In my hometown could you find friendly people with stalls lined along Main Street. Newly picked flowers, glistening apples, and crisp bottled honey surrounded me. It was the monthly farmer’s market, after all. Going to the county fair proved to be a worthwhile pastime too. Mooing cows filled my ears while to my left I could see a group of kids smoking a blunt. My school was filled with whispers, gossiping or uttering the n-word while others murmured proudly of how they were going to vote for Donald Trump. This town of 4,000 residents was home — and it could also be your home too. Known for its history, people, and activities, there are many surprises located in this small yet cozy village.
Union Grove got its start in the nineteenth century. John E Dunham investing in 80 acres to establish his own home. The first school was built a decade later; Governor Dodge named both the establishment and village after the grove of oak trees adjacent to Highway 45 along with the school’s
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Numerous Caucasians, four Latinos, and less than two Asians annually flock to the community in favor of small town living. But no matter how diverse Union Grove’s neighborhoods are, the clique that takes the lead are the farmers. The pick of the litter, those that work in agriculture are what make Union Grove the lovely village it is. They are responsible for providing food to the supermarket, for contributing milk to the schools, for lining the hallways with the sweet aroma of manure and burnt rubber. But have no fear, for this coterie is a friendly one — so long as you share their opinions. Conservatism is common here, making it a man’s game and an unfit ground for the poor. However, so long as you throw away your sense of individualism, you and your family can find a warm, welcoming home in Union Grove. But there is more to this hearty community than just the people — such as
Growing up in the small town of Pocahontas, Iowa gives appreciation to the simplicity of tight-knit communities. With a population of 1,800 people, there is single café where local farmers enjoy a morning cup of coffee while discussing the news. Rural communities are a place where children have birthday parties at the local pizza place and teenagers’ first jobs are as detasslers. As a child, your mother knows if you got in trouble at school before you return home and everyone’s name is well known throughout the area.
With the arrival of the 1920’s, new battles fought between traditionalist rural society and modernist urban civilization arose in the postwar United States. These urban-rural culture wars of this time period represent the everlasting conflict between conservatives and liberals. The 1920 census demonstrated to traditionalists that their views were under attack by the modernists who gradually came to outnumber them. Traditionalists were disturbed that they were losing a battle against immigrants who didn’t understand or appreciate “old American values” and against their own children, a new generation of rebellious youth who brought about sexual revolution, materialism, and skepticism.
In this article what was unusual in Longtown Ohio was that people didn’t think that the person’s color was important. Longtown Ohio was well known for its historically early integration and for its educational opportunities for the blacks. By Washington post, published by an article adapted by Newsela staff “Ohio town holds rare history: Races mix freely for 200 years”, explores how Longtown has its history and how people’s color isn’t that important. According to the Newsela staff, politicians were saying that Longtown Ohio has had a rare history behind it. Longtown Ohio has been noticing that the town was struggling after the war took place. “ When we began to need machinery and bank loans
Paul Fisher describes the Tangerine County as “a place carpeted with green grass, with trees along both sides of the road and flower beds running down the middle of a median strip. We could see the roofs of big expensive houses peeking up over the landscaping” (9). Although things on the surface look great in Tangerine County, they’re falling apart underneath. Outside the housing development, a muck fire burns underground (16). In a middle school, a sinkhole opens (80), and mosquitoes torture the neighborhoods (161).
In Streetwise, Elijah Anderson (1990) discusses the social forces at work in an urban area he calls the Village-Northton. His is a sociological field study of the daily interactions between the residents of an area encompassing two communities--in his words, "one black and low income to very poor (with an extremely high infant mortality rate), [and] the other racially mixed but becoming increasingly middle to upper income and white" (Anderson, 1990, p. ix). In keeping with valid sociological fieldwork, Anderson (1990) immersed himself in the community from the summer of 1975 through the summer of 1989.
