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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words or less‚ define community service and its importance to you. Millard Fuller once said‚ “For a community to be whole and healthy‚ it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.” Judging from Fuller’s quote‚ he’s absolutely right. Community Service is a bridge to make a difference in the community for a better brighter future. This bridge starts with the good deeds and hard work put forth by people who volunteer. Volunteers make a difference in our community by helping the people
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Michael Brown Mrs. Day 4/11/11 I helped out most of my hours of community service for the Laguna Creek Junior Cardinals (LCJC) football team .What happened was in my first 4 hours of community service I helped divide recycle from trash and empty out the trash at one of my brothers football game. My supervisor for those hours for LCJC was Lora the head coach for the cheerleaders. A week later for 4 hours I clean-up and break down the facility around the field. Later next week I did the same thing
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one’s community‚ it helps to understand what a community is and why they form. There are basically two parts to the definition of community. The first part of the definition states that a community is “A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.” The second part of the definition describes a community as “A group of people having common interests. To me‚ this means that along with the two definitions‚ there are mainly two different reasons for which communities form
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Without community service people would not know the meaning of charity and giving back. It creates a better society and helps improve one’s individuality. Community service carries a reward that is beyond the obvious and tangible. Volunteerism is no longer just a résumé padder for college applications; it has become a graduation requirement for high school students in hundreds of school districts across the nation. Some say that requiring students to volunteer as a part of the graduation requirement
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Community service isn’t about padding one’s resume‚ it isn’t about doing things so that one might be proud and arrogant about it. But it is the dawning realization of to the greater understanding our humanity‚ our fragility and a greater appreciation of the great lives that so many of us lead and deem to be “normal” when it pretty much is extraordinary in its own respect relative to many other individuals around the world. I spent my hours‚ dedicated to Community service‚ as an intern at the North
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John Puls Skolnick ENC 1101 5/4/2013 Modern Communities The values and characteristics of a healthy community have remained largely unchanged over the years; however‚ with the invention of online communities they have become significantly more impersonal. Accepting people for who they are and showing empathy towards others are indispensable values of a community. The values of a traditional community as outlined in Azar Nafisi’s essay “I believe in empathy” and Sarah Adams’s essay “Be cool
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The gay community or LGBT community is a loosely defined grouping of LGBT and LGBT supportive people‚ organizations and subcultures united by common culture and civil rights movements. Furthermore‚ the remarkable growth of the gay community in recent history has revolutionized our culture and consciousness‚ creating radically new possibilities for people to “come out”‚ and live more openly as homosexuals. Before the early years‚ homosexuality was a taboo subject. Since then‚ times have changed
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Rebuilding a Community The motto of the National Beta Club says‚ “Let us lead by serving others.” Helping others in my community has always played an important role in my life. On April 27th‚ 2011‚ various tornadoes swept throughout the county I live in‚ destroying a large part of my community. Many of my friends and family were effected by the devastating tornadoes‚ including my uncle and aunt with their three children. I helped to rebuild my community by participating in a community wide clean-up
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Gated communities are housing estates which have a gate or other barriers across a primary access. The estates may also be surrounded by fences‚ walls or other natural or erected barriers that can further limit access. In games such as grand theft auto 4 which has a gated community called beachgate‚ while on television desperate housewives live in a suburb of Fairview‚ where wisteria lane and the residents can be found‚ this is also a gated community also the real housewives of orange county is
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