...Hutchenson lives in a small town, where he marries a schoolteacher and they have a son named Will. The |-Glorify the small-town lifestyle | |Major action of the story in five to eight |Hutchenson family runs a farm even after their son Will goes into Chicago to attend school at the Art Institute as|- Stressing importance of keeping a connection to | |sentences. |a cartoonist. At the Art Institute, Will meets a young man named Hal Weyman and they become good friends. Hal |the Earth. | | |Weyman develops a strong relationship with the Hutchensons and visits them to read Will’s letters while he is |-Shows the distance created by industrialization | | |still at the school. Hal receives a telegraph notifying him that Will died in a drunken car crash, and Hal and the|and cities. | | |narrator travel to the Hutchenson household to bare the bad news. The Hutchensons are so distraught with the news |-Portrays the dangers of the cities (drinking, | | |that in order to cope with their loss, they proceed to plant corn in their nightgowns in the middle of the night. |parting, ect.)...
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...1. Definition: Vertical farms are multistorey多层的 buildings used for growing crops or rearing animals. The basic idea is to produce food without soil in specially constructed skyscrapers. Vertical farming takes the idea of indoor farming, control of environmental factors, by cultivating agricultural products in skyscrapers, claims to solve the food crisis and offer a green solution to farming 2. Examples: * Commercial-scale vertical farm in Singapore: In 2012, the first commercial-scale vertical farm has opened in the tiny, densely populated city of Singapore, with the aim of decreasing dependence on food imports. The vertical farm, which has been developed by Sky Green Farms, consists of 120 aluminum towers, each extending up almost 30 feet in height. It can produce over 1,000 pounds of three kinds of vegetables per day, all of which are sold in the local FairPrice Finest supermarkets. However, they do cost a little more than imported vegetables. * Vertical farming in Chicago: The largest scale vertical farm project probably closest to realization is Chicago’s The Plant, a collaboration of the Chicago Sustainable Manufacturing Center and the Illinois Institute of Technology, a vertical farm that would occupy a former meatpacking plant in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. The Plant is to try to create a zero-net-waste ecosystem including mushroom and vegetable gardens and a fish farm. * Zoo farm : The 100 square meter farm at Paignton Zoo...
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...Urban farming in Detroit Turning the Motor City into Farm City Urban farming in Detroit Turning the Motor City into Farm City Subject: Intercultural Communication Studies 2nd Term Date of release: 16.02.2011 Table of Contents 1 2 3 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 Characteristics ..................................................................................................................... 4 Urban farming in Detroit .................................................................................................... 5 3.1 3.2 SWOT analysis ............................................................................................................ 5 Urban farming projects in Detroit ............................................................................... 8 4 5 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 11 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................... 12 2 1 Introduction The term urban farming or agriculture recently pops up in the media. It is mainly applied regarding city development in third world countries, but as well it becomes more often a phenomena taking place in cities of industrial countries. After examining the general characteristics of urban farming...
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...all U.S. products at the time. South The war ended slavery which took away the south's labor force. It remained agricultural. Coal and iron in the southern mountains led to steel production. West Agriculture became more efficient in the Midwest and also encouraged settlers to get land in there.The small population of the Midwest did not support very much growth, and the economy was still based on mostly natural resources. Midwest This region had a lot of economic growth in manufacturing and farming. Population Change: Northeast The steady growth of a productive region called for more workers. Cities in the North became hotspots for the immigrants. By 1870 roughly 15 percent of the U.S. population were immigrants South A lot of African Americans left the South to work in new factories in the North and Midwest. West Immigrants from China came into the West looking for work. Midwest Cities grew quickly attracting large amounts of immigrants. Chicago became one of the nation's largest cities during this...
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...Assignment 1.2: Industrialization After the Civil War David T. LaPradd Strayer University After the Civil War, the mass production of steel helped shape America. The mass production of steel allowed the country to increase the manufacturing of the equipment. This was significant in the production of the railway tracks and allowed the country to grow. This growth provided jobs for the working class, the ability to move the goods produced to the marketplaces, and moved the people for the expansion to the west. The early production of steel was costly and time consuming. In England, Henry Bessemer developed an inexpensive way to mass produce steel. The key principle behind his patent was to remove the impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. The iron heated up with the oxidation and kept it in a molten state. This new process changed the manufacturing of a rail that took two weeks to produce down to 15 minutes. Andrew Carnegie brought this process back to the United States. Carnegie saw all of the possible uses of this mass produced steel but before he could realize the materials potential he had to convince the public of its strength. He was charged with building the first permanent bridge to cross the Mississippi River by Tom Scott. Building the bridge utilizing this new processing of steel was what he needed. The bridge took four years to build and had many cost overruns. When it was finally...
