My Community Misty Eoriatti-Waymack ETH 125 03/14/2010 Five years ago I moved to a small town and it never crossed my mind about diversity. I am a white female and not a person who cares what race‚ sex‚ or social standing of the people in my community‚ but moving to a small town I just had not thought about ethnicity of my neighbors. When looking at my community from the outside it looks like just another little community. It was only when I started looking closely at the people around me that
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In David Brooks’s article that was recently published in the New York Times he writes about 2 virtues in life; résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues are skills that one brings to the table and eulogy virtues are the traits that you are remembered by. I plan to develop both résumé virtues and eulogy virtues during my time at La Salle University. The résumé virtues I hope to develop while at La Salle are leadership qualities‚ time management skills‚ and a deeper knowledge of computer
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Community Windshield Survey Lauren Vadola Professor Marshall Community Health Nursing Chamberlain College of Nursing January 13th 2014 This study was conducted in the community of Staten Island‚ a.k.a. Richmond county is one of the five boroughs of New York City. The intention of this survey was to obtain a full assessment through visual observations within the surroundings of the community. There are many variations of the definition of community‚ recent nursing literature addresses
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Assessment of the particular “client”. The Austin Community located on the Westside of Chicago is plagued by a series of problems involving African American youth between the ages of 7-17. One of the problems is that many of these youth participate in gang affiliation‚ drug use‚ crime‚ unhealthy eating habits and sexual habits‚ gang and domestic violence‚ abuse‚ bullying‚ teen pregnancy and the list goes on. Another major reason why the Austin area is plagued by some many social concerns is due
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I think underserved community are from vulnerable population‚ e.g.‚ low-income families‚ racial and ethnic minorities‚ the elderly‚ people with HIV or mental illness. They may also include culturally diverse populations such as African-Americans‚ Native American Indians‚ non-English speakers and people living in rural‚ isolated areas where they often encounter barriers to accessing healthcare services. They experience inequities in health status and mortality rates because of their less access to
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There are several factors that contribute to me wanting to be a Community Assistant. One is that a goal of mine has been to forever influence Barrett. I believe that through the Barrett Residential Council and becoming a Community Assistant; I will achieve this goal. I also want to be a Barrett Community Assistant because of Kylie Kilian and James Orr (the CA’s of Agave 1)‚ who have helped me transition into the collegiate environment. They are two of the kindest‚ most helpful people I know of‚ and
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The gay community didn’t help prevent the spread of AIDS in many ways. The first reason being‚ bathhouses were very popular in the 1900’s especially gay bathhouses. During the 1980’s ( when the AIDS breakout began ) gays were being discriminated against and looked down upon by a great amount of people. When the AIDS epidemic started entered within the gay community‚ the government initiated that a way to prevent this from happening consisted of shutting down all bathhouses. However‚ the
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Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics The philosophy of virtue ethics‚ which primarily deals with the ways in which a person should live‚ has puzzled philosophers from the beginning of time. There are many contrasting interpretations regarding how one should live his or her life in the best way possible. It is in my opinion that the Greeks‚ especially Aristotle‚ have exhibited the most logical explanation of how to live the "good life". The following paper will attempt to offer a detailed understanding
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nervous all day about going to be introduced to the Deaf community. I stayed in a small group with people from class by the end of the night I met some amazing people. Learning about Deaf culture and actually seeing it is not all that different; the Deaf were so willing to teach us new words and tried their best to communicate with us. I met people that are in ASL one all the way through ASL four and people of all ages in the Deaf community. They welcomed us into the group and appreciated how we
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the chapter made several points about virtue. Virtue can be defined in different ways and mean different per every person. But‚ virtue needs to bring good morals and be justified with good reasons. Good characteristic makes a person virtuous. Should Virtue Ethics be practice again? Definition of virtue brings a lot of competent. Structures of virtue‚ can set many explanations and problems. But‚ virtue is important because the upright morals it brings. Virtue is a bigger picture rather than a fine
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