COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT This essay will out line plans for a project based on Community Development (CD) principles to assess and address health inequalities within the Black African community. The chosen community to be involved with is the western part of Brockley (South East London) which consists three blocks of high rise flats within the estate. There are approximately 600 families living in this area. The reason for choosing this community is of poor accessibility to services and high number
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Community policing is a proven method for lowering the crime rate in the United States. Community policing has been a law enforcement strategy for nearly thirty years. In august of 1994‚ the United States Department of Justice formed the Community Policing Consortium. The goal of this consortium was to develop a framework for understanding and implementing community policing in neighborhoods across America. The consortium consisted of representatives from the International Association of Chiefs of
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary a speech community is defined as a socially distinct group that develops a dialect; a variety of language that diverges from the national language in vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ and grammar. Gumperz‚ Dorian‚ Fishman‚ Labov‚ Hymes‚ and Corder helped define a speech community. This essay will touch on the basis of multiple aspects of a speech community depending on their similarities and differences as well as how the concepts of these speech communities relate to such articles written
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Community interpreter Nowadays‚ the United Kingdom along with many other world countries became a multicultural country with many different languages spoken. People from minority groups often speak only a little English or no English at all for various reasons. This results in access to all services being complicated for them. Because the Government in the United Kingdom committed itself to providing access to these services equally for everyone there is a need for community interpreters. This
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The giver is about a perfect community. A community where nothing bad happens and everybody is the same. In the community there is a boy named Jonas. Jonas has been selected to be the Receiver Of Memories. Being the Receiver is a great honor because you have to keep all the community’s memories and learn about what used to exist in the community. A utopia is a place where everything is perfect and nothing bad happens. A dystopia is the opposite of a Utopia because it is a place where everything is
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Community Development (CD) is a broad term applied to the practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders‚ activists‚ involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities. Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often created through the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must understand
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main pieces‚ “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Learning to Read” by Frederick Douglass‚ that describe how overcoming obstacles and hardships of losing love ones will come when reaching towards enlightenment. These difficulties attract to the change that you decide to take‚ which will be unaccepted by the people who surround you. Making you feel alone and weak‚ regretting to every have been enlighten. First‚ Douglass’ enlightenment of learning the alphabet gives him hope to building a stronger
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ability to hear. However‚ not everyone who is deaf wants the ability to hear. Most people who are associated with the Deaf community and culture are adamantly against cochlear implants. The reason is that some are afraid of the prospect that this implantation will eradicate the Deaf culture. Deaf people are proud of their culture and want to maintain their identity. The Deaf community has a distinct and vibrant history‚ language‚ and value system that serves a vital role in the lives of its members. Professionals
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My idea of a healthy community would be that of a place where health promotion is pushed by creating a suitable environment for the wellness of everyone. There is much that can be done to create healthy communities. Communities that support people in making healthy choices help prevent chronic diseases and the complications that can result from them. Public health works with a variety of partners to create healthy communities including transportation planners‚ city planners and land use experts because
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statement saying that there should be 60 hours of community service done‚ in order to graduate. I believe that if a student does community service‚ he or she should do it because he or she wanted to do it. Not because he or she was forced to do it. I think community service is done not only to help the community‚ but to get a sense of gratitude after you have willingly helped out the community on your own. After doing good things for your community‚ you realize how much you helped someone out‚ and
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