“The Red Scare of the 1950s, the years of Senator MCcarthy the city began condemning homes” (Normark 17.) When many social and interracial labor movements of the Left were dismantled. This was not an isolated case this was happening all over the country right before our own eyes. A 1950 far-sighted housing development of 3364 housing units proposed on a 278-acre site in the underprivileged downtown Chavez Ravine neighborhood. Elysian Park Heights, the project was intended to be the groundwork for citywide slum revitalization development. Regardless of how self-sufficient the residents of Chavez Ravine one of the more prominent Mexican American thriving communities served as a home to three Mexican Communities La Loma, Palo Verde and Bishop. Job and housing discrimination was one of the reasons the neighborhoods rallied around each other making them a thriving community. Despite of having no help from the city they had a school, church and vegetation. (Evanosky 80) Mexican families being discriminated everywhere else in the city they found refuge and decided to make Chavez Ravine their home. (Dennis Evanosky, Eric J. Kos, 80) Getting no response from the city, in spite of years asking for help to upgrade their community. The government condemn the habitat as a blighted area this changed their lives as they knew it. (80)
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
Iowa is viewed by many as lacking diversity in many areas, such as culture, careers, and even income. However, when one takes the time to look closer, there are many socioeconomic differences, even within the span of a few miles. To highlight this, I have selected Cobblestone Estates in DeWitt, as well as Broadway Street in Charlotte. These two neighborhoods are within a fifteen-minute drive, yet they are vastly different in many ways. Cobblestone Estates is a brand new suburb in DeWitt. Broadway Street, on the other hand, is an old neighborhood that’s been in existence since the town’s founding in the mid 1800s.By studying the locations, home values, and physical appearance of these neighborhoods, we are able to draw conclusions about their socioeconomic statuses.
It takes a lot to rip apart a town. It takes a lot to ravage a community, particularly one as tightly-knit as Ridgway, Pennsylvania. Nestled snugly at the southeastern edge of Allegheny National Forest, Ridgway’s population has dipped to just below four thousand in recent years, though in its 191 years of settlement, it’s never once been called home by more than roughly six thousand people at once. Its proximity to the forest attracts huntsmen and hikers alike, but unless one were actively looking for the town—the square mileage of which comes in at just over two and a half miles, total—it would be remarkably easy for Ridgway to not make a blip on someone’s radar at all. It’s small, out of the way, and most of all, quiet—a recipe for insignificance.
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the chapter reading for March 10th, 2016. The reading assigned was Colored Property (Chapter Two), written by David Freund. The premise of the book is that the creation of the white, middle-class, suburbs (excluding blacks and those with low incomes) had more to do with federal policy than the “free market.”
Many of the people living in the village have come from a variety of lives before moving into the community. Some old, some new, and often have been alone most of their life.
The lower region in Loma Linda in California is a bore, a drag, an uneventful livelihood, a calm, a home, a quiet night, an established community, an utter disappointment. Loma linda is the born and raised, wood and glass and flowers and warmth, cracked streets and leaf-coated driveways and dust-covered cars, churches and grocery stores and farmers markets and gas stations and pho restaurants. Its inhabitants are, as many would say, “Racists, poor people, students, and rich old white men.” by which they would mean everyone. Another person’s perspective may have been, “ Proud Americans, humble folks, geniuses, and hardworking retirees.” and they would have meant the same thing.
In the book, “ A Beginners Guide to the Study of Religion”, Herling highlights the clash that questions who has more knowledge in religion between an outsider and an insider. The insider being the person who physically and emotionally participates in said religion whilst the outsider being the one who studies and gains information about it from every corner from afar. Although this question is slightly unsolvable, it’s important for us as students to understand the concept of what our position means, why both insiders and outsiders are important, and which stance we should be taking in this course. This also in a sense links with Megan Roper’s TedEd talk about her position as both an insider and an outsider and how one should approach either
Born in California and raised in the deep south, I grew up in two conflicting societies. The cultural geography of both areas differs on a magnitude of levels and complicated my development into the cultures around me, however in retrospect influenced me to be a multidimensional and considerate person. At a young age my parents introduced me to progressive values. During the developmental toddler stages, I immersed myself in two different cultures: what I experienced at school and what I experienced at home. Charleston, South Carolina embodies small-town society though the Greater Charleston Area expands rapidly each year, pulling migrants, including my family, to the growing city. The overwhelmingly conservative views of Traditional Charleston
In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, many characters possess internal traits that affect their decisions and actions. Macbeth, the main character of the play possesses three traits that significantly affect him and those around him. First of all, Macbeth’s ambitious personality leads him to engage in harmful actions. Furthermore, Macbeth’s unstable beliefs and his tendency to be easily manipulated also plays a notable role in the play. Additionally, Macbeth’s impulse to prioritize illusions over logic contributes to his decisions and actions. Macbeth possesses internal traits that ultimately have a negative impact on his decisions and cause him to commit evil actions which lead Macbeth towards his downfall.