Living in the small city of San Luis Obispo, with that small town feeling we are aware of the issue of urban sprawl. We watch as many open fields are leveled down and covered with housing projects. Sean Clancy in his essay "The Problem in Our Own Backyards" thinks that this is a problem and that it can be stopped. He thinks that if people speak up that we are capable of preventing this problem. I disagree with Clancy's idea of urban sprawl really being as much of a problem as he thinks, but that urban sprawl is a problem that cannot be stopped and doesn't need to be.
One of the points Clancy makes about a road where his dad used to ride horses is now a place "where you can get a taco, a lube job, a massage and a new pair of shoes all at one intersection." Clancy looks at this as an annoyance; he enjoyed the location more as an open road. To me something like a shopping center is wonderful. Some days when I have many things to do, like get a haircut, eat lunch, buy some clothes, and some music I can do it all in one place. This saves time when you have homework to finish, then a class to get to at the end of the day and the next day you have work. Though the idea of having a nice road to ride a horse on might be nice, a place to get your errands done is more of a convenience.
Another point that Clancy tries to make about a reply to a housing development is "isn't it the peace and quiet of areas like mine that draw home buyers in the first place?" That may be true, but nice places, like where Clancy lives, are not available to everyone who wants it nowadays. Housing developments are much more affordable to the normal, middle-class, people than buying houses on their own. Housing developments may take over fields and a house on the historic register, but sometimes it is better to sacrifice something non-productive with something productive. I agree with the builder in Clancy's essay that development would improve land value and generate commerce.
The most basic form of imperialism takes place in our own backyards and bedrooms. ... So, now that America was its own country, it decided to carry on its founding countries ideals. ... Is this what will happen with our latest march on imperialism? ... That is a big problem with imperialism it costs a lot of money. ... They"re also left to their own way of life. ...
Even though wrestling is just a show, it could be sending a negative message to our youth. ... Wrestling has stimulated hundreds of children to start their own wrestling program in their own backyards. ... Believe it or not, this "backyard" sport has been gaining popularity with young teenagers. ... Some feel that these television programs, shows children to fight rather than talk to resolve problems. ... Now having heard both sides of the story, it is easy to see there are problems that may amount with children watching wrestling. ...
Last week they received a call about a thirty pound nutria in someone's backyard. ... She works night and day to nurse wild hurt animals back to health, all on her own money. Bluebonnet Swamp is one haven for wild animals, but even here they can encounter problems. ... These animals are important to our environment and we cannot lose them. ... They should also educate people on the importance of these animals to our world....
We planted it there soon after building our homes. ... My grandma always tells me that our deep unconscious thoughts speak to us through our dreams. ... I found that studying my dreams, writing them down, opening my perception to interpreting them was helpful in healing emotional problems and releasing tensions in my life. ... For me this would be evident for many of times I shared my tears while lying underneath the great willow in my backyard. ... Culpeper says in his Complete Herbal "The moon owns the willow" and it was known as the witches' tree and the tree of enchantment. ...
These increases have continued through to the 21st Century and it has now been estimated that in the year 3040 there could be ten sextillion people which would leave each person with less than one square inch of their own. ... Anyways, the biggest question to the human population growth problem is when is it going to slow down. ... This has since been turned down but our government and others are still trying to find solutions to the population growth problems. ... The whole population growth subject also kind of hits home because we have just recently lost almost two hundred acres of fa...
" It is shocking how our climate change crisis is at the very bottom of our "fix it" list. ... When we go shopping, we can being our own shopping bags instead of plastic ones. We can go around our house, changing our old light bulbs to the more Eco friendly ones. ... " Will biking to work help or how about planting a big garden in your backyard? ... It is no longer a solution to our initial problem. ...
For some reason, I could always go to that spot, sit in that tree and be as far away from all the problems I had in my young life at the age of thirteen. ... Our days always began with Stephen sprinting out the front door and me following right behind him yelling for him to slow down and wait as he darted through the backyard. ... No longer would we be playing our simple minded games of war, tag and baseball in the Quider's backyard nor having meaningless sleep-overs out in tents. ... All of our parents must have thought we were building an entire city out there but they didn't q...
No, the Industrial Revolution did not drive people to war, make people lose faith in their religion, become infected with diseases, or even cause the poverty in our own backyards; rather, the Industrial Revolution gave people a greater opportunity to be able to create their own problems and ignore the better councils of yesteryear. Through their own devices, people have taken the knowledge learned from the Industrial Revolution and defiled it with media, greed, and the stratification of industrial societies, thereby creating the problems in today's society. ... From these advancements,...
Our own experiences and assessments can show us that change can occur in many ways. ... Together, as a group, they solve many problems they encounter, in particular the situation with the babies. ... This shows us how much our world has changed in the span of almost 150 years, we have shaped and changed our country to something totally different to what it used to be. ... We all have our own history of changes, and also our own future. ... In perspective of the whole world we are either directly or indirectly affected by change, if we are unhappy with it we can try and make our own changes, bu...
