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    People will ask why small towns are so cozy, so welcoming to anyone who enters its town's city limits. It is not as nice as many would think. Small towns are ruined by people, by the way they live, and by the way people will hurt one another just for gain. These are just three factors that are reasons why people should stay away from small towns. The begining factor on how people ruin by people is simply by how they ruin the town. Many people would assume that in a small town, everybody are friends

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    Rural and Urban Health Care The term “rural” encompasses all populations, housing, and territory not included within an urban area. To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified must encompass at least 2,500 people, at least 1,500 of which reside outside institutional group quarters (Branch, 2016). Practice areas for Kentucky Kentucky covers 39,728 square miles, with a 2016 estimated population of 4,436,974 people (RHIH, 2016). There are many areas defined as being “rural and “urban” in

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    Some believe it is better to grow up in a big city. However it is more beneficial to grow up in a small town. Rural communities have a lot to offer. It offers numerous benefits to living in a bigger community. For example, they have several job opportunities offered to the residents. There is less conflict between each other because half of the people don’t even know eachother. Therefore, everyone is minding their business and keeping to themselves. The bigger the community you live in the more

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    In chapter 13, Short discusses the change that cities have seen over the years. Most cities have gone through three different urban revolutions. These revolutions have shaped cities into what they are today. Although cities themselves have a similar layouts, urban sprawl has developed differently in different parts of the world. The United States and parts of Latin America, for example, have very different definitions of urban sprawl. Before getting into that it is important to explain the revolutions

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    Our Town follows the life cycle of George and Emily. Thornton Wilder uses their specific lives, to represent the general life of every human being. The three acts of the play are titled “Daily Life” (p. 48), “Love and Marriage” (p. 48), and Death and Dying

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    In order for you to get to know me, I need to introduce you to someone else, or rather, something else. Belleaire Circle. Belleaire is a brick street in downtown Orlando, one that could have been plucked from Thornton Wilder’s first act of “Our Town” and placed in 2015. These people have impacted my life and each house represents a chapter of my story. This quaint street lined with massive oaks, Belleaire Circle, is the street that built me. If you step outside my house and look across the road

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    different it was from now? The way people talk, dress, what is normal now that people would look at you weird for doing then? But years go by and some things may change and stay the same but in Thorton Wilder’s Our Town set in New Hampshire 1901 there are many differences and similarity's to our towns in 2017, More than 100 years have passed since 1901 to 2017 and through out those years there have been advancements in technology, society, economics, and so on, so much has changed that it has separated

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    New Towns and UDC's a) New Towns: Positives? • They bring employment to the area with new businesses. • They disperse the populations of large cities. • Good rail and road links close by to access the larger cities for commuters. • Higher employment rates in a lot of new towns due to industries setting up nearby. • Good public transport around the town. • Lots of green space in and around the town. • Generally lots of affordable housing. • There is a country feel whilst still being in a larger town

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    often do this. In “The Necklace”, Mathilda does this by always thinking of herself and nobody else. My Left Foot shows how Christy Brown never takes his life for granted, and by doing this it helped him overcome his disabilities. In the story Our Town not taking life for granted is one of the main themes, such as when Emily dies and George becomes very upset about it. In the story My Left Foot, Christy Brown was diagnosed at the age of three with cerebral palsy. Many people began

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    became one.” Paper Towns, written by the award winning John Green, involves numerous themes including self-discovery, friendship, and mystery. When Margo leaves Jefferson Park because no one truly understands her, Quentin and his friends embark on a journey to discover who Margo really is and where the paper town is that she went to. John Green learned of paper towns when he came across one during his own road trip. After driving down the same stretch of highway searching for a town on the map called

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