This collage (many juxtapositions at once) of images is asking you to analyze the connections between two places, two spaces. These are photographs of empty prison terraces and the 14th floor terrace at 3833 S Langley (as pictured in Our America).
1) What similarities and differences can you describe after viewing this photo collage?
2) Based on your answer to question one, can you venture what might be the short-term and long-term psychological affects of growing up in 3833 S Langley? What emotions do these images and your ideas provoke in your own mind?
Always base and connect your assessments and ideas in the photographs.
There are clear physical similarities of the two places shown in the picture, I’m sure you guys can see that. It’s the similarities between the feelings felt buy the two very different residents looking out of those cages; that really strikes me as disturbing. Some one staying in the two places shown forever see to different places, his or her home in wich he or she is confined too, and the other side of the cage, the outside world. The sentence I just wrote could easily be used to describe a criminal or child living in the places shown in the picture, yet two opposite lives.
1.)Some are different colors. One is not as clean as the other three. One has brick. The other has drywall. 2.) I feel uncomfortable when I see them. I would think that when you're locked up, there's a feeling of hopelessness because after the time is done, you're looked down on by society. Screw that. They're looking ahead to maybe years in prison with the same people for a sentence that they feel isn't justice.
Similarities- Deanna: They are all of the same prison! they represent some form of security as if the person Ryan: ya know cant escape D: right!
Differences- D&R: There are newer and older images of the prison, in the older pictures it looks more abandoned and in the newer pictures it looks some what more humane
2.) It had to of been kind of scary being that age and living out there, but at the same time not because if it's your "lifestyle" and thats how you grew up, it's different from other views. you might of gone crazy living there(via prison)
We found that the projects and the prisons were similar in many ways. The hold cells for the prisons are much like the apartment in the projcet. Both the projects and the prison have narrow halls. The pictures are so alike that you would picture some of the apartments within the prison. The kids in the may feel as if they are trapped, because both the prison they're told the will go to and their homes are cages, that they can't escape. The only thing differ of the project and the prison is that the project has windows and most of the time the residents can go where ever they want to go. -William C. V, Darrion West
All of images are dark and hollow. Very little light enters these places.The are no differences. It’s very difficult to distinguish the prison terraces from the terrace on 38th and Langley.These images provide a sense of loneliness and desperation. The people who resided in the projects on 38th and Langley probably felt that there was no hope in the world. Their environment looks like a hell. It feels as if they have no room to move. The want to have a new start lingers among all the dreary attitudes. The places they call home looks like a dead ringer for a jailhouse and they feel the exact same way….as if they’re in jail.
The similarties are that they both look the same even though two pictures are from the projects and the other two are from a actual prison. In prison, the prisoners are packed together. They all are depression pictures. They all have gates or fences up to keep things or even people inside. The things that are different are of cousre that two is taken in the ghetto and two was taken at a prison. In a prison, the people that are in there probably commit a crime or was accused of a crime. In the ghetto, that is where people live whether it be if they made theirself get there or not. Both are places that people occupy space. I beleive that both a prison and the ghetto does have a psychological affect. I say that because being in prison seeing the same people, eating the same meals, always looking over your shoulder and just living life to thin line. Yeah you can do all of that without living in prison. But in prison its more tense. King Phillip
The similarities I see in the pictures is that they are like hallways. they look all empty and just like a long hallway that like has no end.two of them look almost alike they are old and darker and realy mest up like dirty garbage allover the place. other similiraties are they all have to have doorsif they didnt well where you would put the prisoners. the differences between these pictures are the lighting of the hall. two of them actualy have lights and are bright they are different in that way from the others. the other pics aresnt like that they are more depressing and like just somewhere u can just throw a prisoner in and act like they dont exist.one of them has graffity on the walls and the others dont. Another difference i see is that in one of the floors the windows are like boarded.
I think if you were to be born in langley it wouldt be good. It ooks like a place where people would not want to be in. they give emotions of like a ghost place or something not that i believe in ghost but it kind looks like that. it just brings like sadness mayb and glad your not around that place.
What I view with this collage is that one prison terrace seems empty, run down, as if it were in a poverty stricken area. I know that prisons aren't the most glamorous places to stay when being sent to. But one of they've been shut down for years and is just an empty building. The other building image looks like a full running prison. Much more modern factilities. The short term afffects of having to stay in this place would be that I would become lonley and isolated from the outside world. Long term I would have to say would be I think I could suprise myself what I would become capable of doing after being isolated for so long, to myself or even someone else.
