City Life Vs. Rural Life

In the movie "Mean Girls", Cady Heron, a fifteen year old girl, spent most of her childhood living in Africa. She was home-schooled, and didn't have that much interaction with others her age. Her idea of fun was working and playing with the different animals in the country. Then her parents decided to leave their zoologists jobs in Africa in order to relocate back to the United States. Now Cady had to enter into the world of city life, which was a total culture shock. The city had malls, parties, places to hang out, and public schools. She had to deal with the cliques of teenagers like the jocks, the cheerleaders, the nerds, the outcasts, and the mean girls. She went through her journey of finding out where she belonged. Even though this is just a movie, it's plot portrays the reality that there is a difference between city and rural living.

What ever town or city a person calls home, most of the time there will be conflicts that occur. In order to keep the peace, law enforcement is usually in place. In less populated counties crime seems to happen less often. A typical Jones County newspaper will cover the local high school sports, upcoming events in Gray, Ga., and a few names of loved ones that have pasted in the obituaries; but every once in a while a robbery, drug bust, or domestic violence case will appear on the front page.

While living in the city, crime is to be expected. Alot of big cities are tourists sites and have many attractions for them to visit. Thiefs and muggers tend to prey on the visitors because they're easy targets. Most tourists do not know their way around the new area and can become careless about how they carry themselves. Also gang involvement contributes to the higher crime rates in cities. There are multiple gangs like crips and bloods who only agree on disliking and hurting others who don't agree with their gang. They're full of hatred toward one another which brings on the frequent fighting, stealing, and killing. This violence begins to tear a riff in the community.

In order to get around town, some kind of transportation is always needed. Cars are the most common in this century, whether a person is in a city or in a rural area. In most towns, a car will be your best friend. Some towns might not have all of the stores, industries, or facilities a citizen would want to have access to; because of this drives to near by cities are called for. In the town i reside in now, if i wanted to continue taking gymnastics classes year round i would have to drive to Macon, Ga. Its only a thirty minute drive, but that may be an inconvience to some. There are no city buses, and it's rare to find a taxi on the roads. Though there are school buses for students who do not have their own way of transportation, having a car would be the best decision for those living in a rural area.

Most who live in the city are always on the move, which is to be expected because the city never sleeps. There are so many different buildings and attractions that city dwellers come across everyday. For them to reach their destination, multiple ways of transportation are available. City's often fund a transportation system. Atlanta's government provides the Marta for its locals and visitors. This is a subway/bus systems that goes through different parts of the city, dropping off its passengers at designated spots. There are alot of pedestrians walking through the city. This is because some distances are not very far from one another. Also the taxi business does better in the city because of limited parking, weather, and other circumstances. A local might have decided to walk to work one day, but when it was time for them to leave rain began to fall causing him/her to catch a taxi. Although cars are still the most popular way of transportation in the city, people have other options which may help them avoid traffic.

exam week!

Wow..1/4 of my senior year is already gone! It's definitely a bitter sweet moment. My exams are finally over :) Even though I only had to take an exam in three of my classes, the week was extremely stressful. I wasn't worried about my physics exam and I didn't know I had a test in unified PE either. So it was just my AP statistics I need to study for. In the end my unified PE exam ended up being the HARDEST test I've ever taken. I know you're probably laughing and thinking how can a PE test be hard, but unified PE is different. My class works with the special needs children that attend our high school. The special needs students are the athletes and we're the partners. We go to special olympics to compete in softball, basketball, bolling, and soccer. It's the best class I've ever chosen to take. Anywho..lol our exam was basically self-assement, which sucked because you can't study for that type of test. We had to think of a sport, it couldn't be one of the ones in which we compete, create adapted rules for the atheletes, and make a lesson plan. Then we had to identify how that sport would help our class. We also matched up every partner with an athelete and state why we matched those people together. Finally we named teachers who could handle teaching or substituting our unified class and say the qualities we thought they posessed to do the job. It was absolutely a brain cruncher lol. Well it's over now, so on to the next part of my senior year!

Reflection:)

My example essay has finally been turned in. Overall i would say this essay has been the easiest so far. I think i feel this way because i really enjoyed writing about my topic. It made me think of things that were obvious, but no one wanted to admit. Finding example to write about wasn't the hardest thing to do. My challenge was finding a good order for them, making sure they flowed together, and stayed on topic. For anyone else who might be writing an example essay, i would suggest that they pick a topic they enjoy writing about and make sure all of your example compliment each other.
Ummm...this whole blogging situation has been interesting. When I'm using my blog for posting my paper and giving and recieving comments I don't reallly enjoy it. Don't get me wrong i love that people can read my paper and give me critques, but ALOT of the commments I get are don't have any substance to them. Also when I read others papers it sometimes makes me doubt my own writing abilities. When I blog just as a rant i really do get off topic and end up wasting alot of time lol. I think my blog and I just have a love-hate relationship at the moment!