Week Nine Race and Your Community I live in Champaign‚ Illinois where the current population is 81‚055 (as reported in 2010 in the U.S. Census). Our town has a variety of different people of different races and who may look alike‚ and also look very different from one another. I am African American‚ and there are a lot of other women in this town who are of the same race and have the same skin complexion. I have also been told plenty of times I look like someone else‚ and have even been mistaken
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America is fortunate to be one of the world’s birthplaces of the concept of community service. Early pilgrims had to serve each other to keep from dying in early times. When the early colonists realized they had a choice between tyranny or freedom they banded together in every community and formed minutemen militia to keep their communities safe from the tyranny of British military oppression. Men‚ woman‚ and children with deep conviction and high integrity rose to face the difficulty of the times
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Down With Community Service Dear Editor‚ I have recently read an article in the newspaper that concerned young people doing community service after they graduate high school. It stated that they should do two years of community service. I disagree with the article for many reasons. Many people will agree with me about the community service matter. I recently spoke to the counselor of my school about the subject of community service. He said that most young people mainly think about going
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can be done in one click from the palms of our hands. Can you believe that we can make new friends by the click of a button? In the article‚ ‘Are you over-connected’‚ Tom Chatfield states that the ability of our phones to connect with people over long distances has caused a tremendous effect on our daily lives. We ignore the environment around us‚ not observing its unique properties and the danger it can bring‚ simply because the constant use of our phone tends to be more entertaining. Our heads are
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Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night We‚ as humans‚ have developed such a bizarre and uncomfortable relationship with non-human animals. In her short essay‚ Makenna Goodman describes how for dinner she had her guests come over and one had to kill a chicken for their meal. Goodman also discusses the efforts made by farmers to supply their families with farm-fresh food that has been prepared in an ethical way. Goodman introduces her article by sharing with us
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Diversity and Your Community Kelley Boulet Cultural Diversity Sally Kwitkowski My hometown is Wichita Kansas‚ in which I was surrounded by numerous cultures and ethnicities. Wichita is the biggest city in Kansas‚ located in the south-central part of the state on the Arkansas River and approximately 140 miles south of the capital city of Topeka. It is also conveniently located just 197 miles from Kansas City and 161 miles from Oklahoma City‚ both with over 1
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Introduction to Human Services Jeffrey‚ "A Human Services Professional is someone who is a facilitator for someone who is not able or not yet able to deal with issues in a healthy way. I am taking classes so that I can learn how to best help empower people change their situation by believing in themselves. I believe that people have the answers within themselves‚ but may need help getting in touch with their spiritual or intuitive self. As human services providers‚ we hopefully strive to
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MIHMEP XIII SDA Bocconi 1 CONNECTED HEALH IN BARCELONA CONNECTED HEALTH UPINDER SINGH MIHMEP XIII Upinder Singh MIHMEP XIII INTRODUCTION This reports documents the findings o f a three month long study of the connected health project (AISBE) in t he Barcelona Esquerra region‚ makes a direct comparison o f the project in Barcelona to the National Electronic Health Record project in Singapore a nd makes proposals for the future evolution of the AISBE p roject based on interviews with
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1. Comment how your personal teaching and learning philosophy and beliefs influence the way you see teaching and learning. I have always considered that the place where learning and teaching occur has to be a safe environment for the students and teachers in order to achieve the established goals. I believe teachers have to be aware of students’ needs‚ interests‚ conditions‚ and age. For instance‚ as Brown (2007) explains‚ different age groups require different dynamics and activities to learn the
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Her wine Georges 11-1-2013 Community service is to run service for people around the community for free. I helped a pre-k teacher that goes to Christine curry child development center elementary school. I had volunteered there for a couple of months. For the first month‚ I helped around the classroom. I would also watch television around the children for the with the children .for the second month of community service‚ I would go outside with the kids and go play with them. More else‚ I would
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