Clearing the neighbourhood

Lutheran Settlement House is really the only social service agency within the community. It has been providing services to Fishtown and the Philadelphia area since 1902. The services since then may have changed but it’s core mission of “empowering individuals, families, and communities to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency through an integrated program of social, educational, and advocacy services” has not ("History | Lutheran Settlement House | Empowering Children, Adults, Families, and…

John Wideman’s Our Time tells the story of two brothers and the differences between them. John, the author and primary narrator, is a successful author and teacher. The primary focus of the story his brother Robert, who is younger by ten years. Robert or “Robby”, spent much of his young adult life on the streets addicted to heroin until being jailed for a robbery. Wideman illustrates how differently each brother develop using place. Much of the story is set in the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of…

For the purpose of this assignment, I decided to use a recent community meeting of my residential neighbourhood back home in Calgary; Meadowlark Park. Meadowlark Park is one of the smallest neighbourhoods in the city, located in the SW quadrant, there are approximately 275 homes and just over 600 residents. Being located next to the largest and most popular mall in the city, as well as two of the major roadways (Glenmore Trail and Elbow Drive), the community itself has developed and gone through…

A Man Called Ove Living with an old man who believes in what he knows and only does what he wants to make it the best for himself describes Ove in the book: A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman. It illustrates the life of a stubborn man who comes off to have a harsh first impression, but with composure and acceptance shows the true side of Ove. Cultural differences illustrated throughout the book compare closely to the life in America, a variety of character personalities create a diverse…

The neighborhood you live in during your prime development stages is crucial to the type of person you will become in the future. The impact is so great that it has created stereotypes and social innuendos for the people that live in these communities. My philosophy about these two neighborhoods as well as any is that they are very much similar in the fact that they both raise up children with different values and mindsets. However, despite what most people think, this is actually a beneficial…

Entertain the Neighborhood at This Woodland Hills House Priced at $1,499,000 With a pricetag of only $1,499,000, this five bedroom home in Woodland Hills is a steal. The 3,196 square foot home features seamless transitions of indoor and outdoor living, and is perfect for entertaining. In fact, the large home boasts enough space to entertain the entire neighborhood. Family, friends, and neighbors will be delighted to oblige as you extend an invitation to this open-planned Spanish Ranch style…

As my community profile, I will be doing an ethnographic study of downtown Cincinnati. The agency that I am doing my internship is at Hamilton County Job and Family Services. The agency is based in the heart of Downtown Cincinnati. I thought this would be a good community to research demographics and compositions because, it’s the neighborhood that the agency workers are in the most. What is a community? A community is an area where a group people lives in the same place. This is could be a…

Community, the place where we are supposed to belong, be accepted, and grow in. A community is something built on bonds, different types of bonds, that are important in our lives. We are living in a time where working alone is not profitable. We must work together. I love to help personally. I live far from Carlos Fuentes so I don't get much chances to help out in this community. However, i try my best to help mine, or to help others. I go to church and there we hold many events where i love to…

For years, I have wondered why my neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York known as Brownsville is so dysfunctional as compared to my past neighborhoods. After doing my research, I think I found an answer that can be supported through the lens of Shaw and McKay's Social Disorganization Theory. Developed by the Chicago school, the theory links crime rates within a neighborhood environmental characteristics. "Social disorganization is the consequence of a community's inability to realize common values…

Good morning class, What do you think defines community? Community is an important part of belonging and is formed through interactions between group, place and the individual. I believe that the exploration of Radu Mihaileanu’s film “Live and Become” has enabled us to understand the importance of group perspective towards outsiders in belonging. Judith Wright’s 1920 poem “Remittance Man” highlights the interaction between individual and place, whilst discussing the need for change in some…