Growing Up In Canby's Influence On My Hometown

grew up in Chicago, Illinois, a beautiful city surrounded by violence and controversy by the media. I found things more simple when I was kid growing up here, there wasn't much to worry about but as I got older things became more complex here. The sounds of the " L "' or as you know it as, The Train, and the roaring sounds of cars passing by my house made me feel alive while growing up and as a matter of fact still does. You could wake up in the morning and see the vibrant blue skies being pierced by the skyscrapers and see other kids playing ball or riding their bikes. When it was summer time I would play ins sprinklers or go downtown and play in the fountains with my family. Of course, like most big cities I had to watch my back while growing up because you never knew what somebody was up to. It's weird really growing up here because you never know what's going to happen next , wether it's a good thing or a bad thing. All I can really say about growing up in Chicago is that if I had the chance to redo it, I'd do if a million times.

Growing up I lived in the small town of Duncan, Oklahoma; although, not nearly as small as the town I currently reside in. Throughout my adolescence, I attended Mark Twain Elementary School and as I was ending the third grade, my parents decided that we should move to Fox, Oklahoma to be closer to my grandparents. Moving would bring big changes my way such as a smaller school, living in the middle of nowhere, and new ways of entertainment. Living in the country has its pros and cons, but I can tell you the only thing I could think of the night we moved out there was the cons. Eventually, I had grown accustomed to the silence, lack of traffic, and having nothing to do. Looking back I feel that if we had not moved to the country then I would

Growing up in a small town, with the knowledge of a small town community can have an effect on you. Having the respect and dignity to know between right and wrong adds and interesting aspects into a life style. Growing up in a small community makes you realize what it is like to have small class rooms and having your teachers know you by a first name basis.Knowing everyone on each sport team because “everyone knows everyone in a small town”. I had the ability to be able to ride my bike down the street without a real question of my safety where I grew up in Worland Wyoming. I have different academic interests than others may, I enjoy different extracurricular activities than other students, and life experiences that are unlike anyone else that have shaped me into who I am today.

I moved to Yankton, South Dakota when I was 6. I moved from Kearney, NE. I was really excited to move into a new house and a new town. Yankton is smaller than my old town it's also farther away from all of my family. For the most part I like yankton, most of the people are really nice. Since there is nothing to do in Yankton besides shopping around town in little stores, or going to a movie, or even going to dinner, or just driving around, my favorite thing is going to the lake and the bridge. There for my favorite part is definitely the lake. I love the trails and the beaches and everything down there. It's so peaceful and beautiful it's just a great place to get away. I like my school too, I mean sure it has its ups and downs but in reality

My hometown is Warrenton, Ga , but most people say Dub-C. It's a very small town with a lot of people in it. There's a lot of drama in Warrenton. People steal from each other and kill each other. A lot of boys in my boondocks in a gang called blood.

Growing up in Lewistown has definitely influenced my life in many ways. In a small town the community also becomes your family. The community events such as the county fair or a 5k fundraiser are the major social events. If an individual in the community is struggling we all come together to assist that person. My father is a seed salesman and a very active member of the community. I have always been close with my father, and have followed him everywhere he goes ever since the day I started walking. Since he is so involved and knows so many people in the community, they came to know me too. I went along on delivery trips to all the farmers and their farm animals. Once I reached the age of 10 a very common reoccurrence was the statement "Wow! You sure grew up fast!" Because when you

New Richland, Minnesota is the little back-country town that I grew up in. My family moved to New Richland when I was ten, and I lived there until I graduated High School. Folks from my hometown loved spending time out on the nearby lake, cheering on the High School sports teams, eating out at the local bar, and going drinking every weekend. The older I grew I realized that those activities did not amuse me in the slightest. That is why when I graduated High School I moved far away and never looked

To begin, Forsyth, Illinois was my hometown. It was where I was born and where I was raised most all my life. I went to a small school district called Maroa-Forsyth. It was where I attended school until the end of middle school. I went through school with the same set of friends for all my school years. They were really good friends that I had a lot of great memories with. Also, some of my family lives there as well. My aunt, uncle, two cousins and my grandparents.

When I was four years old we moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa. It was a small town of 15,000 people and became my home for the next 5 years. My favorite memories from Iowa are fishing with my father and competing in local fishing tournaments. It was a hobby we both loved. We would wake up bright and early nearly every weekend and spend all day on the lake. Growing up in Oskaloosa also had its disadvantages. My father was the chief psychiatrist at the local hospital and was well known for his work in the area. Unfortunately, his patient population grew

When i was younger i grew up in a town called Whitby. I used to enjoy going to the park and playing with my friends. Once in a while, we would walk to the next town to see other people. Also, there was a public pool down the street from my house that we would frequently go to if there was nothing else for us to do that day. There weren't very many nice places to go and eat when you were hungry. There were alot of fast food restaurants, which we did not go to. My favorite place to go and eat was a little place called Mom and Pop's, they had the best sundaes i had ever had. overall, Whitby was not a bad town to grow up in I met many great people and lived there for 18 years before moving to my current town of Campbellford.

My family moved to a rural small town in the Central Valley in California from the San Francisco East Bay when I was seven. The town was called Tracy. You may have passed through it on the way to somewhere else, as so many other people did. I left as soon as was possible and began attending the University of California Santa Cruz. When I left, the town had about twenty thousand residents. It now contains about ten times as many.

There is a direct relationship between service provision and the makeup of neighbourhoods across Toronto. Services and those who rely on them suffer when a neighbourhood decreases in population. The effect on services is exemplified in TDSB schools, where schools are more likely to see low enrollment in areas where the population and or number of people per private occupied dwelling has decreased. By 1986 75% of all Toronto’s dwellings had been built, and the fertility rate had halved from 4 children per woman in 1961 to under 2 children per women. The fertility rate has remained low, and the number of people per private dwelling has never recovered, and is continuing to decrease. Despite this, housing supply has remained stagnant in most of the City. As a result, housing supply is lacking, and families are excluded from entering most of Toronto’s neighbourhoods, resulting in:

A hometown is exactly what it sounds like — a home. Home is what makes us who we are, either individually from personal experiences or collectively from shared phenomenons. My hometown instilled within me two major value sets. One, a burden for service, which comes from a broken heartedness towards a community which needs help, and another, a belief in family, which comes from both my actual family and from the small family-like community which I grew up in. These roots of myself are by far of the greatest significance of who I am,

Not only was that where I was born but I also lived there till I was 14 and is where all my memories are. When I go to Guelph I think about where I had all of my firsts like, when I learned how to ride a bike or my first day of school. Guelph is where all my childhood friends where and all the family friends that helped shape who I am today. As I get older I learn how to deal with things that have happened in my life that I have no control over but before I knew how to do that I had such wonderful people in Guelph to help me through it and be a shoulder to cry on when needed. Those memories are what are going to have me going back one day no matter how far I move away so then I can show my kids the community that shaped me into the person I am today and hopefully continue to be the place that I want to raise my children one

I live in the small town of Barney, North Dakota, however I go to school in the town of Wyndmere, North Dakota. I absolutely love small town life and I do believe that it has had a huge impact on who I have become throughout all 17 years of my life. Going to a school with only 20 kids in my class has immediate positives. First of all, it is easy to concentrate on academics when you can have one on one time with a teacher almost whenever there is freetime. Also, in a small town there is a huge push for involvement in extracurricular activities. This is because we still have many groups and organizations but we don’t have as many members that a larger school would. This has sculpted me into a well rounded individual by being apart of almost every