Protecting Heritage Properties at Community Level: Values‚ Risks Perceptions and Ability To Coping This chapter reviews some related literatures around heritage conservation and community behaviors towards the conservation. It includes; the discussion on heritage vulnerabilities; some points relating to community’s risks perception and the cognitive factors of risks perceptions and efficacy which involved in peoples’ decision making process. It also discussed what have/not found by related previous
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Service Learning is a combination of community service and learning. You are giving back to your community while learning interaction and communication skills. Service learning can also be a random act of kindness (ROAK). ROAK is when you do something nice for someone else‚ usually someone you don’t know and you expect nothing in return. Starting out I was nervous about this project. I have never done community service/volunteer work before and I had no idea where to start. I also thought I was
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Discussing Discourses Many people find the concept of a discourse community to be important enough to write about but many have failed to create a clear and universal definition. Three scholars: Porter‚ Swales‚ and Gee each attempt to create their own definition of the concept. Each of their articles has major differences in their interpretation of the notion of discourse communities while still having underlying similarities. The articles all build off the work of others while also introducing
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envision thoughts of safety‚ protection‚ and privacy. However‚ in the essay “Divided We Fall: Gated and Walled Communities in the United States‚” Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder address the controversy of gated communities by introducing gates as dreadful‚ restrictive‚ and exclusive. The statement they make is that gated communities are ruining our nation by creating seclusive communities where the people within never interact with people outside their gates. While that can happen‚ it is not nearly
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A Community Development Project “Men Don’t Talk Face To Face‚ They Talk Shoulder To Shoulder.” Mick Osborne Athy CDP Worker Introduction: “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live‚ it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die‚ for the harder I work the more I live.” George Bernard Shaw Nobel Prize Winner A Men’s Shed‚ in the Community Development
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The Virtual Community begins with Rheingold telling the reader how he used the online parenting virtual community WELL to help in an emergency at home. What he emphasizes in this retelling is how he got the solution to his problem from the community quicker than he would have using health professionals. From there‚ Rheingold tells the reader how many topics are covered in online communities and no matter what kind of person one is‚ there is something that they are very interested in and will speak
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analysis of a discourse community that I am a part of‚ I will be focusing on St. Xavier High School and Jesuit education. St. Xavier is a great example of a discourse community and is backed up by the scholarly articles written by John Swales and Joseph Harris. Joseph Harris focuses his argument about what makes a community a community around writing. Harris proposes that “our aims and intentions in writing are thus not merely personal‚ idiosyncratic‚ but reflective of the communities to which we belong”
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INTRODUCTION Service tax is a tax on Services. Service tax is not a tax on profession / trade but it is a tax on the service provided in exercise of the profession / trade. It is leviable only if there is provision of service. SALE V/S SERVICE Service is different from sale. The fact that some goods have been used in the course of providing service’ doesn’t make that transaction a sale. The nature of the transaction depends on the intention of the parties. If the parties intended to enter into
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Course Title: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 1 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Course code BDS 112 Course title: Community Development Purpose: To introduce the students to the community development principles and concepts in order to equip them with knowledge to enable them appreciate and understand communities and how development is achieved at this level. Course Objectives: By the end of the course‚ the students should be able to: 1. Understand the theoretical basis of community development and how
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achieve international growth be it service or manufacturing sector. There are many routes for expansion such as‚ Greenfield investment‚ Joint venture‚ Mergers and acquisitions‚ sales or marketing alliances (The Economist‚ 2007). There will be many obstacles to achieve this. Services are an important part of global economy and this is increasing. While most of the international business strategies and theories which are good for manufacturing sector could be used for service firms but there are critical
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