Communities Depend On Each Other

[Music] [Applause] you're looking at a small town a small town community a community you may know is made up of people people who live together and work together people who help one another get the things they need what are some of the things that people in a community [Music] need we all need food of course what about clothing think of of the many kinds of clothing people need to wear besides things we need there are many things we want Even if we could get along without them you can probably think of many different kinds of things that people in a community want and need along with such products a community also needs gasoline one kind of fuel many kinds of fuel are needed by a community to make things work of course a community needs not only things but Services things people do for each other the delivery of mail is one service a community needs telephone communication is another service people in a community also need medical and dental services as well as the services of schools and teachers policemen serve a community when they enforce laws and protect people you can probably think of many other services that are needed by a community does a community provide all the services and goods it needs by itself well let's see let's think about the products again remember the food store and the foods people buy there do all these Foods come from the community itself where do fish come from you can't get fish from just anywhere can you fish must come from communities near large lakes and oceans where do oranges come from oranges come from communities where it is warm through most of the year you probably know that much of our meat comes from cattle most cattle are raised in places where there's plenty of grass to graze on meat and other Foods come from farms and farming communities Farms help us get clothing too cotton can be grown only where it's warm the cotton may be made into cloth in communities close to where the cotton is grown but the cloth may be made into clothing in communities thousands of miles away it takes the efforts of many communities working together to change a piece of raw cotton into a dress many things we use are made mostly of metal do you know where metal comes from you can't get metal from just anywhere can you there are only certain places on our continent where men mine Rock containing iron to get iron out of this rock you need another material that is mined coal Coal from coal mining communities is shipped to communities where there are steel mills the rock with the iron in it is here too in the steel mill heat from burning coal is used to change iron into steel sheets of Steel from the mill may be sent to Ste other communities there the metal is made into Automobiles and other products so many communities depend upon one another to make things out of metal what about the gasoline used to run cars perhaps you know that the gas station pumps it out of a very large tank that's buried in the ground but how does it get in the tank that's right from a gasoline truck that comes to the station but where does the truck get the gasoline the truck is filled from even larger tanks storage tanks in other communities these tanks are often near refineries places where gasoline is made from oil but oil isn't found everywhere oil is found only in certain places pumps lift the oil from welds in the ground oil wells may be in communities thousands of miles from where gasoline is sold you can think of other things sold in the community books and magazines inside you can see where each one is published this one in Washington DC this one in Los Angeles Chicago Philadelphia television programs are also produced in some communi but not in others the same goes for films we depend on communities like Hollywood for many of the movies we see what about services do communities depend upon one another for services too well mail comes to you not just from people in your town but for many other communities London Los Angeles Chicago the same goes for your telephone service we can make calls to people in the same community and longdistance calls to people in other communities police protection is another service that depends on other communities in the fight against Crime police departments of different towns and cities send messages back and forth to arrest law Breakers who may move from one part of the country to another what about Services provided by doctors doctors get their medicines and other materials from many communities and all the equipment in a hospital comes from many parts of the world does a teacher depend on other communities most teachers have learned to be teachers in communities where there are colleges or universities so communities depend on one another for teachers and for other specially trained people too people travel from one Community to another for many different reasons can you think why people in small towns might want to visit a city what things are not likely to be found in a small town and what things might they find in a big city did you think of a zoo a large Museum an art gallery there are many things found in large city communities that are not found in small town communities but City people often like to get out of the city and visit a small town can you think why well maybe to have fun outside where there's less crowding less noise less smoke in the air it's easy to relax away from a big city so people often go to places near small towns for their vacations whether it's a city or town no Community provides all the things it needs by itself maybe you can tell how a vacation Community depends on a manufacturing Community how does a manufacturing Community depend on a mining Community does a mining Community depend on a farming community how might a farming Community depend on a lumbering Community these are some of the questions you may wish to talk about after this film is over questions about communities depending on each [Applause] other