Common Ground

Introduction Common Ground is a local nonprofit in the Shreveport Bossier area. It serves the Cedar Grove neighborhood, which is a neighborhood that is higher in crime and poverty. Common Ground has been creating relationships for over ten years within this neighborhood. Throughout the years they have created programs that help better serve the people within the neighborhood. Common Ground is a faith based organization that works towards following in the ways of Jesus. History of Common Ground Common Ground was founded in 2004. Some of their volunteers have been investing within the Cedar Grove neighborhood before the nonprofit was established. Grace Community United Methodist Church was the facility in which Common Ground started out of…

In order to fulfill the requirements of this paper, I attended a ministry called Common Ground. Common Ground is an after-school mentoring program for underprivileged children in kindergarten through fifth grade that reside here in Waxahachie, Texas. This ministry has volunteers that help the children with their homework, includes a reading program to help the children become better readers and improve their comprehension skills, and allows the volunteers to spend one-on-one time with the…

WHAT IS ‘COMMON GROUND’ WHEN THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED? Recently, the College announced a news speaker’s series underpinned by the concept of “Common Ground” featuring in this instance, a Republican (Karl Rove) and Democratic (David Axelrod) strategist. The Hamilton News site and later the Spectator prominently advertised the initiative. President David Wippman stated that the “goal for Common Ground is for the speakers, one a Democrat, the other a Republican, to model the kind of respectful…

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. -James Beard Growing up a meal at the dinner table was something that was always guaranteed to bring my family together. Everyone in my household had a very busy schedule. Whether it be soccer practice, basketball games, my parents working long hours, and mountains of homework that even as a small child I would receive on a nightly basis. Dinner was something I could always look forward to. It didn't matter if it was 4pm or 9:30 at night, my…

The Importance of Common Ground In everyday life it's important to find common ground, to relate to one another, in order to get things done. It's an essential part of life. This theme of “Finding Common Ground” is represented in the texts, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer in a variety of ways. In The Lord of the Flies Golding introduces to the story privileged boys that have crashed onto an island and must find common ground in to survive.…

Politics' function is to serve men, not to serve ideals. Ideals should move politics forward and direct policies, but not dictate the day-to-day work of political life. It is important to differentiate between ideals and common ground consensus. Ideals are what fuel individual's plans and desires, but in a democracy it should be common ground or reasonable concensus that should be applied for government policies. When common ground is reached, ironically ideally, the best of the different ideals…

Common Ground American lawyer David Boies explains “Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.” Common ground can be difficult to achieve between parties if your ideas are very different, but you want the same…

Bringing people together, or finding common ground, is something that similar memories or experiences can do. It was strengthen or even create bonds. The assigned readings To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, Once Upon a Time written by Nadine Gordimer, Rituals of a Memory written by Kimberly M. Blauser, and Views of the Wall written by Alberto Rios all focused on the idea of locating common ground between individuals. The book To Kill a Mockingbird related to the idea of finding…

On the first day of setting up we chose a farther site away from others deeper in the woods. The first time checking the cups we got two common ground beetles which are know as pterostichus Broad prothorax with denticulate hind angles; crossed elytral epipleural; body length greater than 12 mm; basal fovea of the prothorax bistriata with a more or less pronounced tubercle in center and a strong lateral carinae. Last tarsal segment setose underneath; wings often full; body deep black with dark…

On Saturday, September 16, my learning community Common Grounds and I went on a trip to Philly; Once we got there, we visited two different types of churches. After we visited the churches we went to Reading Terminal Market for Lunch. We then talked about our day and what we thought about all the stuff that we learned about that day. The first church that the we visited was Old Saint Joe’s Catholic Church. When we first go to the church, our tour guide told us about the history of all the…