The appearance of every human being is not accidental in the world. A code which every living being bears provides the historical background and supposed destiny. That is why things matter in everyday life. From ancient times people attached significance to their location, objects which surrounded them, and the previous elaboration of cultural and traditional variables. This is why the paper is intended to work out the problem of grave influences from the side of everyday locations, objects and things from a man’s environment.
The history of the United States is not so long, but it was preceded by the populations of Native Americans. The foundation of New York City is a versatile scope of different changes in structural peculiarities. The history and legends of NYC are full of different things which influence on global development of mankind of today. It is obvious that the significance of each human being in relation to different places is outlined with a unity of processes which contribute to the global transformations in the world.
According to the rational explanation of every thing to be done for a definite day people do not even think about the invisible truth of how humanity is dependent on the streets and objects being perpetual in peoples’ lives. In this respect the Asian wisdom teaches to choose right location, direction, place in the space etc. The ancient truth seems for the majority of people to be trite and not so authoritative, but, in fact, it is so due to the mutuality of relations between a man and his/her environment.
Looking at such phenomena of life as life cycles and peculiarity of a family to be placed near some objects and places having been chosen by predecessors, or stating perpetual trouble cases, it becomes clear that there is nothing accidental in the world. The chaos theory states, nevertheless, that “simple rules may give rise to complex behavior” and that even a wing beat of butterfly on the one side of ocean may cause tsunami on the other one (Stewart 366).
Thus, I analyzed many places which are more or less connected to my everyday life with their significance for my excellence of living. A man is able to use amenities of life in the technological era. However, more primitive forms of such attitude of people toward a way of life existed long before. New York City is a great location for demonstration of global changes and their vital reflections on today’s prospects of people about how to live. Central Park of New York impresses me most of all in my urbanized life. It is an evidence of how people try to make closer the natural reality to the busy world of present days.
Moreover, this place is visited by most of the people in the city due to its natural sceneries and places where one can just sit down on a bench, breath in air and think over the previous times or future perspectives. It is located in the Uptown of Manhattan and, in fact, it is not the very center of the island (Cannon 190). Its everlasting trees and grass being so attractive for young people and kids is a great place in order to forget about troubles in life. Furthermore, it serves as a better medicine for those being tired due to the existence of small squirrels run here and there across the park. It is also a great opportunity to feed them. All in all, this place is considered to be the most attractive when I am not pressed for time.
The role of a human being visiting this park is not merely an everyday fact. Being in this place one definitely feels the positive energy of everything which surrounds him/her. In this case a man may assume that suchlike individuals contributed to the fulfillment of this place previously. In other words, there is an extra-significance of my personal being in this place. The thing is that Central Park connects people with the whole New York in its diversity of landscape and objects placed in the city. The square form of the park dissolves the coarse pictures of New York. In this respect once again it is necessary to mention that the location of the park is placed in the center of Manhattan, one of the most influential trade, financial, and business centers of the world.
In everyday life we never come across things in isolation from one another, fragments. “Things constantly step back into the referential totality, or, more properly stated, in the immediacy of everyday occupation they never even first step out of it… Things recede into relations” (Cited in Fuller 46).
Living at once in different systems people are trying every day to improve their state of affairs in each of social, economic, or even political system being important for the global development of men’s activity on the whole. In personal attempts to explain how Central Park involves me into the reality of various systems mentioned above it is important to work out use of it by other individuals and a special attention of the city administration toward it. By means of such approach it is possible to point out social and economic reflections which I gain out of the park while constantly visiting it.
The world is a complicated structure with many-faceted character of relationships being connected into different systems. To make such statement easier, I understand my existence in the world and in the Central Park, in particular, as a piece of participation in global super-structural systems which make impacts not only on New York City, but apparently on the whole world’s social and economic milieu. I walk down the park and see how people behave themselves. I look at the glimpses of concrete jungle and tops of skyscrapers through the multiple twigs of the trees and understand that my visits to the park can be taken into account as a “gesture” of participation in social, economic, and political life. Working out this idea I am eager to explain such attitude of mine in detail.
