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Big City Girl, Small Town Woman Jennifer, or Jen as some like to call her, was born July 24th, 1970, in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois. Jen Townsend was the name she grew up with through out her high school and college career, but on October 7th, 1995, her life changed when she married David Claeys, a man from a town smaller than the size of her entire high school. They met at Western Illinois University, where she attended college, and majoring in business. After about three years…

environments, the reality is that victims of IPV reside in all communities, big and small. Even though there are resources available for victims of IPV to turn to, accessing these resources is extremely difficult for many Americans. While the idea of small town living and open fields may bring peace to some, it also brings terror to the thousands of victims of IPV in these communities. Being a victim of IPV while living in a rural community presents many unique challenges that cannot even be…

At the dawn of the 12th century Byzantine suppression of piracy had restarted long distance trading and the end of Viking raids made self defended urban centers viable once again. Bishops and abbots, and later secular lords, realized the value of towns as centers of commerce and sources of revenue, and began to promote them. They provided markets for merchants to meet and trade, as well as secure locations for minting currency. However, few of the Middle Age urban centers had the advantage of…

Over the course of the semester I have been volunteering with American Public Square. I have completed around eleven hours so far and have been helping at events hosted by the group. At events I have helped attendants find seats, passed out programs, collected questions from the audience, tracked demographics, and cleaned up once attendees have left. While my acts have seemed small to me, those putting on the programs have said these little things amount to a large burden off their shoulders.…

Plot One difference within the plot of these two stories is that ‘The Lottery’ had a really long exposition and rising action because it gave a lot of history of the village before the audience got to know what the lottery really is. “School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play…” (1.2) Shirley Jackson gives a lot of detail about the villagers and history…

Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon Analytical essay of Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon by Jackie Kay Today, living in the city can be a lonely affair for many people. To combat this, some use their imagination to envisage the life they could have had. But, what happens when you cannot separate fact from fancy? This is the problem Jakie Kay deals with in her short story “Mrs Vadnie Marlene Sevlon,” which deals with a middle-aged woman, whose quiet life is far from what she envisages. The short story takes…

This paper aims to understood the character of open land and/or water body & its importance in Urban areas. An urban area is characterized by high human population density and vast human-built features. Thus rises the need of relief spaces in the dense urban matrix. They can be any kind of open spaces or water body, green belts-manmade or natural. Urban Morphology of cities show the gradual decrease and decease of open spaces with the process of urbanization. Open spaces are mandatory for the…

A small town and a big city might not always be thought of as being similar, but if you dig far enough, those similarities are right under the surface. Titonka, Iowa, is definitely considered a small town. Although small, Titonka has similar qualities to those of a big city. One particular city would be New York City, New York. New York is the largest city, by population, in the United States. These two cities have similar qualities when it comes to people, things to do, and monuments. These two…

In Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery”, villagers gather in the town square on June 27 where the black box is securely put on the stool to determine the fate of death of the lottery winner. The black box is the physical embodiment of tradition. It supersedes all the power and commitment. It also supersedes bonds and authorities. The people are submissive to the box. Villagers respect and care for it. Over time, the population of the villagers increased, changing the wooden chips to slips of…

Urbanization, by definition, is the movement from rural areas to urban areas and the ways society adapts to this change. In the late 1800’s, this is exactly what happened, with rural living people moving to urban areas. This movement not only caused more people in the urban areas, but a huge influx of people,mainly immigrants, into the cities. Due to that, many discrepancies were made in how society worked in the time, which led to people having to adapt into the new way of life that they were…