Stamps Community Communication

Picture your average neighborhood. A neighborhood in which families get together for one or two barbecues a year, but they solely consist of awkward silences because finding the time to get together throughout the year is too difficult. A neighborhood in which cards of sympathy are sent to the family down the street who recently lost a loved one. Now if you picture a neighborhood in which neighbors took the time to develop deep, trusting relationships, you would be picturing my neighborhood. We would gather several times a year and there was never a dull moment because kids would be playing intense games of capture the flag and adults would be laughing about who would win the next round of Euchre. If a family lost a loved one, all of the other neighbors would immediately get together and organize who would bring lasagna on certain days and what type of flowers everyone would pitch in for. No matter the circumstance, the families in my neighborhood continue to be committed to long lasting relationships; however, these relationships are often challenged. With the recent passings of neighbors, Karen Fought and Michael Young, and the moving of my family and I, I found it hard to reconnect with my old neighbors. When I did, however, it opened my eyes to the significance of commitment in a Community and in

“The Contact Zone”, is defined by Mary Louis Pratt as “the space in which transculturation takes place – where two different cultures meet and inform each other, often in highly asymmetrical ways.” Pratt describes what she calls ‘contact zones’ and elaborates on the pros and cons of these cultural interactions. She sees the contact zone as a place that allows people to exchange cultural ideas and break down the dividing cultural borders. When a contact zone is started, people are able to interact on new levels gaining a new perspective because they are able to collaborate with people from foreign cultures. If you are always with people of the same culture as you, you become used to hearing everything from the same perspective. With a

The author noted that “A person living in a modern city or a suburb can, for the first time in history, go through an entire day-or an entire life-mostly encountering complete strangers…” In other words, people can be around plenty of people but still feel like they’re just by their selves. I agree with this because when I go to the library by myself, I’m surrounded with a lot of people but I still feel alone. Furthermore, I will not contact or see

This key experience has allowed me watch how persons on the RCF interact with each other. I started with a group of three individuals who were all very different. These three individuals had lived on the RCF for varying lengths of time. The dynamics of the group was interesting in that two of the individuals engaged in conversation and activities together and did not engage at all other than passing hello's in the hallway with the other individual.

The community I am going to introduce you to is located in Cataumet. It is a great but little town located next to Falmouth Massachusetts. The community I am going to deliberate about is my neighborhood on a street named Shearwater Drive. I first became part of this community about a month after moving into my new house after I met everybody that lived near me. It's a small neighborhood with houses that go around a coldisac at the end of the road .The houses across from me have been there for about forty years. There are only two houses that are new which is mine and my other neighbor’s house that have been there for only about three years built from the ground up. My neighborhood community I belong to is simply amazing. It consists

Being a childhood traveler is simultaneously an identity and a shared community. My identity has made friendships more intense and freeing. A drive to provide friendship to strangers is a convenient trait which has led to temporary but empathic bonds.

Before I plan to go work with a community, I would visit the residents or shared public places in the community to introduce myself. During this time I will do most of my observation. While creating the idea’s for the community analysis paper, Dr. Schwartz explained to us how we should go into a community without letting the residents know we are observing them. Doing this seemed complicated at first, but if I can learn how to integrate myself into this community, for the time being, I would be seen as a friend rather than an authority figure. Establishing rapport will help create connections with the community in the future. Though some citizens may be open to being a part of my research there will be other’s who wouldn’t be reluctant. Being content with not having a response from every resident in the community would leave me disappointed. Accepting rejection is something I will have to continue practicing, as I become a successful

The term “contact zone” was genuinely conceived by Mary Louise Pratt, to refer to “social spaces where cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or there aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today” (Pratt 319.) She also revised the idea of culture that many of us take for granted.

In the contrary, people seem less revealing here, their attitudes are carefully concealed as if there is an invisible boundary of distrust that should be dispersed to bond with someone. I attribute this tendency to American individualism which marks the space outside of the self as insecure and emphasizes the importance of privacy. It might seem comfortable to live in a society where everyone feels good and leads a perfect life, but after a while I started experiencing a paradox of loneliness: when one is surrounded by a lot of people, nevertheless is not close to anyone. Digging into the causes for loneliness convinced me that I was performing instead of living by hiding my authentic and vulnerable self. Soon it became clear that shallow and

In the last five years I have gone through a lot of collective behaviors. The first one I’m going to be talking about is Causal Crowd. Every week I go to the store and I always see different people. I never interact with them like I would if I were at work. The only way I would actually interact with someone at the store is if I need to find out where an item is located at or someone says hi to me as an act of kindness. A way I would get emotional at the store is if a cashier I treating somebody with disrespect so when I get to the cashier I give them an attitude, relatively the same the cashier had given to the prior customer they had ringed up for. Another collective behavior I have been part of was moral panic. Recently Hurricane Matthew

Another reaction, I observed, is many people pulled away or backed away when I tried speak closely with them. It almost seems startling when someone breaks the social norm of personal space, and many do not know what to do or how to react. This actions is confusing as many people know not to invade personal space, a lesson many people learned when they were children. So when it happens, their reactions may vary from how people personally react from

Waiting in line for my turn to give my role play on the stock market, I smiled nervously at passerby. No, I did not necessarily want to talk to the new people I met, but DECA allowed me to realize that many of them didn’t really want to talk to me either. Everyone’s nerves were high. After this initial realization, I became more used to talking with others. I conversed casually about the Raptors with a student from Toronto, debated about Puerto Rico with a student from Guam, and traded my baseball cap for a cowboy hat with a student from Texas.

Gemeinschaft societies are small, familiar communities, where people make long-term relationships and have deep, personal interactions with one another every day. As society grew and changed, Tönnies reasoned, these relationships were limited to the short-term, and face-to-face interactions lessened. In a Gesellschaft society, the self becomes the focus; personal relationships are not the focus of people’s lives (105). American society today is also an example of a Gesellschaft society, because we live in a global, yet impersonal world, while the Amish community is an example of a Gemeinschaft society, as the Amish are more secluded and personal in their interactions

On January 1, 2006, the postal service in the UK underwent a deregulation where the Royal Mail essentially lost hold of their monopoly on the UK’s postal service. With this development, any licensed operator became eligible for offering the service of delivering mail throughout the UK (BBC Business 2005). In due course, UK Mail became a primary competitor for Royal Mail within the postal service industry. However, recent developments involving a takeover by Deutsche Post AG have changed the playing field again for both UK Mail and Royal Mail, with one company experiencing relief from the developments and the other experiencing fear.

Tomkins Park, my choice for a space which encapsulates both the ideas of diversity and how that urban form and constrains a certain group was challenging to decide upon, both on the side how that space affects a particular group such as women, and how such a space may change, becoming more accepting of that group. I chose a space, which was seemingly public and has a great level of diversity of who uses this public space. I decided to partake in an observational study of Tomkins Park, located in Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood of 17th Avenue. A relatively small public space, which straddles several busy roads and businesses. My reasoning for choosing this space was the amenities Tomkins Park offers, a public restroom, free to make use of