ENG 2150 Gimme Shelter: the spaces we live in

The neighborhood that I am writing my paper on, the neighborhood that I have called home for seventeen years is Astoria, what I consider the cultural crossroads of Queens and quite possibly New York. Settled in the early years of New York’s history Astoria has seen waves of immigrant populations settling on her shores. From the earliest Dutch and German to the latest immigrants from the Middle East, Astoria has been home to many different ethnicities. In my final paper I’d like to examine the history of Astoria and the lasting effects that each one of the individual ethnicities have left upon Astoria’s streets. I would also like to give focus to Astoria as it is today, a quaint and quiet neighborhood keeping up with the modern world of today.

The “Stream of Consciousness” as we call it is, in my own words, an infinite void of information. This information that we accumulate over our individual lifetimes is what spawns our consciousness. Consciousness is the amalgamation of all you know. And that is the primary reason I chose to utilize this image as a perfect representation of the “Stream of Consciousness”. This loosely formed mass of information is what resides in our brains at all times. In specific moments we have different pieces of information take the foreground of our consciousness, and those becomes our primary thoughts in those specific moments. I believe the picture portrays this notion as well, with the different objects being thrust forwards above this void of information.