The Cities I Lived In
The Cities I lived in
Tamara Tuck-Hayes
English Composition (ENG 121)
Prof. Oleson
November 3, 2008
The Cities I lived in
I have different feelings about the cities I have lived in. I know that each city has its on way of living and doing things and I want to make sure that where ever I stay I want it to fit my needs. I will write about two of the cities I have lived and examine what was good and bad about them. I will compare the city with the good aspects of where I have lived and then let you know that city that is right for me.
Well to start off I was born in Bellville, TX and I was not raised there so I can’t tell you much about that. I was raised in a small town call Hempstead, TX and pretty much live there for the most part of my life. I feel that Hempstead, TX was my hometown and I have so many memories there. I completed my education there until I graduated from high school. I enjoyed all my family and friends that lived there. I also enjoyed some of the stores because of the clothes they in them.
However, Hempstead has some bad parts to live in. We had some parts which I consider the other side of town where we had a lot of people selling drugs, stealing, raping, and other bad things. We had people always going to jail. I thought it was horrible. I told my mom we needed to move because of all that and then it the city wasn’t big enough for all that to be going on. I said if I ever had kids I wouldn’t raise them here.
While I was growing up in Hempstead which was my childhood and teenage years I was ready to move when I finished high school, but I didn’t. I stated college at Prairie View A&M University which was only five minutes from Hempstead. It was okay, but the only thing that city somewhat big was the college. I felt that Prairie was a little different because I had more to do since I was in school. I like that fact that we had parties and different eating places. The only big problem with...
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