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    The term community is a more than geographic boundaries. It is a group of people sharing something in common. According to (Miller and Hess 1998), community is a shared sense of ownership and pride in a given place or environment. Police community relation is defined as attitudes and behaviors between the police and the communities they serve. They can range from positive to negative. It is true that poor relation between the community and the police can lead to resentment, cynicism and fear

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    all share common characteristics that are similar. Formation of a community occurs when people with similar beliefs, ideas, or traditions congregate together in a specific location (American Heritage Dictionary, 2011). Members of the community use collaboration, or working together, to provide resources to everyone in the group. For me, collaboration of the members of the community was the most important concept. As community nurses, our goal is to assess the health needs of those around us and

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    Reaping the Harvest “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.” -Matthew 25:35 Community service, as I have come to learn, is all about taking the initiative to help someone in need, no matter their situation. As the verse Matthew 25:35 says above, it is our job to share God’s love through serving those who are hurting right in front of us. These people are strangers, we may not know them, but that

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    leisure are important; however, summer is also a time for volunteerism and service work with classmates, teachers, and helping those who are less fortunate. Similarly, summer means performing local service in order to strengthen and improve the community in which we live. Throughout the summer, I have volunteered my time in several different areas. My service work included stints at Manna Food Center, Gonzaga’s Campus Kitchen and the McKenna Center. My service work at these institutions broadened

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    Living in a small town is all about tradition. Every Friday night during the fall, the entire community is at the football stadium, going crazy after every touchdown. You’ve lived and gone to school with the same people your entire life. The line between family and friends starts to blur. You have to be careful who you date because they may actually be a distant cousin. Sadly, a small town isn’t the most liberal or open-minded of places. With a predominantly white population of approximately 3

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    If community is for the growth of individuals within the group, the case-study of ARMONIA is a good example of how community empowers the weak and poor in society (Cruz- Ramos & Cruz-Valdivieso, 2011). It began as a Christian initiative to serve the most poor populations of Mexico City using psychosocial interventions. Poverty, it is contended, is more than just a lack of material wealth. It is “a culture, a way of life that effects every aspect of a person and their community. It is characterized

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    Community, “ The people of a district or country considered collectively, especially in the context of social values and responsibilities ”(Oxford Dictionaries). Isolation “Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others”(Oxford dictionaries). These keywords can describe emotions in the world and is what tears them from society or brings them closer in. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer demonstrates the ideals of community and isolation for a young boy named Chris McCandless, who

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    Back I believe that giving back to the community is important because they have helped us out and I believe that we should do the same in return. We’ve grown up in small place from small island, small town, and a small school.Without the support from others that we have now we wouldn't have the great opportunities that we have today. The people who have been there for me and that have helped support me have been my father and my friends. The communities that i wouldn't want to get back to would

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    volunteering programs in their communities as a requirement for graduation.Schools requiring students to volunteer in their local communities is a terrific idea, for a few various reasons. For starters, volunteering could keep students out of trouble. Secondly, students could learn new skills that might help them in the future. Lastly, students would be helping someone in need. Students should be required to participate in volunteering programs in their communities as a requirement for graduation

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    this discourse community to stay connected. In the book titled Discourse Communities: The Rhetoric of Disciplines, Gary D. Schmidt and William J. Vande Kopple, explain that discourse communities are a group of people who share ways in how they present claims, organize, analyze and communicate in their discipline. This is significant to note because each discipline consists of different audiences that can comprehend jargon and methodology differently depending on their discourse community. In most academic

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