Basic Civil Engineering notes on Transportation Engineering & Modes of Transport
D11-EWRT 211
1. LEAD EWRT 211
Day 11
Gentrification, Paper 2,
Global Issues Conference
2. Quiz
1. Define gentrification.
2. Give an example of gentrification from Chapter 6 or Chapter 7 in
Madonnas.
3. Which singer is Angie obsessed with?
3. In-Class Essay #1
Pass and High Pass mean you
passed.
Low Pass means that I can’t
guarantee another instructor would
agree that you passed.
Common issues:
Have to focus on ONE obstacle.
Topic sentences.
Not enough explanation of the
quotes.
5. Freddy (Ch. 6)
"On the starting tip of Sunset Boulevard (which is now called Cesar Chavez
Avenue--when did that happen?) I survey my territory--the new apartment
buildings and stores, the fresh coats of paint on the doors and window frames
on abandoned shops, new storefront signs in English covering the old sun-
bleached Spanish ones (which themselves were molded over the old English
signs from the forties and fifties), the odd presence of young bearded white
men with coffee, not six-packs, on the street corners. Where are the
Chicanos? Or the Chinos? [...] I [will] call my carnals, who must love all the
fresh money walking around here, and by this time tomorrow I'll be up a
hundred? Five hundred? Hell, maybe a thousand dollars, enough to relax on
for a couple months" (113).
6. Angie (Ch. 7)
"Selling the house meant I was out of debt, free to go wherever I wanted. I
discovered I didn't want to go anywhere after all, especially once the
neighborhood started changing. House prices went up, neighbors cashed out,
and there were new bars, new restaurants, fewer cholos. I welcomed these
fellow white, affluent (and sometimes openly gay--a shocker for the old-
timers) strangers into a land that I'd inhabited for most of my life and that
was now a foreign tourist destination. These new shops had so much
beautiful, useless... stuff--handmade designer handbags; overpriced "folk" art
painting [...]. And I loved these stores for this, for their nice... things. They
made this place feel more like my home." (147)
9. Global Issues Projects
Our theme: “A Community of
Migrants”
Excerpts from some of your migration
stories.
Video recordings.
With a visual aid (poster, tri-fold).
Two “superfamilias”
Superfamilia 1:
Mina, Demisiie, Thin Su, Tin, Sergio,
Jason, Rishika, Dylan
Superfamilia 2: Julie, Sho, Frank,
Jade, Josh, Tom, Melvin, Gibran,
Cristal, Owen, Storm, Hai
(I need a POINT PERSON for each part
of the project in each superfamilia.)
Things you need to do today:
Decide which part of your migration
stories you will read.
Choose together and prepare the stories.
You can start recording if you are ready.
Make plans for the visual aid. What
supplies will you need (tell Brian)? What
will it look like? Design/sketch it out
now.
Everyone must contribute in some way.
It is an assignment that is required to
pass the class.
10. Homework for Monday
Email your revised P1 to me (if you
haven’t already).
Finish Madonnas.
Complete Discussion 10 on Canvas.
Do your part for the Global Issues
Project.