...City vs. Country Living Tired of waking up to gunshots or sirens at 3 A.M? Does the thought of crickets being the loudest noise around sound appealing? Big city living and country living both offer a place to lay down roots and make a house a home. It has always been a controversial decision when determining whether country living or city living is best, it is all based on what people’s perception of living is. But, both would require a particular type of person due to the dramatic differences each has. The difference between the city and country are; surroundings, entertainment, transportation, employment, and education. The city offers a variety of buildings of all different shapes, and sizes. The bright lights at night can be real pleasing to the eyes such as the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington or the Empire State Building in New York City, New York. People travel from all over the world to see these kinds of structures. Which leads us to the wonderful 5 mile an hour bumper-to-bumper traffic, and beautiful brownish/yellow tinted skies. There are houses as far as the eyes can see; they are so close that best friends can basically jump from rooftop to rooftop. Where as in the country, there might not be another house or car for miles. Trees or large open fields usually surround the houses; this may be the main reason for the fresh, crisp clean air. People can lie out at night and count the stars, since there are no distractions from buildings or bright lights. This...
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...My Little Bit of Country – by Susan Cheever My little bit of country is an essay from the anthology, Central Park. The author of the essay is the American writer, Susan Cheever. The topics that the essay deals with is the country-life and the city-life. The angle of approach takes place when the main character talks about the ancient yak, which lived in a foreign place in which he originally does not come from. She is using the yak example to amplify her situation when she is forced to go living in the country with her parents. She felt that she did not belong to the country and she is longing after her previous life in the city in which she finds familiar and safe. The city and Central Park illustrates the beauty and the good things while the country portraits the ugly and not so welcoming environment as a contrast. Beauty vs ugly. Good vs bad. Everything vs nothing. She is describing the city as a romantic place of dreams and prosperity where everything is possible and by the hand, you just have to grab the opportunities the city and the environment is giving you. Her father was an artist and the short stories he wrote was the beginning of his masterful portraits of the city and the suburbs. It was stories about long lost world of New York City, when it was filled with river light and when everyone wore a hat. Her parents dreams about living in the post war American chimera in a house with a white-picked fence, instead of living in their rented two-bedroom apartment. Central...
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...Country VS City Living Although I have lived both in the city and the country; my experiences have been quite different .Both have a certain appeal to people of all ages. We tend to spend our time in the place that suites our style, Country vs City living. Environmental conditions differ greatly from city to country. The absence of green landscape will be lacking in the city. Other colors will catch your eye. Bricks and concrete will be the main theme of the places there. Buildings will be harder and bigger, opposed to the smaller country houses and barns. The air of the city will also smell of car exhaust, as well as fast food shops. These things make you remember those spaces. Although the country will smell differently as when a meadow is being cut, and there is the scent of fresh cut grass. Horse manure odors will fill the air to open up your sinuses and make your eyes water. Also the night sky will have a lake of stars in the city because of light pollution. However the country night sky is darker and you will see more stars. There are many different environmental conditions to separate the two. Living in the city will be different from the country. City life is faster paced and noisy whereas country life is slower. There will be changes in shopping and eating conditions as well as housing .The city is closer together, so it is faster to get around. The country is more spread out; in fact, and it takes longer to get around. Although...
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...think that the city life is the ideal place to live, others think the suburbs are. The short story “My Little Bit of Country” by Susan Cheever deals with the life of the protagonist, who is Susan herself, from early age to adulthood. The story depicts Cheever’s life in New York City and shows the eternal love she has for the city life, being the exact opposite of her view on the country life. Central to story are the themes growing-up and urban living vs. suburban living. To comment on the short story and on its main points it is obvious that Cheever tries to convince her readers to obtain the same opinion as she has regarding whether to live in the city or in the country. Cheever attempts to accomplish this through a description of the spectacular city and park by using numerous adjectives and metaphors to paint beautiful and romantic pictures for the readers: “… but its incidental beauty has often taken my breath away” (p. 9). Feeling comfortable and happy living in the country or in the city is different from family to family or even from individual to individual. All humans are unique, which makes it impossible for everyone to feel at home in either of the two mentioned places to live. As Cheever mentions in her story she had had her first memories with her dad in the city. These early memories about her trip to the zoo where she was always greeted by her good friend Joe might have been the cause of her close connection and her sense of safety to the city. Later when her...
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..."My Little Bit of Country" by Susan Cheever What would you prefer; The relaxing life of the suburbs or the wild diversity of the urban life? Some would prefer one while the other would feel inexplicably horrible in choosing the other. “My Little Bit of Country” is an essay by Susan Cheever, this essay starts from when she was a little girl and ends in 2012 which is when she wrote the essay. In the beginning little Susan Cheever was living in New York and was pretty happy with her life there, but that wasn’t enough for the family, they wanted the American Dream with the white picket fence and a place in the “real” country, as Susan Cheever puts it. This did not please her and she really disliked the suburbs, that when she got older she would go to New York as much as possible. In the end she moves to New York again and is happy and forever satisfied with the urban life. The story is basically written with contrasts, contrasts and more contrasts. The most obvious one is the suburb life vs. the urban life; country vs. city. She very much dislikes the country life, it being a step down from the city: “Why would I want to scrape around the rough, dangerous ice of a country lake when I could glide around the smooth ice at the Wollman Ring and pause for a hot chocolate when my toes and fingers get too cold?” here she compares the natural procedure of the lake turning to ice with a manmade ice rink specifically made to be the most safe way to skate. Some would say that the country would have something special about it...
