Bronx Community College

the social science community, theorist Barry Wellman focuses on an idea that there is three views of a community while studying what social systemic divisions affect organization and the primary social networks between people. The idea of this “the community question” and the degrees of social networking led Wellman to examine the three arguments, if a community is either: lost, saved, and/or liberated. According to Wellman, the first urban sociological response to the community question is…

The most prevalent obstructions per mile were street infrastructure such as utility poles and hydrants, permanent signs, and driveways. Euclid neighborhood had the highest number of driveway at 62.52 driveways per segment mile. This neighborhood is largely comprised of homes that have been converted to offices hence the large number of driveways on small pieces of land. In addition, mean street width was average with a lot of the street furnishing obstructing the sidewalks. Majority of average…

NHS President because serving the community has always been an integral part of my identity and something that I genuinely enjoy doing. NHS has proven to be influential, and its credibility and scope will continue to bring more individuals to appreciate service. As someone who enjoys community service and recognizes its value, I would like to lead this organization in persisting and expanding its impact. I believe that my passion and dedication to NHS and community service in general makes me…

Without a doubt, there are many places in this world where people are able to socialize and mingle with their fellow human beings. Each place is unique of course, but the place that combines so many different social settings in one area is a mall. The Roosevelt Field Mall is a humongous space where so many stores co-mingle with one another in a 2,244,581 ft² space. Due to its immense size, and the variety in locations it has to offer, could that deem it an ultimate social center for those all…

In Gee’s article “Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces” he first discusses the rhetoric behind the idea that a community is a “community” (214). A community implies that there is membership and for their to be members or membership means that some people or group of people need to be excluded. That is why Gee argues that we should no longer be call classrooms communities but instead call them spaces. A space is just an area or place to be used and does not by definition exclude anyone. To…

People can contribute to their communities in many ways. Some of which are donating to a local charity or volunteering at a shelter. For example in Extreme Makeover; Home Edition they contributed in their own unique way. They contributed by building people in need of a home homes. For example one family they helped were the Gilliam family. They helped the big family by building them a house that was suitable for them. The team has also benefited from contributing the houses. As an instance they…

Community service has always been a priority in my life, with this scholarship I will have more time and freedom to pursue my philanthropic goals. As a Diversity Scholar I currently volunteer 10- 12 hours a year for the Department of Community Engagement and Multicultural center on campus. Yet, due to my demanding work schedule I am unable to participate in many other community service projects. However, if selected for the Shawn Carter foundation scholarship I plan to meet the 25hr/ of…

Mary Puls Communities are a place of deteriorating for a numerous amount of reasons . John McKnight explains his theories of the professional problem that helps explain the role it plays into the community and how there are too strong of service systems that weaken the communities. Wendell Berry argues about globalization and the loss of the many factors of our planet that looses the community as well . McKnight would explainexlpains that professionals are well educated and are taking…

societies to live in the community and elsewhere. Elsewhere has both good and bad things. Good things like love and bad things like war. The community is in the middle. No love but also no war. Elsewhere is a better place to live because good things are what people live for. If there is no good then what's the point of life? People live for the moments that make their heart thump, their blood pump, that’s what people live for. Two reasons why no one should live in the community are no one has…

come upon us as a community. A question we should all be asking ourselves is; how many of us would like for a ruthless tyrant to be roaming the same streets that our kids play on? I am sure that this is a question that we don’t even want to think about. I have been a member of this fine community for a little over 20 years, and as a husband, father, and a friend; my goal is to keep our community safe. It’s been a few years now that a tyrant has been terrorizing our peaceful community and we all…