In honor of summer, I am dedicating this last common place book post to my hometown favorite Mexican food, Rubio’s. Rubio’s is a California begun Mexican food chain that is located throughout California. What is interesting about the logo is they changed it for the first time about a year ago to the logo above. […]
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Extra Stuff: Presentation Day
I attended the presentation session on Thursday. I was very impressed with the outcome of the presentation. Students presented their mapping commonplace assignments on a presentation screen. The presentations was very organized. I especially enjoyed viewing John’s presentation because he hit all the key points of a successful mapping commonplace assignment. I also felt like […]
A Look Towards the Future: Fleming’s Commonplace
Rhetorical Analysis #5 By Kwesi Billups In Chapter 8 of his City of Rhetoric, David Fleming defines the terms by which he believes the reductive societal pictures of suburbia, home, and ghetto can be discarded and replaced by doctrines that seek to erase discrimination, violence, and isolation from the subtext of housing planning and, thus, public […]
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Final Project: Success is Perception
While researching the George Washington University Hospital and University itself, it’s evident that, although they both strive to become more prevalent and successful, they go about their work it two distinctive ways. The George Washington University Hospital wants to become one of the most successful in the region and to do so they believe they […]
Final Project: Mapping Commonplaces
Introduction to Web Page For my College Writing class this semester I had to research and visit a location of my choice in order to end up making a huge individual project. The certain locations available were in a class Google Maps and the commonplace I decided to choose was The Shiloh Baptist Church in […]
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Project 2: Mapping Commonplaces
http://prezi.com/qw4puxhm0ve9/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy For my final project in my Spring college writing class, I have chosen to reflect upon the cultural, demographic, and socio economic changes in Shaw. Through Le Diplomate, a French bistro located on 14th Street, I discover the true gentrification that is taking over the Shaw area and beyond. But is it for the worse or […]
Mapping Commonplaces: How U Street’s past shaped its future
Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/viewer?hl=en&authuser=2&mid=1PkLaNoA2uZaw8Z0Ep63eu0E_IAk&ll=38.91717533568296%2C-77.03167324999998&z=15 The U Street Corridor is a very fascinating spatial network that has experienced many changes. Throughout its history the corridor has seen the height of jazz to record high crime rates and,most recently, a multicultural utopia. Now, when I refer to the corridor as a utopia, I try to exemplify the fresh look […]