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Chinatown Lake Merritt Research Paper

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The Chinatown-Lake Merritt area is very populated. There was a variety of many different kinds of people- differences that ranged from race to gender, from age to height, and from dressing style to personalities, and from transportation to job. Laconically speaking, the greatest difference of the Chinatown-Lake Merritt area was the transportation. Near American Indian Public Charter School II were two people sorting luggage in the trunk of their car. There were many different kinds of cars and trucks on the hectic streets. Near Lake Merritt, there was a bunch of fit bicyclers on a trip somewhere. A Southeastern Asian man wearing khaki pants and a purple shirt appeared to be waiting at a bus stop for a ride. Two people rode scooters around Lake Merritt. There were many pedestrians …show more content…

There was an American dad walking down 12th street with a cigar and earplugs. He must have been taking lunch break. There were three Asian moms walking down the street with three two year old babies having misapprehensions of the “dangerous” Oakland. There were an African American mom with two daughters and Asian mom with a son wearing a Lincoln Elementary School shirt. They must have recently picked up their children after school. There was an old Hispanic lady pushed a baby stroller with dolls inside. A girl with Sony headphones walked the streets. Around the lake were a person dressed in flashy, astonishing clothes rapping and a teenager with a Warrior's shirt and a Bobcat sweatpants. The man who was singing dressed like a typical rich popstar, like 2 Chainz. A Muslim man walked with groceries in-hand. A man with braided, splendid hair walked down the streets too. The many pedestrians on the streets appeared to be the unfortunate and unemployed, the businessmen and mothers on their lunchbreak, young and senior citizens fulfilling a better body, and adults on night

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