It’s sad to say that the residents of the 3383 S Langley project building are subjected to live in such delapatated slums. Sure it’s efficient housing , It will get the job done for those who need it, and those who need it aren’t in the best economic position. Now when you put a population of a low economic class together in a building. From a psychological stand point, Keep in mind many of these people are stressed, Confused, some unemployed without a dime to there name. Many children going to bed hungry without dinner in this evening. That’s a kettle steaming with frustration. People begin to think “ what does if I’m dead or alive, free or incarcerated. It’s all the Same!!!!!!!!!
sad to say that the two pictures are very simular it is true, both place are somewhere no one wants to be. however, as horrible as the places may seem they are considered places that people unfortunately call home. though jail is supposed to be considered the worst place ever, just from the pictures alone the two location look identical. in jail you are considered trapped and held back as a person from the outer world and society, which in some cases could be no different from the project homes. while living living in theses homes you are just as free as any other amereican, or are you? just like in jail you can be also held back from the real world, just not by man. you are trapped within your mind and the minds of others due to low standards and lack of improvement. it's a certain way of life. as free as anybody else these people in some cases sre prisoners, prisoners to the world
I agree with you because, when i first looked at the pictures i thought they were all pictures of the prison, but then i seen that there were also two pictures from the Ida B. Wells(projects). I feel that they are both very similar becaue they both are like cages, its impossible to get out. LeAlan and Lloyd both feel trapped as if they were sentenced to live their, same as a prisoner sentenced to life in prison. Nobody wants to be in either place, but sometimes you have no choice, or you make the worst mistake you ever could in you life.
I really like the response from wc5. I agree that the pictures look very similar. Prisons and Projects are both able to hold you back from the world and life. It's having the choice of being able to over come your surronding, or desicions. You are the only one who can get yourself out of what your stuck in. I also like jortiz's response. How they said theres no end. Thats where my point of your the only one who can help yourself to get out of what your in. If you don't try to get yourself out of the "prison" your in it would like there is no end.
This photo shows how hallways, even under construction, become a path. Sometimes you have no idea where this path may lead, but we still follow them. The hallways could be entrances, or exits. It's what the person chooses to use this path as. Some hallways can be compared to others. Prison hallways could resemble college hallways, they all have windows, and doors. The door can be an exit, or an entrance. The windows are used as escapes for the mind so we don't become stuck in the building. As long as we let our mind free we can be free.
Theres to many similaities to have any differences in the collage. I woudld think there would be long term effects. feeling like your in a cage where you live would only make going to jail really nothin more then your OWN room/house.
I agree with a lot of what Wc5 says. I like when he says both places are like living in a cage. To me they are almost the same thing. Except prison is maybe a little safer. Both places are dirty and run down, narrow hallways with gates and fences. You always have to watch your back in prison but you have some sort of protection. In the houseing projects its more of a free for all. Neither place offers much hope for the people living in them. It is almost like the people in the projects are living in a unguarded prison. This is why i dissagree with King Philips statement about prison being more tense. I feel it is way more intense then the projects. Prison is still dangerous but offers protection. The projects did not offer that. I have heard people say that they would rather be locked up in prison then living life in the projects and ghettos because it offers a form of security. They also get food, clothes and a bed. It might not be the most comfortable bed, but it is still a bed and to some people that is much better. I think some people may feel prison is the only way to escape the life that they live in.
"The similarities I see in the pictures is that they are like hallways. they look all empty and just like a long hallway that like has no end." I feel the similarities, although great, can be depicted. Some hallways will have cracked tiles, or just cracks. These cracks give a hallway a personality, even if the personality represents poor contruction, or even a vast majority of people occupying them. A long hallway may not seem to have an end, until you look back at where you started and realize we all have to travel the same path to end up at the same place.
When people have been around these living conditions for a while they start to become used to it, and it no longer becomes a major problem to them. Their surroundings are now incorporated into their thoughts, and becomes the environment becomes natural.These surroundings are some type of hell.For people to have to live in the Ida.B Wells apartments is completely disgraceful on the United States behalf, and further proves that the Intended "Democracy" doesn't exist. The people in those apartments were lied too, and used as a publicity stunt to make the government look betterl. In the Preface Dr. Cornel West asked a room full of politicians if any of them had ever spent time talking to black kids from the inner-city. onc asked the room went silent,and no hands went up. This once again proves how out of touch the government is with the people they've been elected by to represent them ,and run the country.
