Word: ruralization
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What especially interests Munro, 73, is the ways that people come to terms with their fates. Her central character is frequently a young woman from rural Ontario who moves to another life, only to find it unlike what she expected. Yet to make the move is essential, as Munro shows us in the title story, about an unhappy young wife who turns out to be unable to leave her feckless, disappointing husband...
...that SAT IIs would be necessary for admission to many selective colleges. So, she established College Matters, an organization to help high school students learn exactly what they need to apply to college. Dell’s motive “goes back to [her] background from being from rural Oklahoma...
...exercise their right. By focusing on one of the most bigoted and brutal states in America, student activists shocked the country into paying attention. They used Mississippi to illustrate the worst that racism was capable of. What our parents did in Mississippi, we can do in the suburbs and rural areas where Wal-Mart is rapidly expanding its hold...
...laborers and turn them into someone’s economic gain. Thus, the black middle class operates as administrators in the social control regime—educators in poor schools, parole officers and social workers—while whites serve as correctional officers and management. At a time when rural areas should be suffering from globalization, more than a few towns have been buoyed by jobs from prison construction and management. Not to mention the added legislative representation and state funding that a rural town receives by having thousands of inmates counted as non-voting residents—essentially...
...beginning of the problems. The surreal environment the turbines create includes shadows, flicker, flashing FAA lights, cell and TV interruption, stray voltage, water contamination—the list goes on. It truly does! And the Harvard purchase and others like it will ensure that rural communities all around the country continue to experience the same fate...