A Reflection On My Windshield Surveys

A windshield survey is an assessment and evaluation of a community performed by traveling throughout the community in a car or public transportation to make observations about a community. The data gathered will help identify health care strengths and weaknesses in the specified community.

When learning information about important facts, dates, and the influential people who made up U.S. history, I do not remember learning much of anything regarding the Irish, Chinese, or Japanese. Well, except for Pearl Harbor and the U.S. retaliating against Japan by dropping atomic bombs. I definitely learned that people from around the world immigrated by boat across vast amounts of ocean for a chance to thrive in the land of freedom called America. I learned that millions of people entered through Ellis Island in the late nineteenth century, looking upon the Statue of Liberty, in hopes of finding their right to life, liberty, and happiness. I learned that the majority of these people were stricken of their identities and provided new American names that were easier to pronounce. I did not however, learn about the great discrimination and hardship that these people suffered at the hands of white Americans. The major theme presented is labor discrimination, unequal and unfair pay, long hours, and harsh working and living environments in regards to the Mexican Americans, Chinese, and Japanese. Takaki (2008) paints a vivid picture of discrimination and suffering of the people known as the “others” living and working in the multicultural “melting pot” United States, in his book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.

It is a clean and stylish residential area ideal for families, with an ongoing economic growth and a friendly neighborhood vibe. It has excellent sporting facilities, two golf courses, bowling clubs, playing fields, a skate park, boutique

Are the streets and roads conducive to good transportation and bicycle use and also 
to community life?

In the community, few trees were planted along the major street and plants were in the private residential and commercial areas. The streets and sidewalks were clean with few trash cans visible outside in the front. The majority of the people were walking their dogs, but there was no interaction with the other folks that were

A neighborhood is a place when we spend almost half of our life, a neighborhood can be used to talk about to the small group of houses in the close vicinity of one’s house or to a larger area with similar housing types and market values. As in the article “Southwest Philadelphia” by Michael McCauley, people houses were too close to each other and every one of them knew every single person who lived in every house on the street. They were like relatives. Same comparable an author story, I was born and grow up in a small neighborhood which is Kavaja city, in the middle of Albania. It is a quiet neighborhood with respectful neighbors, safe area and it is accessible to public transportation.

As noticed by the group, there is not a lot of neighborhood pride in how they take care of their houses, although this does vary by section. There are some very nice parks and green spaces, and there are a lot of businesses that are up and running. There are many old, beautiful churches within this neighborhood as well. The sidewalks appear to be adequately paved along most streets in the area, with a few cracks grass peeking through on some streets. All of the roads appeared to be in working condition, with the exceptions of the potholes so many of us Michiganders have come to know and hate. Some of the streets were definitely narrower than others, but there did not appear to be many alleys in this neighborhood. Street lighting, stop lights, and cross lights at intersections all appeared to be adequately working and there appeared to be wheelchair accessible intersections at every intersection within the neighborhood. We even noticed some houses with recently renovated wheelchair ramps. The curbs and gutters were maintained pretty well for the most part, as were the public areas, aside from the recently fallen leaves. The only things that cannot be described as adequate within the Madison Area would be the number of stop signs as well as the amount of public parking available. Another thing that could be improved upon is the

Topic 2 The novel Amazing Grace; The lives of children and the conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol talks about South Bronx in the united states of American, which is one of the poorest neighbourhood and what the children and families in the neighbourhood deal with compared to other rich neighbourhoods. The children from the south Bronx are separated from others communities such as the white communities because of the colour of the skin. Within the neighbourhood parks of south Bronx where the children play, they wittiness drug lords, people selling drugs and fresh needles to support the addicts. The area of which these kids live in is has unwanted trash come that are from Washington height and Harlem, the houses where they live in they

Community can be defined in many ways. According to Meriam Webster (n.d), there are 12 different ways that community can be defined. Community can best be defined as “a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city, town, or neighborhood)” ("Community," n.d). To most people, community is the area and people that surround the place they live and/or work. Community health is defined by Stanhope and Lancaster (2014) as “the meeting of collective needs through identification of problems and management of behaviors within the community itself and between the community and the larger society.” Community as

To the right isn’t really Reisterstown anymore, it’s another nobody town, but turn left and you’ll see everything. There are houses on the right, a high school on the left, but you don't look at either because you're too afraid of hitting, said high schoolers jaywalking in the middle of the road. You stop at the stoplight and there are mini marts, vape shops, and gas stations. The high school is Franklin Sr. High School, you’ll see the kids flooding to the McDonalds next door, or Burger King across the street. Travel farther and things become more spread out, you'll find a Brick Bodies, then homemade shops that nobody really goes into

vehicles parked in the streets and in driveways. Sidewalks line the streets with people walking to

| Multiple means of transportation are noted. Most people drive cars to work in the city because the housing becomes more rural and dispersed outside the city limits. Two people are noted to be riding pedal bikes through town. People who live within the city can also walk or take the public bus. The municipality owns the buses and

The community that my group and I chose to assess was Fishtown. It is a small neighborhood compared to some of the others in Philadelphia but it comes with a lot to offer. On the outskirts of the neighborhood, specifically, along Girard Ave and Frankford Ave, there are a variety of businesses. The vast majority of the businesses in Fishtown are coffee shops, small restaurants, and bars. It also has butchers, boutiques and small thrift and antique store. As you go deeper into the neighborhood, you will find many families. Fishtown was always described as a working class neighborhood but the businesses in the earlier years where different.

After playing Civic Mirror for three years, I learned lessons that I never would have imagined of learning in grade 10 civics. The most important thing I discovered was the significance of participating and posessing initiative in order to be a successful member of society. During the first year, I did not make many trades as I had little money, was too nervous to raise my concerns in Town Hall and did not find it important to sue anyone in National Court. Along with preventing me from obtaining a high score, not participating restricted me from enjoying myself in Civic Mirror like others did. However, once I increased my participation and took the initiative to trade, I found that my grade in Civic Mirror increased, I looked forward to come to class and I spoke with people whom I had never talked to before. Secondly, Civic Mirror helped me realize the necessity of having a source of income in order to be a prosperous citizen. During the auction, I did not buy a hex as I had very little money and could not afford it. Although the money I had originally been given sufficed me for the first year, the lack of money made it very difficult to fulfill my family’s needs for the next two years. This experience allowed me to understand that when I grow up and become a self-sufficient member of society, it is extremely important that I have a secure source of income. Along with helping me fulfill my needs, the money that I

In The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, the title has a strong connection to the story being told. Not only does the title relate to the actual name of the path that the men took to try to reach the United States, but it also describes their journey, as it is one that would be comparable to Hell itself. The conditions that the men faced along the way can certainly be described as some of the worst conditions that any human being has ever been through and may even appear as though the Devil himself is putting these men through a torture that must have seemed Hell to them. If I was to change the title of this publication to something else, I would change it to the Spanish version of the title, El Camino del Diablo because I feel that by leaving the title in Spanish, it would connect more with the men in the story, as they themselves are native Mexicans whose first, and for many only, language is Spanish.