...How do shared events, past and present, define communities? All communities can be defined by shared events. It is the shared events, both past and present, that shape both a community and an individual’s values, goals and aspirations. Members of a strong and healthy community all share similar values and experiences which define how they belong within that community. These shared experiences, values, goals and aspirations, provide a basis for an individual’s self perception. Without them, communities cannot thrive as a whole, and therefore a sense of belonging, self worth and individuality cannot be achieved. This can be seen throughout history, in historical attitudes relating to colonialism, war and equal rights, where conflicting values have seen the degradation and destruction of once strong communities. James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster film, Avatar, privileges the importance of having...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 UNIT 17: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORK ASSIGNMENT TITLE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT – THEORY AND PRACTICE CATHERINE CARLIN Introduction: In this assignment I am going to explore the core theme of Community Development. In doing so, I will come to understand various theories and concepts, relevant legislation and policy, underpinning values, principles and ethics, and practice application with all regards to community development. In the first section of the assignment I will analyse the differences between Community, Community Work and Community Development and explain how Northern Ireland has become a more diverse community. Following this section I will analyse how worker/agency would go about analysing the strengths, available support systems and potential problems within a community. I will then analyse what the essential information, abilities, that would be required of a worker/community in setting up a community development project. Following this I will then go on to analyse the contribution of a community development agency/ worker who might play a role in empowering the community to identify their own needs. Finishing off this section I will review the key processes involved in initiating and sustaining community development work. In the final section of the assignment I will introduce my own chosen community development project which is currently situated in my home town. I will analyse the potential short and long term effects of my chosen project...
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...Community policing encourages that police officers and citizens’ work together in order to prevent crime, as well as establish a bond between police officers and citizens. In fact, community policing has gained popularity in law enforcement; “in 1999, nearly two-thirds of county and municipal police departments with 100 or more officers had a formally written community-policing plan” (Cox 159). However, community policing has faced criticism about its effectiveness. One criticism is that community policing has not been successful in a substantial reduction in crime. While community policing has accomplished helping citizens feel more secure in their communities, crime rates have not gone down in a considerable amount. Also, while citizens may...
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...What I have learned about community policing specialist is that they work flexible hours to patrol the community and solving problems at the same time. Community policing normally consists of about four or five officers on each shift. Community policing consist of the community's effort combined to with the police. They job is to stop crimes. The community and the police works together to solve community problems to stop crimes from happening. They come up with strategies for the organization and the community. " It is clear that community policing has become a specialist function. A preponderance of medium and large police agencies designate at least some proportion of their officer as full-time specialist in community policing. Willis (2011) notes that not once of six sites he...
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...Right now, there’s a big debate whether or not community college should be free. Some say it should under certain requirements, some say it shouldn't no matter what. It's believed that if college is free, it can help give people a boost on striving for a degree. It's hoped that more people enroll to college to increase the amount of people with degrees. I think the whole situation is pretty interesting, therefore I believe that community college shouldn’t be free because there's already a way in which someone doesn't have to pay for tuition, the pell grants basically covers your tuition and more, and there’s going to be a lot of competition because students varying from low income to upper & middle class. Making college free sounds like a good idea, who wouldn't want to go to college and pay nothing? The idea can benefit a lot of people, but there's no need for it to be free because according to Felipe Bezerra, a student at Rio Hondo College, “about half of the state's community college students qualify for those waivers.” It wouldn't really make a difference to many students because a lot of them are going to have their tuition covered by fee waivers. They're going to realize that they went through some hassle to not pay for tuition, when at the end, it ended up being...
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...Alicia Francis Community Mobilization and Engagement 17/09/16 what does community policing mean to me? Community policing, is a philosophy that promotes implementations and evaluations of decisions within the organization that helps them be able to achieve their objectives. which support the use of showing, or involving a system, method, partnerships and problem solving techniques, to address the immediate conditions that give rise to public issues. Some of the partnerships and other organizations like government agencies, community members, non-profit service providers, and private businesses. community policing’s main goal is to assist the public in establishing and maintaining a safe orderly social environment. The Relationships...
