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P42-51
//Introducing quotations
In Tuan’s, “Hometown is an intimate place”
//Explaining quotations
Tuan’s point is that though hometown may have nothing special, we resent outsiders criticizing it.
//Exercise 2
Hometown, from my point of view, is a larger home that shared by a group of people who were born and raised in the place. Hometown is also a place build on intimate relationships. Tuan demonstrates that hometown may have nothing special, yet we resent outsiders criticizing it. Hometown is not only a place where protect you when you are vulnerable, but also a place where you would defend it when outsiders attack it.
P105-120
//Exercise 2
Tuan’s famous theory of place is surly right. I agree that it is experience that helps construct and maintain a place. In the introduction of Tuan’s book “Space and Place”, Tuan claims that spaces are open and like territories for human beings and other animals, however, places embody felt values and meanings. Unconsciously, deep in our heart, there exist the most intimate experiences with a place. Such intimate experiences cannot often be expressed by words, however, it is important because these experiences lead us to the sense of home. People always confuse house with home. Home, in Dovey’s theory, can be a room inside a house, a house within a neighborhood, a neighborhood within a city, and a city within a nation. In contrast, house is more realistic and static. As far as I am concerned, house is a carrier for people’s experience of home. Routine behavior and experience in a house lead to the familiarity of the environment of house and thus we gradually can ‘feel’ the environment. Even when we turn off the lights, we unconsciously know the spatial structure of the house. As we had enough experience with the house, these experiences give us a sense of ‘home’. At home, we feel absolutely relaxing because the environment of the house is deeply rooted in our conscious and we do not even need to think to adapt it.
P129-138
//Introducing Metacommentary
-to ward off potential misunderstandings
My point is not home is merely a relationship between intimate people but physical environment and intimate relationship together form a sense of home.
-to elaborate on a previous idea
Family is the most common but as well as the most unique relationship between people. What I am saying here is that it is common because everyone has a family, big or small. However, this family is distinct from others’.
-to provide a roadmap to your text
Having just argued that home is an intimate place, I want now to complicate the point by stating that hometown is also an intimate place.
-to move from a general claim to a specific example
Consider Lahiri’ experience at Rhode Island, for example.
-to indicate that a claim is more, less, or equally important
Even more important, hometown sometimes evokes more sentimental experience.
-to guide readers to your most general point
In sum, then, home and hometown are where your heart is.
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"Space"and "place" are familiar words denoting common "Sexperiences.We live in space. There is no space for another building on the lot. The Great Plains look spacious.
Place is security, space is freedom: [we are attached to the one and long for the other. There is no place like home.] What is home? It is the old homestead, the old neighborhood, home- town, or motherland. Geographers study places. Planners would like to evoke "a sense of place." These are unexceptional ways of speaking. (sum) Space and place are basic components of the lived world; we take them for granted. When we think about them, however, they may assume unexpected meanings and raise questions we have not thought to ask.
What is space? Let an episode in the life of the theologian Paul Tillich focus the question of the seashore was a great event. Much later Tillich chose a place on the Atlantic Ocean for his days of retirement, a deci- sion that undoubtedly owed much to those earlyexperiences. As a boy Tillich was also able to escape from the narrowness of small-town life by making trips to Berlin. Visits to the big city curiously reminded him of the sea. Berlin, too, gave Tillich a feeling of openness, infinity, unrestricted space. Experiences of this kind make us ponder anew the meaning of a word like "space" or "spaciousness" that we think we know well.
P42-51
//Introducing quotations
In Tuan’s, “Hometown is an intimate place”
//Explaining quotations
Tuan’s point is that though hometown may have nothing special, we resent outsiders criticizing it.
//Exercise 2
Hometown, from my point of view, is a larger home that shared by a group of people who were born and raised in the place. Hometown is also a place build on intimate relationships. Tuan demonstrates that hometown may have nothing special, yet we resent outsiders criticizing it. Hometown is not only a place where protect you when you are vulnerable, but also a place where you would defend it when outsiders attack it.
P105-120
//Exercise 2
Tuan’s famous theory of place is surly right. I agree that it is experience that helps construct and maintain a place. In the introduction of Tuan’s book “Space and Place”, Tuan claims that spaces are open and like territories for human beings and other animals, however, places embody felt values and meanings. Unconsciously, deep in our heart, there exist the most intimate experiences with a place. Such intimate experiences cannot often be expressed by words, however, it is important because these experiences lead us to the sense of home. People always confuse house with home. Home, in Dovey’s theory, can be a room inside a house, a house within a neighborhood, a neighborhood within a city, and a city within a nation. In contrast, house is more realistic and static. As far as I am concerned, house is a carrier for people’s experience of home. Routine behavior and experience in a house lead to the familiarity of the environment of house and thus we gradually can ‘feel’ the environment. Even when we turn off the lights, we unconsciously know the spatial structure of the house. As we had enough experience with the house, these experiences give us a sense of ‘home’. At home, we feel absolutely relaxing because the environment of the house is deeply rooted in our conscious and we do not even need to think to adapt it.
P129-138
//Introducing Metacommentary
-to ward off potential misunderstandings
My point is not home is merely a relationship between intimate people but physical environment and intimate relationship together form a sense of home.
-to elaborate on a previous idea
Family is the most common but as well as the most unique relationship between people. What I am saying here is that it is common because everyone has a family, big or small. However, this family is distinct from others’.
-to provide a roadmap to your text
Having just argued that home is an intimate place, I want now to complicate the point by stating that hometown is also an intimate place.
-to move from a general claim to a specific example
Consider Lahiri’ experience at Rhode Island, for example.
-to indicate that a claim is more, less, or equally important
Even more important, hometown sometimes evokes more sentimental experience.
-to guide readers to your most general point
In sum, then, home and hometown are where your heart is.
//
"Space"and "place" are familiar words denoting common "Sexperiences.We live in space. There is no space for another building on the lot. The Great Plains look spacious.
Place is security, space is freedom: [we are attached to the one and long for the other. There is no place like home.] What is home? It is the old homestead, the old neighborhood, home- town, or motherland. Geographers study places. Planners would like to evoke "a sense of place." These are unexceptional ways of speaking. (sum) Space and place are basic components of the lived world; we take them for granted. When we think about them, however, they may assume unexpected meanings and raise questions we have not thought to ask.
What is space? Let an episode in the life of the theologian Paul Tillich focus the question of the seashore was a great event. Much later Tillich chose a place on the Atlantic Ocean for his days of retirement, a deci- sion that undoubtedly owed much to those earlyexperiences. As a boy Tillich was also able to escape from the narrowness of small-town life by making trips to Berlin. Visits to the big city curiously reminded him of the sea. Berlin, too, gave Tillich a feeling of openness, infinity, unrestricted space. Experiences of this kind make us ponder anew the meaning of a word like "space" or "spaciousness" that we think we know well.