At first, I was really confused about gentrification and the whole aspect of it. I didn’t want to learn about Harlem and why it changed because it was a lot of reading and writing to do. But later on, I started to understand the whole thing behind gentrification that made me curious to learn more about it. I started asking more questions and participating that made me enjoyed learning about a community I lived in for a long time. I never really asked myself or anyone about the change in Harlem and what was it cause for it. I was uneducated about its change and didn’t know that it has been doing so for a long time. Due to this class and all the assignments as well as the professor’s lesson I was able to learn about gentrification and what aspects it brings to a community as well as the people behind it. Now I am able to educate and see a community changing and being able to have explanations on why the community is being redeveloped. This class helped me think critically as well as learn how to read and write well-developed essays and sentences since I learned new things each week and putting them all together at the end. It went from step to step and how at the end it all connects to make a strong well-written project/essays. All the things I learned in this class also helped me in my other classes.