...conveys their way of life. Religions have many values, beliefs, and aspirations among them. Worldwide many religions are practiced daily although some may be practiced more than others on a daily basis. I have learned about many aspects, values, and what the motive to practicing a certain religion may give to life. To studying certain religions in the classroom to attending churches and services of specific religions I have learned a great deal of information revolving around the true aspects of our worldwide ways of life. Among the few religions I attended in person to view what cultural values, beliefs, and aspects that individuals abided by were the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, The Greek Orthodox Church, Unitarian-Universalist Church, and Pilgrim Baptist Church. All in which shared different views and progressions on the way of life. The Vietnamese Buddhist Temple I found to be one of the more interesting locations out of all because of the formal one on one interaction with the monk. My impression of the religion and its “world view” from the apparent architecture and artifacts was an impression that actually stunned me because of the precise actions of such an individual. The site conveyed a very neat and high class appearance in the terms of how those individuals live the daily life. The monk was very detail oriented in what he would describe as the Four Noble Truths. The monk made a very intriguing statement saying “You signed a contract to die when you were born right?”...
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...Community Survey Project Tiffany Pabon & Zobaida Hossain March 7, 2016 P.S. 064 Joseph P. Addabbo Elementary School Address: | 82-01 101 AVENUEQUEENS, NY 11416 | Phone: | 718-845-8290 | Student Enrollment: | 671 | Grades Served: | 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 0K, SE | I.A. PRINCIPAL | ELIZABETH MITCHELL | Parent Coordinator: | Ines Gronda | PA President: | Homawattie Habib | Police Precinct: | 102 | Guiding Questions: 1. Brief description of the community from documents researched. What is the cultural and linguistic representation of the community? If this information is not found on the Internet, from your observations, what culture/language do you think is represented? Ozone queens is a working class residential community with a lot of commercial real estate that will appeal well to the public. Asian and Hispanic are the cultural and linguistic representation of the community. 2. What are the distinguishing physical features of the school? Surrounding area? What year was the school built? Include a picture of the front of the school in this area of your paper. The school has an attached playground floor, a one way school zone designated street and a local city playground. -> Front of school 3. Does the school have a playground? What are its distinguishing features (if so, include a photo of it in this section of your survey)? Yes the school has a playground both in front of the school and behind the school. The...
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...My service to the community at the Douglas County Library changed some personality defining values of mine such as my perspective on work ethic. My expectations of the volunteering experience changed dramatically as I continued to work. The experiences I had under the authority of Andrea Spark were often times boring, but they taught me valuable information. I learned more about independence through my obligation to self-schedule and self-motivate without an overbearing authority guiding me onward, improved my work ethic, especially for mundane tasks, and learned that even seemingly insignificant activities can be helpful to the community. An expectation I had was that there would be a lot of supervision. Not to say that the volunteer coordinator, Andrea Spronk, did not lead us, but, rather, she gave us personal space and independence. I did not expect as much lack of external moderation as there was. As a volunteer, I just had to do the work in isolation and then write down my hours for the day, having no extended contact with the established order of the library. This gift of independence reflects adult life. The actual...
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...CHAPTER 4 THE CUSTOMER-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customers get out. Peter Drucker The corporate world has long understood the importance of serving their customers. Those companies that have neglected to do so effectively are probably no longer in business. This issue is no less important for the nonprofit development organization, although experience continues to demonstrate that customers don’t seem to get the attention they need or want from many of these organizations. Clearly, the development organization exists to provide a service. Potential and past customers, clients, and constituents call on an organization to have their needs met. They either believe that this service can help them or they want to discover if it can. How can an organization truly serve others if it doesn’t value their needs and desires, if it doesn’t understand them, and if it doesn’t strive to meet those needs and provide excellent value? If meeting customer, client, and or constituent needs is really the focus of the organization, then the belief must be held by all within that organization that the customer truly comes first and everything else must come second. If this is the dominant philosophy and culture, the staff will tend to value their work more and be less bureaucratic. The premise of this book is managing for excellence. “Excellent” customer service basically includes listening to your customer’s needs and desires...
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...Increased Awareness for Visitors of Bushfire Prone Areas Design Thinking Report Task 1 – “What Is?” 29/4/2016 ENT60005 Creativity and Innovation Assignment 2: Creative Problem Solving Assignment Group Members: 9231315 Ivonne Milano 101088515 Jeffrey Vanderveen 101123348 Raja Sekhar Ravi 100856384 Isaac Husain Aditya Vaggani 1 Executive Summary Visitors, particularly international travellers to regional Victoria are often unaware of and are illprepared for the fire hazards posed by the dry Australian country side. Early warning and response are critical in improving the chance of escape and survival from a bushfire event. Previous bushfire events including the recent fires in the Cape Otways, Great Ocean Road, Victoria (December 2015/January 2016) caused widespread devastation and impaired access into and out of the main towns. Many visitors to these areas were caught in the event and were unsure as how best to respond and what action to take. This report presents the findings from the investigation into the observed problem of the lack of awareness of bushfire hazards and risks amongst visitors of regional Victoria. The report describes how the Group has come to a better understanding of the problem through the use of various Design Thinking and Lean UX tools and approaches. The application of the tools has identified invaluable insights into the customer’s needs which provided the Group with the confidence to better define the problem statement...
