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    Disparities: Transportation Equity and Applied Theories Summary of the Problem and Applied Middle-Range Theory All people, regardless of demographics, race, age, or physical limitations, deserve to have access to available resources within their own community. According to the American Public Health Association (APHA), health equity is defined as: all individuals merit the opportunity to achieve optimal health ("Health Equity," 2016); furthermore, health disparities are described as the “differences in

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    Community service provides us an opportunity to apply our learning to real people and situations, and to relate to different diversities across others within our community. Giving your time towards community service can develop the society and backgrounds while acquiring life lessons. It will also help people to further impact the world in the future. By participating in Community Service, it will help expose individuals on what a difference they will be making for our society. Individuals will

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    that they did was their transformation from a street gang to a grassroots organization. They went from creating problems in the street for their community to aiding their community to make changes to their neighborhood streets. The Young Lords achieved some of their goals, but not all. Therefore, they were partially successful, they mobilized their community and form a strong bond with it. The Young Lords started as a gang in the streets of Chicago that later learned how to organize and take action

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    discuss a few implications of this ministry as it applies to a congregation. The church’s ministry of teaching and learning is the collective discernment of the community, as loving people of God, which integrates and challenges the understanding of their presence as individuals in an ever deepening connection with God and their community of neighbors through various reflective methods and practices, which engage scripture, tradition, experience, and reason. This definition may appear simple if taken

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    a fresh new sense to the community. In doing this brings in a variety of different people from different customs and making the community more diverse. This process is called gentrification which is urban change, particularly, the transformation of a low income or economically depressed area of a city into a higher-income more economically prosperous. Gentrification is not tied to race and ethnicity but social class. Although it seems like all negatives to the community because they have lost their

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    Jessica O. NUR/405 Healthy Communities: Theory and Practice March 28th, 2016 Cynthia Januale Community can be defined in many ways. According to Meriam Webster (n.d), there are 12 different ways that community can be defined. Community can best be defined as “a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city, town, or neighborhood)” ("Community," n.d). To most people, community is the area and people that surround the place they live and/or work. Community health is defined by Stanhope

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    Community assessment and analysis Presentation Red group Interview with Community health Nurse Essex County New Jersey Demographic of Essex County Essex County is located in the North eastern part of new jersey. The history of Essex county dates back to 1666 when 30 families from Connecticut established settlement along the banks of Passaic river. Essex County was officially established in 1682 by east jersey legislature. Essex County is

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    Lockwood was a predominately African-American neighborhood. It was a neighborhood where neighbors would speak during encounters, participate in engagements in the community, take walks around the block, entertain each other in their homes, and watch after the children. Essentially, it was more than a neighborhood. It was a community. Fast forward to 2017, things are different at first sight. New houses that scream, “Gentrification” are being built on almost every block. At first, they seem to be

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    The reshaping of countries in the latter half of the twentieth century due to nationalist endeavours has resulted in a commonality across a wider spectrum. The wider spectrum is a globalised community that is able to interact and therefore increase the ‘market’ (if you like) of foreign fighters. Urri defines globalisation as the ‘increased density of international and global interactions, compared with such interactions at the local or national level’. The CIAs forecast in 2000 predicted some of

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    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

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