Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Community Playground


Providence Rec Center has been a place to have fun for over 50 years. From the time when my father was a child to my childhood we grew up playing at PRC. My friends and I would spend hours at the Center after school as I saw my father grinning on the side knowing years ago he was in my shoes.  Recently the county was going to close it and put in a shopping mall. The community stepped in and prevented this from happening. PRC formed my childhood or better said, our childhood.

 

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14 comments:

  1. I really liked how you incorporated the significance of the park to you, your father and your community, it really shows have important the park is to everyone. You could add more details about the visuals of the park like what it looks like and what it feels like when you're there so the reader feels like they're a kid playing in the park and they can relate to the importance of parks were during their childhood.

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  2. I really like how you showed the rec centers importance not only to you, but to your father as well. And a community always seems to be stronger when a common crisis is being faced. Maybe you could improve your blog by talking a bit more about the actions that your community took to protect the center in order to be more convincing of its importance.

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  3. I read another blog just before I came to read this one about a community coming together to protect their surroundings. It is nice to hear that they can stand up to others, who do not have the connection to these places that you do.
    Playgrounds, especially yours which seems to have quite a legacy, really help a community.

    Nice job.

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  4. I really like how you were able to connect you , the community, and the past by mentioning your fathers connection to the rec center. I thought you did a great job and really enjoyed reading it.

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  5. I thought you did a great job including both your family and community in this blog. You could've added a simple description of the inside of the rec center to create a better image.

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  6. You give an excellent example of why PRC is special to you and worth protecting. Though it wouldn't hurt if you went into some deatail of why PRC is important to others.

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  7. I think your description of your dad smiling and remembering his time at the rec center really helped me understand how special the place is to you and others who use it. I think a little more description on what activities were performed in the rec center would have helped to convey your message

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  8. I think Rec Centers can hold so many memories. I find it very special how this is a place where you built your own memories, years after your father had. This was a great read, and I think you did a good job explain why this place matters to you.

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  9. You did a great job to help readers visualize how the places looks like. Mentioning how this is important to you using how you have enjoyed being there makes perfect sense to want to protect such place. It'd be better if you could describe more detail about the park though.

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  10. Nice job describing the REC center. More info about what could be done in the rec center would have been a good idea as well.

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  11. I thought you did a great job describing the providence rec center there wes. A little more detail about the significance would have put this over the top.

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  12. I like how you took a more personal approach to the assignment explaining briefly about your background about the rec center and giving details to explain why it mattered. A brief description of the activities inside the center would be nice. Overall very nice blog.

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  13. Very nice job describing the REC center. I believe this blog is perfect. Good job!

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  14. Very nice personal connection to the place, and also showing the need to preserve it from its danger of being closed down already.

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