Week 10: Essay #2 (final hip hop definition)

Neighborhood

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NEIGHBORHOOD 1

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Nature is one crucial thing, but man is slowly ruining it to create space for buildings. However, this is not the case for my neighborhood, for people treasure nature. I live in a clean neighborhood that is densely populated. It has several houses close to each other, with each home having a flower bed at the front. The pathway to enter my neighborhood is beautifully decorated with different species of trees that beautifully sway and follow the wind's direction. Different trees yield different flowers that most people would consider dirt, which is not the case in my neighborhood. The flowers of different colors that fall onto the pathway form a beautiful and natural carpet. The neighborhood smell great and clean and the air around the area is very clean. This is because there are no factories nearby to in any way pollute the air. My house is unique from all the others since it is the only one painted green and white and has a chimney at the back. The house has several types of flowers and trees that offer a very cold breeze at the front. The house has a back yard which my family uses for the cultivation of basic vegetables.

Some time back, racial profiling was real in certain areas. One area was my neighborhood, which was meant for whites only. This means that there was no chance that any black American could come into the area and settle there. This was restricted. However, this has changed since, currently, several black Americans are living within this area. This shows that there are changes taking place in terms of racial restrictions (Hannon, 2019).

The change did not come overnight, but it is something that people have adopted over time. To begin with, back then, people disagreed that black people own any property. However, several laws were put in place, and the black people were allowed to own property in the lands previously owned by the whites. However, they were only allowed to buy land in ghettos (Jones-Correa, 2000).

References

Hannon, L. (2019). Neighborhood residence and assessments of racial profiling using census data. Socius, 5, 2378023118818746.

Jones-Correa, M. (2000). The origins and diffusion of racial restrictive covenants. Political Science Quarterly, 115(4), 541-568.