parents. The Chinese economy is rapidly growing, causing a big income inequality between the urban areas and rural villages. More and more people from the countryside are moving to the cities to work. However, their children have to stay in the rural area because their parents cannot afford to raise them in the city. Normally, these parents come back home once a year and stay for less than one week. So, children hardly have any time to spend with their parents during their childhood. According to
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these reforms phenomenon, key cities in India are in the midst of restructuring space, in terms of both use and form. The Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG) policies of the government of India and opening up of FDI in real estate sector have brought a big boom in the development of large scale private townships variously known as Integrated, NRI or High-Tech townships. These kind of townships are coming up on the peripheral areas of large cities like Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Gurgaon
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There is a dark side to families moving so much, and such distances. Family ties are not nearly so strong in the US as in other countries. Some parents and grown children living on opposite coasts may only visit each other twice a year. LIVING IN THE CITY Groups of owned apartments in one building (called “condominiums“ or “condos“) are not so popular as in the rest of the world. Usually they only are common in downtown areas. They are popular with people who want to buy their own home but don’t want
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Imagine a warm sun day, there is a slight breeze, the sky is clear and blue, and you can hear birds chirping and soft waves lapping at the sandy shores. Not far from this serene and beautiful place is a bustling city filled with loud cars and peoples as well as high rise buildings. This place that seems so unrealistically real is called Presque Isle State park, a 3,000-acre park and peninsula that calls Erie, PA home. The park is comprised of a peninsula that juts into Lake Erie that offers several
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Los Angeles is often called the “City of Angels,” but it does not live up to its name. There are many reasons why we would not refer to L.A. as the “City of Angels,” but the most significant reason is homelessness. As of May 2017, the percentage of homeless people in the Los Angeles County rose to 23 percent which means that 920,000 of the 4,000,000 people are out on the streets- daily looking for shelter and a place to sleep (US News, 2017). The rise of homelessness is a problem and continues to
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Residents Over half of Labette County, Kansas’s residents lives in a rural area. They have the advantages of living in small-town America and can travel within a few hours away for any urban life needs too. The residents of Labette County have a wide variety of educational experience, cultures, and abundance of wild life and outdoors activities. MAP-IT Assessment Labette County’s residents have a lot of opinions to get medical attention like several physician’s clinics, one county health department
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Rural Marketing Post the economic slowdown, policymakers and companies are busy designing strategies to sell products and services to larger markets. While boosting profits quickly is no longer the essential parameter, Atmanand, MDI Dean of Executive Post Graduate Programs, believes that revisiting age-old management theories and sticking to basics is the most cost-effective marketing tactic. The rural focus “The strategy taken by Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) to enter the rural sector, which
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2040 Growth Scenarios Analysis October, 2010 Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning Dept. 555 S. 10th Street, Ste. 213 Lincoln, NE 68508 402-441-7491 lincoln.ne.gov Table of Contents 1. Introduction and Executive Summary ........................................................................................ 1 Purpose ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Growth Scenarios ..............
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reason emerged, however, for not finishing school: the inability or unwillingness to pay for schooling when job opportunities in cities became available. After dropping out, the Chinese school enrollment structure all but precludes youth from going back to school and continuing their education where they left off. * Many interviewees also mentioned the attraction of city life, broadcast as exceptional and exotic by both earlier migrants returning to the village and the media, as a primary motivator
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I found this essay to be fascinating illustrating a vast amount of knowledge on the part of the author, rich in content, and beautifully written. Teju Cole skillfully captures the beauty of the Swiss landscape enabling the physical magnificence of Leukerbad to come to life for the reader, whilst simultaneously placing Baldwin’s alienation, rage, profound grief and “white supremacy” issues amidst that very beauty stating ”The remote village gave him a sharper view of what things looked like back home.” Cole descri
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