Community Profile Presentation ETH/ 316 May 21, 2012 Introduction: Diversity in Communities Diversity is what makes everybody different and helps people to learn from one another. Imagine if everybody was the same and every community did things in the exact same way – life around the world would be boring. Diversity in communities brings new ideas and creativity to help enhance unity among the people who make up the community. According to Boylan (2009), diversity makes a community stronger
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drastic measures. So I gathered almost the entire village, with the before mentioned campaign, and tried to make them march through the town with me. The majority where very willing to join us. At the end more than 700 residents of Herne and nearby communities showed up to march with us, to show their dissatisfaction with the new store, and almost hostile takeover of our pub. This made quite the impression on Tesco, and it was now clear that a Tesco store in Herne, would not be profitable, and would most
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BP suffered not only personnel and equipment loss, but public relations loss as well. Many Americans felt outraged at BP for the effects of the spill on the Gulf Coast communities. Although the media immediately discussed the environmental implications of the disaster, many people felt that the impacts on the Gulf Coast communities, such as the negative effects on the seafood and tourism industries, received inadequate attention. An article that came out less than two months after the spill in The
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Alexander Bertrand (2011), author of the article The Limits of Workplace Community: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Possibility of Teambuilding, claims that there is no hope of unifying people at their places of work. This paper presents the summary of the article, and an analysis of the ideas presented. This article is based on a French philosopher, Jean-Luc. According to the article, Nancy articulated the challenges faced by a community in a bid to build a cohesive team at workplaces. The author reflects
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CITIZENSHIP, ACCOUNTABILITY AND COMMUNITY: THE LIMITS OF THE CSR AGENDA In his article, Newell explores the predicaments of poor communities around the globe with regard to the accountability of companies to the communities in which they invest. An approach of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) lays great emphasis on voluntarism, partnership and self-regulation techniques to tackling social and environmental problems and managing conflicts. While this approach has worked well in Europe and
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Mike Create a general profile of a community on an individual basis. The profile should be 350 to 700 words in length. The team may select a community with which they are familiar or use the City of Kelsey Virtual Organization accessible from the student website. In the profile, describe the following: Type of people who live in the community Woodcrest is a suburban neighborhood located in Riverside, California. The Woodcrest community in Riverside are wealthy, making it among the 15%
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Neighborhood Comparison of the Upper and Poor Class Introduction Income, race, ethnicity, religion and culture all have profound impacts on neighborhoods. Some impacts consist of area appearance, transportation options, friendliness, safety options, and lack of resources. This week I visited a poor and upper class neighborhood at two different hours of the day. The first day I visit the poor class neighborhood call Lincoln Heights in Monroe Louisiana at 8:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. The second day
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we read in The Abundant Community, “it is one who chooses to create the life, the neighborhood, the world from their own gifts and the gifts of others.” Those are the acts of a Citizen in a community.” Now days we don’t go into the true meaning of what is means to be a Citizen in our communities. How many times do we have a conversation with our neighbors? How much time do we actual spend in our respective communities? For parents, do you know your children’s communities at school? What I’m getting
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A1. Risk Factors Trinity conducted a community health needs assessment in which the following demands were identified: Oncology Services, Orthopedic Services and Cardiovascular Services. These targeted demands are mainly in part due to an aging community population (15% of the population will be over 65 within the next five years), and with that these particular services are in great demand and currently Trinity Hospital offers no formal services of this kind. A Strategic plan is in place to
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and as a result customer satisfaction will go up along with profits. As far company Q should be concerned, they need to find a way to reconnect to the community. Company Q is a small chain of stores that seems to be getting smaller instead of growing, there are a few ways they can change that well building their social responsibility in the communities in which they do business in. First they need to be focusing on the customers a little more. A perfect example of this is when customers were asking
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