It was a cold windy rainy Halloween Night. You could hear the waves were crashing into the beautiful lake michigan shores‚ and the cheers from the Prairie soccer game. Children running around hoping to get delicious treats and sweets. I was with Leah‚ Lee‚ Vinny‚ and Ethan and we were hoping to have a memorable night. Though we would not remember the night from the candy we received‚ the dinner we ate‚ the candy trade‚ or meeting up with Jared‚ Matt and Frank. No‚ we would remember this night
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Currently‚ NYC is experimenting with an alternative to incarceration called Neighborhood Opportunity Networks (NeON). These centers are part of a new model of community centric corrections programs known as justice reinvestment. Reinvestment programs are intended to reduce recidivism and reroute the money that would have been spent on incarceration to crime prevention programs instead. (Clear‚ et al‚ 2012). The Department of Probation (DOP) has begun placing NeON facilities in communities with the
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April Law GUS 1177 Professor Gholson 2/26/12 The article called Black Brothers Inc.‚ written by Sean Patrick Griffin tells an interesting story about the Black Mafia. These individuals were excellent businessmen and working men that participated in obtaining drug dealers‚ maintaining crap games‚ and holding regular meetings at many different locations‚ but they were also coldblooded people who would kill anyone who might testify against them in court. This is how they gained power in the Philadelphia
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Brooke Bodzer Community Engagment April Bellback 4-20-13 Getting Teens Involved What does the word community mean to you? The range in diversity in answering this question makes it difficult to all together define the word‚ however‚ the answers will generally evolve around “People‚ togetherness‚ or grouped society. Community is more than a term however. In order for a community to exist‚ there has to be a formation‚ a development‚ and a solid plan to proceed striving for stability and societal
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Adi Crook Junior Accelerated English Their Eyes Were Watching God - Analysis Essay Communities make up the cities that we all live in‚ as well as the nations that we call ours. The community that one decides or is forced to live in is made up of many different factors. A well-grounded community is one that expects its neighbors to interact and provide aid when a neighbor is in need. A neighbor stuck in snow is not a neighbor one should help‚ rather a neighbor one is expected to help. Issues regarding
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stakeholders actually are. Within our Facilities Team‚ customers could be either internal or external stake holders. Internal customers are staff members of NBC. This can range from the Chief Exec‚ Leader of the Council and Councillors‚ to neighbourhood wardens‚ customer facing staff and admin assistants. External customers range from a member of the public asking us for directions or just using the toilets‚ to hirers of our rooms and their guests to visiting MP’s and Royal visits. A
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1. The environment has both physical/built and social (relationship between people) components. Describe how poor quality environment is a pathway to poor health. Cite studies supporting this linkage. The study conducted by Gee and Payne-Sturges (2004) reveal that environment has both physical and social factors that plays a crucial role in the development of diseases. Psychological stress is considered the vulnerability factor that associates social conditions to environmental hazards. Consequently
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"Where do all the hippies go?" Dorjan Dheskali Mosaic II - spring 2012‚ Section 066 Professor J. Benin South Street. The home of punk rockers‚ hippies‚ poets‚ musicians‚ food fanatics‚ and everything in between. How has it become so popular amongst all who to the naked eye have nothing in common? Why has it become a home to such diversity‚ a refuge to arts of all kind? Cultures and ethnicities and languages all different‚ yet what seems to make them all connect? It ’s not anything
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I belong to a relatively tightknit community within my subdivision. Here‚ everybody knows everybody! Whenever a neighbor is in need‚ we drop what we’re doing to go and help them. Simple as it may be‚ that’s just the way things work around here. I can define my place within this community in a couple words: friend and leader. Recently‚ a neighbor of mine was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. The whole subdivision was shocked. In her time of need‚ I knew the right thing to do would be to
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Three examples of racial hegemony include the geographic‚ political‚ and cultural injustices subjected to minorities and low income individuals and communities. For example‚ the siting of toxic waste facilities in low income communities demonstrates geographic hegemony of racial injustice. These communities are frequently targets of environmental racism because they are often times smaller‚ less accessible and poorer than those in more affluent or white neighborhoods. Because of this‚ large corporations
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