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...In this article, I will be introducing what a discourse community is and how I’m a part of one. A discourse community is a group of people who share common interest and common goals. In the article, we have been reading over the past couple of weeks John swales stated “A speech community typically inherits its membership by birth, accident or adoption; a discourse community recruits its members by persuasion, training or relevant qualification”. (Swales, 220). Swales also defines discourse community as a group that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. A discourse community consist of a genre, intercommunication, and lexis. In a discourse community Members of a discourse community generally communicate to provide information and feedback to one another and discourse communities need at least one genre of communication intended to further their goals. The discourse community I feel I belong to is the track community. In the track community, I belong to we show every aspect of being a discourse community. Throughout the rest of my essay I will show how I belong to...
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...people want to feel like they belong to a community but many are pressured to accept their roles in society. The informative and narrative essay “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town” by Kathleen Norris focuses on a small town community in the Dakotas in order to explain a bigger picture on how American society does not want to highlight failures and mistakes from the past. Norris conveys many individuals apart of this community have been trying to remember things the way they want to than how things actually are in reality, and therefore the community masks the truth and hides their history. On the other side of the spectrum, the informative and revealing essay “A Secret Society of the Starving” by Mim Udovitch validates the way individuals, especially young girls, engage themselves in dangerous activities and behaviors because of the familiar environment they have with others who can relate to them. Specifically in Udovitch’s essay, she targets a population of young girls who have an eating disorder and seek an emotional understanding within others on websites that promote an eating disorder community by sharing their experiences. Norris and Udovitch present different issues regarding communities in their essays, but they both explain that acceptance in American society affects how people cope with their problems, how they tell the truth, and what crucial details of their stories they leave out for others to hear. In both essays, females are pushed to follow their role in...
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... STUDENT NUMBER: UNIQUE NUMBER: MODULE: COMMUNITY AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY YEAR: Table of content Page no INTRODUCTION This essay will compare and contrast the community psychology and public health approaches to social problems. It will start by giving the historical development of the community psychology and public health; and then state the differences and similarities of both the approaches to social problems and how they supplement and complement each other. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH The community psychology originates from the United Sates of America’s reform movements that occurred from the 1800s to the 1960s. These reform movements amongst others are known as moral movement treatment, mental hygiene, and deinstitutionalization. These movements brought about the changes or further development of the community psychology approach to social problems. The public health constitutes of four regimes and they are known as the Sanitary Science; Social medicine; Community and a new socio- ecological model. These regimes originate from South African over the past fifteen decades. The regimes of Public health are an overlapping development of the public health that eventually came to place in the 1990s. DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES OF THE COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS The community psychology uses four different models to approach...
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...Constraints * Exigence 2. How can a reader use the rhetorical situation to analyze an argument essay? How can a viewer use the rhetorical situation to analyze an image? How can a writer use the rhetorical situation during the planning phase of writing a paper? They can all use TRACE to analyze all of those objects. 3. Why is the audience important in argument? What types of positions might an audience initially hold? What possible outcomes are associated with arguments directed to each of these audiences? The audience is important because without the audience you have no argument. You’re trying to convince people of your beliefs, hence why you need an audience. The audience may initially be a friendly audience, an undecided audience, a neutral audience, a hostile audience, an unfamiliar audience, or a linked audience. Possible outcomes are convincing people to your cause, pushing people away from your cause to the opposing side, people could remain bias, and people could become angry and/or violent towards you and your argument. 4. What is a discourse community? To what discourse communities do you belong? How does a discourse community help establish common ground for its members? A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. I belong to several discourse communities of which I don’t know how to label them. It helps to establish common ground for its members...
