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The Transformation Of Home In Brooklyn And Harlem New York

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The essay presents how the concept of home has changed overtime for the writer. He uses his life experiences in Brooklyn and Harlem New York, and then Miami, Florida to address these changes and expose the connections he made to each particular house. First, he lived on a building in Brooklyn. Then, he moved to Harlem, New York where he established his Cuban-Dominican identity and learned the diversity of the word home. When he moves to Miami he encountered the feeling of cultural shock and gave an even more valuable meaning to his New Yorker identity. While living in Miami he visited two times New York and realized how much it had changed and evolved from what he knew from his time there. The community seemed odd to hime, there were different people, restaurants and markets. The place started going through a gentrification process with whom he could no longer connect to. …show more content…

The first argument he touches on “The concept of “Home” resonates in every individual.” is a strong sentence because he creates an automatic feeling of relatability to the reader and captivates him or she in a way that one desires to understand how is this word powerful for each and every single one of us. The transition on the second page “Walls no longer define home, but streets” support his statement of how home changes overtime. I believe the subject is very influential just because home is something everyone has, therefore many people can relate even if they have gone through any type of change no matter how small it has been. The essay has an excellent topic, if he goes from there to the process of gentrification in his hometown and how this affected his father, it will definitely be an extraordinary essay that actually engages the reader to the

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