Essay on Life on Oak Street

The speaker reveals that home beat all and that relocation will inevitably lead our heart to long for our original home. To begin, the speaker expresses her feeling of homesickness for the atmosphere of her hometown. She stated that she feels “homesick for the streets unkempt with crowds of people, overfilled…” (4-6) The diction of “homesick” and the utilization of imagery to describe the business of the streets reveal that

Our Town is play written a while ago, but it relates to any time. Showing that routine is a part of everybody’s life. No matter what day and age you live in your going to have a routine. This play shows an example of two families and their daily routines. The whole play relates to routine even the different acts.

Janie Porter Barrett born in 1865 in Athens, Georgia was the daughter of Julia Porter, and her father is unknown but is believed to be Caucasian. Julia worked as a live in housekeeper to the Skinner family who pampered and educated Barrett as a child. The Skinner family taught Barrett in the subjects of literature and mathematics. After her mom decided to move Porter was raised by the Skinners’ who were Caucasian. Janie was sent to Hampton Normal Institute and Agricultural Institute, a vocational training school for freed people. Attending this school allowed Porter to gain love for her race, fellow man, and her country. Later Barrett married a guy that worked on the railway and gave birth to four kids following this marriage. In later years she attributed her desire to serve her fellow African American women and girls.

“Five hundred men moved silently toward the gates that would shut out life and hope for most of them forever. Quarter of a mile from the railroad we came into a massive palisade with great squared logs standing upright in the ground. Fires blazed up and showed us a section of these and two massive wooden gates with heavy iron hinges and bolts. They swung open as we stood there and we passed through into the space beyond. We were at Andersonville.” – Private John McElroy.

Back in the 1800’s and early 1900’s, because of the vast amounts of overpopulation, migration to

Life for the people in the 1840s-1860s was changing and it was changing dramatically. Western movement increased due to manifest destiny that many believed it was God's will for the american people to move coast to coast. There was some technological advancements also going on people could now send messages through morse code which was good for sending Political messages commercial messages and also emergency messages. Railroads even became a huge hit amongst the people of that time this turned Chicago into the number one commercial hub because of all these advancements city growth and wages also increased. Homes were also starting to change homes made of wood were now being replaced with brick row houses. The upper/middle class had beautiful homes and also beautiful furniture. (Article continued on

The earliest inhabitants of Burnsville were the Mdewakanton Dakota Indians. Around 1750, Chief Black Dog established a permanent village between Black Dog Lake and the Minnesota River, near the present site of the Black Dog Power Plant. After the Dakota nation ceded land in 1851 and moved to Chief Shakopee’s village in Prior Lake, the area was settled by numerous Irish, Scottish, and Norwegian farmers from Saint Paul.

Elijah Anderson’s Code of the Street A Book Review By: Kelsey Sena Elijah Anderson’s Code of the Street is an ethnographic account of street violence portraying in the African American communities of Philadelphia. In these economically deprived and crime ridden communities, the Code of the Street is a subculture that governs behavior and violence. Anderson combines elements of respect, loyalty and even honor as an system used to regulate social interactions upon these neighborhoods. As a result of joblessness and enduring racism in this society, inner city African American are pressured to abide the Code of the Street as an order to survive.

Elijah Anderson is a sociologist who is also the author of Code of the Streets. His main purpose of this book was to conduct research in poor inner city neighborhoods. He wanted to know why people who reside in certain neighborhoods act the way they do. Anderson wanted to understand how people follow the Code of the Stress and what influences them to follow this code. The code of the streets is defined as a set of unwritten rules an individual follows when they are in the streets or in the hood.

Throughout the article “The Code of the Streets,” Elijah Anderson explains the differences between “decent” and “street” people that can be applied to the approaches of social control, labeling, and social conflict theories when talking about the violence among inner cities due to cultural adaptations.

Ferree Street and the streets around it even made the cops scared to drive. No cops ever took patrol around the neighborhood unless

In this paper, I plan to first describe the “Code of the Street” which is a term coined and a book written by Elijah Anderson. I would also summarize and describe two journal articles that test Anderson’s idea of the “Code of the Street” for a more definite explanation. I will tell how the two articles that I have chosen relates to some of the concepts that Anderson talked about in the book. I will then define general strain theory and social learning or differential association theory. Lastly, I will explain how general strain theory and social learning theory or differential association theory explain some of the behaviors that were seen by the individuals in the book published by Anderson. I will point out some of the individual’s behavior and demonstrate whether it may lead to crime or whether the behavior was learned in any way.

2. The street in where we live is where the wealthy people live, so it’s not really crowded like in streets of the city. Besides, it’s actually distant from the city.. the noises and the poor. Basically a good place to refresh and rest your minds. To be honest, I’m not really close with our neighbours. They’re rich too and somehow, I always get the feeling they actually pretend to be nice to other people and have this evil back-up plan somewhere in their head. (Which I do not have of course!)

In addition, she extends the idea of eyes upon the street showing that using and watching the street not only guarantees the safety, but it makes the street more attractive. She argues: “the sight of people attracts still other people” (37). Here, she points out the fact that people like watching other people and activities around them. Nobody likes places where there is nothing to see or to do. Interesting streets are attractive because we see different people, and different activities or businesses. In short, the more a street is frequented, the more it is secure and interesting and vice-versa. Safe streets and sidewalks contribute to the economic expansion of the city and the social fulfillment of people. Then we can conclude that safety is a one of primordial factor to the social and economic development of the city.

Where I live is one of the greatest neighborhoods in the city to live in; however it does have its draw backs. Importantly it has nearly everything a resident might want, beautiful picturesque scenery, proximity to shopping, and many of the cultural centers. Nevertheless the roads can be some of the most congested in town, and the streets are not safe to walk late at night.