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...Community Evaluation Community Evaluation The purpose of this essay is to compare the similarities and differences between five different communities. Represented are Bland County, Virginia, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dunedin, Florida, Rio Vista, California, and Washington, D.C. The definition of community according to Bartle (2012) is, “The concept of community is a set of interactions, human behaviors that have meaning and expectations between its members. Not just action, but actions based on shared expectations, values, beliefs and meanings between individuals.” A community represents more than the boundaries of cities and towns; the community includes day- to-day activities of those within the boundaries. Similarities When compared the five communities have many similarities. Bland and DC share the Appalachian Mountain Range; Cedar Rapids is in the Midwest, and both Rio Vista and Dunedin are on opposite coasts of the United States. Natural disasters such as tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes plague these communities. Four of the five communities provide work opportunities for its citizens through industry or tourism. Each of these communities shares a commonality of outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, swimming, and sightseeing. Common traits and similarities in the communities exist even though the communities and residents are from various areas of the country. Differences In today’s society there are differences in many communities. These communities...
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...Strengthening Community We are living in a “connected” modern society that is made up of multiple communities and/or groups of people. A person may be part of several communities at one time; some of these communities may include school, work, home, and/or online communities. In today’s fast-paced environment, with 24/7 connectivity, there are many factors that create stress within the communities we belong to. For the purpose of this essay, I will focus on the work community I belong to and the stress that my work environment can create. Once a person identifies the stress factors in their work environment, is it possible for an individual to take action that would strengthen his or her work community? I say yes. Stress factors in the work environment can come from a variety of areas. A heavy workload, a difficult co-worker, poor working conditions, being underpaid, gossip and infighting are just some of the sources of stress a person can experience in their workplace. So how does a person combat stress in the workplace and what actions can he or she take to reduce stress levels? Consider the following tips: Stress Factor | Possible Solutions | Heavy Workload | Ask for additional help. Request an extended deadline to complete the work. Communicate problems through the proper channels and offer suggestions on how to solve the problem with a supervisor. Always try to help others that are experiencing the same problem whenever possible to be supportive. | Difficult...
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...Welcome to WritePoint, the automated review system that recognizes errors most commonly made by university students in academic essays. The system embeds comments into your paper and suggests possible changes in grammar and style. Please evaluate each comment carefully to ensure that the suggested change is appropriate for your paper, but remember that your instructor's preferences for style and format prevail. You will also need to review your own citations and references since WritePoint capability in this area is limited. NOTE: WritePoint comments are computer-generated writing and grammar suggestions inviting the consideration and analysis of the writer; they are not infallible statements of right/wrong, and they should not be used as grading elements. Also, at present, WritePoint cannot detect quotations or block-quotes, so comments in those areas should be ignored. Please see the other helpful writing resources in the Tutorials and Guides section of the Center for Writing Excellence. Thank you for using WritePoint. Starbucks: A Responsible Company Represented by Their Enacted Values Stephanie White BCOM/230 Hannah Rosette August 20, 2012 Starbucks:...
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...into my neighborhood throwing their unwanted items and garbage in the vacant lot adjacent to my house. This has caused an enormous amount of frustration, complaints, and a disgraceful smell in our neighborhood. I live in a small community where everyone knows everybody, and we love our community, so I take it personal when someone tries to de-beautify my city. I agree with Winnie Wong (2013) when she said “I love my community and I do not like to see it littered and dirty. We need to do our best to keep our community looking clean!” I along with a few other residents called for a meeting with the HOA, (Home Owners Association) and informed them of the vastly growing issue. As Winnie Wong states, (2013) “It is important to keep our neighborhood clean and green”. We discussed several options and came up with a list of things that we would do to deter those who would come in and disrespect our neighborhood. Our first thought in our plan of attack is to prepare flyers that would simply state “Please DO NOT dump your trash here”. “To learn of more information on dumpsites in your area, please call 311”. We would post this alert on the HOA site under our daily information file, informing everyone of what has been taking place in our community. Then we will post the flyers on the light poles and around the neighborhood, hopefully to alarm those trash litterers that we are on to them, so they had better tread lightly. But, we figured that wouldn’t...
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