section 61 9/16/14 A Discourse Community Have you ever been among people who are very much like you? That it does not matter what differences you have you all have a lot more in common. A member of 4-H constitutes a discourse community because of an agreed set of common public goals‚ level of membership‚ and something that provides information and feedback. An agreed set of public goals for our community is that as a whole group we do a lot of community service. For a couple of years my
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Sustainable Community: Mission Statement: Our mission is to cultivate sustainable and environmentally friendly practices that mobilize members both across and within communities to transform their lifestyles by promoting a shared “green” consciousness. Our model serves to empower individuals and communities toward creating a sustainable equilibrium between lifestyle and environment. Through individual and community practices‚ our movement is a culture of environmental sustainability that seeks to
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Race is an ideology that was created by people of power in order to create social classes. The main objective is to claim that there is no exact definition of race‚ it is a fictional word that was created by social groups in order to have power and a hierarchical system. The concepts of race that have been discussed represent assumptions of what race would look like if it was real. Society has different social groups in which everyone is categorized differently due to their languages‚ culture‚ beliefs
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ROLE OF COMMUNITY RADIO IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT By Saad Ullah Khan Research Scholar‚ Department of Mass Communication Aligarh Muslim University‚ Aligarh 202002‚U.P.‚ India Email: saadgeneration84@yahoo.co.in ABSTRACT: India became independent on 15 August 1947.Though‚ after Independence we achieved tremendous success in many fields but still much is needed to be done in order to become a developed nation. Statistics betrays that after Independence our growth rate has increased from 3% to 9 %
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Rape and Sexual Assault Community Rape and sexual assault can be traumatizing‚ as well as mentally and physically debilitating to those who have been subjected to these horrific crimes. So many victims go unheard or simply unreported due to fear and neglect. Proper justice is often not served because programs provide insufficient services or lack proper knowledge on successfully guiding and counseling victims. The number of victims continues to climb‚ as statistics claim that every two minutes
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RACE AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION The census bureau uses two basic criteria to determine if an individual or a family can be considered in poverty. The first step is to assess the income. There can be different forms of income in addition to that which one would earn from a normal job. There are‚ for instance‚ social security‚ supplemental security income‚ public assistance ‚veterans payments‚ pension‚ retirement income‚ interest dividends‚ royalties ‚alimony‚ and child support. These are all
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The cross-race bias‚ also called as own-race bias or cross-race effect‚ in recognizing faces is the idea that people can better recognize faces from their own race‚ relative to those of other races. In brief‚ the theory explains how it is easier to focus on individualistic features to differentiate individuals within their own face‚ but not in other-race faces due to lack of familiarity. This is particularly important in evaluating how accurate eyewitness identification is: cross-race effect plays
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Community Care for the Elderly provides community-based services to assist seniors aged 60 and older. Case Management is a method used by professionals who work with elders in need of services. They work with the elder and their families to evaluate needs‚ develop a plan of care and coordinate services to maintain the elder’s well-being. You can look in the Yellow Pages or in the Community Directory section of the telephone book for local resources that provide services to elders‚ those with certain
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What does the OAA do in your community it is a source that challenge the aging generation and the amenities of our health system that shed light on the decline of quality health and the care that the community provides for the aging. A number of these important resources are through the Howard County Office on Aging as regulated by the federal legislation‚ OAA provides funding for the aging community. The OOA structure and support enhanced living program combine an attractive lifestyle with health
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What is community policing? Community policing is a working partnership with a community that helps make the environment a better place to live in. This partnership with the community has goals such as reducing neighborhood crime‚ helping to reduce fear of crime and enhancing the quality of life in the community. And it does so with the help of police‚ local government and community members. With the collaboration between the police and the community‚ community policing should identify problems of
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