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…
perspective, what thoughts come to mind when they think of a city? Overcrowded? Unsanitary? Crime Infested? Can you imagine what makes a crowded area to have negative image? Bad traffic, unfriendly environments to raise children, an education that impacts the youth from fulfilling a successful school experience and the scenery of a rural area make the city a dangerous place to live. A part of rural residents have an opinion that the city is an unhealthy place to raise their children. For…
and getting used to living in a new city can be difficult, but I will try to help make it easier for you to become more comfortable with your new setting. Exploring and making friends are two key ways to reaching your goals. Exploring will help you familiarize yourself with your surroundings. Making friends will help you find things that you enjoy, as well as help you have fun in general, which is important when you 're trying to be comfortable and like the new city that you live in. Opening up…
There once was a place called Trap City. Trap City was a very important utopia. A utopia is like a perfect world. Trap City has many rules and regulations, but is also the place to have lots of fun and even with your family. Education, employment, and money have a major impact on the town. Many people rely on money for their lives, which makes having an education and a job very important. The environment of the city is what makes the utopia a perfect little world. The goal of this utopia is to…
placed .8 km from transit stations. Residential and commercial buildings are placed in separate zoning restrictions are placed within .4 km away from stations (Nahlik & Chester, 2014) . TOD is a planning model that is becoming more predominant in many cities. Despite this, there are few studies done to determine the impact of social equity based on transportation and land use changes. The current predominate perspective on transportation…
Zan’ar talked many others in the city and was told that anyone who wanted to volunteer in a special group will help in fighting the dragons would get a large payout. Zan’ar thought that this was a good idea. This would help his family and this would set them up for life. After talking…
Urban Community and Lifestyle Urban communities are well developed areas where there is a large density of people living. Often an urban area is the region around a city and primarily consists of commercial buildings, houses, motorways, bridges, and railroads. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2010 there was 249,253,271 people living in urban areas, which is eighty-one percent of the U.S. population (2010 Census Urban and Rural Classification and Urban Area Criteria, n.d.). To gain…
A true story happened in my secondary school. All students of my class were born in urban areas except one student from a small village. One day, one classmate lost her cell phone. Without any confirmatory evidence, most students and our teacher immediately suspected the rural student was the thief. The teachers even threatened him to admit his guilty. The lost cell phone was never found, and no one confessed this crime. After this event, almost all students including me sort of avoided staying…
The film Entre Nos is filmed in Queens, New York. The city of Queens is considered to one of the most genealogically diverse urban cities in the world. The buildings and structures reflect the diversity of the city. Although entering a city where everything is extremely diverse can be overwhelming. Mariana definitely struggles with many issues in this film, however she manages to overcome the obstacles she is faced with, for her children. Some of the urban issues in this film demonstrated were;…
County resides in the East Bay of California and is the fourth most racially diverse county in the United States (Narula, 2014). It comprises of 14 suburban cities and several unincorporated communities with an overall population of 1,610,921 and more than 12% are seniors aged 65 and older (175,320). Geographic isolation between some cities and an ever aging population makes public transportation a concern for the county and it’s stakeholders, especially in regard to the seniors and the…