The Forty Acres Scholarship

What is the importance of a community? A community is a loving place where people live and love each other ,but other communities have problems with their inhabitants. First, What a loving community is made of. Second, what a negative community is composed of. The world could always use more loving communities.

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.

What is a community? A community is a group of people who care about each other. In “The Outsiders” the greasers have a special kind of community. In fact I wouldn't call it a community, they are more of a family.

A community to me is people coming together and becoming united to help better the environment and the geography around them. Interpersonal relationships play an especially important role. This group’s relationship binds people together with the social glue of concord this means that relationships are viewed as real, organic and ends in themselves. People feel connected to others because they feel a unity of spirit and personal connection. Relationships are core

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

Community impacts our daily lives. It brings us together and it provides the support we need through tough situations. Every day we engage with our community whether it is with a person from the community or with service to help the community flourish. It is important to better ourselves as a community member or a neighbor because a community needs strong members to flourish. To become a strong community member, one must practice all types of altruism, give more than what is required, and work together with members of the community.

Athletics has helped shape who I am as a student and as a person. To be selected for the Carl Montavon Memorial Scholarship would be a great honor that I would feel privileged to receive. Carl Montavon was a huge supporter of athletics among high school students, and I am as well for multiple reasons. Not only have the sports that I have participated in helped me physically and socially, but educationally as well. Participating in multiple sports helped motivate me to keep up my GPA for future college recruiting, and fueled my competitive drive into striving and succeeding to become valedictorian of my high school’s graduating class. Athletics taught me responsibility and respect. Not only do I value others opinions, but I make sure

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

Communities play an essential role in the development of the self and learning about the stranger. Through communities, individuals are able to socialize and create a greater understanding of each other. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls describes the community of which she felt most part of during her childhood. Walls says, “. . .

One of my many aspirations at the University of Texas is to become a principal factor of the scholar community. Being a pertinent part of this highly-educated group will be a crucial part of my future as well as my fellow colleagues at UT. Not only will the Forty Acres Scholar Program help pay for my education at the University of Texas, it will teach me the values of education and teaching others. The scholarly community will help me branch my passions to other people so that they can also be shown the same light that was shown to me and they can see what made me adopt my taste in sports, music, and life in general. They can do the same, which will increasingly make college life much more amusing. This great opportunity will provide everyone

A community is a group of people who live in the same area, interact with each other, and share certain norms and values. A community is defined as a locality-based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting societal institutions, informal groups, and aggregates that are interdependent and whose function or expressed intent is to meet a wide variety of collective needs (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012).

In Alycia’s writing she mentions that in her community people have helped each other learn about themselves and their culture, and in turn helped to shape their identity. I believe that our experiences help us define who we are and who we aren’t and Alycia is right a community is something we all live in and believe it or not it really affects our identity. For me I would consider my family, friends, teacher, and other important people in my life part of my community. These are the people that created me, I was born from my parents, but my community has shaped me, it has given me my identity. If the community wasn’t there, then I would still be trying to find out who I am.

When discussing community in the context of our class I find it hard to keep the balance of optimism and idealism. Seeing these examples of community helped me to view community in a physical and realistic way. Pat Nagel form Oakland, California who participated in Lillie Lucket’s Garden said, “And I came to understand that the very specific boundaries we set up were a kind of protection: trust doesn’t just happen in an instant. It’s organic, it unfolds. And so some boundaries are needed – and really, it’s quite fine. The experience in the garden has been magical, beyond our wildest dreams.” This quote can be seen both through the lens of the specific community garden and community as a whole. It’s sometimes easy to get lost in ideas and ideals while in a classroom. Reclaiming Community does a good job of presenting real life examples of slow growing communities that didn’t give up because of bureaucracy or

The word community, to me, means the interaction and collaboration between members of a group to achieve a planned goal. A community functions well because every member believes in a common goal, and because all contribute towards the integrity of the whole. The LA program is a community in which all members aspire to help physics learners reach deeper-level thinking and meet lecture goals.

Community is an idea that the powers at be in any university, including my own, put extensive effort to instill into their student’s everyday life. At the University of Miami, the sentiment of community can be felt not only in social events sponsored by the university but also in the classroom. A specific classroom where I observed the implementation of community is my HHMI biology lab.