Favorite Post

This picture was my favorite post. I thought that it showed Detroit in a good way and made it look better than it actually is.

Analysis Paper

I have figured out a bunch of different topics I could write about for my analysis paper. I grew up in Plymouth and have visited the downtown more times than I can remember. It is a cute little town, a couple streets surrounding "Kellogg Park" (a fountain & benches & grass to run around, its fun!). A lot of things have changed and become "better" in downtown Plymouth over the years. These were the ideas I came up with...

-transformation throughout the years
-chain stores becoming popular
-removal of the Penn Theater (one screened, played older movies)
-"mom & pop" stores being bought out
-old pharmacy
-fountain
-picture of old downtown in "Pennimen Deli"

Homeplace: A Site of Resistance

I thought it was really sad how the story started off. The woman was remembering when she was a child and she would go to her grandparents house. She talked about the walk there and how she was always scared because it was a walk through the white neighborhood. If I was in that situation, I would have felt very vulnerable and out of place. I probably would have described the situation in the same way that she did. I found it interesting that she talked about how she called it her "grandma's house". Whenever I am going to my grandparents house, I say I am going to my grandma's. I am not sure if it is for the same reason, "because the house belonged to women", or if it just because she is the one usually home.
I had a hard time understanding the rest of the story. I thought that the encounter in the neighborhood would be returned to later in the story but it was not. It was a good transition to the reading but I found it hard to understand what was going on after that. It basically described how the black woman lived when there was slavery and after. The black woman would leave her home to go take care of a white family's home. Her family would be worried about her the whole time she was gone. The black woman had different ways of looking at the world and her life.