Community identity

to serve my community with the best skillset. However, it was until serving as an AmeriCorps member that I developed a more critical lens to what public service means. Before my term of service, I thought serving was just a matter of showing up and completing a task. While this is partially true, I learned that in order to maximize change, it is important to involve who we are serving. At times, we focus more on quantity rather than quality and end up doing a disservice to communities who need the

What is a community? To many it is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. For many this is an abstract term. Many people don’t exactly know what a community is. It can be felt or touched and sure enough it can’t be seen. Society also plays a role in this relative and abstract term of community. Meaning, the body of human beings generally, associated or viewed as members of a community. Amitai

Community is a congregation of human beings where they share the same symbols and experiences as well as language (Grady, 1994). Individuals, objects and spaces are all tied into one by the community. Community does not depend on a certain location or area, it depends on the unity of the individuals who live there (Grady, 1994). The community provides familiarity with daily interactions among individuals and creates a sense of belonging. A sense of belonging in a community provides the comfort and

Community service involvement is generally seen as having a positive impact on adolescents by counselors and educators, but it is important to identify potential issues with effective service learning. (Middleton & Kelly, 1996). One of the biggest issues stems from a lack of facilitation on the larger social issues involved with community service. When there is a proper forum to discuss the experiences they receive while volunteering, students are given a chance to understand how policies and civic

people, their community is a place where they call home, a place where they know they can go and feel like there self. It can also become their identity what they stand for.The can also call it their family. Somewhere can they can talk and form friendships.The way I came into the Baptist community is because I was raised into it so therefore, I fit best into the Baptist community by helping in outside events, being passionate and practicing the religion. The first way I fit into my community is by helping

Questioning the fundaments of community building is the start of the solution. Of these building blocks, perhaps the most significant and unrecognized is the chameleon effect. The chameleon effect subconsciously communicates community, and subconsciously marks its outsiders. It is therefore imperative that people begin to become aware of their use of this effect. Admittedly, it is

trigger conflict now or in future. What new factors contribute to prolonging conflict dynamics? Ellsworth (1999) discovered that “ethnicity and religious affiliation are the two highest ranked identity makers for a vast majority of Nigerians than other indices such as state, national, ECOWAS and African identity”. Ellsworth research revealed that “northerners are

Globalisation Globalisation is the emerging inter-connectedness of the world due to the integration of trade and communication technologies across international borders, which allows for socio-cultural developments as a result of the increase in everyday internet use, as well as the interaction between people, companies and governments of different natures. Globalisation can also be seen as the “internationalisation” of design due to the free movements of products, services and assets, which enabled

drawings of their community to learn about what places impact them the most (Quiroz, Milam-Brooks, & Adams-Romena, 2014). Researchers also use children photography as a way to engage the children and learn about their environments as well (Alaca, Rocca, & Maggi, 2017; Quiroz,

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