The affects of Africa American residents on Troy's Neighborhood.

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David Cheban

GOG 125 The American City

Prof. Pipkin

20 October 2003

The affects of Africa American residents on Troy’s Neighborhood

The paper that I am about to write, maybe a reaction to something that I have seen and was impressed very much up to this day. It is not intended to offend anybody in anyway.

It is very important to understand and to agree that all men are created equal, which is indeed true. However, they are different in someway, people leave different marcs on the landscape and they change the environment in a way that it is most appropriate to them. The marcs people leave may be to their benefit or their harm. As generations change upon generation, so does the place where they live in. One city that has been changed in a negative way is Troy. In my opinion, the South part of the city of Troy has undergone a downward filtering. Based on what it looks like today and what it looked like years ago; it has changed dramatically.  

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The city of Troy was founded in the late seventeen hundredths based on commercial activities that were going on among the surrounding villages and towns. It was a place where business people gathered together to do business. As time went by more and more people were coming and settling forming a community. It was not very important place. However one thing that marcs its fame is the fact that it is the hometown of Uncle Sam. Nowadays its community consists mainly of African American people.

During the African American migration to the North, a great portion of them settled ...

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