Rural, Urban, and Suburban community areas all have there own individual problems in each community. Although there issues differ, in some way they affect the development of the community. During the first interview on rural areas, Bud Nornes speaks about his experiences growing up in a rural community. He states that agriculture is a very big part of the economy. Presently, there are not as many small farm families.…
strengths of having a community like the Midwest would include an internal drive for all of its community members to succeed and thrive around themselves and a greater connection or a sense of place to where they will feel at ease. However, some consequences of having a close, small community like the Midwest would include a sense of indifference inside the community which would eventually drive people insane if every citizen were to general agreement with one another; some people would be want to seclude themselves out of their communities if they did not approve of the concurrence of the Midwest…
Arelen McCurda Cole The 2015-2016 Newcastle Town Report is dedicated to Arlene Cole for her SOMETHING FROM THE SELECTMEN HERE. “STATEMENT FROM THE SELECTMEN,” the Newcastle Board of Selectmen said in a statement. “CONCLUSION OF THE STATEMENT FROM THE SELECTMEN.” Arlene served the town of Newcastle in many ways throughout her life.…
A frostbitten, day old, Black Angus calf would change my life. Her mother died the day she was born, so I bottle fed her. I was only eight. She started something so big in my life. It seemed natural to take on the responsibility of mothering her.…
I don’t believe that any town should just give up and die. Smaller towns tend to have less to work with but that’s no excuse for allowing their city to fall into ruins. Community leaders and members have to realize that growth doesn’t just happen magically, it must be worked for. Community leaders have to research and find brokers and economic developers to help their town to grow and flourish. This allows those brokers and developers to grow their assets and the community to grow in ways they could of never imagined.…
Hello Shefa, are you moving to Newton? Wow, that's awesome! I haven't herd you from a while, since you're busy with moving. I know it's going to be hard moving from Turkey to here. I herd you were going to continue with classes or start them here.…
In many ways I am glad that I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Negaunee is a town of 4,600 and everyone knows each others names and business. It is easy to get a label and hard to get rid of one. There are many downfalls of growing up in a small town, such as lack of diversity, opportunity and privacy as well as extremely cold, long winters. I think that the benefits are different for everyone.…
Every little girl grows up loving horses, but most outgrow that desire. I never did. When I was young, I was scared of them because the first horse I fed a carrot to looked as though he could eat me. I was 4 years old and also the size of his head. For the longest time, I wished to ride and train horses even though I did not know a single thing about doing that; today, I teach other people more about how horses work within their herd and how humans can better work with their horse.…
Before moving to the city of Portsmouth, Virginia I grew up in the small country town of Lavaca, Arkansas. While some aspects of living in the city is consistent with living in the country, the city lifestyle offers more convenience, experiences, and opportunities. Growing up in a town with a population of around two thousand people means being a part of a tight knit community. I was surprised to find that same sense of community living in a town of over ninety-six thousand people. I have built friendly relationships with many of my neighbors and attended community events and gatherings in the same way I did living in the country.…
Majority of small communities tend to be very similar. As they would usually contain the same type of buildings, as well as having elementary, middle, and a high school. Also a place where family owned or small business and/or restaurants tend to go to make their money. But communities have different types of culture that make the community, like how you can realize the difference when you pass signs saying “ Entering Navajo Nation” compared to Greenville.…
They say the goal in life is to live the “American Dream” and I would say I am living it head first. It all started when the time in my life came to pick an Univeristy to attend, and boy am I ecstatic with my decision to attend West Virginia University. WVU opened so many doors for me; however, if it was not for my family, I would not be where I am today. I was very content with going to my local University and living at home because that was comfortable to me, but my family encourged me to find a new start.…
Every time a so-called ghetto neighborhood is mention on television, it is always in reference to the unemployed, under employed, Section 8 or welfare recipients. If you listen to the television, you would think that the aforementioned types of people are the only people who live in these kinds of neighborhoods. Of course you now know from my first hand experience that this is not true. There are diverse population of different professionals like teachers, plumbers, nurses, bus drivers, mechanics, bookkeepers, construction workers, and so on, who also live in low income neighborhoods for a varieties reasons. They just do not make the news.…
Where I came from was from Russellville Alabama where it is located in Franklin County. There are many things about this town that I can talk about like the school, parks, and etc… One most are there are certain things about this town that is here. Russellville is a small town that many people come be or like to be here. There are things about that need to be done to make it better. They have made it better now than it used to be.…
Place is needed to stabilize and orient us as families, community members and citizens. I agree with McClay and McAllister that the connections to a physical place are important. If we no longer hold importance to place then we will no longer have a sense of identity as members of a community. Place plays a necessary role in building the basis for people to find individual identity. A place that one identifies as “home” serves as “an anchor for our memories”(Solnit 139).…
Where I am from there are many different things that affect local business. I am from Stoneville and the main demographics that affect the local businesses in my area are lack of employment and the population. In Stoneville most people have to go out of town to work, because there just isn't any employment in town which really affects our locals businesses, because most of the people that live here spend most of their time out of town so our businesses don't really get any business therefor they fail. Most of the population of Stoneville is older people because Stoneville doesn't really have anything that attracts younger people to the area. The fact that the population consists of many older people it really hurts new businesses because older…