Though, my participation in social development when visiting Central Park is outlined in sharing of the idea about the significance of suchlike time spending for further generations. Moreover, my opinion may also influence on the idea of genuine structure of this sightseeing, its historic and cultural importance, if only somebody wanted to overbuild a part of this green area. “World is understood beforehand when objects encounter us” (Cited in Fuller 46).
I am convinced that the genuine structure and beauty of the park should have no negative changes and be protected by society beginning with me. This is why a man should be understood in a gulf of opportunities and potential which a human being may bear. The reality and history knows many examples when people having little chances to survive succeeded afterwards, and now they are well-known, such as: A. Chekhov, D. Defoe, B. Obama etc.
The economic parallel in visiting Central Park of New York and my person is underlined with the assumption that it is within easy reach from the places where many-million contracts are concluded. In the long or short perspective more visits to Central Park may let me be more interested in business and economic constituent of the national stability. In the global prospects a man’s participation in the economic system can be asserted unintentionally in sharing the ideas that saving this place in its beauty one saves national money, or money of taxpayers.
Prevention from any cases of somebody who wants to destruct something in a park makes my role in the economic processes felt, indeed. Once I stopped some highbinders when they were trying to break twigs of an oak, police officer was already there and punished offenders of the nature. Besides, Central Park is a cultural, traditional, economic, social, and historic heritage of not only New Yorkers, but of the United States, at large.
In political evaluation of this place there is a necessity to mention that Central Park is connected to broader political milieu due to its wonderful place for making speeches and announcements, like in Hyde Park in London. It is also a place where due to the political campaign candidates may show their concernment in this place while planting trees, for example. Such actions may lead toward positive feedbacks from the side of the citizens and, perhaps, the end will be a position in the city’s administration. In my situation once I suggested to promote action for our college president for peers having lunch in the park. It was successful indeed. Afterwards a so-called political campaign was completed successfully.
A rather simple estimation of any place in its relation toward broader system, in order to show how an individual’s everyday life reflects global connections, can be achieved by virtues of more philosophical and sociological approach: “The visual system seems to try to represent an object’s surface properties in a way that is invariant to changes in the imaging environment” (Blakemore 36).
To say more, the destination of the Manhattan Island was in its strategic significance for Native Americans. It is known that today’s Broadway street is placed on the previously made by Native American tribes way to make communication and exchange between tribes possible (Bloom 75). Here is a kind of historical circle, when things are doomed to repeat in accordance with a special destination of place. Central Park is still a reminder of a vivid wood contours of which Manhattan had earlier. Moreover, the energetic magnificence of Central Park makes it a wonderful place because of its correlation with urban part of New York. It is not surprising in this respect to make pa conclusion that NYC is a place where several cultures, systems and peculiarities of peoples’ life are concentrated in a form of a great symbolic juncture, or even “hub” (Cannon 185).
Today Central Park as one of the major parts of New York and Manhattan, particularly, embodies the whole complex of different global connections and provides a wider view on its significance for an individual. Furthermore, such idea is quite emphasized with the fact that almost the whole economic stability is comprised in Manhattan. That is why Central Park demonstrates a transition of cultural and traditional for Americans manners in terms of their love to the nature and capability to practice industrial and economic growth without forgetting about the domain of the nature.
To sum [up, there is a great significance of peoples’ participation in global changes. The thing is that every individual visiting different places involves himself/herself into a dimension of global connections. Thereupon, Central Park in New York City is a great example of how green space measures with urban sceneries and how this place reflects the direct connection to global processes of modern world and Manhattan, particularly.
Works cited
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Cannon, Gwen. New York City. Ed. 20. New York: Michelin Apa Publications, 2007.
Fuller, Andrew Reid. Insight into value: an exploration of the premises of a phenomenological psychology. New York: SUNY Press, 1990.
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