Community Reflection

The final assignment for this class has led me to analyze the relationship between Lamoni’s farming community and the university. Being primarily a member of Graceland’s clique, I decided the best person to interview would be my boss at the coffee shop, Tabor. The influential roles that She has held in both communities, thus, having the ability to provide insight from both a personal level and from a business perspective. While my recommendation paper focuses on how to improve the shaky relationship through the Shaw Center, what I found to be incredibly interesting was the representation and school pride throughout the town.

As a student at Pace University “The Pace Perk Café” is very widely known to all students, faculty and staff as the first student-run business on campus. All members of Pace University affectionately refer to it as “The Perk”. I have previously visited this café several times for a late-night snack. For the purpose of this unit assignment I got the opportunity to research the “The Perk” as a discourse community where students get together every night for a time of fun and frolic and to satisfy their late-night cravings. I chose this community because I found the fact that the members of this community are my peers and both employees and customers are a group of diverse students united by food and friends very appealing.

I’m in AVID council. AVID council is about making the AVID program better, and planning fun things for the students. It’s like the behind the scenes type of thing. I feel like my biggest contribution to the club was the idea to do a generations past AVID t-shirt fashion show for a video that will be presented at the Clark stadium. I was looking at our ideas so far and we had fashion show on there, and I was also thinking about what we would possibly wear. Then I had an idea that we could do different generations of AVID t-shirts, kind of like how Pitch Perfect 2 did it in their final performance.

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another”- Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway has been known to be one of the most influential writers of all time. There are many articles that try to analyze his writing because of how complex it can be. In his book “A Farewell to Arms,” he uses imagery exceptionally throughout the story.

The two units that I felt I could connect the most to were the mental health and the factors affecting wellbeing unit. I think I was able to connect the most to these units because some of the things that are talked about in the units applied to my life. In mental health and factors affecting wellbeing, we discussed the different factors that can affect our mental health. One example that we talked about was stress, and this is one reason why I was able to relate to the unit. I often have felt stressed therefore, I know the effects it has on our mental health. Another thing that we talked about was how our mental health is affected every day by little things, and, I agree with this statement because I too have experienced

Group work and facilitation are foundational to the profession of social work and require a considerable amount of skill and awareness on behalf of the facilitator. Committed to interdisciplinary collaboration, social workers have become emerging leaders in interprofessional healthcare teams (Jones & Phillips, 2016). “Interprofessional collaboration happens when practitioners, patients, clients, families, and communities develop and sustain interprofessional working relationships that facilitate optimal health outcomes” (CIHC, 2010). With this definition in mind, I was excited to share my previous experience within a clinical interprofessional team as well as collaborate with my group members to gauge their understanding and brainstorm ideas. Meeting multiple times over the semester, our group finalized the details of our fictional task group early on and an overview of this information is provided in the appendices. The first half of this paper will outline a critical commentary of the second team meeting, examining my role and behaviour as a co-facilitator, while the second half of the paper will discuss my experience within the development/implementation of our fictional task group.

Do you think you know which Greek myths or legends are your favorite? There are many amazing myths in the world. Most of them do not make much sense but if we look at them in a way, they start making a lot more sense and that each one has a different meaning in them. Most of them explain the existence of things. The myth about Pan and Syrinx explains the existence of reed and the wind we sometimes hear when we are up in the mountains. Not only do myths teach us the existence of things, they also teach us valuable lessons. In some myths like the story of Daedelus and Icarus, it teaches us to listen to our parents. Icarus failed to do so and faced the consequence of death. Each and every myth is fascinating in its own way. Like this myth, almost all myths have a moral to in them. I believe that the most

Racism can have many defining meanings; the main one is whether it is belief that someone is less important due to different skin color. Africans were not originally considered to be inferior which means white people had the higher power. Due to the fact that Africans had no power, they were the ones who had problems living a normal life. Back in the day, racism has been a driving force behind slavery and racial segregation.

