My Community : The Greatness Of A Community

Becoming involved in my community has been one of the greatest experiences in my high school years. The leadership qualities and memories I’ve made from volunteering built my character for the future. I will always feel the need to give back to my community.

I am an active member in my community. I do community service with my sorority and on my own. With my sorority, I have organized events supporting victims of domestic violence, gotten to know many different women from many walks of life and have helped them realize who they are and have helped them settle on their own path while following mine. I was able to use my own obstacles, my own challenges to help and inspire others. I have regularly participated with the Incarnate Word church choir and have expanded my faith. I have learned and accepted that there is a higher power than myself and that that higher power has an ability to work miracles and help you find strength in the deepest parts of yourself that you never knew

There is a quote by Edward Everett Hale that the president of Randolph Community College, Robert Shackleford, states in every one of his speeches: “I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.” This quote inspires me to make a change in my community. There is a way to help people in everything you do.

People are born into this world crying and wanting only for themselves. As children, humans retain the same selfishness. Without regard for the others around them, they throw tantrums and fight until they obtain the object of their desire. This behaviour was essential for survival when humans were at their most primitive state, left to fend for themselves against the hostile world and each other. But as humans have united together, communities have been created where selfishness is not needed; due to the generosity and kindness that is valued by the community's members. Although humans have put value of kindness and generosity well above selfishness, it has not combatted the “default-setting”, mentioned in This is Water by David Foster Wallace.

A Community is like a family outside of home, and I always aim to do the best for it. I spent most of my time in the community at church and at school. At Church I assist in bringing planned events to fruition. I help create an environment in and out of school that is warm and welcoming, I accomplish this through music or actions. Tulare Western High School is a better place thanks to the joint efforts of everyone enrolled. At school rallies and football games wouldn't be same without people like me who love their school, and give it spirit. Without us they'd be nearly soulless, and erring. Not only do people such as I make school experiences more memorable, we contribute and thank others through our actions, for example in December our entire

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.

Although our current way of life is in need of a revision in order to help others in need, I do not believe in a drastic revision as today’s societies already send aid to other countries and already have an altruistic mindset. However, the issue that remains is that today’s societies and people don’t

In today’s world, people deal with the constant struggle of finding whose needs are more important. Individuals, and individualism itself, claim to have their life be there’s, and they can do whatever they please, however, when people put society’s needs before theirs, they are doing their good for society, and everyone around them. Society’s goal is to move the human population forward in a positive direction, and to help everyone instead of just one person. In today’s world, individuals must look at society, and social needs to fulfill their own needs, giving the needs of society more of an importance to all.

FAITH IN HUMANITY At the bottom of Pandora’s Box, there’s still hope. After all of the evils of the world have gone out and plagued all the aspects of our lives, there is still that part that keeps us in check. Now, for some, this balance comes from those who take the worst of their lives and turn it into the best. These are the instances in life where the people in normal circumstances do extraordinary things for the sake of making everything better, despite what is required to get it done. While humanity on a whole is arguable selfish at the core, with exception for the beliefs of Plato, there are still those instances, those people, who remind us of what happens when select people go out of their way to help.

Society is not ran by its citizens but rather by the materialistic idea that ‘more is better’. Disregarding another to receive more for oneself has become the norm. What becomes of the disregarded ‘loser ’is irrelevant in the mind of the ‘winner’, however disregarding individuals causes more harm to society than success. While materialism often trumps moral values, society must develop compassion for others to receive the benefits of generosity and build unity.

A community is a group of unified individuals that live in the same place and share the same aspirations or characteristics. This summer, the summer of 2016 I will be joining the EOP Bridge learning community for new college students. I connect with my community and learn how to live with my community on June 19th. The day I will learn not only from myself, but from others because while I am in this learning community I must recognize that we all share the same

One path which we are on the path of is towards a culture that will be cold and distant, or the other path where society turns around and becomes a more and more caring of a civilization. Currently we are moving towards a society that is completely monetary based and rarely helps its citizens. Slaughter discusses how people should think about the main things that matter in peoples’ lives which are necessary and are needed for life. “Care always comes first if you can’t ‘feed, bathe, or clothe yourself,’ none of the rest matters” (Slaughter 233). We need to care more about the absolute necessaries of human life like shelter, food, and access to water.

Shining Hope for Communities, also known as SHOFCO, has been successful in combating a variety of issues present in slums through its grassroots foundation and focus on female empowerment. SHOFCO originated in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, an area with many long-standing problems in violence, poverty, and more. Kibera is the largest urban slum in Kenya, and one of the largest in the entire world. Its residents live in extreme poverty without access to basic needs, and diseases such as HIV/AIDS run rampant and take many lives. Rape is common, and there are very few schools in Kibera resulting in a lack of education for boys and especially girls. However, like many other impoverished communities, Kibera and its residents have the potential to create a better future for themselves. Kennedy Odede, the founder of SHOFCO, started with merely twenty cents and a soccer ball, but has since advanced greatly and now has reached tens of thousands of people. Despite enduring more in the first few years of his life than most privileged people will experience in a lifetime, Odede believes that everyone has the potential to change their own lives, which was instrumental in allowing him to rise up from his unfortunate circumstances. This outlook would later be shared by his future wife, Jessica Posner, who first crossed paths with SHOFCO in college by studying abroad. Overall, the organization Shining Hope for Communities aims to inspire hope in impoverished areas and help these areas

The ‘Community Architecture’ is kind of architectural practice between architects and users. Also, it can be described as architect follow the wish of users or community to design the building fit the requirement by using local materials and helps the residents to build the structure. Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) described ‘Community Architecture’ should follow the idea about "The aim of community architecture is to improve the quality of the environment by involving people in the design and management of the buildings and spaces they inhabit." () In general, architect call ‘Conventional Architecture’ product, nevertheless ‘Community Architecture’ represents the process rather than the product and most proponents claim that the built product of ‘Community Architecture’ is often better than the product of conventional architecture. “Community architecture means that the personal who inhabit it are involved in and may even be instigators of, its creation and its management as well. The inhabitants are the clients; and the architect works for, or at least with them--in contrast to the typical situation where architects and user never meet.” () The ‘ community architecture’ was the newly invented notion that user participation in the environment is more important than any of another architectural concept, especially in contrast to ‘conventional architecture’. The reasons of that could be limited resources, materials and

I wouldn’t really say my community as a whole has an impact on me as a person but people in around me have had a huge impact on me for who I am today. The people who have the biggest impact on me is defiantly my family and friends, I have done so many things with them that made me the person who I am today.