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    As society develops and changes with modernity so to does the flow of the city, residential and rural areas. Due to the rise in suburbia and the bourgeois commuter there has been altered movements within the city changing the original purpose of the city and promoting collective groups of communities that exist on the edge of a larger city. Suburbanization grew in the times of the Depression and WWII as well as the developments of technology. Automobiles became available which allowed people to…

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    therefore the plot twist occurring at the end leaves us extremely consternated. Shirley Jackson carefully describes the setting without omitting the smallest details such as the temperature, the town square, the crowd standing between the post office and the bank. She gives the exact number of people living in the town, the date, the time, the neighboring villages. This enumeration of details, names and rules dictated by Mr. Summers divert the readers’ attention…

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    Moving To A Small Town

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    why some may be put off from moving to a country town, are the types of careers or sometimes the lack of. In most small towns the job or career oppritunites have taken a great blow, we can take Quesnel for example. A lot of mills have shut down causing workers to be laid off, many would not want to be moving into a town where there are already unemployed individuals looking for jobs. It does not mean there are no job opprotunities at all in small towns,Sandra Ruiz, who is an event coordinator…

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    libraries. This means you’re either too drunk to read, or too Christian to read anything good. Big enough to have a mayor’s house, but not big enough to be on any map of any kind, it’s the kind of town where everyone knows your name and basically everything about you. Danielsville is the kind of town that if there was a wedding, there’d be no point in not inviting someone, because they’d probably end up being someone’s plus one anyway.…

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    Coming from a populated city and area I was intrigued at the opportunity to learn about something that would be completely new to me. I grew up barely outside of Rochester Minnesota, which is an hour and a half south of the cities. Rochester, as I see it, is a city within a rural area. My definition and your definition of rural are two completely different things. Thus, when you first asked us to describe three words that we thought of when we heard the term rural I put down: Farm, Farmer, and…

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    of reasons such as crime, job losses, and racism made them all the more attractive. Cities appeared to be dying. Then a strange thing happened, in the mid-1990’s crime began to drop rapidly and people began moving back to cities. Today cities like New York that were on the brink of collapse are thriving. Even stranger, because of the recession post 2000 poverty had moved out from the city and into suburbs. There are many reasons for this shift, yet long neglected has been the role of…

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    Small Town Research Paper

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    Small Town Communities Living in a small rural community like Ellendale has been a great influence on my life. The small town life has been fun and makes me want to come back. The ability to ride bike from one side of the town to the other is also another convenience of living in this community. The support for local sports teams in small towns is also very good. Families and people who don’t have kids playing still come and cheer on their hometown team. It creates a very good relationship…

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    these living conditions. Not only do these urban Americans have to face these harsh living conditions and disease issues, but they also got to face dangerous working conditions and crimes that are being committed. America's new look as an urban nation. The United States is one of the world's biggest urban nations. Urban growth in the United States has clearly followed these three stages of gradual growth, explosive take off, and maturity. First, the era of colonial…

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    Small Town Research Paper

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    There are a lot of good things about a small town and there are a lot of negative things to. I honestly think a small town is good to have around. I don't think think there anything negatived about it. Small towns are fun to live in. There are somethings that isn't to good to. There are a lot of positive things about a small town. In a small town you can do pretty much anything you want to. People can go mudding in there own fields.They can play baseball in there yard instead of going…

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    now the safety and every other important factors for workers are coming out to protect their rights. United States is divided into five cultural region, and the New England is the most interesting region for myself because I lived in the New England area for the first serval years in United States. Unlike Texas, most places in New England is crowd. There are many of the historical objects and buildings, and a lot of immigrants live in this area. United States has so many cultural icons, but…

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