The Article ' The Village And The Girl '

The different living in a small vilge and in big city almost the same only different is. in the village consists of the unity of geography , social, economic, political and cultural contained in that place (an area). in rural areas is still difficult to develop instead of lazy people in the village, but they are still firmly hold their ancestors' teachings, sometimes a new thing contrary to what their fathers taught because it is a culture in the village still strong. while in the town is still a lot less people care about others, and virtue was already no longer used to big city life squad, it is also in big cities tend to be influenced by foreign cultures so contrary to our own culture. but according to people who live in big cities. It is

Most people had lost their jobs; and so each and every farmer thought that when they moved to cities maybe life would have been easier. They sought help in the cities; however, life wasn’t much better as fourteen million people lived in crowded, unheated and unsanitary tenements. And the banks also had went bankrupt in that they couldn’t borrow anyone money as stated by document 2.

It has attracted many who are looking for work and a factor of a new exciting way of living. For young men from the rural areas the big cities seemed to offer unlimited job, the ability to enjoy new modern technology such as electricity, transportation, and the telephone. A popular magazine of the era pointed out “The towns are being recruited by those too poor to be able to live in the country as well as by those too rich to be willing to live there”.

As rural workers – the female, the poor, the disenfranchised – made their way to cities like New York and Boston en bloc in search of work and one of the earliest versions of the “American Dream”, the divide between country and urban life was never more apparent. When cities saw an increase in quality of life and opportunity, rural jealousy

The rising urban-rural income inequality made a deeper and deeper gap between urban areas and rural areas. In China, with the rapid development of urban

This in turn created areas in the city that were mostly poor. Once these people were in this part of the city they had a hard time getting out. It was hard for them to make money to get out of there. “Han ye had no money fra’ th’ town” (Mary Barton) This is another quote just showing more that they did not have enough money to go into town, let alone have

The first set of readings of this course outline the ways in which the hopes of the social reformers were to promote reform based on an “urban and modern orientation” through movements in agriculture, social welfare, and education. In doing so, the social reformers encouraged three kinds of developments: i) the promotion of an “urban orientation” through the reform of “agricultural education,” ii) the promotion reform through social legislation, and finally iii) the promotion of reform in rural education to “progressive systems of education.” Although the reformers saw the promotion of progressivism as a solution to the various problems within the rural society, the widespread discontent from the rural society depicted the ways in which the needs of the urbanites and the rural society came into conflict.

People immigrated and traveled to cities for the increase of money and job from what they were making from farming. The factory work had appeared and seemed to be less strenuous than the farming work, and they looked forward to a better income and money and most satisfying lifestyle.

While it can’t be guaranteed that a rural individual will act one certain way and an urban individual will act another, there are some actions and reactions that can be assumed. By looking at urban and rural life during the 1900s, one can distinguish the tendencies of people who resided in the city as opposed to people who settled in the country. First of all, in the early 1900s urban and rural life were both challenging but in different ways. According to the writers of the Dictionary of American History, “Life for rural women during this period was very difficult and physical. Women were called upon not only to keep the home and rear children, but also to help in the fields and to process the raw commodities of the farm” (Rural Life 5).

War reporting crashed into Megan Stack’s life almost like the war on terror crashed into America. She was vacationing in Paris on September 11, 2001. Within days, she received the call and was rushed onto an aircraft carrier to travel to Afghanistan to report about the war. “I wound up there by accident, rushed into foreign reporting by coincidence…” Stack wrote in Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War, a personal memoir of her reporting through the Middle East (2). She documents her experiences of the American-led invasion of Iraq & Afghanistan, while exploring conflicts in Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Libya. She works her way through strings of violence and terror that have tangled with US foreign policy.

When one compares villages like the Loushui village in soutwest China to the United States, one can notice cultural and societal differences between these places. While the United States is a patriarchal society, where the father is the head of the family, the villages are a matriarchal society The Mosuo women are believed to part of the last matriarchal society in China. Even as an agricultural society, women are out in the field working, but some stay inside to help with the children. Back in U. S’s agricultural times, the men did all the working while the women took care of the children and did all the household work. The Mosuo women do take care of the children in these societies, but the women’s family help as well. While in the United

When I first read through Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” I’ll admit my first reaction to the piece was relief at the short length. However, as I processed what she was writing, my appreciation for the piece deepened. It is rapid and blatantly lays out the standards that Kincaid was held to during her childhood. It is written as though the reader is on the receiving end of a harsh set of rules, seeing their brutality from Kincaid’s perspective. Originally, I believed Kincaid’s purpose for writing this piece was to highlight the stark contrast in the treatment of men and women.

Dr. Hao Jingfang works for the China Development Research Foundation which helps advance and promote economic development and social progress. She conducts research with an emphasis on rural poverty and presents recommendations to the government. Dr. Hao has witnessed and learned about China’s development over the last century, such as the Cultural Revolution-the birth of communist ideals- and capitalism. China transformed their system and has been ascending economically for the last several decades. Dr. Hao Jingfang had also witnessed its side effects: the excellent ever increasing gross domestic product(GDP) and the not so good effects of increased poverty. Another one of the of the not so spectacular side effects are how the wealth,

Secondly, in Wang Anyi’s short story, “The Destination,” Chen Xin experiences the changes in his home city, Shanghai, following a ten-year period of life in rural China. In returning home, Chen Xin embarks on a never-ending journey to find true happiness. As a young man, he volunteers himself to move to the countryside in order to avoid the repercussions of the Communist government. The Cultural Revolution,

Although living in the city has many advantages there are some disadvantages too, the cost of the living is very high in the city, the city is always noisy, no fresh air and pure water. So it is hard to lead a healthy life. On other hand the village the undeveloped area for example, we cannot easily get many facilities the insufficient medical and education facilities, few opportunities to make money, little entertainment, no or little public transportation, also less facilities than a big city offers.