school students have taken the community service requirement to court. Recent years have found to bring about the requirement of community service for high school graduation. Responses this has been a mixed bag. Sarah Sparks arguing in the article, Community Service Requirements Seen to Reduce Volunteering, that community service reduces long term volunteering. Whereas Robert Grimm and Suzanne Goldsmith, in the articles, The Health Benefits of Volunteering, and, The Community Is Their Textbook:…
inquired about the local community, Katie explained that although the city of Signal Hill has come a long way, the neighborhood continues to struggle with chronic homelessness and violence; sharing that a few weeks earlier, a shooting took place only a few blocks away. Throughout the interview, Katie endorsed that the local government is of great service to the community and there are plenty of amenities that the city offers to its struggling residents. To address community social problems, she…
so blessed from serving and it was a benefit. I can’t wait in continuing to share God’s Love with others and serving others. I felt blessed to be able to serve others at Water of Life Community Church Children Ministries and use the talents God has given me. First, I served God and others at Water of Life Community Church.I served with WOLCC’s Empowered Kids Children Ministry, with the 3rd and 4th graders. I I would serve in the classrooms that are used for church where the 3rd and 4th…
One problem with Anderson, I think, is stealing. There are a lot of problems with Anderson, but I think stealing is a major problem we have here at Anderson. Here are a few reasons why I think so. Everyday there is at least something being stolen in the world. It may only be one thing, or it may be a few things. Here in Anderson, I feel like it’s happened a lot. From prior experience I’ve had multiple things stolen from me. I also have seen it happen but I was too scared to say anything to stop…
There are several social and environmental factors that play a large role in Jeffrey Ford’s “What Is” that describe why their so called community isn’t actually a community. There isn’t just one specific reason for why the people of the community didn’t get along or work together, but it’s largely in part because they were left to live in an environment with such unstable conditions. Between the earthquakes, sand storms, and the green shakes it was rather hard for one neighbor to get acquainted…
The communitarian places the greatest value on the immediate community. For this philosophy, there is an obligation to one’s own society and persons who are in one’s immediate surrounding. The aim should always be to make life better for those who one is closest to, even at the expense of limiting or totally eliminating assistance to others. This is with the goal of maintaining a stable state. Therefore, states must regulate their borders; it is the best means of maintaining this much-needed…
It is my belief that service to one's community is of ultimate importance. My service began when I was in the fourth grade by my participation in both cub and boy scouts. During my time as a scout, I participated in various community service projects ranging from building a bridge to painting lines on a church’s parking lot. Once I was in high school I took the lessons that I learned from scouting and decided to join the ranks of my local volunteer fire department. To honor both my uncle, who is…
Neighbor; a person or people who live in the home, apartment, flat, etc. to both sides of your own. This can also include the person located across, diagonal and behind your own house. When beginning to research the actual definitions of neighbor, knowing the one I chose as my definition listed above, mine would have to be at top of the definition list. Looking into the Oxford English Dictionary the first definition that came up was “a person who lives near or next to another; a person who…
School, Home and Community Partnerships It seems that everybody agrees that it is important to form strong partnerships between schools, homes and their communities, but there is a decided lack of information about how to go about achieving that goal. In 2010, President Obama signed the executive order, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics which includes provisions for strengthening home and community partnerships with schools. The President pointed out that only…
important to consider is the neighborhood. The term neighborhood has many definitions. From a political aspect, a city may define a neighborhood as the geographical group in a designated political precinct (Data Center Research). The real estate community likely subscribes to “the small group of houses in the immediate vicinity of one’s house” (Data Center Research). The functioning definition of a neighborhood to a sociologist likely includes the following: “an area surrounding a local…