The Nature of Community Robert L. Warren* The idea of the American community is deceptively simple‚ as long as one does not require a rigid definition. The term evokes a rich imagery associated with the "country village‚" the "small town‚" or the "big city" of an earlier day. One thinks of the country village’s Main Street‚ with its several stores and post office‚ and the streets‚ houses‚ and lawns that immediately surround it in the setting of an enveloping prairie‚ dairy-farm country‚ or forest
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John. W. Blessingame‚ The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press‚ Inc: 1972‚ 1979). John Wesley Blassingame was a scholar‚ historian‚ educator‚ writer‚ and leading pioneer in the study of American slavery. He received a bachelor’s degree at Fort Balley State College in 1969‚ a master’s degree at Howard University in 1961‚ and a doctorate at Yale University in 1971. He then became a history professor at his alma mater in 1974 at Yale University.
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Why is community services is important in today’s world? Community service has been a forever‚ long service done through giving people of communities in the effort to bring up their neighbourhood. These selfless acts of kindness have been passed through the generations with the same traces. As volunteering services have grown through the times‚ there are now more available means of community services for people to involve themselves with. Why is it‚ however‚ that people Volunteerism is so important
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Community Service Once upon a time‚ there was a rebellious girl‚ who always got drunk and did drugs. One night at a party‚ the police came and caught her doing illegal drugs. Her sentence was community service‚ and she did not know what to expect. After the first day of community service‚ she discovered that she actually enjoyed it. Community service changed her life because she got to see and help people who used to be just like her‚ who did drugs and got drunk all the time. She saw how her life
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Role of Community Radio What is Community Radio? The expression Community Radio has been defined in different ways. It has been called a local radio‚ people’s radio‚ democratic radio‚ and so on. Community radio is a form of local radio which defines itself as an autonomous entity – and relies on the community for its survival without any commercial aims or objects. Community radio is confined to a small geographical area. It depends on low power transmission covering not more
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COMMUNITIES & URBANIZATION Introduction George Murdock once said that a community is one of the two truly universal units of society organization‚ the other one being family (Schaefer‚ 461). We are all part of a community‚ and in many cases‚ we are a part of multiple ones. In chapter 20 of our textbook‚ we are looking at communities and urbanization. It discusses urbanization and how communities originate. It also looks at the different types of communities. Communities are defined as "a
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How Can I Show My Patriotism In My Community? When I hear the word patriotism I automatically have an image in my head of soldiers saluting a flag or a group standing to say the pledge of allegience. To be honest I usually do not think of ALL the ways we can show our patriotism. There are many oppportunities put in front of us daily to show the honor we feel from being a citizen of the United States. Being a citizen grants us many freedoms that most other countries to not offer to their residents
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duties‚ they still have to take the communities wishes into consideration. The quality of community-police relationships strengthens when the police achieve the goals of the community for public safety. If the community is satisfied with the work done by police not only are the relationship strengthened‚ but it also builds
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an investigation‚ a case study‚ of a nationally recognized successful‚ community action agency. The intent of this investigation is to understand the role of a leader in the nonprofit organizational setting‚ and the dynamic interrelationship of leader’s influence upon the elements of organizational leadership‚ culture and socialization. The primary incentive is to add to the knowledge of how an effective nonprofit community action agency functions. The study is grounded in extant research in the
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ROLE OF COMMUNITY RADIO IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Aim: To analyze how effectively the community radio can be used for the community development. Objectives: • To identify how far the community radio has played its role in creating awareness about the local issues such as social‚ environment and economic. • To analyze the reach of community radio among public. • To identify what genre of program is attracted by the public in community radio. • To analyze how far the community radio has created a change
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