strategies must be demonstrated in order to keep primary care providers within the rural communities. These strategies include the recruitment of medical students from rural backgrounds, promoting more funding for rural health facilities, and teaching medical students necessary skills in reference to the environment to ensure success. Success is the most important aspect regarding to healthy outcomes. In order for the rural population to obtain more positive health outcomes, primary care…
remaining 27.8 percent live in only 5,480 towns and urban agglomerations (Population of India 2016, 2016). While urban cities have some paved roads and public transportation means such as trains and subways, much of the country is still exceedingly rural and lacks modern roadways. Very few cities of India have an adequate public transport system (Singh S. K., 2012). A Minneapolis-based company, Bepex, is considering outsourcing to India,…
On December 23, 2016, This American Life originally aired Act One: Lopsided Tannenbaum, which was a piece of fiction read by the author, Maile Meloy. The story begins with a husband and wife, along with their four year-old daughter, Anne Marie, returning home from collecting a lopsided Christmas tree when they happen upon a couple stranded in the snow, one of which is holding a broken ski. Everett, the husband, stopped to assist the couple and see what they needed, Bonnie and Clyde. As Everett…
City boys and country boys are two different types of people of happen to lean towards the country side, Although the two types of people may seem similar on the outside, the actual differences are noticeable for the actions of the two are very different. Thus actions are crucial in the classifications of the two types of the people. When a country boy’s truck has a problem, unlike the city boy, they call up some of their friends and they fix their problem. Unlike the city boy who takes his car…
Social workers working within a rural setting can find it challenging when trying to assist clients in meeting his or her needs. No matter the service the lack of resources a rural area provides can prove too much, causing the client’s needs to go unmet. Reasons rural areas are so challenging to the delivery of services are due to many different factors: transportation, culture barriers, tight family unities, language barriers, lack of agencies, lack of funding, and isolation of individuals who…
Robert Frost is one of the most widely read and beloved American poets as well as one of the greatest. A four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert Frost was a national celebratory famous for writing poems about life familiar to the common man using rural imagery and American colloquial speech. Frost is well known for a few poems that he manages to remain in everyone’s head: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, “The Road not Taken”, etc.. Robert Frost was born in…
order for a farm to succeed, farmers had to build many structures, such as a farmhouse for the family, a barn for the animals, a shed for tools and machinery, and fences. “These structures were among the most visible symbols of second nature in the rural landscape…” (Cronon, 101). These are only a few examples of the relationship between first and second nature, as these structures would then be used to plant crops and house animals, which would be classified as first nature. Cronon also…
Ever pondered what it would be like to go from an urban lifestyle to a rural one? Living in an urban area is living in or near a larger city, where a rural area is way out and is most of the time depicted as farm country. Both lifestyles are vital to our world, and both of them contribute equally to society, but the urban life is more enjoyable and considered more of the ‘American Dream’. In the urban lifestyle, there are many activities and hobbies people can participate in. There is an…
Gentrification - can rural areas be gentrified? Can rural areas be gentrified? This is often the cause for debate when it is compared alongside urban in gentrified areas. Perhaps, in-order to understand the foundations for rural gentrification it could be argued that when we look at types of class within rural populations, middle class homeowners, gentrifiers could be seen to be acting ruthlessly as proactive capitalist developers acquiring land at cheaper prices and creating a different form…
Reflective Essay I. Introduction “Geography is the study of Earth’s landscapes, people, places, and environments” (“What is Geography,” n.d.). There are five main themes that can be referred to when discussing geography. The themes help answer specific questions, such as “Where is it?”, “Why is it there?” and “What are the consequences of its being there?” (“The Five Themes,” n.d., p. 1). These five themes are all relevant to the region, location, place, movement, and human-environment…