As the population left the family farm and tight-knit small communities for anonymous big-city existence, not only parental but societal controls over behaviour were weakened.
If Laura Ingalls Wilder's nostalgic tour through a simpler time has a modern equivalent, it's The Pioneer Woman, the personal blog of Ree Drummond, who traded in her shallow big-city existence for life on an Oklahoma ranch.
Ron Howard's 1984 movie is a preposterous male fantasy in which everyman Tom Hanks swaps his loveless big city existence for a new life with an awesomely hot blonde who just happens to transform into a fish (from the waist down) when she makes contact with water.
Yes, it's television, so one shouldn't start wondering if it's exploitative, and instead congratulate Channel 4 for a post-Big Brother existence in which the broadcaster takes on the job of providing economic growth for the flagging nation.
He's been the bane of their -- and their big donors' existence on the House Financial Services Committee, where he's been working effectively to put a crimp in a status quo that has presided over a concentration of wealth in this country that leaves the top 1% with more assets than the "bottom" 90%.
That raises an obvious question: since its host star -- an M-dwarf known as HATS-6 -- is so small, how can HATS-6b be so big? "The existence of HATS-6b... presents a challenge to planet formation theories -- any comprehensive theory of planet formation must explain why gas giants are uncommon around small stars, but still allow for the occasional formation of these planets," he said in the email.
While not exactly like the moody prince Hamlet lamenting life's bigger questions of existence, I believe you gotta take a chance and give an inexperienced person a shot.
We're surrounded by very big questions about existence, but we just continue to push.
"She had made it as a writer in New York City, the sort of big, bold independent existence Kathleen had realized too late that she herself wanted".
"For 10 years, Cisco has arguably been the best-run big company in existence," said Mark Herskovitz, manager of the $2 billion Dreyfus Premier Technology Growth fund.
