...Some people believe it's better to grow up in a small town. Other people think it's better to grow up in a big city. There are three reasons that people should grow up in a small town and they are safety issues, traffic, and health. Those three things are very important in a human life, they play a huge roll. Safety in a human life contributes to many possibilities to death if there is no help or medical attention. That is why growing up in a small town, there are more local hospitals, firehouses, police stations, and less crime. When there is crime, because of the size of the town then you get way faster attention and everyone will be willing to help. For example if you have an animal stuck in a tree you will get help way faster than a...
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...Fairhope, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia are both amazing cities in their own right. One is enormous, and the other is small. Atlanta is a financial hub that attracts people from around the world, Fairhope is a far less populated city that grows from within. Both cities have astounding beauty that share the same warm feeling that is only found in the southern region of the United States. Although they differ in many aspects, Fairhope, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia share several similarities. The city of Fairhope lies in Baldwin County, Alabama and embodies everything that a small southern town should. Sitting on the Gulf of Mexico, across from Mobile, Fairhope radiates small town charm and southern hospitality. The buildings were made in...
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...Small Town or Big City I was born and raised in a small country town, where there were more corn fields than businesses. Everybody knew each other and what everyone did; needless to say; when you are young you could not do anything wrong without your family finding out. Living in a small town like this had its ups and downs, but mainly it was a great way to live. You never had to lock your doors at night, because you always felt safe. The only crime you saw was on TV and you could honestly say, that don’t happen here. It made you become close with your family, because they are all you had. The only downside for me was the lack of job opportunities, ones that actually paid you enough to live off of. I moved out of my parents house at the age of 17, when I graduated high school. I had always had a job or two so I could take care of myself and not rely on any help from my parents. By the age of 24, I realized this was not the way I wanted my life to be. My best friend and I decided we would look for work in the city and see if we could find anything. It did not take long for us to find a job that paid more and gave us benefits. The next step for us was to find a place to live and move to the big city. The hardest part for me, was having to say goodbye to my family. Knowing I was making a great decision to better my life, did not matter so much at that point. I felt like I was saying goodbye, forever. Big city here I come! The excitement of something new was so exhilarating...
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...made the town. (Cowper) Everything in this world has its own merits and demerits. Nothing is perfect in this world. Perfection lies only in God. So, town life and country life have also their own advantages and disadvantages. Things, pleasures, scenes entertainments and recreations which one finds in cities are not available in country side and vice versa. City life has its pleasures and pains, its comforts and discomforts and its charms and horrors. To these who live in villages and towns, city life has special appeal, and they desire to visit a city repeatedly. And likewise, city dwellers want to enjoy the simple pleasures if a village away from maddening complexities of city life. For those who live in the rural areas and small towns, life in a big city in surely very attractive. They are happily surprised and sometime as stupefied to find high-rise, multi-storied buildings on the two sides of broad and busy roads. The shape, size and colors of the building structures, whether they are trade centers plazas, government or private offices or residences of rich people are all enchantingly beautiful and impressive. Surely, the fashionable, comparatively newly-built areas of the big cities in other and our countries are tastefully constructed, attentively decorated and carefully maintained. To look at the sky-kissing buildings one feels like being in a city built at the order of Aladdin subbing his magic lamp. If you would know and not be known, live in a city. (Colton) ...
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...think that urban life in big cities means a happy life, with no worries and just pure happiness. But what is happiness? And what makes us think that urban life is pure happiness? In the essay “Living With Strangers” by Siri Hustvedt, we hear about a woman's move from the countryside of Minnesota, to the Big Apple in New York City. Her move is described with many comparisons with her previous life and experiences, and a lot of humor, which underlines her situation and her attitude to urban life. In the following essay I am going to analyze and comment on Siri Hustvedt’s essay “Living With Strangers”. Part of my essay will focus on the genre, the attitude to urban living and the contrasts between Siri’s life in Minnesota and her new life in New York City. As said, the essay is based on Siri Hustvedt’s own life and experiences. Siri Hustvedt grew up in Minnesota, where everybody knows and greets each other. Now she lives in New York City where nobody seems to care about each other, and where greeting strangers would be “impractical and unsound”. This is a big change for her, and she uses an overwhelming amount of detailed descriptions to describe her situation in the Big Apple. She uses many personal experiences and examples, which characterizes the essay genre. Furthermore, she is very reflective, descriptive, subjective and very personal in her way of writing the essay. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival in this town (..). This simple law, one...
