pray and hope that none of the bullets have my name engraved on them‚ a common reality that I and other young people in my community endure on a daily basis. I look around my neighborhood‚ and all I see is violence and division‚ both‚ essentially a result of neglect. As a product of the Westside community‚ I feel socially responsible for making lasting changes within my community. This area was once a place of social change and produced a number of civil rights icons. Like Dr. King‚ a native of the
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mind‚ even as a child‚ being born (and raised for a semi-short while) in New York opened my eyes to the many cultures‚ religious‚ personalities‚ genders‚ and sexualities of the world. Despite this‚ the general heteronormative nature of the black community (and the bigotry that can spawn from it) worried me especially in a time where I was still learning about myself. Growing up‚ I’ve
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College?” piece. Addison is an advocate of the American community college system‚ which enabled her to reach her own goals of becoming a veterinarian student. Perlstein’s piece is a nostalgic description of what the four-year college experience used to entail for students‚ as he laments over the days where “pretentious reading lists was all it took to lift a child from suburbia” and when college “really mattered.” Addison argues that the community college offers a refuge that unconditionally allows students
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Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) * It is a philosophy as well as a place; it is a way of being as well as a working model. It is a mindset as well as a map. Foundation: Collaboration - working together for common goals‚ partnership‚ shared leadership‚ co-evolving and co-learning - rather than competition and power given to only a few. Focus: Learning - learning where students are actively demonstrating their understanding‚ rather than students passing written tests as the sole sign of
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The ideal idea of community policing is to bring law enforcement and the public it serves closer together to identify and address crime issues. But‚ it instead merely responds to emergency calls‚ and arresting criminals. I think that it is a relevant tool in society today‚ but only to an extent. We have officers out there day and night‚ protecting our streets and neighborhoods from burglary‚ theft‚ and robberies. Having Community Oriented Policing it not only helps the community‚ but it also helps
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According to the article Community Cultural Wealth by Dr. Taray-Yosso cultural wealth is defined as an areal of knowledge‚ skills‚ abilities and contacts possessed and utilized by communities of color to survive and resist operations. Although cultural wealth deals with the many skills aspects of economic growth‚ both of which are crucial to the attainment of higher education nonetheless cultural wealth can be categorized into three defiant groups known as cultural ties‚ cultural capital and cultural
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Community Action Plan • This will serve as a guide for your community action plan. However‚ I am not confining you to this outline – please feel free to add extra details or information if you like. Community Action Plan I. Community Profile -- The selected community (in general) would be Gawad Kalinga – Majada. You may want to do some research regarding GK on the internet. -- You may also want to discuss in detail the profile of your interviewed family/ies. II. Needs/Assessment -- In general
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Vincent Hornberger 6/1/12 Religion Community Service For my community service I had done a variety of jobs. All of them have definitely helped out my community greatly though. Doing these hours has also changed me spiritually and helped me become closer to God because most of my jobs have been for charity. The following will be a list of jobs that I have done and what I had to do during them. My first job was working the Halloween party and that was a very fun job. The only
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marriage and adoption laws for those in same sex relationships. However‚ despite seeming like a LGBT utopia on paper‚ the real truth behind Scotland’s LGBT community is far less perfect. The truth is‚ people who identify under the B part of the LGBT label aren’t made to feel as welcome as their fellow sexual minorities‚ a fact mirrored in the LGBT community all over the world. These people are bisexuals‚ which means that they experience attraction to both their own gender and other genders.
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As the Latino community increasingly grows in the U.S.‚ a large majority of individuals rejoice at the inevitable upcoming opportunities for political‚ economic‚ and social inclusion. This inevitable inclusion is obtainable primarily because the Latino community promotes itself and is promoted by others as a homogenous whole that is powerful in numbers. This homogeneity‚ although strategic also fails to recognize that through the same strategy it is also erasing and failing to allocate these future
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