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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Caring for Populations: Milestone1: Community Windshield Survey Form Directions: Please refer to the Milestone 1: Community Windshield Survey Guidelines and grading rubric found in Doc Sharing for specific instructions in order to complete the information below. This assignment is worth 150 points. Type your name above and your answers below directly on this form. Click Save as and save the file with the assignment name and your last name (e.g., “NR443 Windshield Survey Form_Smith”). When you
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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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With the rise of the suburbs, planned communities with high economic growth, low crime rates, and nice roads came about. Living in a planned community has many rules and regulations. The movie Pleasantville creates a dramatic view of the cookie-cutter, plastic, perfect life living in the suburbs is supposed to provide and how sometimes the so called “perfect life” is not always quite what it may seem. Some may think living in the suburbs, in planned communities, with many rules, is worth living in
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manifests itself in many forms. Volunteerism, monetary donations, and environmental initiatives are examples of activities any person in the community can participate. Corporations that operate within the boundaries of a community, referred to as a Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR. The decisions that a company makes ultimately has an effect on the community and society as a whole; defining the term ‘Corporate Social Responsibility,’ (CSR). As Basil (2009) noted, “Corporations are increasingly
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Centered Health Promotion November 25, 2012 Page 1 There are three methods of data collection employed by community nurses to obtain community assessment data. They include observation, interviews and measurement; the observation method also referred to as the windshield survey that includes the use of all the senses i.e. sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste to ascertain community appearances, noting the status of residential buildings, the people and their physical and biological surroundings
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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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