Courtney Parker Community

2. The community of Chicago was very close, and very outgoing in itself. “The wait was electric, for Chicago was a prideful place… So far the year had been a fine one. Chicago’s population had topped one million for the first time, making the city the second most populous nation after New York.” (pg 13) Chicago takes pride in everything about the city. From its population to its world famous fair, the city beams in the light of its pride, and failure is seen as a humiliating disgrace.

In the book Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman there are many different characters, and even some of them cross paths. A community garden was started in Cleveland Ohio just by one person therefore everyone follows. They all learn how to get along with other people, how to not stereotype so much, and how to depend on each other in their community. All of them struggle with something, whether it's with family, friends, or feeling stereotyped. They learn the importance of a community, and realize how much they really depend on each other. Seedfolks shows that having a community is important for all people to incorporate diversity, culture,and unique stories into their lives. You don't realize how much people depend on their community until its gone. The importance of a community is shown through the characters and shown by how they act, what they say, overall how they are perceived by other people.

Communities play an essential role in the development of the self and learning about the stranger. Through communities, individuals are able to socialize and gain a greater understanding of each other. A community can be defined in many different ways based on every individual’s experience with it. Developing a strong community takes time. Some people, like Jeannette Walls, do not have the opportunity to develop strong communities throughout their childhood.

A community is a place where people around supposed to be able to live and thrive together. When one thinks of a community, the image that most likely is visualized is one of a place where each person lives harmoniously with all the other members of that community. While this may be the typical image of a community, it is not the realistic view. In reality communities can share both good and bad aspects. In Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom make the argument that the place a person lives ultimately matters over all else; the place which a person lives effects the choices that that he/she makes and determines his/her ability to obtain a

In Pax, Sara Pennypacker uses the quote “Just because it isn’t happening here doesn’t mean it isn’t happening” before the fist chapter to get the reader thinking about the setting of the book, and to make you think about the overall feeling of the book. I think this quote means that just because you are not experiencing a difficulty or a struggle, it does not mean that everyone else is not struggling. For example, many people in places that are relatively peaceful may not be going through struggles such as war. This does not mean other people in other places are not experiencing war. Also, the quote is trying to tell the reader to have compassion for other people who are in worse situations than you. I think the author's reasoning for putting

Community gatherings are a great way to get to know your neighbors. Moreover, it is a brilliant way to build communication skills and social networking skills, which can be beneficial when looking for jobs. In addition, community gathering in Jane and Finch happens sometimes with a BBQ or even a bake sale to raise money and support schools and other organizations. This demonstrates the bond that people have between each other in Jane and Finch, which the media doesn’t realize and make effort to show to world. However, not only Jane and Finch has many community gatherings, it also has many more specialized programs and opportunities than other schools in the city of Toronto which contribute to making the Jane and Finch community the best community to live

After reading Our Town often readers will conclude that Wilder criticizes our lack of appreciation for life. On the contrary, Wilder completely obliterates the idea that such admiration is remotely possible, and presents the reader with an ultimatum surrounding life’s appreciation in which neither option is ideal.

First, community is our “home.” We have been living in a community ever since we were just little babies and it has always influenced us. Communities have played a big part in who we are today. We start off in school not knowing anyone or anything and as you get older you begin to think about the

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success” (Henry Ford). In the novel Southland by Nina Revoyr, due to the injustices and struggles that characters face, they are forced to come together in the face of adversity and times of conflict in order to achieve their vision of the American Dream. With Los Angeles set as the stage, we as readers are taken through a series of trials and tribulations during the 1940s to 1990s, which uncover the true characteristics of the city instead of the ideal city that was promised to those who migrated. Los Angeles was depicted as the city of Sunshine, and a new land of opportunity, and although you could find glimpses of the sunshine through the shadows, there was much more negativity than one expected.

The narrator is not the only person on her block to be secluded from the people who are so physically proximate to her. The boy from number eighteen wrote on the back of a photograph, “ There are so many people in this world he says, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my nextdoor neighbor 's name”. (216) The fact that all of these people are jam packed together so closely, yet their lives seldom overlap, shows a communal disunion. Globally there is such an expanse of beauty and wonder, yet nobody stops and examines the beauty that is surrounding them.

Community is built of two main elements. First, community requires communal caring. Members need to put themselves in positions where they are able to relate to other members and does everything “within reasonable limits of self-sacrifice” (65). The second is communal reciprocity. Individuals will serve other members of the community, not for exchange of goods, but to provide generosity and support. These elements of community appear in the lives of all individuals, even the most capitalist ones. Humans are entirely capable of these.

“I grew up there, thought I’d spend my entire life calling that city ‘Home.’ But it didn’t workout that way. I learned to love it here too,” Dustin told his neighbour’s grandkids, remembering the horrific event that tore him away from his home and ended his career. His neighbour, Sally, and her family were the only people who accepted Dustin; they shared something in common, the disaster. Sally lost her husband in the tragedy that destroyed Dustin’s once handsome face.

The community is of a dreamlike place, embodying visions of the American flag, bake sales, and neighborhood gatherings. People will expect to experience a transition as if they were "going to be leaving America and going into this fantasy kingdom, where there is no crime, with only people like me. Celebrations premise is that residents will stroll treelined streets to afternoon matinees, waving to their neighbors on the front porches along the way"(Wilson 2). Despite the beauty of Celebration, this artificial front gives people reservations about living in such a community.

While their oppressing attitudes make Carol’s dream of renovating a town hardly plausible, she doesn’t abandon her goals. In fact, this encourages her to press harder for her ideas of a more modern, intellectual lifestyle. In a town where all of the city magic is nonexistent, she wants nothing more than to make her

New York City that is depicted in Taxi Driver seems to be too real to be true. It is a place where violence runs rampant, drugs are cheap, and sex is easy. This world may be all too familiar to many that live in major metropolitan areas. But, in the film there is something interesting, and vibrant about the streets that Travis Bickle drives alone, despite the amount of danger and turmoil that overshadows everything in the nights of the city. In the film “Taxi Driver” director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader find and express a trial that many people face, the search for belonging and acceptance.