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...intended to replace reading the text. Also, these are “rough” notes. They were devised initially for my own use. They are not polished and stand open to correction. But I think you want them, so here they are. Dr V What is culture? A complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life of a given group or society. Material and non-material Characteristics of culture: Shared Learned Taken for granted Symbolic (meaningful) Defining idea: transmission by non-biological means Distinctions(?) between human and animal cultures (language & tools). Elements of culture: Language: symbol systems. Does language shape culture? Norms: cultural expectations for how to behave in a given situation. Implicit vs. explicit; ideal vs. real. Folkways/mores/laws/taboos Social sanctions Ethnomethodology and the study of norms. Beliefs. Values: Value-orientations Institutions. Cultural diversity: Dominant culture. Most support from major institutions. Function of power. Subcultures. Often develop as a result of exclusion from mainstream society and culture. Counter-cultures Rejection of dominant cultural values, often for moral and political reasons. Cultural diversity issues: Ethnocentrism Seeing things only from the point of view of one’s own group. The judging of a culture by the standards of another. Multiculturalism. Do cultures have the right of self-determination? Conflict between cultures and the values of rationality and humanism...
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...My Little Bit of Country Pamela Prehn and Laura Rexen 3.K My Little Bit of Country is a short story written by Susan Cheever. The essay was published in the anthology Central Park that was published in 2012. Humans are different, there is no doubt about that. It is amazing how every single human-being on this planet is unique, it will always be something that amazes us. You can never figure a person out; the human mind is simply astonishing. The human mind will always behold a surprise. However, even though humans are difficult to figure out, we would say that there are mainly two different types of people in this world: Country-folk and city-folk. Susan Cheever is as mentioned earlier the writer of the essay My Little Bit of Country, and in this essay she reveals to us the thoughts and minds of a ‘city-person’. The story follows a chronological structure, and Susan Cheever starts the story with mentioning how she spent her summer mornings as a child in beautiful Central Park in company of her dad: “My earliest memories are of summer mornings in Central Park with my father” (Page: 1). When reading this essay, it becomes clear to see that Susan Cheever considers herself different from her family members: “I too often felt, even then at the age of three or four, that I had come from another exotic foreign place to live with my disappointingly ordinary family” (Page: 1, L.25) as this quote shows, she describes her family as being painfully ordinary, which clearly...
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...In most developed countries, broadband services are spreading and expanding continuously, However, unfortunately, something different can be said about people who live in rural areas. People who live in the city have greater access to high speed broadband. Why? Well, there are two main reasons for that: 1. ‘’The physical structures that are needed for a service or operation’’ is usually already in place and usually would just need to be expanded or improved in order for the business to provide their customers with high-speed broadband services. Due to this reason, costs are lower and not as much money has to be used to set up the infrastructure. 2. Cities generally have a larger population, which automatically means more customers. That is why, even if building an infrastructure, the costs would be quickly recovered. As mentioned, because people living in city areas have greater access to high speed broadband, people living in rural areas, in contrast, have less access to the high speed broadband. The main reason for this is due to the fact that the infrastructure is not available in such a place. Therefore, building an infrastructure would be very...
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...Gwen McFerran Mrs. Cullen AP World History May 24, 2017 Living in West Berlin vs East Berlin: Thesis Paper The Berlin Wall was built in the August of 1961, when the East German soldiers constructed more than thirty miles of a barbed wire barrier through the center of Berlin, Germany. The citizens of East Berlin not allowed to pass into the Western side. Soon, concrete would take the place of this barbed wire. (Taylor, 458) East German authorities thought that this wall would protect their citizens from the influence of the capitalist system that was occurring in the west. In the west of the world, the Berlin Wall was just like a symbol of communist oppression. The Berlin wall was the biggest boundary separating two worlds; the totalitarian...
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...deeply held view that protecting the environment constitutes a net expense to our economy. The popular wisdom these days is that environmental concerns have faded from the political radar screen because of the recession. 4. To the extent that environmental concerns have faded in economics hard times, and they have, it is a reflection of the fact that most of the public and most of the leadership still believes that protecting the environment represents spending money rather than saving it, represents consumption rather than investment. 5. Living in the city or the country (rural), both has its pros and cons. So it depends on the individual. 6 City living have more conveniences and everything you could possibly want is more easily attainable. The cons are the traffic congestion, the lack of housing, the noise, and air pollution. 7. Rural living has cleaner air, slower pace of life, and the friendliness of the community. The cons of living in rural areas are no fast foods or movie theaters close by. Or to have better hospital care available and that it would be nice to get quicker responses from police and fire departments. 8. Global climate is and will have an effect on our lives. Our health is in danger due to the warming change with fewer cold-related deaths and more heat-related summer deaths and skin cancers. 9. I think what makes this issue an argumentative claim is because the issue of the quality of life is a very important claim in viewing the argument about the...
