Clearing the neighbourhood

I Situation Mabel’s Label is a Canadian company which was founded by four mothers in 2001. In 2013 the company decided to adopt the ROWE (Results-only Work Environmental). In 2015 the co-founder Julie Cole was responsible to present the real results of this implementation on the Mabel’s Label financial results. However, after two years Cole realized that the company didn’t have any perceptible or visible progress to evaluate the implementation of ROWE. II. Evolution After my analyses I realized…

She can smile ear to ear, find a way to make pigs fly, and make money grow on trees. She can strike a conversation with anyone and cleverly pass down her wisdom. My neighbor Velva takes me on a journey through her stories and life experiences. With her stories, I learn her life coping skills, and I learn how they improve my life. So, who is Velva? Velva Dell Brown is the five foot seven and 76-year-old woman that has shaped my life. She is my next-door neighbor, friend, and teacher. She’s no…

The price of poverty is not just economical. The way in which our country is structured is that those with the least amount of wealth have the least amount of influence. This leaves entire communities systematically barred from uprooting their situations. Many people would argue that these aforementioned individuals should just vote, or work harder, or focus on family values. But in Race in America, our course book, the important argument and distinction is made between superficial…

After the airing of the special new life was placed into Strawberry Mansion high school with viewers donating books, notebooks, and calculators. Also, scholarships were donated for seniors heading off to college. The most generous donation came from Grammy award-winning rapper Drake, who donated $75,000 to help create a recording studio in the high school since the school had no music program. Drake hope the studio would inspired students and bring out the love of music that they may have…

Merriam Webster defines Gentrification as, “the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents”. On Urban Dictionary, where users can submit their own definitions of words, one person believes gentrification is “When a bunch of white people move to the ghetto and open up a bunch of cupcake shops”, while another definition from the same site states Gentrification is ,“a racist term used by…

Within 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…

Gentrification has been a big topic throughout the years. Gentrification is when the high and middle class population come into a poor neighborhoods and reclaim them. During this process an abundance of homes are rebuilt and the poorer class are being replace. Gentrification has extremely negative effects on inner city communities that are generally populated by African Americans. These communities suffer from the effects of gentrification for years by losing their homes and businesses to a…

I have known this program for years due to the fact that my brother attended, after conducting this interview I have gain lot more knowledge and background of the organization. However, I do remember was that the teachers from the after school program would go to the Public schools in the neighborhood and pick up the children for the after school program. My mom would tell me stories of when my brothers were in the program the teachers would teach the children more than what the DOE requires of…

I heard once that it does not matter where you come from, but where you are going. While this quote conveys a very powerful message, it is simply a dream for many of the people that I’ve grew up with over the years. Some of my friends can only wish for a chance to have a better life or even to move out of a neighborhood where people are shot in their backyards. As we have learned in various class lectures, the overall environment in which you grow up plays a major role in our development, well…

Planning The unit 5 and 6 mastery negotiation 3 required my team, the Concerned Community Coalition (CCC), to take part in a planning session prior to the actual negotiation with the other team, hospital board & administrator, and the meditators. During the planning session our goals were to determine our BANTA, consider the possible response from our opponent, and try to determine what their mindset and emotional state might be when we begin negotiating. Assembling the Issues, ranking…