The Beauty and Danger of Barangay Loyola Heights

I think that when Esperanza says on page 89, "I have decided not to grow up tame like the other who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain", she is speaking of women like Rafeala, her great-grandmother, or Sally whom traded their futures for married life. She sees how they all are trapped with their husbands and are stuck inside their homes. She feels as though these women looked toward married life to find security. She felt like the did what was expected of them; in other words they were tame. Esperanza wants her independence and knows that she will not find it the kind of lives that these women settled for. She feels that she must be different, to shirk that pre-decided type of behavior that is well accepted by the

Similarly, the students owning private cars and living far away from campus also feel distressed as they have to compete with each other for the parking permit. The location and imperfect transportation not only cause the inconvenience, but also cause the weak academic atmosphere in campus. According to steven's experience, if a day is rainy day or the highway has traffic jam, only a few students will attend class. Without enough students attending class, the class would not be "successful". It means that high density of students is needed to share their own ideas and foster the ideas or concepts given by professors as if the Jacob's idea about a high density of people is needed to foster intermingling and the idea of community for a successful urban. Without a high density of people, a successful urban cannot be formed, as the article The Death and Life of Great American Cities describes "tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything. (p,

The Vargas house is a house which contains countless children with only a single mother to care for them. The Vargas children are known for being savage, vulgar, and impolite. They do not care about anyone or anything including themselves. It is almost an everyday occurrence that these children get into great danger or trouble. Esperanza does not want to be mixed in with these type of people and deal with all this commotion. She makes a mature decision of not associating herself with them and finding other friends. When Esperanza is new to Mango Street she tells her younger sister, Nenny, not to make friends with the Vargas’. As Esperanza grows and matures, she is realizing who she wants her friends to be. Her Ideal friends were perhaps not

Richmond Road is near a shopping district and popular with university students (House, 2013, p. 2)

Imagine feeling like you don’t belong and never will, or that the odds of your success is a slim chance to none. The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros, leads us into a world of poverty, broken dreams, and slithers of hope. The House on Mango Street follows the life of a young girl by the name of Esperanza Cordero, who occupies her childhood in an indigent Latino neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. The books expresses her dire need to have a place where she can call home, and escape the harsh reality of her expected life. Though, her life on Mango Street is bearable with help of her little sister Nenny, her two best friends Rachel and Lucy, and her other friend Sally. On her journey to adulthood, Sandra Cisneros will show how Esperanza assimilates into a mature young lady, who truly find her identity, and develops emotionally as well as physically.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Cisneros grew up in a Latino family around the 1950s and 1960s. She had a Mexican father and Chicano mother. Cisneros was encouraged by her mother to read and was not insisted with spending all of her time performing classic “women’s work”. Cisneros welcomes her culture with open arms, but acknowledges the unjustness between the genders within. Having experience growing up in a poor neighborhood in a working class family while facing the difficulties created by racism, sexism, and her status, Esperanza longed to leave the barrio. Later, she finds her capability to succeed individually and find a “home with herself”; she worked to recreate some Chicano stereotypes for her community. Cisneros didn’t want to

We tried to remain imperturbable, but we were overwhelmed with all the glorious architectures, festivities, and traditions of San Jose, Costa Rica. Later, we arrived to the periphery part of the city, where are new, utilitarian abode for the week awaited.

Introduction- The East Bay area is an economically diverse community with many satisfactory and unsatisfactory aspects. Each city had its differences and distinctions in people, settings, and cleanliness. As the bus left the station and went around the corner I could tell that we were in a low poverty city. With loose trash and debris in front of houses and apartment buildings, the area looked torn down and not very visual pleasing. Already familiar with the city of Emeryville I knew to expect a more upscale location. With plenty of name brand stores, and new apartment complexes, it was obvious this city was clean and very different from the previous location. As the bus

One’s identity is the most important part about them. Without one’s identity, there is nothing about them that makes them who they are. This is why the struggle to find one’s identity is one of the hardest struggles to take place within someone. Because the struggle to find one’s identity can be so difficult, a lot of writers today have used this motif in their books, as this has become a topic many readers can relate to. A book that highlights this topic very much is “The House on Mango Street”, by Sandra Cisneros. This book is about a young girl named Esperanza, who moves to a new house and a new community, and struggles with finding her identity and fitting in the community. The book is written in a series of vignettes, or small poems

In the summer of 2017, I had visited Wilkes-Barre, Arcadia University, Temple University. Wilkes-Barre and Temple had the urban atmosphere that I craved for college. Living in York, where there is farm down the street from my house, I needed to experience fast pace, never sleeping aspect of the city. With this in mind, it disappointed me how much neither Temple nor Wilkes awed me. I could see myself going there, but I could also see myself not. Another impediment was that it is only one hour away from my parents.

While the Quarter is the most famous, there are many other fascinating neighborhoods to explore including Audubon Park just adjacent to Loyola. Brightly and wildly painted Creole cottages cluster in the narrow streets, music wanders through the air along with the scent of the river and night-blooming jasmine. Narrow boulevards dotted with churches, old warehouses, chic cafés, eateries and watering holes create a culture and personality not easily replicated.

The story of my childhood is very present in my life every time I watch the Spanish programming on television. In the occasions I have free time from my daily routine I sit next my mother in the living room and talk about how different my childhood was in Mexico compared to my son’s here in California. We like to watch documentaries about the thirty two states and rural towns that surround each state in Mexico. Unlike the stories “Miss East LA” and My Ride My Revolution” by Luis J. Rodriguez my story does not begin in an urban city or in a diverse community like the south central area. Not even in a wealthy gated community or in the popular community of East Los Angeles.

As a neighborhood that has always been regarded as low-income the newly renovated downtown and plaza area is a distinct contrast to it. “El Segundo Barrio had some of the worst housing conditions in the country. Once compared to the poor, slum areas of Kolkata, India, the city gradually made improvements to the neighborhood.” (Natassia Bonyanpour). Gentrification can be threatening to the history of this neighborhood, but the remnants of the early days of immigration, the “Chicano” movement and “Pachuco” lifestyle of Zoot Suits and black leather pointed shoes, will always be embedded into the street signs and sidewalks, as long as people still call the neighborhood

It may be our area in the heart of San Francisco, close to the Civic Center and the neighborhood, state, and government courts. UC Hastings is steps far from each way of transportation, from streetcars and link autos, to ships and BART, San Francisco's metro. Our urban grounds is involved three structures containing classrooms, workplaces, our honor winning library, meeting space, understudy flats, and various enhancements, for example, the Law Café, the Skyroom, a few parlors and study spaces, a ball court and wellness focus.

The final assignment for this class has led me to analyze the relationship between Lamoni’s farming community and the university. Being primarily a member of Graceland’s clique, I decided the best person to interview would be my boss at the coffee shop, Tabor. The influential roles that She has held in both communities, thus, having the ability to provide insight from both a personal level and from a business perspective. While my recommendation paper focuses on how to improve the shaky relationship through the Shaw Center, what I found to be incredibly interesting was the representation and school pride throughout the town.