The pictures are very similar from the looks and they do send a silent message to many people individuals in those communities. When your constantly surrounded by poverty and death,well let's just say that those things get the best of you.It's not as if they don't no anything it's more that they've been exposed to a horrific lifestyle. We also need to think about the living situations.Their poorly educated,teen parents,drug addicts and prostitutes who keep having babies.where are they going to put them.They're not going to help a teen mother with no education get a job,or an ex-prostitute.They will always look down on these people for what they were.It's as if these children are doomed from birth. Know one cares about them because of who their parents are. After awhile all that they see becomes their reality,because in their minds surely it's no other way.Life becomes all about survival and that's their reality.These people aren't ignorant their lost and accustomed to a certain way of life. A life that has been taught to them by their parents and grandparents.
I relate to what David is saying because as he sees residents that is isolated from the outside world u could picture how the people feel in the actual prison. There's nothing there to, there's no one to talk to everyday, someone to give you some type of structure. Your stuck and isolated from the outside world. I relate to what he says about the images of the two places.
I kind of disagree with Phillip because the people in the ghetto either chose to be there or didn't have a choice but make everyday count. Their not so much in a prison but locked up in an area that is not so right to play and be a kid at. For people in the actual prison that don't have a choice to but to serve their time, live or die. Their trapped with no where to go. Not pointing any one out it's just how I felt.
I can see where kenaarmay can see the desperation and despair in the homes and the lives of the citizens in the projects. A good number people in jail are there for a reason. They are there beceasue they did something illeagle and the deserve at least some kind of punishment. But for the lives of the project home dewellers born into that situation or forced into that situation, it can seem like life is hopeless.
Now I people from Chicago project homes and I've seen them rise above it leave, but for many, that life is all they know. most people don't give them a chance. They discard their lives as meaningless, just like those in prison. For a kid growing up in the projects, both parents without a high school dipolma making less than what the neighborhood drug dealer makes, he knows only one way to live. How depressing is that?
looking at the two pictures you can compare in ways like the ida b wells home are like the prison celss because they cant really get out. they are there for a reason. to contrast is like in the homes you are free to a certain extent but at the same time you are syuck in a community from the outside world because no one wants to be around people in poverty.
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This collage (many juxtapositions at once) of images is asking you to analyze the connections between two places, two spaces. These are photographs of empty prison terraces and the 14th floor terrace at 3833 S Langley (as pictured in Our America).
1) What similarities and differences can you describe after viewing this photo collage?
2) Based on your answer to question one, can you venture what might be the short-term and long-term psychological affects of growing up in 3833 S Langley? What emotions do these images and your ideas provoke in your own mind?
Always base and connect your assessments and ideas in the photographs.
There are clear physical similarities of the two places shown in the picture, I’m sure you guys can see that. It’s the similarities between the feelings felt buy the two very different residents looking out of those cages; that really strikes me as disturbing. Some one staying in the two places shown forever see to different places, his or her home in wich he or she is confined too, and the other side of the cage, the outside world. The sentence I just wrote could easily be used to describe a criminal or child living in the places shown in the picture, yet two opposite lives.
1.)Some are different colors. One is not as clean as the other three. One has brick. The other has drywall.
2.) I feel uncomfortable when I see them. I would think that when you're locked up, there's a feeling of hopelessness because after the time is done, you're looked down on by society. Screw that. They're looking ahead to maybe years in prison with the same people for a sentence that they feel isn't justice.
(I'm sharing a computer with Deanna)
(conversation form)
1.)
Similarities-
Deanna: They are all of the same prison! they represent some form of security as if the person
Ryan: ya know cant escape
D: right!
Differences-
D&R: There are newer and older images of the prison, in the older pictures it looks more abandoned and in the newer pictures it looks some what more humane
2.)
It had to of been kind of scary being that age and living out there, but at the same time not because if it's your "lifestyle" and thats how you grew up, it's different from other views. you might of gone crazy living there(via prison)
We found that the projects and the prisons were similar in many ways. The hold cells for the prisons are much like the apartment in the projcet. Both the projects and the prison have narrow halls. The pictures are so alike that you would picture some of the apartments within the prison. The kids in the may feel as if they are trapped, because both the prison they're told the will go to and their homes are cages, that they can't escape. The only thing differ of the project and the prison is that the project has windows and most of the time the residents can go where ever they want to go. -William C. V, Darrion West
All of images are dark and hollow. Very little light enters these places.The are no differences. It’s very difficult to distinguish the prison terraces from the terrace on 38th and Langley.These images provide a sense of loneliness and desperation. The people who resided in the projects on 38th and Langley probably felt that there was no hope in the world. Their environment looks like a hell. It feels as if they have no room to move. The want to have a new start lingers among all the dreary attitudes. The places they call home looks like a dead ringer for a jailhouse and they feel the exact same way….as if they’re in jail.
