Community identity

When being young in communities that have high violence rates and low average income, it can be difficult to not only harbor and process your feelings and experiences, but to also have a platform to express those experiences and be heard. Children that grow up in these areas often experience less outdoor recreational activities, lower levels of academic achievement, diminished cognitive functioning, lower socioemotional functioning, which can leads to later life issues (Shinew, Stodolska, Roman &

This may be a problem because one third of adults thought teen drinking was legal and acceptable. North Dakota reported that there were an estimated 3 traffic fatalities and 68 nonfatal traffic injuries caused by underage drinking. In 2012, there was an estimated 2 homicides, 1100 nonfatal crimes, 1200 property crimes, and 22000 public order crimes were committed due to underage drinking. In 2013, there were very high costs to the state by the underage drinking problem; in total, it costed the state

collections of significant past events. The first item selected is a book called Hey Beatnik! This is the Farm Book, which was published in 1974 by one of the founding members of The Farm communal group (Gaskin). Located in Summertown, Tennessee, this community was a collection of close friends and family cohabitating and operating a self-sustaining, isolated society. In line with stereotypical 1970s symbols and expressions, the book is a vibrant

YoU’VE GIVEN mE oNE morE pAGE to tell you about myself. Just one. There are only eight boxes for extra-curricular activities, only three lines to tell about my summers, just over two inches to write a note to my future roommate, and only one page to fill in all the holes, to color in all the blank space. Unfortunately both for me and for you, entire lives don’t fit into boxes and personalities can’t be completely sketched on paper. I have to do my best to show you who I am, and you have to do your

choosing of service learning. When I consider all the rewards of volunteering for a community organization, the pride and joy of feeling like I am assisting the community is also part of the spoils that benefit my own interests. Volunteering gives me an excuse to feel good about myself while furthering my own goals. With how busy my life is right now, I would have never considered going out to help the community. Now that it’s a part of my academics, I can attempt to give back and help others. I

through parks and toward my tiny preschool, Evergreen Christian. When I still lived in Alger Heights I was too young to understand the story of the neighborhood and the social sciences involved in this community, so when my group chose this neighborhood I was excited to learn more about the community I was raised in. I returned to the neighborhood a few weeks ago and instead of exploring on my Gremlin

Having experience of living in a neighborhood like Little Village has its advantages and disadvantages but I love living here and getting to know down town Loop gives me more of an idea how different the two are. I don’t know everything there is or every single routine that happens in the Loop but I know a bit and knowing a lot living here I can talk about the differences between the neighborhoods and I have been living here my whole life which is eighteen years. The contrast will show how the neighborhoods

Run-down Buildings on the Community All across the US, cities are constantly evolving by tearing down outdated buildings and erecting new structures in their places that serve to grow and improve the community as a whole. However, when a city either does not have the funds or the communal support to tear down a run-down building, this evolutionary process is halted. In nature, organisms must adapt to keep up with their ever-changing environments. This same concept goes for communities that wish to keep

Community service is when you do volunteer work for free to benefit the people in need in your community. Usually, students who choose to do community service do so as volunteers, because they feel the need to help out their communities. Community service has many positive effects on students such as giving them they need in life to be successful in the future such as, certain skills they can help to improve the quality of life for others. There are plenty ways that you can do this, such as working

back to not only your community, but other communities as well. Is through community service. Community service can be defined as voluntary work intended to help people in a particular are. Community service is normally unpaid work, intended to be of social use, or as a way of not sending an individual to jail or prison, or not paying a ticket. Community service is done normally around a particular area in which you reside in. In a way this can be beneficial to the community, because it is a way