles from New York and one expressway exit from Jones Beach. The name "Merrick" is taken from Meroke‚ the name (meaning peaceful) of the Algonquian tribe . The first people that lived here are the Merokee Indians that farmed and fished in the area. In 1650‚ a Reverend Denton moved his congregation to the area from Stamford‚ Conn.‚ and founded the Town of Merrick
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A Report on The Neighborhood Concept Submitted by: Ajay Kumar Ravi (Barc/1025/2008) Ashutosh Prateek (Barc/1039/2008) INTRODUCTION The term neighborhood has many meanings and uses. For example‚ neighborhood can be used to refer to the small group of houses in the immediate vicinity of one ’s house or to a larger area with similar housing types and market values. Neighborhood is also used to describe an area surrounding
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rate of white youths. In the book If I Grow Up written by Todd Strasser is about DeShawn a young boy who has grown up in the Projects with his grandma and sister. DeShawn dream was to get out of the projects and live a normal person life outside of the projects but‚ things started to fall apart when his family ran out of money due to the point of the Welfare check not being able to support his sisters twins‚ him‚ and his grandma. So he joined the gang and ended up in jail. But could DeShawn have lived
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The idea of the neighborhood watch is one which has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to decrease crime within a neighborhood community. The basic idea of the neighborhood watch centers around neighborhood residents paying attention and identifying suspicious happenings and alerting and reporting crimes to police department. Through Neighborhood Watch groups and standardized surveillance techniques‚ residents and neighbors can assist and help the law enforcement authorities catch kidnappers
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Neighborhoods and Delinquency How does one know for sure whether or not their family is being brought up in the right type of environment? An abundance of people raise their children in neighborhoods where the youth may be pressured and lured into situations that can generally lead to only problems and complications. There is not necessarily one right answer to prevent this from happening. It is not as simple as keeping adolescents from getting into bad situations by locking them
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