The Urban and Rural Divide 1 Imagine life in Los Angeles. Now imagine life in a neighbouring rural California town. Finally‚ picture life in Cairo‚ Egypt. Which of these last two places is more different from Los Angeles? Many people might mistakenly choose Cairo because it is in a different country. In fact‚ city dwellers all over the world tend to have similar lifestyles‚ so the biggest differences are between Los Angeles and its smaller neighbour. Urban people and rural people‚ regardless
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Voting behaviour in rural and urban areas of Punjab Dr. Mughees Ahmed 1 Abstract The study of voting behavior of the rural and urban voters is the main objective of this paper. Ideological and biradari (clan‚ tribe) based considerations of voters are discussed in this case. Biradarism (casteism‚ tribalism) is the main component of this behavior. It has a very deep impact on political alignments of the people of Punjab. This factor gained more importance in the era of non-political governments
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lives. As its modern facilities‚ some people prefer living in urban rather than in rural areas. However some debate that people will harm their health when live in big city. No one is wrong and everything has its own reason. I will discuss this controversy as the following paragraphs. As I have mentioned‚ big city attracts people for its modernization including health care system‚ entertainment‚ transportation and finally economy while rural city usually lacks of those things. Firstly‚ central hospitals
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’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’rural livelihood in india • ’ ’ ’ ’ ’Rural livelihood activities are outside houses ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ Rural livelihood involves living with and being sustained by nature.. For Example farmer * farming * herding * fishing * off-farm employment‚ * exploitation of natural resources through hunting and gathering. * forest product collection * women does house hold chores It is diverse but simple livelihood strategies Agriculture and food production plays a major role Child
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URBAN AND RURAL AREAS Human settlements are classified as rural or urban depending on the density of human-created structures and resident people in a particular area. Urban areas can include town and cities while rural areas include villages and hamlets. While rural areas may develop randomly on the basis of natural vegetation and fauna available in a region‚ urban settlements are proper‚ planned settlements built up according to a process called urbanization. Many times‚ rural areas are focused
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Rural-Nonrural Differences in Educational Attainment: Results from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988-2000 Soo-yong Byun‚ Judith L. Meece‚ and Matthew J. Irvin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill April‚ 2010 Running Head: Rural-Nonrural Differences in Educational Attainment Revisited Word count: 7‚890 *This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association‚ May 3‚ 2010‚ Denver‚ CO. The analyses
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Rural Urban Migration Aaapka Naam kya hai? Mera Naam “Bechaara” Hai Bechara ji..aap kahan jaa rahe ho? Mein apna gaon chod ke “Seher” Jaa raha Hoon Aap apna gaon chod ke seher kyun jaa rahe ho? Sahab jii…mein he kya…mere bahaut yaar dost jaa chuke hain..or ab mein bhi jaa raha hoon Lekin Kaaran toh bataoo….Bechara Ji Sahab jii…ek kaaran ho toh bataun…lekin aap zor de rahe ho toh sunoo.. Reasons for Rural-Urban Migration • Poverty/Low Income • • • • Unemployment Wage
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Direct Practice in Social Work: An Overview‚ discuss the social work being a dynamic profession and how its practice should be ready in facing the paradigm shift. The author gave historical background on social work practice before 1970 and how these practices evolve due to varied problems and situations that arise from time to time. Also‚ she talks on how a state of the art practice should be administered in practicing social work where she emphasizes that for an advance direct practice‚ such as
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Family System in Social Work Practice The steps in the GIM practice skills involves understanding the entire family system; the amount of data involve to the organization of information; and understand the potential meanings of the information.Moreover‚ in the GIM practice‚ there are two useful tools for generating information such as eco-map and genogram. Eco-map tools will provide the graphic nature of the family ecological system that includes family membership and relationships. Whereas geno-grams
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Field of Social Work Practice in Child Welfare Definition of the Field The Encyclopedia Britannica defines child welfare as services and institutions concerned with the physical‚ social and psychological well-being of children‚ particularly children suffering from the effects of poverty or lacking normal parental care and supervision (Child Welfare‚ 2010). Working with children and families is the second largest area of practice for social workers‚ and it is most popular with those who have
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