Boston Public Garden I took a 360-degree turn trying to see the entirety of Boston from my position standing in front of a massive statute of our nation’s first president. The skyline of Boston’s financial district sat behind the George Washington statue in the Boston Public Garden. This park is the oldest botanical garden in the America, and it looked historic, but not shabby. The skyscrapers didn’t reflect the light like they did yesterday because the sun hid behind the numerous, gloomy clouds. The buildings seemed taller and newer than the few, and hardly-cloud-touching buildings in downtown Spokane. On my left was the historic neighborhood of Beacon Hill, where my mom, sister, and I had devoured delicious Italian food the night before. On my right was Bay Village, a neighborhood we hadn’t explored yet, but we hoped we could …show more content…
My mom agreed that they were very good, but unfortunately they didn’t have a CD we could buy. We then continued along the path, and the music drifted away and couldn’t be heard anymore. The sun was beginning to come out, and the park become more crowded. I heard a big commotion, and Lauren and I ran ahead to see what all the noise was. We saw a man with a drum set attached to his back, a guitar in his hands, and a microphone in front of his mouth. A half-circle surrounded him. He was singing Sweet Caroline, and the crowd was beginning to join in with him during the chorus. A random, old man standing next to my sister asked her to take a video of him dancing with the one-man-band musician, so she took his phone. The man, clearly a tourist, ran next to the musician and began dancing almost crazier than the musician. The crowd laughed and clapped for the spontaneous dancer. Eventually, the clapping died down, but the man kept dancing. Lauren tuned to me and asked, “So, should I keep recording? It’s been a couple minutes now and he’s just doing the same dance
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To conclude, Boston while embracing its colonial identity, presents its legacies as markers of triumph, rather than as symbolic of the lingering presence of the colonizer. The American influences of spoken language and more recent developments make this city a unique fusion of European and American culture. Boston’s success is attributed to the amalgamation of conventions from both nations. The colonization of Boston has therefore, played a crucial part establishing Boston as a global city.
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On June 9, 2003, my life took an interesting turn. It was a sunny day. Blue skies, humidity insanely high, and I found myself at 4th Street and Constitution in Washington, D.C. I stood before an angled architectural masterpiece by famed architect I.M. Pei; its pointed corners jutted out towards the grassy Mall and Capitol Hill as if it were some sort of Picasso-esque compass pointing simultaneously towards all the tourist hot spots. (The one corner, purportedly the sharpest building corner in the world, wore a dark gray spot about eye level where thousands if not millions of tourists had touched it just to see how sharp it really was). I found myself standing before it, not as tourist . . . but as an employee on my first day of work.
New York is often known for their bustling streets and extraordinary landmarks. Washington Square Park is used daily by the public for demonstrations, entertainment, a campus or simply a place to be idle nearly any time of the day. Many have argued that Washington Square is not a park or even a square but nonetheless, it is home to many for various demonstrations regarding political and social movements (Folple 1). It has become an important part of New York and their history due to its many protests that helped shape several legislations.
In “Our Sprawling, Sunrise Utopia,” David Brooks compares how Americans used to live to how they live now. He discusses how Americans live in their own towns and have their own meeting places; these meeting places are historically different from where people have gathered in the past. Not only are their meeting places different but their homes are different and are organized differently.
In his essay “The Monument and the Bungalow,” Pierce Lewis advocates for his readers to consider the importance of landscape as a visual history that is as equally important as a written history. He encourages the cultivation of skills necessary to understand and participate in the informatively rich landscapes of our everyday lives. Pierce uses as example his own past experiences within teaching the ability of reading landscapes and makes a poignant observation of the commonality within American culture to take for granted the collective landscape and overlook the rich histories and details of our cultures that they may hold.
He seemed to enjoy the ridiculousness of dance; however, he also looked a little traumatized.
Through exploring the geography of everyday life within Toronto, we are also able to explore the presence or absence of power. One of the ways in which we can view relations of power within a city is through the use of analyzing and exploring monuments. Within the GTA, there are numerous amounts of monuments present that commemorate or provide remembrance of the city, various individuals or a variety of different groups and communities. According to Donohoe (2002), we all encounter monuments however we may not necessarily notice them within our everyday lives. A Monument is a structure that calls for individuals to be reminded and mindful of important events or the lives of individuals (Donohoe, 2002). They provide the power of retelling history
In the early nineteenth century, Boston increased in size by filling in the marshy area around where Washington Street is today. The city, concerned about crowding in the already established neighborhoods downtown and on Beacon Hill, decided to develop this area into new residential neighborhoods. The population of Boston had increased dramatically in the first half of the nineteenth century from the large number of immigrants and the steady rise of industry in a port city. Between 1850 and 1875, the area south and east of Washington Street (the ocean side) became the South End, which was intended to attract the growing middle class and to persuade them not to move to the suburbs. The pattern and plan of the South End are the main contributors to its architectural unity and also what sets it apart as its own distinct neighborhood. The choices in materiality and organization of space give the South End a visual coherence unlike any other neighborhood in Boston. It is one of the largest remaining Victorian residential neighborhoods in the United States.
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As we all waited in line to go into the concert there was a thrill of excitement in the air. I was standing there with two of my friends. when we saw a few other people we knew. " Hey, come over here!" I bellowed.
In the end, they said their farewells, sang one last song and then left the stage. Well, at least we thought they did. As soon as they left the stage everyone started chanting, "We want more!" repeatedly for about five minutes. They ended up coming back on stage and executing one final song. I thought it was very awesome of them to do another song like that for us.