The similarties are that they both look the same even though two pictures are from the projects and the other two are from a actual prison. In prison, the prisoners are packed together. They all are depression pictures. They all have gates or fences up to keep things or even people inside. The things that are different are of cousre that two is taken in the ghetto and two was taken at a prison. In a prison, the people that are in there probably commit a crime or was accused of a crime. In the ghetto, that is where people live whether it be if they made theirself get there or not. Both are places that people occupy space. I beleive that both a prison and the ghetto does have a psychological affect. I say that because being in prison seeing the same people, eating the same meals, always looking over your shoulder and just living life to thin line. Yeah you can do all of that without living in prison. But in prison its more tense.
King Phillip
The similarities I see in the pictures is that they are like hallways. they look all empty and just like a long hallway that like has no end.two of them look almost alike they are old and darker and realy mest up like dirty garbage allover the place. other similiraties are they all have to have doorsif they didnt well where you would put the prisoners. the differences between these pictures are the lighting of the hall. two of them actualy have lights and are bright they are different in that way from the others. the other pics aresnt like that they are more depressing and like just somewhere u can just throw a prisoner in and act like they dont exist.one of them has graffity on the walls and the others dont. Another difference i see is that in one of the floors the windows are like boarded.
I think if you were to be born in langley it wouldt be good. It ooks like a place where people would not want to be in. they give emotions of like a ghost place or something not that i believe in ghost but it kind looks like that. it just brings like sadness mayb and glad your not around that place.
What I view with this collage is that one prison terrace seems empty, run down, as if it were in a poverty stricken area. I know that prisons aren't the most glamorous places to stay when being sent to. But one of they've been shut down for years and is just an empty building. The other building image looks like a full running prison. Much more modern factilities.
The short term afffects of having to stay in this place would be that I would become lonley and isolated from the outside world. Long term I would have to say would be I think I could suprise myself what I would become capable of doing after being isolated for so long, to myself or even someone else.
ps: we forgot to add that the middle are projects and the ones on the side are prisons
It’s sad to say that the residents of the 3383 S Langley project building are subjected to live in such delapatated slums. Sure it’s efficient housing , It will get the job done for those who need it, and those who need it aren’t in the best economic position. Now when you put a population of a low economic class together in a building. From a psychological stand point, Keep in mind many of these people are stressed, Confused, some unemployed without a dime to there name. Many children going to bed hungry without dinner in this evening. That’s a kettle steaming with frustration. People begin to think “ what does if I’m dead or alive, free or incarcerated. It’s all the Same!!!!!!!!!
sad to say that the two pictures are very simular it is true, both place are somewhere no one wants to be. however, as horrible as the places may seem they are considered places that people unfortunately call home. though jail is supposed to be considered the worst place ever, just from the pictures alone the two location look identical. in jail you are considered trapped and held back as a person from the outer world and society, which in some cases could be no different from the project homes. while living living in theses homes you are just as free as any other amereican, or are you? just like in jail you can be also held back from the real world, just not by man. you are trapped within your mind and the minds of others due to low standards and lack of improvement. it's a certain way of life. as free as anybody else these people in some cases sre prisoners, prisoners to the world
This comment is a response to WC5's comment
I agree with you because, when i first looked at the pictures i thought they were all pictures of the prison, but then i seen that there were also two pictures from the Ida B. Wells(projects). I feel that they are both very similar becaue they both are like cages, its impossible to get out. LeAlan and Lloyd both feel trapped as if they were sentenced to live their, same as a prisoner sentenced to life in prison. Nobody wants to be in either place, but sometimes you have no choice, or you make the worst mistake you ever could in you life.
I really like the response from
wc5. I agree that the pictures look very similar. Prisons and Projects are both able to hold you back from the world and life. It's having the choice of being able to over come your surronding, or desicions. You are the only one who can get yourself out of what your stuck in.
I also like jortiz's response. How they said theres no end. Thats where my point of your the only one who can help yourself to get out of what your in. If you don't try to get yourself out of the "prison" your in it would like there is no end.
This photo shows how hallways, even under construction, become a path. Sometimes you have no idea where this path may lead, but we still follow them. The hallways could be entrances, or exits. It's what the person chooses to use this path as.
