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    A blessing in disguise

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    2000 kilometers far away from my city in another province. I was very sad and disappointed with this big change in my life. I missed my city‚ home and friends. In this small ancient town‚ people still got their drinking water from the well‚ washed their clothes in the river‚ and had very limited electricity. The town house that I lived with my aunt’s family was very wet and cold in winter. Furthermore‚ on the school entry test‚ I ranked at the bottom ten of sixty students‚ although I had ranked tenth

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    urbanized.[2] Urbanization is closely linked to modernization‚ industrialization‚ and the sociological process of rationalization. Urbanization can describe a specific condition at a set time‚ i.e. the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns‚ or the term can describe the increase of this proportion over time. So the term urbanization can represent the level of urban relative to overall population‚ or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing. Urbanization is

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    Stephanie Paul Professor Branch LITR 221 B007 October 25‚ 2016 In Ernest Hemingway’s short story‚ “Big Two-Hearted River”‚ the author wrote this story driven by events of his own life that happen during and after World War 1‚ where he volunteered for the American ambulance department in France and later got transferred to the frontline of Italy where he was seriously hurt. Using the character of Nick Adams that Hemingway created after the return from war

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    know each other. In villages‚ people indulge themselves in many activities for a living‚ but mostly they farm‚ they keep tamed animals‚ and they even have poultry. This is because of most villages are far away from towns and cities. Anyway‚ in some places villages tend to be near some rivers or streams‚ thus making the villagers become fishermen as a way of a living. What makes living in a village so beautiful is the idea of living a lifestyle which is somehow primitive‚ but yet so healthy‚ because

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    Explain the positive and negative factors of counter-urbanization. (15 marks) Counter-urbanisation is the movement of people from urban areas into rural areas (leaving the city and moving to smaller towns and villages). It can involve either a movement of employment to rural areas‚ or a movement of people to rural areas who then commute‚ and this involves people like middle class families or young professionals. This tends to happen in areas that have good transport links such as St Ives Cambridge

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    CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 GENERAL Urbanization is one of the most powerful and visible anthropogenic forces on Earth. Since the second half of the twentieth century‚ the world has experienced its fastest rate of urbanization‚ particularly in developing countries. Urbanization refers to the increase in population‚ density‚ or extent of cities over time. Dramatic urban expansion was found with similar degree of cropland decrease. Urban expansion caused evident environmental impacts on

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    protagonist‚ Nick Adams. However‚ the subtle motifs and emotive subtext make it clear that this is another piece of “ice berg” writing and we cannot resolve to accept it prima facie. It has been noted by a multicity of critics that Big Two Hearted River is a “story about war in which war is never mentioned”. Vernon (2002: 34) says/notes that “the absence of war is exactly the point of the story”‚ as Nick Adams attempts to escape his wartime memories through a solitary fishing trip. The repression

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    Will today’s small rural towns be the ghost towns of tomorrow? Will what’s now a moderately busy main street be overtaken by grasses and tumbleweeds? According to the CEDS “Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy”‚ which was compiled in 2003 by the South Central Economic Development District‚ Franklin County ranks last in housing unit counts‚ wage and salary income‚ employer establishments. County population has declined over 34% from 5‚449 in 1960 to 3‚574 in 2000. (Gorman‚ 20) Is the future

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    attached to the city and area under the corporation increased to 138.50 sq.km. With increase in area and population necessity to plan the city well and organized manner development plan was prepared by government and later on it is revised in 1991 as per town planning act 1996.Known as city development plan of Aurangabad. A Master plan is nothing but City development plan‚ when City development plan is used to develop mega cities it is called as Master Plan. City Development Plan (CDP) is both a perspective

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    1. What is the rank-size rule? A: The rank‐size rule says that in a model urban hierarchy‚ the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. Therefore‚ if the largest city has 12 million people‚ the second largest will have about 6 million‚ the third city will have 4 million‚ the fourth city 3 million‚ and so on. 2. According to the Field Note‚ why did the Tulsa trade area in Oklahoma promote the label Green Country‚ and how does this label challenge

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