East Village

A sense of despair flooded my senses as I watched a group of elders go into the obi. Although most villagers dared not to say it, nothing good comes along with their presence. Their stay was not long however, but I could sense a death trail behind them. Moments later Ikemefuna was called into my father’s home. I waited for him, but the winds blew across whispers of talk from the obi as if the Gods wanted me to hear. My father’s deep voice boomed, “Ikemefuna, you are going home.” But I knew…

there are only 300 people in this village, so the lottery takes only two hours. Village children, who have just finished school for the summer, run around collecting stones. They put the stones in their pockets and make a pile in the square. The men gather talking and joking quietly. Their wives soon followed gossiping amongst one another. Parents call their children over, and families stand together awaiting the tradition…

Defining the Goal: The process of deciding what should I do for this project was a struggle for me, for the reasons that I have numerous things that I didn’t get a chance to explore and do. For instance, design and make a dress by myself, write a piece of piano music, make a traditional Chinese food recipe, etc. Every single idea was developed from my passions, however when I reflected on which one is the most passionate about, I found that art, such as drawing, painting is what I really liked…

A true story happened in my secondary school. All students of my class were born in urban areas except one student from a small village. One day, one classmate lost her cell phone. Without any confirmatory evidence, most students and our teacher immediately suspected the rural student was the thief. The teachers even threatened him to admit his guilty. The lost cell phone was never found, and no one confessed this crime. After this event, almost all students including me sort of avoided staying…

Rural The United States Census Bureau defines rural by first identifying two types of urban areas. Those areas are urbanized areas (UAs) with a population of 50,000 or more people, and urban clusters (UCs) with a population of at least 2,500 and less than 50,000 people. Therefore, rural consists of all populations, housing, and territory that do not fall into the category of an urbanized area or an urban cluster (Geography, 2015). In the fact sheet titled Strengthening the Rural Economy - The…

Autobiographical paper. I was born on April 5th 1995, in a small village in Durango Mexico. I lived there for about 13 years, then we moved here to Chicago. I am 6 ft. ½ inches tall and I weight about 119 pounds. I have always been skinny, even my friends in Mexico used to call me “Flaquita” which means skinny in Spanish. But well, I don’t consider myself too skinny, actually I define myself as an average. As for my appearance I think I am pretty, I am often told that I am beautiful especially…

story is set in a small village in Vermont based on a settlement Jackson lived in during her…

The geopolitical community I live in is Orlando, Florida. Florida is a key State that many president candidates try their best to win during election time. Politics of Florida reflect a state that has experienced conflict between its liberal southeastern region and its traditionally conservative northern region. A geopolitical community is a community with defined geographical and jurisdictional boundaries, such as rural municipalities, towns or city communities. The boundary of a…

Beloved Community If you open your eyes and take a closer look at the small town of Alpena, you can see it’s a great place to be born and raised in. I’m grateful to live here because there isn’t much crime here and most of the people living here are kind. Alpena could use more activities for the youth though. I know as a teenager that I’d like to have more things to do with my friends. Volunteers, fundraising, and grants could help achieve in bringing more things to do for not only children,…

There are a lot of good things about a small town and there are a lot of negative things to. I honestly think a small town is good to have around. I don't think think there anything negatived about it. Small towns are fun to live in. There are somethings that isn't to good to. There are a lot of positive things about a small town. In a small town you can do pretty much anything you want to. People can go mudding in there own fields.They can play baseball in there yard instead of going…