Population - Annie Schmidt and Windy Creek

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Key Stage 3 National Curriculum Level Assessment

Topic: Population

Annie Schmidt and Windy Creek

Different people move or migrate for specific reasons that will have benefits for them. All of them are in search of a better quality of life. This could be healthcare for one person and a job for another but the reasons are all connected with standard of living. There are different types of migration as well, which I will be discussing. Urban to rural is from town to country and rural to urban is from country to town. International migration is the move from one country to another and the people who migrate or move are called immigrants. Push and pull factors can determine somebody’s migration destination. The push factors being the factors that push you away from your home and the pull factors being the factors that are pulling you towards a certain place. Usually the push factors have nation wide effect’s for example natural disasters and wars. The pull factors usually suggest a better way of life and improved health care and education.  

In this essay I am faced with the problem with the migration of Annie Schmidt. There are plenty of push and pull factors that will help her to make her decision of migration but there are migration obstacles to over come first. I will present the push and pull factors and include migration obstacles. This can inform her of the advantages and disadvantages of Arizona (the destination where Annie wants to migrate to). It may not suit her as well as she thought it would for example the jobs are limited, houses are expensive and the cost of not being able to see her family for long periods of time. Annie is considering rural to urban migration and here, I present her case.

Push Factors

Windy Creek is not located in the atlas or on an in depth American map, this suggests this is a rural part of Colorado. If Annie decides to migrate to Arizona she will be making a rural-to-urban move which in some cases, is very hard. Migrating has lots of prospects for example employment, standard of living improves and it caters for the materialistic people in Arizona (shops, cinemas and restaurants). As the population of Windy Creek is small (probably due to so many people migrating) there is no need for all of those types of shops. The people of Windy Creek are mostly concentrated on primary and secondary jobs. There are little services that are greatly needed in Windy Creek. There are only four shops in Windy Creek and they don’t satisfy or meet the demands of the six hundred and twenty residents living there. Relating to the past, in 1939 the population was one thousand three hundred and seventy and as the residents have either died or migrated, the shops and the cinema has disintegrated. Also the number of people living in Windy Creek has decreased significantly and does not make enough profit for the businesses to be successful (succeed without debt). If was Annie I would have migrated long before now, as the people would have probably guessed what would happen. The decline in people could just be with the natural death rate but it is something more in depth than that. There is a hidden reason for example the people are attracted to a higher standard of living, slowly as they start to become more and more attracted to the magnet, the businesses plummet and the services become very limited and are in short surplus. This attraction becomes so great that the businesses collapse and the businesses migrate with the people.

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Windy Creek has very little to offer someone like Annie as she has been to college and is a qualified business manager. This has made a serious impact on the lives of people like Annie as they are forced to do labour jobs instead of qualified ones. This creates a low standard of living within the community because the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is very small. Employers don’t make enough profit to pay their employees a great deal. As a result of this not many people including Annie have a very high standard of life. This will most definitely push ...

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