Globalization In Philadelphia Photoessay
Reflection
(Option #3)
The most challenging
thing about this project was finding sources to back up the pictures I had
taken; I started taking pictures before I found my sources, which was a bad
idea. I should have looked up things in Philadelphia that were well documented
and then taken pictures of them. I looked at the document on the moodle
assignment page for the benchmark hyperlinked as topics and started
brainstorming ideas of what pictures I could collect and what theme I wanted to
portray through my pictures. I then thought about pictures would be the most
convenient to retrieve after school or even during school if I had a free
period. After I collected the ones that were close by the school I started
thinking of other places in Center city that I could get to via trolley or
short train ride and by my house that I could go and document as a sign
I took 10 pictures
although there are only 9 posted because I couldn’t get the 10th
picture to upload and I was running out of time for my project. My favorite
picture was the mansion. Not only because the Elkins Estate is beautiful and
I’ve loved the architecture and elegance that the home has but also because I
had to work very hard at finding history behind it. I wasn’t sure that I was
going to be able to use that picture because I hadn’t found anything worth
using that I could connect back to my theme or globalization. After I found
information about the Nun’s that lived there I really started to dig up lots of
information. So this picture became my favorite because I worked the hardest at
it and because I love the house, after finishing my connections for that
picture I felt more accomplished than I did for any of the other pictures.
Overall, I’m not sure if it’s less or more prevalent in places other than
Philly because I didn’t look for links between globalization and those cities.
However, having said that I think that there is a larger amount of people
immigrating to other countries like Florida and California that might have more
signs of globalization because there are larger cities than Philadelphia so it
makes sense that within those places that there would be more signs. I think
that for a moderately sized city I think that it’s pretty evident in this
Philadelphia. There are lots of examples in the businesses, neighborhoods,
restaurants and shops as well as in the universities; each of them show a
different portion of globalization but it is pretty evenly conveyed in each
section.
I learned a lot about
how I work and about Philadelphia. I didn’t have a lot of trouble actually
writing about the pictures connection to globalization because it was pretty
evident if you understood the lessons that we were taught in class. I learned
so much about Philadelphia; I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know. I’ve been
to the liberty bell, constitution center, Chinatown; all of which are places
that I’ve been too so many times and never even thought about the historical
value of the landmarks. I always assumed that the majority of the landmarks
were put there as a agreement or as a gift and most of them were but I never
thought of them as globalization. Now that I do Philadelphia seems much more
interesting and historically rich than ever before.