Pursuing A Community

For the past 17 years, Elk Mound has been my home. When most people drive through the village on highway 12, they glance ahead, not noticing the community around them. The people living, working, or attending school here are not only my friends, but in a way, my family. I have grown up with people who have more in common with my rather than just where we live. There are 66 young adults in my class today, and I have known everyone’s name since first grade. Attending a small high school has given me multiple opportunities to join a variety of clubs. If I am playing a basketball game, running in a meet, or participating at the State Academic Decathlon meet, I see familiar faces from my community. The support of a small community is personal. Since

The community can be changed if because of our willingness to literally walk five miles down Mayport Road and clean pick up the trash. Since picking up litter business have started to move in and less garbage is on the road. One change a day can make a world of difference.

This summer, I received an invitation to stay at my friend’s house on the Rappahannock River. During my stay, we spent the majority of our time outdoors amongst the nature and wildlife. Upon our arrival, we dropped everything and grabbed the canoes. As we set off, I looked at my surroundings. While the water was calm, peaceful, and a comforting shade of dark blue, something else grabbed my attention: the litter. Near the docks, I could not help but notice the bright yellow Lay’s potato chip bag and the six pack rings from someone’s soda. Seeing the trash just floating in the water frustrated me. Here I was in this gorgeous environment, and my eyes cannot stray from a potato chip bag! As I floated away, there was little I could do. However,

In the situation of a single mom, it would be difficult if not impossible for this parent to financially provide for herself and her child without any financial help. The major components of their survival would be to meet the essential needs of providing shelter, food, clothing, and health insurance. If the parent is working a day job, there would be the necessity for a daycare, an afterschool program, or the child would have to stay with a family member. This parent would require a strong network of stability to overcome the obstacles she might face. In Northeast Florida, Community Connections has made it possible for homeless low-income women, children, and families to meet the ever-changing and multifaceted needs that Community Connections

I live in a rural community named Brockton, or as some like to call us “Broketown.” I have lived in Brockton for 12 unconsecutive years. Brockton is a small community, but we are publicly exploited for violence and crime. Brockton is full of influential and hard working people and not everyone gets to see this positive side of Brockton. As someone that lives in Brockton, I know how hard it is to set goals and actually have the support needed to accomplish them. Brockton has a bad reputation because of the negativity that is dispersed about Brockton resident. Brockton kids are tainted with this image that we’re all disrespectful and low achievers. I want to break that mold. I want to diminish the stereotype that Brockton kids don’t amount to great things.

Actually, the theory is that black women, regardless of socioeconomic status, are simply exposed to more psycho-social stress. I mean, what person is not exposed to psychological stress? Anyhow, the stress produces hormones that are believed to play an important role in triggering labor in pregnant women; in black women, may trigger early labor and other pregnancy problems. Personally, I lost my first baby due to “incompetent cervix” yet, for my three boys, I had to receive progesterone, and sacrilege, to reach full-term. With my last baby, the doctor told me that she believes it’s not the cervix that causing the premature delivery, but the progesterone level during pregnancy. However, we left it at that because we left the country. I believe

While working with Lindley Habilitation Services and Gateway Education Center, I’ve had a lot more successes. I’ve learned how to handle situations that I never thought I would encounter and I’ve learned how to overcome obstacles I didn’t even know existed. I hope to continue my work and education to advance even further in my experience so I’m able to assist my community and beyond in the best way that I can. In today’s society, it can often be very difficult for students to get the education they need to accomplish their

My proposed solution to this is that school counselors and city mayors can be a major source of inspiration to children who are affected by a challenge like this. They can advise them on how to build themselves with determination to make a difference.

I have always been a strong advocate for community service and volunteering. One of my most meaningful activities was my participation in the school’s Interact Club. Interact Club is a club dedicated to volunteering and providing help to those who are less fortunate. Based in a suburban neighborhood, it is easy to miss any indications that someone around me is struggling, be it financially or physically. Suburban communities seem to be pretty closed off, and because of this, I joined the club in my school. Many of the activities include donating food through a food drive, fundraising, donating blood, and even cleaning up the environment around us. While it is surprising to see the vast amounts of trash that end up on beaches, it is also devastating

part of the answer to this problem is to put prisoners to work. It makes no sense to deprive inmates of work, especially since they owe serious debts to others, including times, "outmates" and taxpayers. Yet our jails and prisons do little or nothing to provide productive work opportunities. Once upon a time, the common wisdom was that prisoners should work but now it's mostly banned. Opponents claim that it's unfair

I know a lot of people who have an Anxiety Disorder where it revolves around their whole life. Sometimes it interferes with activities done on a day to day base which often makes their day a lot harder than it should be. One type of many Anxiety Disorders is a Panic Disorder. A Panic Disorder is an uncontrollable phase of feeling terror striking suddenly and repetitively with no warning. I learned that if a person has a Panic Disorder they can not predict when the episode will come again and by not knowing this may add anxiety episodes in between the panic attacks. Panic disorder is based on Panic Attacks. Panic Attacks consist of an accelerated heart rate, sweating, light-headed or Paraesthesia. They may feel like they are having a heart attack

Transition: It is clear that our local community is in great need, but fortunately there are many ways to solve these problems.

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.

Throughout my life, I have been privileged to know a strong sense of community. My understanding of community has been carved out and shaped by each community that I have been a part of and the subsequent life experiences that I have had by being a part of these communities. To me, community means a sense of belonging with people who have some capacity of like-mindedness. When you belong to a community, you feel like a piece of a larger puzzle that comes together to create a whole. Each community you belong to both influences you, and is influenced by you. Moreover, your belonging to a community generates a sense of unity and shares a common goal, value, or outlook.

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