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rural I put down: Farm, Farmer, and Corn. Up to that moment that is all I really thought of when it came to rural. I think this can be traced back to the towns surrounding Rochester. This brings me back to my AP Geography class that I took as a sophomore and the idea of settlement hierarchy. With Rochester being a smaller city, we had plenty of towns and villages surrounding us. Each day on my way to school I would see rows of corn and thought that is what rural America is like. Oh boy was I…

Towards the end of the 1960’s the draw of the suburbs was beginning to gut the middle of most American cities. As the 1970’s wore on a plethora 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…

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…

As population increases, it causes the urban Americans to face many issues. Tenement housing is created to house the populated cities. Many people are squeezed into these small apartments. Disease spreads quickly due to 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.…

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…

groups of criminals try to befriend and distract the person they think is the biggest threat. For instance in the scene “Kill the messenger” in Hot fuzz the towns lone reporter Tim Messenger schedules an interview with Officer Angel during the towns annual festival to give and get some information about all of the mysterious murders around town for his next story. The group fears Messenger knows too much so they distract Officer Angel by making him announce the winner of the raffle drawing…

In this week’s reading we read Chapter 6 titled Spatial Perspectives: Making Sense of Space and Chapter 8 titled Social Psychology: The Urban Experience. Inside both chapters, author John Macionis and Vincent Parrillo make an incredible showing of how environment effects the people and urban. Additionally they give a smart and understanding thought of urban geography and space. Spatial Perspective is the title of chaoter 7. Individuals established urban areas at specific topographical locales…

During the reign of President Soeharto, the second president of Indonesia, Indonesian governmental system was unitary state with authoritarian system. At this era, the administrative system was set into a hierarchical system; from the higher level to the lowest level namely central government, provinces, cities (kota) and rural regencies (kabupaten), districts (kecamatan), and urban neighborhoods (kelurahan) and villages (desa); with a large number of military officer designated in many…

The last century has seen the rapid growth of the urban areas which is likely to be one of the milestones in the current ages. Also known as the urbanization process, this situation is defined by the unprecedented rural population shift to the cities which stems from the Modern period as a result of the Industrial Revolution. However, the key aspect is the universal nature of the issue which has effect on an exceptional transformation in a global scale but on a drastically impact in the social,…

History and Background Born and raised in the little town of Greybull, Wyoming. My partner and I grew up on our family’s ranches. We were used to getting our hands dirty and doing things for ourselves. In high school, we took a sewing class. It wasn’t too long until we were sewing two old horse blankets together and making skirts out of them. Shortly after that all the girls at school were dying to have our beautiful creations. After graduating high school being 1st and 2nd in our class, we…