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.

Before 1950

When the sun beams into the many windows of Howard T. Herber Junior High School it initiates the beginning of a school day. Students are noisy as they get ready to sit in classrooms and listen to their teachers lecture about the fundamental subjects that will prepare them to succeed in high school. The Malverne Public Schools, Howard T. Herber Junior High School and Malverne High, are located directly across from each other on Ocean Avenue. Many other neighboring towns send their children to Malverne High and the Junior High. This mix of students gives the Malverne schools diversity. This is interesting since the actual town of Malverne does not have much diversity in itself. Chatting to the locals gives you a bit of information into the town and their history.
Howard T. Herber was actually the High school before Malverne bought the lake across from it and built what is today known as Malverne High. Howard T. Herber was built during the Great Depression. The gnome decorations all around the school are indicative of that given that gnomes were a popular décor around the 1930s. The building is made up of brick and is large in length. This photograph is only a portion of this school. Some of the bricks on the school look lighter than the other parts, which might mean that the school went under some renovation from the Great Depression till present day. On both sides of the main door are cemented columns. This style is also old fashioned and would not be in modern architecture. Above the entrance doors reads “To Give Each Child An Opportunity For Educational Advancement”. This sign in cement above the doors also is a design used in earlier decades. Normally today that quote would be on a sign on the grass or on their schools mission statement. This school also does not have central air but rather air conditioners hanging out of the windows. That is a loud sign that this school is not new and has seen a few decades in its lifetime. Howard T. Herber is also quite well kept with much trimmed grass surrounding it and little bushes around the stairs. This greenery gives the school a serene feeling.