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City Life Sucks Edward Sartorius Devry

City Life Sucks Abstract In (City Life Sucks) Edward discuss the difference between living in the country verses the city. He makes the comparison by citing two different authors on the subject and by using his own experience to make his point come across to the reader.

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Have you ever been outside of your environment for extended periods of time and yearn to be back at home, an environment that you grew up in, played in and lived in. A place, that makes you feel comfortable and secure. Then one day, you have to move because of a job or family reasons to an area that you are not familiar with, a place you perceive as dangerous, noisy and polluted, filled with disease and the cesspool of humanity. I am talking about the city, an overcrowded place full of smog, democrats, and, gangstas. Where there are no natural open spaces, where streets crisscross each other in an endless pattern of bureaucratic planning. I hate the city and city life sucks! Country Living Versus the City When you are living in the country, life is moving at a slower pace. Us country folks are just not in a hurry to accomplish task that can wait until tomorrow. We will do only the things that are necessary to get through the day, and then spend the rest of it enjoying life. When I was a young man growing up in the north central area of Florida and the south east corner of Georgia, when I was not in school my friends and I spent our time exploring the wood, swimming in the rivers and lakes and fishing or hunting. We would spend all summer long building elaborate tree houses and playing army, trying to bust down the other sides tree fort. As we became teenagers we would through parties out in the woods with loud music, beer and the occasional puff of a joint and did not have to worry about the neighbors calling the police on us. We could drive home on those lonely back woods roads late at night and didnt worry about getting a dui. In the essay (They All Just Went Away) Joyce writes Until the age of twelve or thirteen, my most intense, happiest hours were spent tramping desolate fields, woods, and creek banks near my familys farmhouse in Millersport,

City Life Sucks New York. Now that is what I call a happy child hood living in the country of upstate New York. My days of country living came to an end, when as a young man of thirty I moved up north to the state of New Jersey. Needless to say, this was a culture shock for me. Being a veteran of the military I have met many of soldiers from the north east and found the way they spoke to sound funny, and that they did everything in a hurry, they ate fast, they talked fast, and they tended to get pushy over no reason at all. But, now I was living among them. Not only that, I found the north east to be crowded and downright dirty. I never lived in an apartment until I moved up here, and I find that all the apartments to look trashy or have that ghetto look. If, on the weekend I want to tramp around in the woods or go fishing, I have to drive miles to get anywhere away from the congestions of city life., In the

essay titled (Westbury Court) Edwidge writes When I was fourteen years old, we lived in a sixstory brick building in a cul-de-sac off of Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, called Westbury Court. Beneath the building ran a subway station through which rattled the D, M, and Q trains every fifteen minutes or so. Though there was graffiti on most of the walls of Westbury Court, and hills of trash piled up outside, and though the elevator wasn't always there when we opened the door to step inside and the heat and hot water weren't always on. And that description seems to hold true for most of the apartments I have seen in North Jersey. In conclusion, you city folk may have everything you need conveniently nearby. We country folks have a better quality of life. And, this country boy cannot wait until he can break free from these city chains and escape back to the country.

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Citations Oates, J. They all just went away. (p. 243). Danticat, E. Westbury court. (1st Paragraph)

City Life Sucks References Anderson, Charles & Johnson (2003). The impressive psychology paper. Chicago: Lucerne Publishing. Smith, M. (2001). Writing a successful paper. The Trey Research Monthly, 53, 149-150. Entries are organized alphabetically by surnames of first authors and are formatted with a hanging indent. Most reference entries have three components:

1. Authors: Authors are listed in the same order as specified in the source, using surnames and initials. Commas separate all authors. When there are seven or more authors, list the first six and then use et al. for remaining authors. If no author is identified, the title of the document begins the reference. 2. Year of Publication: In parenthesis following authors, with a period following the closing parenthesis. If no publication date is identified, use n.d. in parenthesis following the authors. 3. Source Reference: Includes title, journal, volume, pages (for journal article) or title, city of publication, publisher (for book).

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