The America Alive project has opened my eyes to a world I
didn’t really know existed. I was born and raised in beautiful
California, where the ocean crashes on its shore, and the Red
Wood’s spring from the ground to the sky and the desert stretches from one of its boarders to
another. Yet in all my twenty-eight years I have never seen it as I do now. The tensions that
exist between these amazing scenic lands are many, this land was created that way and
continues to be just as faithful to it today.
This project took me from the most north of Los Angeles to the most south of San
Diego. It brought a part of our history and our current life to a new light. As it was back when
Fredrick Douglass was writing, to the writing I am doing now, the struggle over faith, gender,
race and equality have been a basis on which we live our daily lives. Abortion is a sin, or pro-
choice, woman’s place is in the home, Christianity is the only true religion fog today’s world just
as much as they did back then. So truly we have evolved and yet have so much evolving left to
do. We will grow and move forward as a civilization and together we will fall three feet behind.
This is what I believe to be, “Human Nature”. No one is above it or without it. We just are.
The visit I made to the Mission was my favorite. I have lived here for over a year now and have drove by the Mission a millions times and I finally had a reason to stop and go see it. I hadn’t been to a Mission since I was a little kid, so I was very excited. I also have a weird fascination with old cemeteries and head stones, so I found it exciting to be able to go check that out too. I was blown away at how much I learned about its history.
I added a photo and links to this post. I also rewrote almost the entire post because I feel I now have a better understanding of what it was that you wanted from us. Not so much on the Mission’s history as much on the tensions that exist and existed.
2. Saugus Café
This journey was fun because for me it involved visiting family, and when family lives in another town they tend to know a little bit about the town they lived in. This took out the thinking and deliberating on a place to visit for me and allowed me to be toured around Saugus Ca.
I took out some details I have originally put in it and added and reconstructed others. I also added links and a picture to this post.
I love the Farmers Market’s and have been a happy shopper of theirs for many years. I thought it would be awesome to use it as one of my America Alive posts. I really opened my eyes to tensions that I never would have noticed had I not taken this class.
I put some additional details in this post about vendors and goods. I also inserted some links and a picture.
I found this to be a fun post. I never would of viewed this store like I did after being a student in this class. The tensions between women as a sexual object verses domestic rolls are abundant. There was a day when I was like any other shopper going blindly on my way to the next purchase but now it seems so clear to me the way we market things as Americans.
I didn’t change anything about the writing in this particular post. I did add a photo and links.
