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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…

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…

Nowadays, United States is the country that has a variety of cultures, races, etc. mixing together by having immigrants in the country. United States is wide open for people to settle down on this land and on that time there is no process for immigrants. However, in the middle of 1840 until 1880, immigrants started to come in the U.S. such as Irish and Chinese because of demanding of unskilled and cheap labors. In the 1920, automation replaced the unskilled labors as a result immigrant’s policy…

is usually associated with the nature for instance the landscape and the wild. In short, a rural tourism is actually a form of ecotourism. Although in the journal it was mentioned that in some other countries, rural tourism is also known as farm tourism (also agritourism and agrotourism), the two is not to be confused because they are two different things, whereby the latter is only a subcategory of rural tourism. In agritourism or agrotourism, tourists are brought to a farm or ranch so that…

Access to Health Services in Rural Communities Healthcare services are rapidly changing across the nation in central populations and as well as rural communities, but these changes are affecting central populations more than they are rural communities. In addition to more advanced health services, the communities in rural areas have greater challenges than those that live in urban areas. People in rural communities are being challenged to find primary health care providers that are close to…

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…

Urban police and Rural polices are two types of police officers that share the main goal, to protect and serve. Despite being police officers, both jobs encounter different types of crimes, furthermore, one job may consist of more work and activities than the other. As stated by the author Ronald G. Burns in his book Policing, “Statewide jurisdiction enables state law enforcement agencies to oversee a wider geographical area than local-level law enforcement agencies” (Burns, 51). In other words,…

Town or Country: A Comparative Essay on the Differences between Rural and Urban Living. The differences between Rural and Urban living are for more complicated today than in years past. As our fruits, vegetables, meats, grains, and other agricultural needs have moved from being locally grown and sourced to being imported from other states and countries, we are seeing more and more of the work force moving to more rural areas. This is in part to the massive amounts of farm land no longer being…

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…

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…