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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My involvement in National Honor Society helped me to decide on a great service project. The volunteer project that has had the greatest impact on my community is coaching the sixth grade girls basketball team. The opportunity to coach and mentor the girls had a significant influence on the youth basketball program; furthermore it taught me more about myself. The experience of coaching the youth helped the elementary basketball program grow because the girls enjoyed having a high school senior coach
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does not have a choice in what community he or she may be a part of geographically, it is the members’ responsibility to create a functioning place to live, both authors implement contrasting tones in order to represent the effects that a healthy or unhealthy community has on its members. Through the appeal to pathos in both Radio Milwaukee’s audio and the Neighborhood News Service’s article, both illustrate that it is the responsibility of the members of the community at large to dictate what norms
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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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philanthropic roots in the US, and cooperative roots in the UK, EU and Asia. In the US, the term is associated with 'doing charity by doing trade', rather than 'doing charity while doing trade'. In other countries, there is a much stronger emphasis on community organizing, democratic control of capital and mutual principles, rather than philanthropy. In recent years, there has been a rise in the concept of social purpose businesses which pursue social responsibility directly, or raise funds for charitable
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corners, currency exchange and payday loan facilities, several laundromat stores around plazas and the community. Segmented assimilation theory focuses on the second generation and will experience upward or downward mobility depending on a number of factors. It depends on its incorporation into society, the type of neighborhood it lives in, social and cultural capital available within the ethnic community and race. The Hermosa neighborhood has an area of 1.154 square miles and has a population
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experience and today more than 60 million people offer their services in some way.(1) However, there are still some people that choose not to be involved. In fact, for most people, their reason is simple: it is just too time-consuming. Why should we spend free time doing things for someone else? Why should we involve ourselves in work that has no financial value? The answer is clear: We should volunteer to support the general welfare of our communities and the world. Volunteering is not just a fulfilling
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Community Profiles Victoria Brown, Va’a Tuilesu, Silvia Robinson, ETH/316 July 15, 2013 Ted Haas Community Profiles Victoria Brown The Sharon Lakes community is an urban community located in the middle of two other communities within the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Sharon Lakes is an urban environment with many cultures, languages, backgrounds, and history to offer its residents. The residents of the Sharon Lakes community are mostly Hispanic, African American, Caucasian, Asian
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Researching Community Psychology Barbara Avery Capella University Table of Content Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………….4 What is Community Psychology………………………………………………………………….4 Visions and Goals ….......................................................................................................................5 Reflection of Passion ……………………………………………………………………………..4 Research Question……………………………………………………………………………….5 Practices to
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RN Community Health Nursing Course Project Milestone #2 Small Town USA INTRODUCTION A small town that doesn't have that big city element can be referred to as suburbia, or is predominantly white, with low crime rates. Small Town USA is more predominant than realized. Although the town of Mayberry was a fictional small town that was featured in "The Andy Griffith Show" where almost all the residents are white with little or no minorities it sets a particularly accurate setting
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