modern world. The quiet residential area‚ whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another’s cookout‚ was rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and murdered‚ his body dumped behind the local mall. While shaken residents organized a neighborhood watch program and clued detectives in on anyone’s suspicious behavior‚ the inhabitants of at least one house were distracted by a tragedy of their own: 10-year-old Marsha
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How to Improve Neighborliness in Your Neighborhood In the old days‚ people know everything about their neighbor and knowing well about their neighbor is a joyful thing for them in life. There were when children were still playing in the playground‚ old folks were having walk in the gardens and people who still support and lend a hand when their neighbor needs them. What about now? Do you see children playing in the garden with their neighbor? Do you still even see anybody lend a hand when their
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The idea of the neighborhood watch is one which has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to decrease crime within a neighborhood community. The basic idea of the neighborhood watch centers around neighborhood residents paying attention and identifying suspicious happenings and alerting and reporting crimes to police department. Through Neighborhood Watch groups and standardized surveillance techniques‚ residents and neighbors can assist and help the law enforcement authorities catch kidnappers
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the public” (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2008‚ p. 217). The article titled Officials confirm pollution worries reveals a new environmental health threat for The Neighborhood. M. Lee (2012) states that the mayor of The Neighbored has confirmed that the Lake has reached a dangerous pollutant level. (The Neighborhood News‚ Episode 3). The role of the public health nurse in this scenario would be to research how best to “assess the health risks‚ develop educational and
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University of Phoenix NUR/408 December 2012 Neighborhood News Abstract Public health is an intervention to improve the health and quality of life through prevention and treatment of disease‚ including physical and mental diseases. It focuses on the community as a whole and the health status of the community. Neighborhood News Neighborhood News contains episodes concerning public health issues in two different communities. One of the issues is an environmental issue with water pollution
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Canarsie is a neighborhood in the southern part of Brooklyn and is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin‚ East 108th St.‚ and the L Subway line‚ on the North by Linden Boulevard‚ on the west by Remsen Avenue and on the South by Jamaica Bay. Canarsie is surrounded by the neighborhoods of East Flatbush‚ Flatlands‚ Mill Basin‚ Bergen Beach‚ and East New York. Canarsie was built on swamps near Jamaica Bay. The name “Canarsee”‘s etymology is in dispute‚ but it some scholars of Native American
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NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY ASSIGNMENT The purpose of this assignment is to have you examine your neighborhood and to consider how your community is similar or different than urban Black communities. This will be an opportunity for you to critically examine your neighborhood‚ and to examine the values of your community and see how they compare and contrast with other areas where people reside in New York City. This assignment will be completed in two phases. The first phase involves your investigation
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Neighborhood News Community health affects everyone and when the population is undereducated‚ problems can arise. The writer will discuss two community or public health articles related to the Neighborhood News and propose possible ways the health community can help in health preventative maintenance and education of the population. Critical Capacities According to the article “ED sees critical capacities”‚ Dr. Gordon suggests “that people need to be educated
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Tytianna Davis Neighborhoods throughout the world are constantly undergoing different changes especially in major cities. Some of these changes can either make a neighborhood or break a neighborhood. A particular community that was brought to my attention while I was doing my sociological research that has drastically changed within the last few years is Bedford–Stuyvesant. A big factor that has lead to this historical community undergoing change is Gentrification. Gentrification has had many positive
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The village that I live in is called MerricK . Merrick is a hamlet in Nassau County‚ Long Island on the South Shore. This village is 35 miles from New York and one expressway exit from Jones Beach. The name "Merrick" is taken from Meroke‚ the name (meaning peaceful) of the Algonquian tribe . The first people that lived here are the Merokee Indians that farmed and fished in the area. In 1650‚ a Reverend Denton moved his congregation to the area from Stamford‚ Conn.‚ and founded the Town of Merrick
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