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...Community Service Some people are accepting that community service should be required to high school programs. Students and their guardians are considering their concerns about the consequences and also anticipating what will be advantages of making it compulsory. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of making unpaid community service compulsory to high school’s student? First of all, the benefit of doing community services is that students will experience many different new things and also get knowledge from the varieties of experiences. In addition, they will become mature and their mentality will change to the outlook on world. Take, for example, if they go poor places, they will feel sympathetic to them, so, they will understand about life, learn lessons and realize that they should not be greedy with their wants. Students will get an opportunity to help people and do good deeds. Moreover, doing community services will help a lot when they apply jobs or university in different areas since this will be a first impression to people. Lastly, this will positively impact on school reputation. In contrast, there are disadvantages such as students who cannot cope with their school works will find difficulties to their academic because they have to put their free times on doing community services. Student’s leisure time will be reduced, hence, they won’t have time to do their hobbies and feel unsatisfied with this. Furthermore, they will be physically tired and they might...
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...Northwest Valley Community College Website Evaluation Learning Team A Dianna Medina, Kevin Russell WEB/236 Benjamin Perez Northwest Valley Community College Website The Northwest Valley Community College (NVCC) website for the Kelsey Campus is a website designed to provide information for both new and existing students. New students, or inquiring individuals, can go to the website and learn about the various aspects of the college. The website provides history about the college and information regarding various programs the college offers. The website also provides content on student services and the college’s bookstore. Website Evaluation The current NVCC website has much to offer for students. However, there many improvements that could be made to enhance the website. Through the use of webpage templates that standardize layout, color, font size, and navigation, the website can be drastically improved to increase student interaction. The enhancements will not only improve the website’s ability to provide information to existing students, but also represent the college in a manner that attracts new students as well. Strengths Home Page. The home is the first page a viewer sees and can leave a good or bad impression. The community college has several strong points on the home page. The logo is a good picture of the school and there are other distractions on the home page. Distractions are bad to the school’s image and can lose the purpose of the website. The...
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...breaking even within six months. Target Market McBride Financial specifically targets the following types of home buyers: Professionals seeking a primary or secondary residence, retirees seeking a primary or secondary residence, and families or individuals purchasing recreational properties. By determining who their primary markets are, McBride will be able to better conduct market research into those groups of people. In turn, this will allow McBride to custom tailor services and marketing to their intended audience. Market Research Conducting market research will allow McBride financial to better understand its target customers and learn how to more efficiently operate. Two key points McBride Financial should focus on while conducting their research is the local demographic and other local mortgage companies. Researching and studying the local demographic will help McBride better focus their marketing campaign. An internet based campaign would not be as effective if the local community is a retirement community as it would if the...
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...Early in my working career, I was offered a job at a downtown pub that had a reputation for being rough. I’d never entered the establishment prior to this, but I heard the money was good, so I gave it a shot. My initial perception of the clientele, before I had even begun working, was that they were street people, gang members, sex workers, and other low-class, low-income people. I assumed I would have to be on guard much of the time, and put on a hard attitude in order to not be perceived as too weak to be there and taken advantage of. I suppose I was worried about how I was perceived socially, and I didn’t take into account that my perception of my surroundings might be biased. I quickly learned that there was a strong community in this...
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...affect the quality and effectiveness of the communication. There are non-verbal and verbal communications. The examples of verbal communication are: Tone and Pace: The way you speak to a patient is very beneficial for the communication and connection between you and your service user. You must be well aware of the tone and pace of your voice that you choose to use because if you talk very loud and fast you will come across as quite rude and aggressive and you might give the service user the impression that you are in a rush and are not really interested in being with them. Whereas if the tone of your voice is quite soft and calm and the pace is quite slow it gives the service user a good impression as your voice gives them a sense of comfort and confidence that they shouldn’t be afraid to say what they feel. It also makes them feel more secure and it makes them know that you are interested and that you understand. If the tone of your voice is friendly and you talk at their pace the service user will feel more comfortable. Language: The language you speak to a certain service user can be really crucial because the service user might not speak the same first language as you. You will need to read the service user’s files in order to find out if their mother tongue is the same as yours and if it isn’t you would need to find a way to discuss the aspects of the appointment with them in a way that they would be able to understand you. If they come into the appointment and speak in...
