Carrizo Springs has always been a simple small community. Although my childhood, the community had a few restaurants, hardly any hotels, and each member of the community knew one another. Yet in 2013, Carrizo Springs was introduced to the oilfield industry. The oil field industry had plenty of benefits such as the economic impact and employment in our community. Many members of the community were fortunate to benefit from the oilfield whether it was a new job or opportunity. I was grateful to be
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Community does not cease to exist in the absence of geographical proximity. People all over the world, no matter the distance, relate and connect to one another through shared values and characteristics embodied in a common ethnicity. Within an ethnicity, shared language works to develop communities, and, especially when in the minority, gives its members an emotional strength that powers them in times of alienation. Cultural values that come with ethnic backgrounds, such as traditions and moral
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Since I joined the Boy Scouts of America in the second grade, I have been involved in community service that has supported numerous organizations. This passion for service has lasted far beyond my Eagle Scout project for the Durham Ronald McDonald House. While in college, I have taken on several large service learning projects and donated my time at a variety of organizations, such as: the Crisis Assistance Ministry, the Jamil Niner Student Pantry, the Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood, Second
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There's a multitude of imagined communities within the world. So bountiful that you could not possibly talk about them all. Just in Quinnipiac alone, I could get overwhelmed trying to count them all. There are countless imagined communities in the world and they all follow one simple definition, “theorized as discrete, self defined, coherent entities, held together by a homogenous competence or grammar shared identically and equally among all the members”(as cited in Pratt 325). Some other words
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set up to support women and girls experiencing domestic violence, Blacktown Women’s and Girls Health Centre is a service organisation whose aim is to provide comprehensive, holistic, health care services and advocacy support for women in the local community. Though primary introduction to the service availability can be through a partner agency like Domestic Violence Help line, another key mode through which clients seek services from the centre is through the centre website. Being a holistic service
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Hands On Miami Miami Dade has many non-profit organizations that help the community in various ways, one of this many organizations is Hands on Miami. I chose Hands on Miami to do my project on because is a volunteer service organization in Miami that inspires, equips and mobilizes people to take action to effect positive change in our Miami-Dade County community. This organization is very easy to access and it offers a variety of activities with a flexible schedule. This gives the volunteer the
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Windshield Survey for Zip Code 77004 Eugene Harris NUR/405 Healthy Communities: Theory And Practice November 28th, 2011 Beth Meadows Community health nursing has become a focal point in healthcare since the 1960s-70s when the civil right movement shifted the goal from a charitable concept to a political commitment in order to rectify racial injustices of the past (Stanhope and Lancaster, 2008). Many programs came about with the goal of addressing inequalities in the delivery of healthcare
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Rivercrest CDD Board of Supervisors Daniel J. Leventry Chairman Elaine Sellent Vice Chairman Lisa Fernandez Supervisor Frank Nocco Supervisor Esther Torres Supervisor CDD Staff Meritus Districts 5680 West Cypress Street Suite 5680A, Tampa, FL 33607 Telephone: 813-397-5121 A Bi-Monthly Publication of the Rivercrest CDD January Issue 2014 Greetings Rivercrest Residents Frank Nocco, Supervisor Happy New Year Rivercrest and welcome to 2014. On behalf of your CDD Board of Supervisors and staff
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with severe eating disorders talk about the secret world of the online pro-anorexia (“pro-ana”) community, where they truly express themselves and sometimes even encourage each other’s problems. Likewise, in the essay “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?”, writers struggle to put their true words down on paper, knowing the secrets they share could result in their excommunication from the only community they know, causing an even greater sense of being alone. Both “The Secret Society of Starving”
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