San Luis Obispo Textual Analysis

San Luis Obispo, a small city with a university, is an old fashioned town with a sense of modernity. The structures at the central section city consist of antiquated buildings such as stores, restaurants, and a theater. An air of modernity has risen from the outskirts of the city: main stream stores and my personal favorite, a university called California Polytechnic University. Cal Poly, an area of confused teenagers trying to find out what they want to do with their lives. The campus is home to numerous geographical attractions such as Serenity Swings, Bishops Peek, Architecture Graveyard, Arboretum, and The P. The most intriguing attraction from Cal Poly is the giant P engraved at the center of the hill. A giant concrete P can be a mystery …show more content…
People can convey their ideas through painting The P in order to promote an idea or represent major holidays. A few examples of the representation of the people’s ideas would be the rainbow painting on the P to promote equality among sexual preference or blue, red, white, and stars to represent the pride the people have because they are free. To assure the P represents the ideas of its citizens, the P is open to be painted by anyone that presents a valid reason to the university; any group of people with the conviction to expose their idea is able to. As Ayleen, freshman at Cal Poly, Said, “If I had the opportunity I would change it to Pink because it's my favorite color and also because it's October and it’s breast Cancer awareness month.” Erik, on the other hand, said, “Probably green and yellow because it's Cal Poly and our colors are green and yellow and that way I would spread the idea of school spirit.” All of this demonstrates The power the P contains to unite Cal Poly and the community as a form of pride and ideology among all San Luis Obispo Citizens. Both of them have great idea and the opportunity to achieve their message is possible because The P is the source to communicate one’s beliefs to the community or the community towards …show more content…
After a stressful day of midterms, studying, writing an English 134 essay, or a full day at work a person can go to the P to release everything. When one is at the P a calmness arises as one departs from the tedious life of school for a short amount of time to connect with nature. A person can go to the P with different motives: to meditate for some time, relax from their stressful day or hang out with peers. Once up there, one’s encounter with an almost absolute silence due to being far enough from civilization; the few sounds would come from birds, the wind moving the grass or the far sound of the city. The lack of sound is not the main source of stress reliever, but the view from the top as it overlooks the entire school and the majority of the city. When a person is at the top of the P, they can see: the dorms, classes, library, fields, stadium, bishops, and a great amount of the San Luis Obispo. However, at night the view changes radically, since one appears to be on a cloud overlooking the city, hence one can see the campus and city illuminated- creating a fascinating view of what the human hand has made. As Erik said, “The View was really amazing from the P, the whole town was lighten up, everything was silent, and looked like stars on the sky” and Ayleen said, “Yes, I would go back when I

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