This project aims to explore BGR in Dupont Circle and the implications of the area on this particular restaurant and others. Additionally, I will exam specific rhetorical situations in and around the complexities of the space. This video provides some basic history and a view of Dupont, a popular place for someone looking to have the […]
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BGR Dupont: A Rhetorical Analysis
Addison Marry Professor Hoskins Writing 100 5 December 2016 Dupont circle is a vast and changing neighborhood. Situated among a combination of local eateries and trendy chains, you’ll find BGR – just your everyday burger joint. What’s interesting about this dynamic, though, is not the restaurants themselves, but rather the space in which they inhabit. […]
YMCA, the Gate to Connecting all Walks of Life
Welcome! My Built Environment covers a much wider topic than the YMCA. The YMCA brings together people of all walks of life, to one location for one common service. The YMCA provides structure to families that might not have structure in their neighborhoods, it can also be seen as a cheap gym to go to […]
A City Plagued with the Incurable Disease of Gentrification
Once a location for young christian men to learn how to live a life with a healthy body, mind, and spirit, the Young Men’s Christian Association now attracts many people who are using it as a cheap, subsidized gym. Most YMCA’s have de-emphasized their traditional christian rooted values, but continues to provide an environment intended […]
Presidents Remarks on the Flag: Commonplace
“The university in no way condones, promotes, or supports the burning of the American flag.” This statement came out after the flag burning on Americans campus, to remind the country that the school does not condone the burning of the Flag. Kerwin made it clear that he understands that it is a freedom of speech […]
My Sentence Commonplace
In this sentence I try and provoke a new thought on how to look at construction workers and their effect on the surrounding community. They are effectively able to provide a new source of business to a neighborhood that normally wouldn’t experience this income. I try to use a little alliteration when addressing the “brief […]
Complete Annotated Bibliography
Bates, Allyson M. The Impact of Gentrification on Low-Income Individuals in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area, Howard University, Ann Arbor, 2012.http://proxyau.wrlc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1356693498?accountid=8285. This article studies the factor that gentrified areas or non-gentrified areas has on the likelihood that a low-income household would leave. They found that no matter where the low-income family is housed they are […]
Flemming Quote: Commonplace
“[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) It seems as if the education back then was to focus on creating a “strong public” in […]
Built Environment Introduction: A Deeper Look at the Mayflower Hotel
The Mayflower Hotel located just four blocks from the nation’s capitol, has been known as “Washington’s Second Best Address.” The hotel has hosted several prominent social events and important people such as President Calvin Coolidge’s inaugural ball. While the Mayflower Hotel is tied to the history of Washington DC in several ways, the hotel has […]
Scandals Behind the Elegant Mayflower Hotel
In Ruben Castaneda’s S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C., the Mayflower Hotel is only mentioned in one scene of the book. Castaneda states that a jury found Mayor Marion Barry “guilty of using cocaine at the Mayflower Hotel, in downtown Washington, with another woman, two months before the Vista episode”(83). This event […]