Jhumpa Lahiri writes, “It is generally cold, and full of rust-colored seaweed. Still, I prefer it. The waters of Rhode Island, as much a part of the state’s character if not more, as the land never asked us questions, never raised a brow.” (Jhumpa Lahiri, Rhode Island) In this case, although Lahiri at first thought she was not suitable to Rhode Island and even hated it, Lahiri still preferred Rhode Island and she with her parents even lived here for decades. I really agree with...
I design this essay in the scale and range of place. firstly, I describe about space and then place, homeland finally to home. I tried to use more template to express my agreement and disagreement with authors. And I use several examples from articles and my our experiences to give strength to the topic. Basically, I focus mostly on the part of home, because it is the most important part of place in my mind. But I'm still trying to write mo,re detail things by using some specific anecdotes, letting my essay be with more critical main idea.
At the beginning of my essay, I may just start from the relationship and differences between the terms “Space” and “Place”. However, the main thing through all of essay will be Place rather space by only using space to figure out the characteristics of Place. After that, I plan to describe the reason why place is such important to every people in experiential perspective.
In addition, I will provide some explanation by definition, anecdote, and comparison to prove my idea about place that place is dependent to the experience. And my main view should be the people and the things happened in a place make itself unforgettable. Moreover, I will use the examples from articles to strengthen my opinion. To be honest, I also want to cover the discussion about the home or homeland or hometown, because it is important to everyone especially people like us who, away from home, study abroad. Furthermore, I have some inner voice about the feeling of home to share through essay. I regard home as a special kind of place and want to use it as one of example of place where we leave many memories and meet lots of people. By the way, I agree with many authors that home is stable, warm and safe. However, I am not going to make an adversarial idea about this view, because I really agree with the words they said about home. Instead, I want to insist that home can also move, which means home is not constricted because a family makes a home. And I will also get help from the “They say I say” by using some templates to improve my construction. Finally, I will talk something about place from the extra reading I searching for. This writing is about the place and my goal is to talk the differences between place and space additionally with one of special examples, home. Firstly, I wanted to include more contents and topics towards place, but considering how to put such many stories into one easy only 1000+ words, which meant that I was not able to take care of everything no matter how I wanted to. Therefore, I canceled some parts like the definition of place that I think is really abstract and even a little bit complicated for understanding. I tried to use more example to describe and figure out the characteristics of place. During the writing work, it really reminded me of my own experience of place and home by resonance, so I really hope to use this essay to let people find their unforgettable stories in heart.
1.Tuan is mistaken because he overlooks the meaning of home as a kind of feeling rather than a place
2.I agree that tuan states home is a special place, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people still believe that home is also a kind of feeling. 3.though i concede that home is a place, I still insist that home is also a kind of feeling. 1. Place is related to experience, use experiential perspective to figure out place. 2. Place is not only just place, but also more than place. Activity two Place, different from space, is likely something that is not very concrete and even sometimes hard to describe or explain. It is something really abstract, like feeling. In my mind, I think place is related tightly with experience, the reason why a place is called place is that people have some memory or friends here and live here for a long time. After that, this place does not only give people a sense of space but also leave people lots of experience. Place is important for human being. Place can make them feel comfortable, safe, warm, and cozy. Place can also have many different meanings, for example, for little infants, maybe their parents’ arm are the most important places, which can help them sleep well and get protected. Children learn a place through their age, and when they are still young they may not have some idea about a place. Activity four Usually, we connect place with space, because they are similar in several ways, but they still matain some differences. Spae is more likely a term and can be described by definition, on the contrary, place is something you can just feel. In a word, place is abstract and sometimes cannot be explained by words or some terms. And place is related to expericen such as the people, building here. Space can be learned by senses, however, place can not be. Place is important for human being. Place can make them feel comfortable, safe, warm, and cozy. Activity five Place should be discussed in an experiential perspective. People usually remember a place because of the stories, people, buildings here, and they usually regard place more likely a sense of memory than as a space sense. Place even have different value for people in different age. Usually, children, they have little awareness of place around them, and the arms of parents may