For my College Writing class, I have spent the entire semester researching and visiting a location from the book S Street Rising by Ruben Castaneda. I decided to choose The Wonder Bread Factory on S Street and I have discovered and learned more about that building than I have ever imagined. I’ve looked at the demographics from […]
Author: Britt Jacovich
Societal Changes on S Street and the Country with WeWork and The Wonder Bread Factory
The Wonder Bread Factory does more than sell bread, it tells a story. The year was 1940, and the family on S Street walked into the Wonder Bread Factory with bread on their brains and hunger in their stomachs. They waved to their neighbors, who were also there to buy bread and various Hostess Cake […]
Annotated Bibliography: WeWork/Wonder Bread Factory Build Environment Description
Bort, Julie. “39 Ways the American Workforce Is Dramatically Changing in 2015.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 04 June 2015, www.businessinsider.com/39-ways-the-american-workforce-is-changing-2015-6/#eres-also-radical-change-going-on-in-the-tech-we-use-for-work-40. Accessed 03 Dec. 2016. This source focuses on the changing work force, but mostly on millennials and how they are not what some people may perceive them to be. Like another article I have, this […]
Commonplace Book #10: Millennials and Hope
The New Yorker article about the youngest elected official in NYC, Ritchie Torres: “Torres spoke about the challenges he had confronted growing up, and closed with a message for his fellow-millennials: ‘Even in our moment of greatest darkness, there is light. And there is hope. And there is hope not only for our own lives, […]
Commonplace Book #9: Television Makes Us Smarter
The New York Times “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” article: “In a sense, this is as much a map of cognitive changes in the popular mind as it is a map of on-screen developments, as if the media titans decided to condition our brains to follow ever-larger numbers of simultaneous threads.” This article analyzes the […]
Commonplace Book #8: Trump’s Rhetoric
Washington Post article: President-Elect Trump on climate change — “Look, I’m somebody that gets it, and nobody really knows. It’s not something that’s so hard and fast. I do know this: Other countries are eating our lunch.” Throughout the entire election, we have seen the way Trump talks and the language he uses in his […]
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Commonplace Book #7: Opinions vs Decisions
A Passage from David Fleming’s City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America “[A]n education [. . .] that was designed to support a truly direct, deliberative democracy [. . .] would be an education oriented to the ‘strong publics’ of decision-making rather than the ‘weak publics’ of opinion formation” (205). Fleming makes […]
Hatred in Speech
In his article “‘Political Correctness’ has become a code word for hate,” Larry Summers argues that Donald Trump and his campaign have transformed political correctness into a term of hatred that has resulted in violence and fear across the country. Summers believes that while previously the term was used to argue over the appropriateness […]
A Simple and Revolutionary Design: The WeWork Website
As I entered the WeWork Wonder Bread Factory building, inspiration overtook me. I was surrounded by modern-graphic art, and young workers ready to take on the world. When I entered the WeWork Wonder Bread Factory website, I felt the same feeling as when I walked into the building itself. By simply being in the building, […]