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...Living with strangers The big city’s has grown bigger in the last decade as a result of the increasing urbanization of the 1800-century’s industrialization. Where the jobs were moved from the countryside to the cities. To live in these big cities with thousands or even millions of other people creates a lot of challenges and problems. Especially when you have, to find out how to relate and react to all these people that you don’t know and never will. In the essay “Living with strangers. New York 2002”, Siri Hustvedt look at these challenges and difficulties there is in the big city life. The text can more or less be divided I three parts. The first part is about Hustvedt history and personal experience. She starts by telling that she comes from a small town where everybody knows everybody and you great every single person you meet whereas in the cities she quickly learned that whit all these people with so different life’s it would be impossible to great everyone. Moreover, it didn’t take long to noughties that there is an unspoken code. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival in this town (…): PRETEND IT ISN’T HAPPENING” She also says that even though she has physical contact with millions of people every day there is no human contact. By starting with, a personal story she quickly gets the reader’s attention and it becomes easier to relate to the text. In the second part of the text, Hustvedt tells examples of this city code “pretend it isn’t happening”...
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...characteristics of these two movies. From the first to the second there are the same basic ideas, but so many differences in the characters and events. Christ Lemire describes the old Footloose as a “flood of fond memories” for anyone who grew up in the 1980s. This movie was a true symbol of the growth of pop culture during this time. The main character, played by Kevin Bacon, was a bad boy from big city Chicago. He was forced to move to a small town called Bomont, Utah with his mother into his aunt’s house. All he wanted to do was dance, but it was banned. This had a lot to do with the church and their moral beliefs. The boy meets a rebellious girl and it almost halfway becomes a love story also. His goal in this movie was for the town to put on a prom for the teens in school. He even goes before the town council in order to change the law against dancing. Although he portrays a very good argument and quotes from the bible about how they danced and rejoiced, the council voted against it. The young boy is determined and does not give up. In the end they hold the prom at a grain mill outside of town and everyone has the time of their lives. Now, back in the 1980s this was a bigger deal than we see it today. This could have been a real life epidemic in some places. This movie was like a role model for young people. Kevin Bacon was the crush for young girls, while the soundtrack of the movie played on all of the radio stations over and over again. People looked at this movie as an inspiration...
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...Living with Strangers In the essay “Living with Strangers” Siri Hustvedt discusses the lack of solidarity and the difference between the unspoken social rules, one can meet in a in a big city, for example New York City, and a small town in the state of Minnesota. These unspoken social rules are very hard for an outsider to understand. Hustvedt starts the essay by giving a briefly description of the huge difference she felt, when she moved from rural Minnesota to New York City. She talks about how one is expected to behave where she grew up. It was considered as rude and snobby to pass someone in silence – which is pretty much the worst thing in a small town – you have to say “Hi”. “Passing someone in silence wasn’t only rude; it could lead to accusations of snobbery – the worst possible sin in my small corner of egalitarian state (paragraph 3-5)”. Whereas in New York City it will make you seem mental greeting a stranger if you were to greet everyone you meet on the street. It is this problematic issue that has inspired Siri Hustvedt to write the essay. The title refers to the paradox living in a big city: on one hand you live among so many people and on the other you do not know these people so you are really on your own. Although this is not specifically mentioned; but she indicates it indirectly through an anecdote about the habits of her neighbors “...I listened to the howling battles of the couple the lived below me, their raging voices punctuated by thuds, bangs, and the...
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...Andrea Hiott Thinking Small ˚˚ The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle Copyright © 2012 by Andrea Hiott All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-345-52142-2 eBook ISBN 978-0-345-52144-6 [CIP Information] Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper www.ballantinebooks.com 246897531 FIRST EDITION Book design by Simon M. Sullivan What is love? After all, it is quite simple. Love is everything which enhances, widens, and enriches our life, in its height and in its depths. Love has as few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the drivers, the passengers, and the road. —Franz Kafka Introduction In 1949, a ship called the MS Westerdam departed from the coast of Europe, its hundreds of passengers headed toward U.S. shores. Nestled deep in the ship’s cargo compartment, a pair of headlights peeped out of a dark tarp; two wide, open circles leading to the soft curves of what would soon be known as the world’s most recognizable car. Protesters, rebels, dissidents, politicians, businessmen, the world’s corporate elite—all would eventually become entwined in its story. By the end of the 1960s, it would do what no other car had done before: transcend age, class, and country to become a symbol adopted by them all. Americans...
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...such a big part of life in the late 1800s through the early 1900s, and there were two main places for gold mining in America; California (there were major gold rushes in California through the mid 1900s) and Alaska, more specifically the Yukon Territory. The Alaska Gold Rush of the late 1800s was one of the major gold rushes in U.S. history. There was one main area in Alaska, where the major discoveries were made, the Klondike River, more specifically Bonanza Creek (University 1). Bonanza Creek was a tributary of the Klondike River and a hot spot for gold mining (University 1). Also, this creek was home to the first discovery of the entire rush. There were many towns during the gold rush that became modern day cities: including modern day cities such as Vancouver, Edmonton, and Seattle. The city to make the least profits during the rush was Seattle. Seattle made only over one million dollars and it was the least productive city. Seattle acquired its small scale empire by doing one thing, selling supplies to prospectors, but unfortunately for the citizens of Seattle their mayor, S.D. Wood, ditched town because he wanted to keep some of the riches for himself (Libraries 1). Vancouver, a once small Canadian town doubled its population during the rush. The most profitable city was, Edmonton, whose population tripled when word of the gold rush spread because people needed to move closer to the gold (University of 1). Dawson is not a major Alaskan town today...