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...Nightingale, arguably the first modern nurse, influenced and changed healthcare by collecting and interpreting data observed during her service in the Crimean war (Audain, 2014).. Similarly the public health nurse (PHN) attempts to help and influence the community they serve. The windshield survey is a tool for the PHN in obtaining data within the community. Basic physical characteristics about the environment including the inhabitants are gained. This subjective tool is performed while driving or walking, and is used by the nurse to assess the needs of the community. Community Community is a broad subjective term. One capacious definition of the term is, a defined region one lives, works, interacts with others and the environment; inclusive is a semblance of structure and beliefs based within that society where the members define and identify themselves as being part of that group (Standhope & Lancaster, 2012). Using this definition one sees that any group can be a community, and boundaries can merge one into many different types of communities with in the same location. Using this, one sees that the American community is broken down into further sub sets such as states, counties, cities, towns, school districts, and the list can continue ad infinitum. For the purpose of this paper the term community is defined within its relation to the school district of South Huntington, NY. Using the windshield survey the public health nurse assesses the health of the community. This is performed...
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...search engines allow immediate access of information and growing online communities allow users to connect with others instantly. We are regularly exposed to advertisements regarding the convenience of the internet. Through television advertising, eHarmony encourages us to use the internet to form relationships, and ultimately narrow millions of possible matches down to a single soulmate. By analyzing the rhetoric of eHarmony’s commercial, I will deploy the appeals of pathos, logos and ethos, and explore whether online dating is a deceptive or an authentic approach to meeting a lifelong partner. The creators of eHarmony target a large audience in their commercial. Their purpose is to unite individuals with a shared desire to find a soulmate. By utilizing methods of pathos, eHarmony appeals to cultural desires, values and attitudes of the majority of American people. The commercial reaches out to viewers with uplifting and positive music, and portrays happy, beautiful people who found love seemingly instantly. Various stories are told by actors describing how easy it was to find their perfect match with the help of eHarmony. The commercial instils in viewers’ minds that their chances of connecting with people will be maximized just as successfully as it was...
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...search engine with a huge audience. Mednet is also facing tough competition from several other websites providing expert information on therapeutic treatments and condition specific diseases like cholesterol. About MedNet: MEDNET IS AN AMERICAN CORPORATION WHICH PROVIDES HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICES. THE WEBSITE WAS created with a mission of providing reliable and trustworthy medical information to consumer audience for free and to make profits through advertising from pharmaceutical companies. Two important aspects to be always monitored by MedNet to be on top of the things are it’s Visitors and Advertisers. WHAT DOES AN ADVERTISER WANT? SALES, LEADS, BRAND AWARENESS? WHAT ARE THE BEST METRICS FOR MEASURING THESE? The advertisers here are pharmaceutical companies who buy onscreen advertising space from websites. Though branding in the form of promoting company’s logo, slogan, and their product’s name along with its features is paramount to any company, it is the ‘numbers’ in terms of Sales revenue that matters the most. The possible measuring metrics is the Banner advertising charging advertisers on a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) basis where an impression means that one visitor actually saw an online advertisement. The second is Click through rate (CTR) method which counts each time a potential buyer clicks the...
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...Multicultural psychology is developing as a necessary training for individuals working in human services, especially in psychology. Race, sex, color, or even religions are often an important part of training in multicultural psychology, but with new issues these basic factors need expansion. Obesity is a common factor many Americans struggle with as more than two-thirds of the population deals with, but training on is severely lacking for human services workers (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). Mapping the human gene will also bring new information but also fear and unknown problems. Obesity Psychologists must work to maintain awareness on bias and perception to ensure appropriate assistance is provided to every client. The issues of race, color, or even age many view as elements an individual has no control over but obesity appears to be a choice. The views of many are that an individual who is obese or overweight is that way by choice or laziness resulting in a negative bias that can prevent therapeutic treatment (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). Viewing an individual as obese also lends to beliefs of he or she is unintelligent, less productive, but caring (Pascal & Kerpius, 2012). The views of others can have long-term effects on an individual and create low self esteem as well as issues such as binge eating and depression. In a situation in which a therapist maintains these views it can exacerbate these issues taking a therapeutic relationship and creating a harmful one (Pascal...
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...NERINX' COMMUNITY SERVICE COURSE PURPOSE: The Theology Departments sponsors this course in Community Service in order to provide an opportunity for you to integrate your religious learning within the Christian call to serve. You are now an empowered woman to share your gifts with the world! OBJECTIVES: 1. to provide an opportunity through service in which you can explore your own giftedness and ways of sharing it with others. 2. to help raise your social awareness through service. 3. to challenge you to broaden your personal commitment to serve others both in the present and the future. 4. to provide you with an opportunity to reflect on particular social issues connected with the population you serve through your reading, writing and discussion with others. REQUIREMENTS: The service project which you choose must comply with the following guidelines: 1. The work must serve persons directly (e.g., secretarial work without relating directly to clientele served is not allowed). 2. These persons should have "special needs" -- those associated with age, social or economic background; physical, mental or emotional deprivation or disabilities. 3. The student may not receive pay (monetary compensation) for her service. 4. The project should include a minimum of 30 hours or service as well as a minimum of 5 days of service; with the exception of Nerinx-sponsored Spring Break Service, the hours cannot count until after Junior final...
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