For this assignment, the public space that I am thinking about writing the essay on is the TCU Recreation Center. While going through the list of requirements for this essay, I felt that this particular public space would serve as a great subject for my paper. There is such a wide array of people and events going on at the rec center that going at any given point of the day will provide me with tons of evidence and arguments for my paper. In addition to this, the rec center is a place where I spend lots of free time, so I am accustomed to the atmosphere and environment. For this space, I have thought about the larger cultural framework that it has, and I have concluded that there is more than just one of these. So far, I have thought that some of the cultural frameworks can be: to curb obesity, to promote better general health of the TCU community, to decrease certain health risks that can be reduced and prevented through exercise, as well as providing the TCU community with a place in which one can improve one's own body image to one's self as well as to others. In reality, whether it be subconsciously or consciously, we all go to the gym to look better.
Even while streaming my ideas on this blog I can see that this will be an interesting essay for myself. The rec center is such a diverse place that attracts a huge variety of people that focusing on the larger cultural impact of the place will be incorporating people of all sorts of backgrounds.
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