Within the seventh chapter, Home: 1230 North Burling Street, Fleming argues that a combination of misrepresentation of poverty by those who live outside the projects in combination with social fragmentation has led to a decrease in positive change within south Chicago. He states that the main point of conflict is that the residents are seen […]
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Beckett’s Comments on Failure
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” The message here is quite simple. This is not purely to make it understandable for the common man, but instead being a common relatability to the sentence in order to make it relatable. He is trying to make the point the regardless of […]
The Lives of Criminals Still Happened Even If We Don’t Want to Believe It.
1618 S Street The early nineties are often considered a turbulent and formative time for much of Washington DC. While some pockets within the metro area were experiencing tremendous growth, others like DuPont’s northeast quadrant were littered with crime. This disproportionate wealth and social decline was not in the best interest of the city moving […]
An Amalgamation of Thoughts
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”- Hannah Arendt 1)The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. This sentence begins with a series of descriptions describing the doer. Most radical are simply there to add definition to revolutionary. The word revolutionary is followed by […]
How to be Your Own Professor
“I had not gained any profit from my attempt to teach myself, except that more and more I had discovered my ignorance.” This quote can be found within Descartes’ Discourse on Methods in which the philosopher depicts first those boundaries which define life itself and secondly a recommendation on how to go about educating ourselves. […]
S Street Dog Park and Local Real Estate
Background: Washington D.C., DPR. “Dog Parks | Dpr.” DC Parks and Recreation, https://dpr.dc.gov/page/dog-parks. Accessed 20 Feb. 2017. The article by the Department of Parks and Recreation depicts not only the collection of the dog parks by ward within each neighborhood, but argues for the strict regulation of these commonplaces within the city. The site claims that there is […]
Meet the Neighborhood
The rest of the street the apartment is nestled into is quite intriguing architecturally. Many of the buildings of the street are bustling with residents. They mimic the diversity of the rest of the city. I was lucky enough to be there on a nice day when the weather was warm. Most of the buildings […]
Sounds of the City
This video was as much for the sound as it was for the view. Dupont is where I spend most of my time when I leave the American University campus. I have perceived this section of the city to be a bustling hub for the younger sect of Washingtonians and my excursion to S street […]
The Greatest Dog Park in Washington
S Street park was by far and away my favorite part of the block. It was filled with people and served as a popular dog park. Everyone was so inviting and playing music that was quite dissimilar from the typical music being pumped out of the average dorm room. My perception of the park was […]
Supreme Council, 33˚, Scottish Rite Freemasonry, S.J.
This site, Supreme Council, 33˚, Scottish Rite Freemasonry, S.J., lives just across the street from the end of the 1600 block of S Street. Its massive stature bookends the street and feels simultaneously like a departure from the neighborhood and a reentry into the busy downtown itself. Given the fact that the rest of the […]