Personal Narrative: Designing A Futuristic Neighborhood

Future society is an extremely unpredictable subject, because people all have different views on life. Charles G. Waugh author of the short story, “Long Way Home” tells a story about a caring father losing his son, due to the world's advanced technology. On the other hand in the short story, “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradley, individuals are completely addicted to technology, allowing technology to over rule the world and take over people's minds. Although both stories show a possible outcome of the future, the more realistic future will most likely be “The Pedestrian”.

Life in the high rise was many things. Tame was not one of them. The nights were filled with vivacious parties on the upper floors that echoed through the entire building, even to the lobby if all else was quiet in the building. The days, where I had expected them to disciplined, were filled with even more alcohol. Cocktail parties occurred from dusk till dawn without fail. Even when everything seemed to be in order the monstrous addition to the skyline creaked and groaned. If you stood still long enough on the 25th floor you could almost feel the entire structure swaying, swaying to the rhythm of life.

Your assignment is to design a neighborhood of the future.Explain what you would include in a neighborhood of the future and why.Include specific details and examples in your design.

This is my neighborhood memoir, I'm going to be telling you about stories and times from my life that occured at my home, I hope you enjoy.

cars and a completely different world. This a completely different view of how the future

The blaring noise of the wind through the streets mixed with the severe weather alerts on our cellphones. Through my window, I could make out silhouettes of trees blowing uncontrollably through the rain. This was not something that I was expecting during the holiday season. On the night of December 26, 2015, our family went into a safe room inside of our house and braced ourselves for the tornado that was tearing through my hometown.

To begin with, my futuristic neighborhood would have to have houses. The houses will look like a apartment in a way except they will not be. They will be smart houses and are going to be stacked up on one another and you will get everything you ask for. Before you buy the house, they will ask you what you want in it and then you buy the house with everything in it. Let's say you want a hot tub; you get a hot tub, an indoor trampoline park, or anything you select. There will be a sound system and you can name it and it will hire people to clean and make repairs and much more. Like a huge balcony, and a skylight, and a 155 inch flat screen tv.

The agency I chose to interview was MyHouse at 300 North Willow in Wasilla, Alaska. Their mission is to provide safe shelter for homeless youth with a goal of connecting kids to a network of caring individuals and agencies able to assist them in becoming self-sufficient. They have a board of directors that meet regularly to discuss issues and where to go next with the agency.

The future will most likely be like “The Pedestrian,” by technology overpowering

As you enter the city of Toronto, enclosed by skyscrapers towering over you overflowing with culture, where time passes swiftly as people dash by you; it makes you feel trivial in the metropolitan area. The city of shadows that cast a never ending gloom, only to be broken up by the narrow gap in-between buildings. A substantial lake embedded with Silurian rocks on the edge, surrounding the downtown business district, keeping the city steadily in place. Toronto is the younger sibling of New York and Chicago, hesitant of the spotlight these other districts possess, but not shy enough to be known worldwide. A city of roads that disperse in many directions, paving the way of people’s futures and success; unknown as to where you will end up. Many

A social location that has affected my life is education. I chose education because I have always struggled with it throughout my middle school years. I was having tough time focusing in school. I was that child that never got awarded for anything. Instead I was always sitting at the principal’s office having meetings with teachers and my parents. Math and English weren’t my subjects I always a struggled with both, because I only grew up knowing one language which was Spanish, and Math I was never good with numbers. For not knowing good English I would get bullied and made fun of all the time. That I made me give up on school. By the time I was in sophomore in high school I was transferred to a charter school, because I need help with all the

Where I currently live in the Lehigh Valley area the Mayor is rebuilding the whole downtown inner city of the Allentown, PA area due to the city going down or not doing so well which is asking for a change. With the change new stores that are being built such as restaurants, shoe and clothing stores, hockey arena, etc, etc... the price range and stores being built does not cater to the lower class downtown inner city community but caters to middle class and higher class group of people. This is a positive thing that it is changing for the better negative for the lower class community. The resistance is the inner city community feels that they are being pushed out due to the buildings being remodeled and rent being raised. This process is called

I left my radio in the back room in was most likely with the volunteer who was covering for me. He yelled at me to "get up" and told me lets talk in Joshs' office (which was a few steps away). Daniel storms in Joshs' office, turns on the light and sits down in the office chair in front of the desk with his arms crossed and a sticky note in his hand. I follow him and prop the door open with the door stop is I say "lets keep the door open it's hot in here." The real reason I did this was because I was extremely uncomfortable. He then yells, "Do you want to tell me where you have been?". I was standing in the door way, not completely in the room when I told him that I met with HR. He asked very angrily who I got permission to leave from and then stated that I left my post without permission.

I woke up on a warm sunny Saturday morning and went down stairs and called my friend Joey Gliech and said “Today is the day!”

​A cultural assumption of my neighborhood community is that I will end up as nothing more than someone who works at a Dominican botanica that receives government help. But I do not believe in the categorization of a person by societal assumptions, socio-economic status, or intelligence standards. I challenged their assumptions when I became a volunteer at Women and Infants in Providence. I decided to volunteer to see what it’s like to be in a hospital everyday. During my time at the Hospital I was not getting paid nor was I doing any surgical procedures, however, I was in a medical atmosphere, catching a glimpse of what my future could look like everyday if stayed motivated. It was an exhilarating time because I was able to converse with doctors