Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Two Paragraphs For My Research Paper

Imagine visiting your friend’s new house and walking down a street in modern day Long Island when you suddenly get a hankering for a tender crisp salad. Suddenly you think of the Wendy’s commercial you saw last night. The images of fresh salad and nicely chopped tomatoes starts to entice you and you ask, “Hey where is the local Wendy’s I have an uncontainable desire for a salad only good old Wendy’s can make me” and then unexpectedly you friend tells you that there is no Wendy’s nearby and that you are going to have to drive to even see a commercial franchise that makes your salads just the way you like and remember them. Tears might come to your eyes or you might hop in a car and drive a couple miles to the nearest fast food joint but either way you will probably find it weird that there are no commercial fast food places in the town you are in. That is how life is like in my town Malverne, Long Island.
Besides not having commercial fast food places Malverne has many other interesting characteristics. It used to be a farmland. Many farmers moved into Malverne because of its fertile soil and. When people started to move in and tried to industrialize Malverne they had difficulty building homes since there was so much water on the land. Many early Malverne homes had to endure flooding. Today there are still some signs of this earlier problem. The Malverne High School was built upon a lake and it sinks a little bit each year.

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