Civics is a Grade 10 course where students learn about our political system, how public decisions are made, and the entitled rights and responsibility for a citizen who legally belongs to a country. In a course like civics, students critically investigate local, national, and worldwide issues with a political perspective. One aspect of the curriculum is personal action on civic issues, by which means students are to analyze a civic issue and develop an action plan to address it. Through this, our class worked with an organization named DILA (A Day of Information for a Lifetime of Action), an organization that aims towards engaging youth in Ottawa by encouraging hands-on engagement in their communities, addressing civic issues that individuals are passionate towards, and to increase the importance of the democratic decision-making process. A DILA project main objective is to simply empower the young millennials, by giving them a chance to let their ideas, imagination, and voice shine.

I thought it was funny when on pg. 284 – 285 that Bessie was saying that there might not be a African American president in a couple of years, and she also believed that there might be even a women president before an African American president. So, today we have an African American president and there hasn’t been a women president yet. Bessie was right about somethings but, I believe that is just a coincidence that this has happened. Sadie was right about Bessie, how she could tell the future, I guess Bessie was just gifted. I think that Bessie would be a great president, in my opinion, she knows what made the country fall and what has helped build it up.

Perspective determines how a person will think about a community. A scholar, for example, has a bird’s eye view and therefore a broader scope of the community. So, scholars are more inclined to view the community as a separate entity from themselves. An individual member, on the other hand, has a worm’s eye perspective and naturally would think about the same place in a personal and attached manner. Evidence of how people think differently towards a community can be seen in the news, where both the scholar and member perspectives are shown.

During childhood, I was taught how to maintain good health through health education from my parents. However, during my past volunteer efforts at St. Francis Medical Center, I witnessed how a lack of health education can have devastating effects. Many patients from the surrounding Lynwood community lacked access to basic health guidance, which led to obesity and late stage type II diabetes. I witnessed the debilitating and life-threatening effects of otherwise preventable diseases in these patients, such as heart disease, tissue necrosis, and limb amputation. I hope to place an emphasis on disease prevention in my own work with patients by encouraging them to be vocal and proactive about their health and incorporate exercise, nutrition, and

I was visiting the local church for a community event when I met potential participant I wanted to include in a focus group. The Del City Church of Christ host a weekly initiative called the Community Cup, which takes place every Tuesday morning from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The church provides free donuts, coffee, juice, and milk for the community as we harvest free fresh fruits and vegetable. I arrived at 7:30 a.m. on June 13th to have donuts with my grandchildren, after sitting for a while and observing the different individuals and families that came in and out I started walking around and greeting everyone. I introduced myself as a student at UCO, enrolled in a summer class called Linking Families and the Community. Of course, they commended me for sticking with it and I explained my assignment to them and asked if anyone would be interested in being a part of a focus group. Six of the guest agreed to meet with me the following week at 8:00 a.m. at Del City Church of Christ in a designated area; 2 of the 6 canceled when I called to confirm our appointment. On June 20th, I met Mandy White; age 18, Maribeth Snap; age 63, Mike Brown; age 43, and Juanita (no last name) approximately age 56.

Community is a wonderful unity, one that allows the believer to live as Christ lived. In the book Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer explains in practical ways the implication, responsibilities and freedoms in which Christin community can posses. Mediation on this book has caused me to view community in a better way, focused on Christ and others, rather than myself and what I am able to received from it all. This book has wonderful thoughts and encouraged me to look within myself and convicted me in ways I had not thought I would be convicted.

Since my faith community, The House LA Church, is located in the same area where we did the LA Urban Exegesis project, I chose to reflect on the cultural and social aspects of Santa Monica, a beachfront city in the western Los Angeles County. Even though the city has more than 900 of the homeless population (City of Santa Monica, 2017), it is considered to be an affluent urban dwelling due to the diversified economy that includes media production, tourism, finance, and other industries.