also mean ‘place’ to them. But as they grow up, they start to extend their feeling of world, and begin to learn more about place. Place can also be different types, such as hometown, home, even a place giving you feeling of warm and comfortable. So, in my mind, I think if you want to know a place you should know the whole things here rather than just from books. Experience makes people remember a place. Activity six When doing the writing activity, I started to think about the experience of mine. It was when I was still a little child and move form suburban to city. At that age, I really hate the new “place” because I did not know how to spend my daily life and even was laughed by my classmates in school for my strange mandarin. As a result, I began to regard the city as unfriendly place that kept me away from other people. However, as time went by, everything went better. In fact, the city left me lots of memory and saw my growth from a child knowing nothing to a legal person going to America for undergraduate study. But I still really miss my place where my parents and lots of friends lived here and left me much unforgettable memory. Activity ten Place should be discussed in an experiential perspective. People usually remember a place because of the stories, people, buildings here, and they usually regard place more likely a sense of memory than as a space sense. Place even have different value for people in different age. Usually, children, they have little awareness of place around them, and the arms of parents may also mean ‘place’ to them. But as they grow up, they start to extend their feeling of world, and begin to learn more about place. Place can also be different types, such as hometown, home, even a place giving you feeling of warm and comfortable. So, in my mind, I think if you want to know a place you should know the whole things here rather than just from books. Experience makes people remember a place. Activity eleven In the writing above, I discuss about the term of place to people, and I want to show all of you how place is related to experience. I use the way of comparison between place and space, and also connect the place with experience. But I’m still trying to figure out more things to prove my issue. And I really want share you with part of my own experience of place, which can also state my own understanding about place. When I was doing these six activities, I feel really unfamiliar and strange but also interested in these because I haven’t done such things before. For example, during the time doing activities, I always worried about whether I did something wrong like grammar mistakes or sentences disconnected and sometimes even was nervous for the reason that I had no word in my mind especially invisible writing. Later surprisingly, when I looked back the paragraph I wrote through invisible writing, no many mistakes appeared. By the way, I found out that writing invisibly really accelerates the writing speed, because we are rid of many distractions that we will be faced with when we do visible writing.
Hello, my name is Hanyong Wu and my English name is Pete. And I am from china. My major is applied math and computer science. I’m sophomore this year and I live in woodruff hall that takes me about 20 minutes to walk to main campus. In addition, I’m interested in finance and statistic. As you see, I am a person who seems to have little relation with writing because it is not my interest and also does no significant help to my majors. At first, I took for writing class just general education requirement. But later I thought that do I need to write? Or do I need to maintain a high level of writing skill? The answer should be yes, writing is always a useful skill. No matter communicating with others or deliver one’s own thinking writing is important to each person. And I hope improve my writing skill during my college years. Further more, I can also help me relax myself by writing.
Usually, I write in the library. And I often use computer to write, but I used to write them down on paper. Because when I use computer to write I can also search for the information I want during writing. I prefer to write in silence, because I always feel distracted if other people around me or music on. Personally, I really want to have an opportunity to write article outside may in a frost or near lake, for the reason that I can enjoy myself writing without disturbing of others. To be honest, invisible writing is very difficult and I fell that I have written some words wrong and can not know what my structure is. I can only keep writing until the time end. Writing for me is lke an activeity to response to my internal mind and use words to express them, so I usually wrting by myself alnoe.
One of people who were important to my writing is Jane. There I am going to talk about English writing. Jane was my first English writing class teacher. And she really changed my mind about writing. At first, I was not good at writing, and every time when I wrote something I just regarded them as work I should do but never enjoyed or even thought about how could I improve my writing skill. Initially, my grammar was poor and vocabulary was also lacked. However, Jane really provided me with a large number of resources for writing and helped me redesign my work, which led me to a new position where I started to step into my own way of writing. And she let me do many reading that help me build my own style of writing. And many other activities promoted me to be interested in writing. As we known, you can do something well only if you like it. And now although I am still working to get my writing skill improved I do much better than before.
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