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Observation Site: Constitution Plaza near Berkeley Bart station 11/21/15 • Start time: 11:05 / Beautiful Sunny day, I feel excited about doing this Observation Participation assignment. • Observation site has several store fronts a, Walgreens, optical store, ice cream store, and Chase Bank. Many people of varying social strata and races walking around on the plaza’s red brick and mortar sidewalk. . The center of the plaza has red brick and mortar flower boxes with edges one can sit and wood bench seating attached below the edges of flower boxes people can and sit on... A brown rotunda with oblong glass windows and escalators to enter and exit the Berkeley BART station.... A stark brown scrap metal sculpture of a bear near the Bart entrance towers menacing, near the right side of …show more content…

He is in a wheelchair chair wearing unkempt clothing and has a cup I. His hand. He rattles the cup with the spare change inside. [I wonder to myself, why he is not verbally asking people for change and just rattling the cup to prompt people to give him money]. [I also wonder what caused him to be in a wheelchair] he is wearing a White ball cap and checkered shirt with blue pants and Adidas tennis shoes. • Street Cleaner/African American Woman on Cell Phone: she is sweeping the red brick sidewalk in constitution Plaza [I assess her is a maintenance person by her bright green fluorescent vest, and the broom and dustpan she uses to sweep the street]. She shares with someone over her cell phone how a person treated her badly she tells, the person on her cell phone “He treated me dumb ass scandalous”. “He treated me like shit... and if it wasn't for a friend who picked me up I would have been stuck in. San Francisco”...” Guess I didn't make enough money for him to be with

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