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College The Mall at Disney Richard Francaviglia mainly focuses on main street USA since it is home to most of the great USA building. Main Street provides home to city hall a place where the guest relations officer stays. Disneyland is said to have developed from Main Street some time back. The people who created Disneyland remain as legends on the street of Main Street in writings where they get praises for what they did. In his essay, Richard mainly focuses on Main Street because of its cultural value to the history and creation of Disneyland.
The design of Main Street also plays a role in the building of Disneyland. Since Richards main concern is in Disneyland, Main Street is of much importance to him so that the people reading his essay can understand the whole history behind DisneylandRichard also uses Main Street because of its architectural similarities with Disneyland. This clearly shows that main street had a big role to play in the development of Disneyland. The past life of the American people shows by the architecture of Main Street.
This same architecture also exists in Disneyland and this is the reason why Richard focuses a lot on Main Street.Main streets a generic street name, which in most parts of the world, used for socializing and retailing. USA Main Street has a lot of cultural impact on the lives of the American people. It is here that people came to shop for all their needs and at the same time sit down and socialize with others about what was going on in their lives. Main Street in the USA led to the development of several cities as more people came to these places to shop and socialize while providing enough recourse to the public to be able to come up with Disneyland.
The architecture of Main Street also tells a lot about the culture of the American people. Every little building shows that the people were organized and that they valued art and architecture. The architectural configuration of Main Street gives us the impression of how the people loved buildings. The buildings perform different functions; some act as shopping malls. Each building has a place for socializing meaning that the people loved a lot of socializing. The other cultural role played by Main Street is the development of architecture in America.
From Main Street, we are able to see how buildings look and how similar they are to Disneyland. We get to see how people built their houses, how they shopped and exact places where they socialized. Main Street also gives us the American culture of education. Many schools and colleges develop from Main Street. These educational institutions are of great importance to the culture of the American people as they get to know how education has developed over the years to where it is now. It also gives the people a chance to appreciate their culture by knowing and understanding their culture.
Work citedLewis, Sinclair. Main Street. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1920. Print.
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