Source #7: Kennedy, Janice. “Where the Rich and Famous Go to Play; D.C.’s Storied Mayflower Hotel.” Dawson Creek Daily News, May 20 2008, ProQuest Central, http://search.proquest.com/central/docview/357805325/9CBD16687AC14D89PQ/8?accountid=8285 Within Where the rich and famous go to play; D.C.’s storied Mayflower Hotel, Janice Kennedy speaks on the history and controversy within the notorious Mayflower Hotel. Being a journalist […]
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Introduction: Mapping Commonplaces
My name is Marguerite J Tucker and I am a Sophomore transfer student at American University in Washington DC. I am a Sociology major on the pre-med track; as a course requirement this semester I took college writing 101. Throughout the semester I researched a specific site in DC as a built environment. The site […]
Corporate v. Non-Corporate
Annotated Bibliography 9: Exhibit: Carman, Tim. “Starbucks is over downtown Washington. These coffee shops are so much better.” The Washington Post, 5 April 2017. In his article “Starbucks is all over downtown Washington. These coffee shops are so much better”, Tim Carman discusses the new non-corporate coffee shops that are beginning to push Starbucks aside. […]
Expectations Progression Place and the 7th Flats
Meier, Jared. Streetsense.com. N. p., 2017. Web. 1 May 2017. The basis of this article is that there is a large market around for this building and the businesses within it. This building contains 19,000 square feet of shops and other businesses. Within this article, the market of that the location established is described. The […]
Lincoln Theatre: Public Relations and Social Media Reviews
“The Lincoln Theatre.” Facebook, www.facebook.com/pg/TheLincolnDC/reviews/. Accessed 30 Mar. 2017. The Lincoln Theatre has an average of 4.4 out of 5 stars on its Facebook page out of a total of 165 reviews. The majority of people (105 out of 165 people) gave the theatre 5 stars and described their experience at the Lincoln Theatre as […]
Commonplace 14: That Swamp Thing
“I could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from Washington’s swamp, spending my evening with all of you with a much, much larger crowd and much, much better people.” -Donald Trump, Remarks in Pennsylvania on the 29th of April in 2017 While the fact that Trump would purposefully […]
Annotated Bibliography 9 & 10
Cengage, Gale.“D.C.’s Downtown Lights up with Warner Theatre’s Revival.” The Free Library, The Free Library , www.thefreelibrary.com/D.C.’s+downtown+lights+up+with+Warner+Theatre’s+revival.-a012839535. Joining the conversation on the reopening of the Warner Theatre, Gale Cengage’s article discusses the historical theatre’s renovations. In particular, Cengage pointed out the $220 million dollar remodel that took 6 years to execute. Moreover, on opening night […]
Annotated Bibliography 5&6- The (non)Violent Takeover of Shaw
Background Frank, Stephanie Barbara. “If We Own the Story, We Own the Place”: Cultural Heritage, Historic Preservation, and Gentrification on U Street. University of Maryland, College Park, 2005. ProQuest, http://search.proquest.com/docview/304996415/abstract/1CE187B707EA4A1EPQ/1. Stephanie Barbara Frank, in her publication titled, “If We Own the Story, We Own the Place,” suggests that people must take different approaches to gain […]
Annotated Bibliography 3&4- Residents of Shaw
Exhibit Englert, Carlos M., and Morgan A. Eddy. “Underpinning and Shoring of Historic Howard Theatre in Washington, DC.” Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/23411452/Underpinning_and_Shoring_of_Historic_Howard_Theatre_in_Washington_DC. Accessed 26 Mar. 2017. In “Underpinning and Shoring of Historic Howard Theatre in Washington, DC,” Englert and Eddy suggest that the restoration of the Howard Theatre was an intense process that inevitably brought to light […]
Annotated Bibliography: 9&10
1.Rajala, Lisa. “Lincoln Statue Stands Tall.” Roll Call, April 23, 2009. http://www.dccourts.gov/internet/documents/2009-04-23_LincolnStatueStandsTall.pdf. In her article, Lisa Rajala discusses the importance of the Abraham Lincoln statue in Judiciary Square being reinstalled after several years in storage. Rajala explains the statue was taken down when construction of Judiciary Square was under way several years ago, and is […]