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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11-3 Community Service: Mandatory or Voluntary Community service is a topic that is highlighted in our society. Many people have different reasons for their participation in the service‚ having it be done for selfish reasons or unselfish reasons. However‚ participation is mandatory. This being the case‚ community service should be voluntary. Community service holds you back from doing certain things. High schools require 40 hours of community service in order to graduate
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The Oneida Community can be considered one of the most successful utopian societies that there has ever been. “The Oneida Community‚ in many ways the most radical social and sexual experiment in American history‚ was founded in central New York by John Humphrey Noyes and a small band of Christian perfectionists in March 1848” (Olin‚ 285). The community eventually came to an end around 1879 and although somewhat short-lived‚ this utopian community presented many ideas that had never been considered
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Importance of Community Usually community refers to a group of people living in a common geographical location. This group of people obeys some social norms and some common value among themselves. As such‚ there are so many communities the world over‚ separated by languages‚ cultures‚ or geographical locations. However‚ they are related to each other in some way or other‚ thus making entire world a one‚ single community. A sense of community is important to establish peace and harmony among
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Unity in the Christian Community DeLishia Boykin The recent debates regarding President Barack Obama’s statement of support for same sex marriage‚ health care and the bill regarding the Violence Against Women act have created diversified dialogue on the national level and produced efforts of dissension in the Christian community. Social media has been heavily populated with faith leaders that made decisions or adopt similar positions regarding the issues at hand. These statements have urged
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in law enforcement is community policing. Two experts in this strategy are Robert Trojanowicz and Bonnie Bucqueroux. They have done research and wrote many articles on the topic. Trojanowicz worked for Michigan State University and has recently passed away. Bucqueroux was a victim of domestic violence and has added ideas in this area for community policing. Over many years community policing has become one effective method used by law enforcement to help serve the communities better. The concept
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Introduction Community assessment refers to the process of determining the needs and resources possessed by a community in order to understand it better. It provides information as regards to the community‚ such as the needs and resources that the community has can be used to plan and deliver services to the public effectively (The community needs assessment process‚ 2004). Community assessment is done under the premise that community has both needs and assets. The needs of the community are the ones
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What is Community Service Community service is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institution. Community Service is when someone performs an action which benefits his or her community. History - Community Service Society was formed in Albany‚ New York during 1939 by the merger of two venerable social service agencies The New York Association of the Condition of the Poor (founded in 1843) and The Charity Organization Society (founded in 1882) What is the
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citizens in that community‚ environment. There are a variety of environmental conditions that affect the structure of the environment. Legal conditions refer to how the legislature‚ courts and local governing bodies expect how the police to perform when it comes to complying with their job. Some communities have laws and ordinances that are enforced for not only the citizens but the police officers to comply by as well. Demographic conditions are the characteristics that make up a community. Each ethnic
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11/22/14 Discourse Community Essay Best Buddies Discourse community‚ a term given multiple definitions‚ has been most consistently defined as a group of people‚ who normally meet in a certain place‚ that have texts and practices in common. John Swales‚ the author of The Concept of Discourse Community‚ gives a list of six characteristics a group of individuals should uphold to be considered a discourse community. Even though a few of John Swales’ characteristics of a discourse community are shown in the
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