financial bottom line without regard to the communities that they serve. Company Q’s decision to dispose of food rather than donate for use in the community shows that the bottom line is more important than the customers they serve. The reason given for this business decision is the possible fraud and theft by employees, which hasn’t actually happened, leaving one with the impression that they do not value their employees any more than they value the community. Company Q responded to requests from
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Jessica O. NUR/405 Healthy Communities: Theory and Practice March 28th, 2016 Cynthia Januale Community can be defined in many ways. According to Meriam Webster (n.d), there are 12 different ways that community can be defined. Community can best be defined as “a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city, town, or neighborhood)” ("Community," n.d). To most people, community is the area and people that surround the place they live and/or work. Community health is defined by Stanhope
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Timothy Mathis ASL 102 Dr.Smith 3/29/2016 No Ordinary Hero: The Superdeafy Movie In America today there are multiple different communities. One of these many communities is the Deaf community. Like any other community the Deaf community has their own way of doing things or things that make them unique. This is shown quit frequently in the movie No Ordinary Hero: The Superdeafy Movie. For instance we see in the movie that deaf people are not only more expressional with their face but they
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JEP will allow me to reflect about the different aspects of education and the community while learning about myself in the process. Service learning will help me develop through the awareness of the community, giving me a deeper understanding about the ethical, legal and moral aspects of service as well as helping me apply my academics to real world scenarios. First, I would like to address the awareness of the community that I will gain by working with JEP. Working in the University Park neighborhood
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many different communities and/or groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that community and your place within it. I am involved in many communities, but the most important one to me is Indian American Student Association. IASA is a very large community which is filled with people all around the world. This community has a bond
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As Americans we all have a duty to serve our country but what can we do as teenagers? One thing that I can do promote Americanism is to help my family because they work hard every day and come home tried. I can help my mom and wash the dishes, sweep the kitchen those are some ways that I could help her. I can also help my dad walking round the house and reaching for higher places because he has trouble sometimes with his back. My dad always tells me to help around the house and mop the floor
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By searching the web a came across a noteworthy appreciation program that the Youth Volunteer Corps practices. Every year this organization gives out three categories of awards to hundreds volunteers that have been committed to donating their time to the agency. The 100-In-Award is for youth that have 100 volunteer hours within a year. The Ethics of Service Award is for youth volunteered 500 hours with Youth Volunteer Corps within their academic career. Lastly The World-Changer Award, is the YVC’S
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but above all they want to help as many people as possible. They take in many of the homeless people in Fannin and Polk county. They also provide food boxes for families that cannot afford to buy food. There is a large need this service in the community because the government has cut many people’s food stamps. With the cost of food rising, many people cannot afford food on their set incomes.
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and present, define communities? All communities can be defined by shared events. It is the shared events, both past and present, that shape both a community and an individual’s values, goals and aspirations. Members of a strong and healthy community all share similar values and experiences which define how they belong within that community. These shared experiences, values, goals and aspirations, provide a basis for an individual’s self perception. Without them, communities cannot thrive as a whole
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In the past year or so I was offered an opportunity to get some community service hours from Joliet West Culinary class. Mrs. Walton, my culinary teacher at that time, offered some of her students to be involved in a event called “Cooking for a Cause”. This event took place over at Joliet Central, though unfortunately, I do not know the date of the event but I do know that it was on a Thursday. During the day, I was super excited to begin the event because it was the first time I was invited to this
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