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...large to feed. The exact meaning of “civilization” sometimes becomes hard to define since it can be ambiguous. It is easier for civilization to be described than it can be defined. According to Mazlish (5), civilization can be defined in many ways, but many scholars agree that when a society forms cities the result is that it becomes a civilization. Scholars define civilization as a set of attributes that certain societies possess, for example, agriculture, writing, monumental construction, government, mathematics among others. Emphasis is employed in the definition of civilization in terms of describing societies as being urbanized and hierarchical. Civilization is traced back to the Latin word “civilis” that has the meaning of “citizen” that means a member in a state that has a government or any sort of ruling in place. Civilization takes many forms that may include division of labor, surplus of food, and organization of governments and religion. Many people should be cognizant, and understand that civilization is regarded as a useful historical concept that does not exclude people. In the past people who lived in urban cities tended to despise those that lived outside cities and saw these people as barbarians. In Greece, the word barbarian was used to refer to the non-Greek speakers and mostly the Persians but over time, the meaning changed to the people who were less civilized....
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...part of Montana. 2. East Coast A. The topsoil that made life impossible in the Midwest started to blow towards the East as far as New York City, as well as the entire East Coast before it vanished into the Atlantic...
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...the Sierra Nevada's and eventually a transcontinental railroad connected the Nation (Udall & Emmons, 2003 p157). The building of the transcontinental railroad may have been one of the greatest achievements of the American people during the nineteenth century. It was built primarily by Chinese and Irish immigrants and extended from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California (Ambrose, 2000 p17). These Irish Immigrants came to America as a result of the Irish Potato Famine, another significant environmental factor that led to the expansion of the United States. The famine brought over one million immigrants from Ireland to the United States between 1847-1857. These dispossessed immigrants came to the large cities on the East Coast, such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago,...
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...in Chicago Urban agriculture, urban farming or urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around a village, town, or city.[1] Urban agriculture can also involve animal husbandry, aquaculture, agroforestry, urban beekeeping, and horticulture. These activities occur in peri-urban areas as well, and peri-urban agriculture may have different characteristics.[2] Urban agriculture can reflect varying levels of economic and social development. In the global north, it often takes the form of a social movement for sustainable communities, where organic growers, ‘foodies,’ and ‘locavores’ form social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community holism. These networks can evolve when receiving formal institutional support, becoming integrated into local town planning as a ‘transition town’ movement for sustainable urban development. In the developing south, food security, nutrition, and income generation are key motivations for the practice. In either case, more direct access to fresh vegetables, fruits, and meat products through urban agriculture can improve food security and food safety. History Edit Huerto (vegetable garden or orchard) Romita, organization dedicated to urban agriculture located in the La Romita section of Colonia Roma, Mexico City Community wastes were used in ancient Egypt to feed urban farming.[3] In Machu Picchu, water was conserved and reused as part of the stepped architecture of the city, and...
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...The Spirit of the Ghetto was one of the fine works written by Hutchins Hapgood. Hapgood was an American journalist, author and anarchist. He was born in Chicago in 1869, but then was raised in Alton, Illinois where his father was a wealthy manufacturer of farming equipment. Hapgood lived in a small town filled with young, educated, middle class people until the turn of the century that traded the town for the city. While found the move from the small town to the city expressed him freedom to experience reality as it really was. Hapgood is best known for his sociological explorations into the inner worlds of immigrants, labor unionist, former convicts and anarchist’s. (Dowling) Hapgood was motivated to learn more about the fate of the urban lower classes....
