Hallo allerseits!
Ich habe diesbezüglich schon mal hier gefragt, aber mittlerweile ist mein „semester paper“ unter dem Thema „city versus country“ schon einigermaßen fertig. Wenn dieses Thema weniger spannend wäre, müsste ich hier gar nicht so oft um Hilfe betteln. ;o)
Ich möchte fragen, ob jemand Lust dazu hätte, sich am Inhalt meines ‚semester papers‘ zu beteiligen?
Denn ich bin mir sicher, dass es an dem Inhalt noch einiges zu verbessern, auszuweiten oder richtigzustellen gibt, und bin für jeden Hinweis und jede Beteiligung dankbar! ;o)
Und ich möchte fragen, ob jemand mal durch den Text ginge und mir Verbesserungen bezüglich Grammatik oder der Ausdrucksweise vorschlüge.
Das habe ich bisher geschrieben:
- Introduction
I decided to choose this topic because I found it the most interesting of the topics which were left when we had to choose one.
Looking for sources, I didn’t find a lot pages in the internet concerning exactly this topic and those I found were all concerning the worldwide situation. Although the name of the topic is ‚City versus Country‘ I also brought in things considering the migration to Northern America.
Working on this semester paper I decided – according to our topic ‚The American Dream‘ – to concentrate writing about the situation of the USA.
- Reasons for migration
The common reason for migration is that people don’t feel confident at the place where they live and want to achieve somewhere else a better quality of life. When Northern America was settled by european immigrants, cities were often founded where for example gold was found or where gold was assumed. Impoverished Europeans represented the biggest part of the settlers that settled Northern America. They wanted to try their luck and migrated to Northern America. Today about 74% of the United States’ population descent from european migrants.
Why do people move into cities?
When People from the countryside decide to move into cities they are usually atracted by the possibilities that cities can offer to them.
Some examples:
Cities offer better employment opportunities than rural areas. Thus people from rural areas often decide to move into cities when they are looking for work. Cities usually also offer a better and wider cultural scene than rural areas what makes many artists and musicians move into the cities.
Why do people move to the countryside?
Since cities atract people who need work and want to succeed, the countryside attracts particularly those people who have already succeeded and want to opt out of the rat race or to retire.
The countryside is usually considered to be more calm and offering a better and healthier quality of life as cities. The countryside also offers nearness to the nature and more available building land.
Mainly families from the intermediate layer tend to move to the hinterland or to rural areas.
The consequences of migration
Roughly said, the consequence of the huge immigration of european immigrants was foundation of the United States.
Ich danke im Vorraus! :o)
~Mischl~