The handout that I read for class was The War on Drugs. Before I read this handout, I didn’t really think about the war on drugs. I was aware that many people are in jail for drug related reasons but it wasn’t something that was always on my mind. Furthermore, the article was mostly about [...]
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The War on Drugs: Treatment, not Jail
Posted in cities and spaces on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Kriegel is a Classist, Vague Bully
Posted in cities and spaces on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This week I read the “article”, Graffiti: Tunnel Notes of a New Yorker by Leonard Kriegel, and was disgusted. Firstly, Kriegel attempts to draw the reader in with a maudlin, pathetic reminiscence of his childhood followed by no introduction whatsoever. He then proceeds to spew forth an inventory of vague emotional prose. I had to [...]
Is There Really Enough Space
Posted in cities and spaces on November 8, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I lived in four different spaces in my lifetime a nice size 2-bedroom two-family flat, a small 2-bedroom corner house, a big 2-story 3-bedroom house, and a very small Wayne State dorm room. I’m going to give a brief description of each living, but I want to mainly focus on my bedrooms.Living in the two-family [...]
My Spaces
Posted in cities and spaces on November 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It is obvious that spaces are everywhere. But it is how we analyze and use our space that is fascinating. I have only live in two places in my life Hartland, Michigan, and now Detroit. These places are very different, in many ways. Hartland is a very small town, with most of the population living [...]
Dormitory Space
Posted in cities and spaces on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Wayne State University, believe it or not has some of the nicest dorms to stay in. They are air-conditioned, one bathroom and two closets. Compared to some dorms that do not have air, you share a bathroom with three other people or more and it is smaller than the freshman dorms that WSU have. To [...]
City Life
Posted in cities and spaces on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the film we watched, Cabin in the Sky, religion played a role in the film, because Little Joe’s actions (before the viewing audience realized it was all a dream) determined whether he went to heaven or hell. At the beginning of the film, after making a serious promise to his wife, Petunia, that he [...]
Cabin in the Sky: the ending
Posted in cities and spaces on November 7, 2007 | 8 Comments »
In the movie Cabin in the Sky, I was very upset about the ending. Little Joe goes through the notions of becoming more religious within six months while having to choose between the devil on his shoulder and the angel on his shoulder. By the end of the six months the devil had done one [...]
Indigenous Homelessness
Posted in cities and spaces, tagged Homeless Homelessness blog assignment 3 on November 6, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The article that I read was about homelessness and one of the misconceptions that people have with the homeless. It was written by a pastor who worked with homeless people at his ministry and learned a lot about them through his work. The writer makes it clear that he considers there [...]
Summary: Bloods/Crips Proposal for LA’s Face-Lift
Posted in cities and spaces on November 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The proposal outlined by the Bloods and Crips was well organized and thought out. In order to reduce the violence in the inner-city neighborhoods in South Central Los Angeles, improvements were needed everywhere. The first part deals with cleaning up the neighborhood all around. The importance of the first part is to make the neighborhood look [...]
