Running head: REFLECTION 1
Reflection Essay
Paul Hollifield
Liberty University
Spring 2018
REFLECTION ESSAY 2
Introduction
I have grown up in the Athens, Georgia area all my life. I have watched the downtown
area grow and adapt into a true southern college town. The scenery has changed with the
times, and the historic buildings are getting a face lift and being repurposed as apartments and
condos to house students that attend the ever-growing University of Georgia (UGA,). This
paper will provide a general overview of downtown Athens and the impact UGA has on this
would be small town nestled in Northeast Georgia. The region relevance, location relevance,
movement relevance, and human-environmental interaction relevance will be presented. This
paper will conclude with a brief summary of the points presented.
General Overview
Athens, also known as The Classic City, is a city sustained by education. The
economic developers and the city’s merchants count on the more than 31000 UGA students
the currently reside on and around campus. The university also employees 5000-plus