Some hallways can be compared to others. Prison hallways could resemble college hallways, they all have windows, and doors. The door can be an exit, or an entrance. The windows are used as escapes for the mind so we don't become stuck in the building. As long as we let our mind free we can be free.
Theres to many similaities to have any differences in the collage. I woudld think there would be long term effects. feeling like your in a cage where you live would only make going to jail really nothin more then your OWN room/house.
I agree with a lot of what Wc5 says. I like when he says both places are like living in a cage. To me they are almost the same thing. Except prison is maybe a little safer. Both places are dirty and run down, narrow hallways with gates and fences. You always have to watch your back in prison but you have some sort of protection. In the houseing projects its more of a free for all. Neither place offers much hope for the people living in them. It is almost like the people in the projects are living in a unguarded prison. This is why i dissagree with King Philips statement about prison being more tense. I feel it is way more intense then the projects. Prison is still dangerous but offers protection. The projects did not offer that. I have heard people say that they would rather be locked up in prison then living life in the projects and ghettos because it offers a form of security. They also get food, clothes and a bed. It might not be the most comfortable bed, but it is still a bed and to some people that is much better. I think some people may feel prison is the only way to escape the life that they live in.
"The similarities I see in the pictures is that they are like hallways. they look all empty and just like a long hallway that like has no end."
I feel the similarities, although great, can be depicted. Some hallways will have cracked tiles, or just cracks. These cracks give a hallway a personality, even if the personality represents poor contruction, or even a vast majority of people occupying them.
A long hallway may not seem to have an end, until you look back at where you started and realize we all have to travel the same path to end up at the same place.
When people have been around these living conditions for a while they start to become used to it, and it no longer becomes a major problem to them. Their surroundings are now incorporated into their thoughts, and becomes the environment becomes natural.These surroundings are some type of hell.For people to have to live in the Ida.B Wells apartments is completely disgraceful on the United States behalf, and further proves that the Intended "Democracy" doesn't exist. The people in those apartments were lied too, and used as a publicity stunt to make the government look betterl. In the Preface Dr. Cornel West asked a room full of politicians if any of them had ever spent time talking to black kids from the inner-city. onc asked the room went silent,and no hands went up. This once again proves how out of touch the government is with the people they've been elected by to represent them ,and run the country.
The pictures are very similar from the looks and they do send a silent message to many people individuals in those communities.
When your constantly surrounded by poverty and death,well let's just say that those things get the best of you.It's not as if they don't no anything it's more that they've been exposed to a horrific lifestyle.
We also need to think about the living situations.Their poorly educated,teen parents,drug addicts and prostitutes who keep having babies.where are they going to put them.They're not going to help a teen mother with no education get a job,or an ex-prostitute.They will always look down on these people for what they were.It's as if these children are doomed from birth. Know one cares about them because of who their parents are.
After awhile all that they see becomes their reality,because in their minds surely it's no other way.Life becomes all about survival and that's their reality.These people aren't ignorant their lost and accustomed to a certain way of life. A life that has been taught to them by their parents and grandparents.
I relate to what David is saying because as he sees residents that is isolated from the outside world u could picture how the people feel in the actual prison. There's nothing there to, there's no one to talk to everyday, someone to give you some type of structure. Your stuck and isolated from the outside world. I relate to what he says about the images of the two places.
I kind of disagree with Phillip because the people in the ghetto either chose to be there or didn't have a choice but make everyday count. Their not so much in a prison but locked up in an area that is not so right to play and be a kid at. For people in the actual prison that don't have a choice to but to serve their time, live or die. Their trapped with no where to go. Not pointing any one out it's just how I felt.
I can see where kenaarmay can see the desperation and despair in the homes and the lives of the citizens in the projects. A good number people in jail are there for a reason. They are there beceasue they did something illeagle and the deserve at least some kind of punishment. But for the lives of the project home dewellers born into that situation or forced into that situation, it can seem like life is hopeless.
Now I people from Chicago project homes and I've seen them rise above it leave, but for many, that life is all they know. most people don't give them a chance. They discard their lives as meaningless, just like those in prison. For a kid growing up in the projects, both parents without a high school dipolma making less than what the neighborhood drug dealer makes, he knows only one way to live. How depressing is that?
looking at the two pictures you can compare in ways like the ida b wells home are like the prison celss because they cant really get out. they are there for a reason. to contrast is like in the homes you are free to a certain extent but at the same time you are syuck in a community from the outside world because no one wants to be around people in poverty.
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