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...The rural women migrate to the city to work because these young women want to earn some income, try to fight against their typical destiny ( get marry and be a house wife in their young age) , find an opportunity for self development and to experience the metropolitan life. However, these young women have underestimated the hardships of living in the city such as Beijing. There are many disadvantages according to the article that these young women encountered while migrated to Beijing such as labor exploitation from a local employer( pay less than the standard wage, work in a sweat shop and long hour), gender discrimination, and sexual violence. Rural women are the target of the labor exploitation because they are lack of capital resources to be independent on their own, lack of education, and the traditional patriarchal society. Some other major disadvantages that these rural women are facing are the risk of losing their jobs anytime after they pass twenty five year old and being deported by local authority( due to the big volume of migrant workers in the city and a the unwillingness of a local owner to employ an employer who passes twenty five). There is no doubt that rural Chinese Women have more freedom in making their own decisions compared to the past, but the question is at what cost does this come? It is hard to believe that women nowadays have given the full legal protections but still have to pay a high price to prove their abilities. Their contributions are being...
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...The Japanese Experience: Pre and Post Internment Camp The Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 caused the United States to not only declare war against Japan, but also to demand internment for anyone persons living in the United States that would be considered a national security threat, most of those people being Japanese-Americans. The Japanese experience has been altered by the policies and narrative of United States history. As waves of immigrants began to populate more of the West Coast, the growing frustration of California citizens allowed for the legal discrimination of most Asian Americans. Throughout their time in the U.S, there is a rich history attached to the Japanese experience. Among World War II, internment camps,...
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...Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York, USA Abstract Purpose – The choice of which country or countries to enter is a critical decision and needs to be made with considerable care and deliberation. Initial market entry decisions have typically focused on country evaluations based on macro-economic data. While appropriate in providing an initial screening of countries, other factors, notably contextual factors, can provide important insights in assessing international market opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of context at four distinct levels. Design/methodology/approach – The literature on the influence of context on consumption and purchase behavior is reviewed to provide a framework to understand contextual factors as a means to refine entry strategy and develop effective segmentation strategies. Findings – A wide range of contextual factors exert influence on consumption choices and contribute to within-country heterogeneity. These are typically examined at the macro-level, but also need to be examined at the meso-level, micro-level and situational level to fully assess market opportunities and establish viable market segments. Practical implications – Examination of contextual factors provides a richer and deeper understanding of which international markets to enter and which segments to target. Within-country cultural diversity, dramatic economic and regional disparities and marked differences in the infrastructure...
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...UpTech Support, a medium sized company based in Silicon Valley, California, operated in the intensely competitive computer industry with its’ main area of focus in the development of software support systems. Throughout the Internet Bubble bust, they were able to survive through their focus on key competencies and building relationships with key clients. Due to this they are now a successful company with offices in the major cities across the US. However, their international operations have remained small, with subsidiaries only in Canada, France, and a recent venture in Australia. These international offices have all been initiated due to following current US clients. VP of Operations, Jessica Kellaway and HR Director, Steve Hegworth are perplexed by a salary problem and are meeting to discuss the following issue: Pierre Lecruet, who had previously been Managing Director at the France location, had been moved into the same position, but in the new Australia office. During a previous performance appraisal, Pierre had noted that his job in France had lost the challenge and that there was no-where else for him to go within the French operation. The decision for him to move to Australia to repeat his success from France seemed to be a mutual one, but now 6-7 months into the position, Pierre seems overly focused on his compensation package rather than the job. Pierre, knowing if he performed well in the Australian initiative that he would be moved to a top management spot in the...
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...QUESTION #1 A New American Model - the National Governmental Orbit of Power The auto bailout is a good example of what the federal government can do to react to fiscal down towns. The federal government has the ability to step in and take action during times of great financial difficulty such as the Great Recession of 2008-2009. The federal government can enact policies on the macro level. While cities and local governments take action to solve their local problems, they cannot enact a strategy that will improve the state or national economy. By raising taxes and cutting services, states and cities were making the recession worse and actually were canceling out much of the stimulus being done by the federal government (Kantor & Judd, 2013). In order to counter act the trouble created by local government reaction to the recession, the federal government created a $787 billion stimulus package that included aid to state and local governments. Kantor and Judd state that the federal stimulus did not change the structure of the intergovernmental system, which requires cities to live within their revenue sources. The bail out of the auto industry was a targeted effort on the federal level to save a critical and important industry in the United States. At the time of the bailout, the auto industry contributed 3.6%, or $500 billion, to total U.S. GDP output (Amadeo, 2015). Some say the auto industry bailout was a political move because it was not really necessary. At the time of...
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