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...After the Civil War, an era known as the Gilded Age where US's economy was growing and cities was changing. Industrialist such as Carnegie and Rockefeller was crowned with the name of Captains of Industry and Robber Barons. The industrialist should be considered as Captains of Industry because they helped with the urbanization in the city, helped with US economy's growth, and donated large amount of money toward public organizations. One of the reasons why the industrialists are the Captains of Industry is because they helped with the urbanization. For example, "Workers in agriculture outnumber all other 52 to 48 percent in 1870, but by 1900 no farming labor constituted 60 percent of the workforce. In 1870 the nation had only twenty-five cities with...
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...are so shocking to us that we cannot believe what is happening. And, of course, there are moments that forever change how we see the world. All of those types of moments, although very different in nature, are equally as memorable. And then, there is that moment that change us forever. That moment came for me last fall. I was born in South Korea sometime in the fall of 1972. Nobody can say exactly what day for certain. I do know that I was discovered all by myself at a bus terminal in Seoul shortly after birth. I was placed in an orphanage somewhere in the center of the city. Five months later my adopted parents held me for the first time at the airport in Chicago, Illinois. From there we traveled to the tiny little town of Girard, Kansas, This community is the place that I would call home for my entire childhood. I could not of have asked for a nicer place to grow up in. Girard was a typical farming community. It was a very quiet, conservative, close nit community. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody cares for everybody. It was the type of place where you could leave your front unlocked at all times and not worry. It was very different from where I live today. I could not have asked for better parents. They were the type of parents that made sure I had everything I ever needed. They also made sure that I knew that I was loved. They taught me to have good values and morals. They did everything they could to make sure that I was well adjusted to life. But despite everything...
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...for its beautiful landscape. A visitor wanting to broad view of the Northeast might head for the craggy coast of Maine, New York's spectacular Niagara Falls, or the rolling farmlands of Pennsylvania. Every year, millions of tourists flock to the Northeast just to explore its world famous cities. Compared with other regions of the United States the Northeast has few natural resources. Throughout the 1800's-especially Massachusetts, Rhode Islands, and New Hampshire-factories were built at the waterfalls along the regions many rivers. 7.2 Big Idea: The warm climate and abundant natural resources of the South continues to attract people and industry. Many Americans think of the South as the old Confederacy. The South's location closer to the Equator makes it warmer than any other...
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...Documented Essay Vertical Farming and its Contribution to Minimizing Jamaica’s Food Import Crisis Abstract Jamaica has not been able to meet the demands for food for its population and its visitors. The purpose of this research is to identify a solution for Jamaica’s dependence of attaining agricultural produce from external sources. This is achieved through vertical farming, the process of growing plants and animals in high rise buildings or cultivating upward in an isolated greenhouse. Numerous literature and statistical data are analyzed. Jamaica, over half a century, is faced with the high price of importation; however, the execution of vertical farming aims to reduce import costs. Through assessing the progress of vertical farming in Singapore, a resolution for Jamaica is made; not only satisfying population consumption, but allowing businesses to profit from the introduced farming technique. The plan is to achieve success in more areas than one with vertical farming. However, if implemented and the venture fails, there will be no returns on the capital invested. In Jamaica, decades ago, subsistence farming provided food for farmers and their families. With rising populations, and lack of access to fertile soil for many, this method had been somewhat inadequate. Transitioning to traditional commercial farming is also not able to sufficiently provide for populated centres. With a rise in the modern technology of vertical farming in Jamaica, food availability concerns will...
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...Ecology for Sustainable Management SMGT 310 December 15, 2012 Executive Summary Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is a vast area that is a unit of the National Park System and is also designated as a U.S. National Lakeshore. This park is located in Northwest Indiana, USA, on the southern shores of Lake Michigan. The park is comprised of over 15,000 acres of dunes, oak savannas, swamps, bogs, prairies, rivers, and forests. This park is a great example of a vast and unique environment resulting from the retreat of the last great continental glacier some 14,000 years ago. (1) This park is also located within an urban setting and is closely located to the highly populated industrialized cities of Gary, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois. Early, overharvesting of forests and farming impacted the area’s ecology and resources. Residential and industrial developments over time coupled with climate change have altered natural processes for the environment. Today the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore has a challenge associated with balancing impacts of human actions within fragile natural environments. Restoration plans by resource managers for the area have been focused on mitigating the damage done in the past. The key in restoring the area is planning for the future, limiting new developments, and considering future climate will help aid in the restoration. (1) Background Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was established by Congress as a national lakeshore in 1966...
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