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...Home-Style Cookies Ashford University BUS 644 Professor Michael Snell August 29, 2011 Briefly describe the cookie production process. Everything starts when management gets the orders from the distributors, which are then scheduled and put onto a list. The list for the day is then given at the beginning of the shift to the person in charge of mixing. The person then checks the master list for the ingredients needed for each type of cookie. The person in charge if mixing then puts the information into the computer and the computer figures out what is exactly needed according to the quantity and the type of cookies needed. The computer then sends the information it configures to the storage silos that are located outside of the plant where the main ingredients are located. All of the ingredients needed are automatically sent to the giant mixing machines where everything is mixed together into a batter. The batter is then put into cutting machines that cut the batter into individual diagonal cookies. The cut cookies are then put onto a conveyer belt that will send them through one of the two ovens. There are some cookies that have filling and those cookies are first filled and folded before they are sent into the oven. Once the cookies come out of the oven they are then sent onto spiral cooling racks 20 feet high and three feet wide. As the cookies are finished with the cooling process workers manually put the cookies into boxes and while they are doing this they remove...
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... ASSESSMENT OF EBENEZER HOWARD’S, GARDEN CITY IDEAS AND ITS APPLICATION OF MODERN PLANNING In generic perspective, origination of every development and growth of this world starts with ideas and theories, brought by some researchers and great thinkers in the World. Orientation of development and growth of Towns and Cities is based upon the Planning concepts, in order to balance up the socio-economic needs and the beauty of the country. City and town entails planning a future community or the guidance and shaping of the present community in an organized manner and with an organized layout, taking into account such considerations as conveniences for its inhabitants, environmental conditions, social requirements, and recreational facilities. Ebenezer Howard is the least known and most influential, who given Modern Urban Planning theory and practices a push in the right direction, making what seemed like being light years away a reality of not just great architectural feats. In his tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898, now known under the title of the 1902 Garden cities of tomorrow), Howard expressed his ideas. He outlined the overcrowding, dirt, disease and poverty of the city, the monetary of the suburbs and the isolation of the countryside and offers a solution that seems too simple to be true to build new cities with the country within them. This would be of necessity that attract people from city at which point the country could re-enter the city with the slums replaced by parks...
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... EVANS 1 Living in Hampton, VA. Differs from Living in Newsoms, VA. in environment, People, and Cost of Living. There is a wide variety of housing options in the Hampton Roads area, which consists of seven major cities, numerous rural towns and several waterfront communities. Living in a big city is very different from living in a small country town. The three areas of major differences:...
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...sports teams’ stadiums. After the public agrees to back the construction of a stadium, the next step is to find out where those funds are coming from. I will take a look at how the increase in taxes are being implemented and just exactly how much debt these taxes are trying to pay off. Once all of this information is determined, it is easy to get to the real question of this research paper: Is funding the construction of a new sports stadium worth it for the taxpayers of that city? Does the revenue outweigh the debts, or will it never pay off? The answer to this might just change the readers’ minds next time they are sitting at their home stadium watching their favorite team play. INTRODUCTION Taxpayers funding sports stadiums has become more and more prominent since the 1980s. Now, most professional sports stadiums in this country are funded in some part by the taxpayers of their cities. The question then arises, should the public have to fund the building of a new sports stadium in their town? I recently took to an athlete’s fan page and posed this question to his fans. The responses from a fan’s perspective were very interesting. As a sports fan,...
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...Asia Foust The Small and the Many Many people may think that the bigger the farming company is, the better they are. However, others think the bigger they are, the more damage they cause to the environment and the economy. There are so many different reasons for both of these opinions, but smaller farms are much more beneficial and practical than bigger, more elaborate, farms. As Bill McKibben says, “We’re moving, if we’re lucky, from the world of few and big to the world of small and many. We’ll either head there purposefully or we’ll be dragged kicking, but we’ve reached one of those moments when tides reverse” (McKibben). Smaller and more abundant farms are helpful because they can create more jobs, can yield more crops than bigger farms, are better for the environment, and they can produce healthier and fresher products to more people. The smaller farms are more abundant compared to the big industrial farms, which means the amount of transportation is less. This means that they do not have to use as much, or any, chemicals on their crops because the products will not be sitting around in boxes for as long as they do when they have to travel further. Bigger farms use chemicals to preserve the longevity of the crop and to terminate anything that would come in the way of the crop growing out its full capability. These chemicals are meant to kill things, and are potentially harmful to people if they are ingested in larger quantities. The lack of pesticides and preservatives...
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