Community gardening

Harry Potter and the Discourse Communities A discourse community is a group of people who share interests, values, and language. A discourse community can have a lot of different elements such as: audience, purpose, topics, conventions, and language. People are involved in many discourse communities at once such as family and work. In the famous book Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, a wizarding school called Hogwarts chose Harry. At Hogwarts he is sorted into a group of young witches and wizards…

• SUMMARIZE/SYNTHESIZE One of the important learnings for me from this course has been to question my role in service learning and at the place where I volunteer. The first few themes for this quarter talked about the motivations for service and self-awareness of our social location. Especially, the reading by Johnson, motivates me to think about the privileges and power that I have over the other people, and how I could use that privilege to help people. I would say, before these readings, I…

Community leaders should also be aware of the barriers that prevent youth involvement, and develop strategies to avoid or effectively handle these obstacles – should they present. Researchers have found that there are three major barriers that affect youth participation. The first barrier is manipulation – youth do not want to feel like the adult leaders are attempting to manipulate them by educating them on community development, rather than engaging them in the process. Secondly, youth do…

who were more active and involved in the project, were the local community. This sparked the need for the communication activity of community…

In the article, “Walking the talk: Reflections from a Community-Focused Dialogue Series” the plan is to implement a Days of Dialogue which is an intergroup dialogue series that facilitates specific conflicts. The dialogue encourages guidelines and community involvement. • Discusses the importance of intergroup dialogue and focuses on changing communities by creating environments where they can engage in dialogues about community issues. • Intergroup dialogue allows for social interaction with…

issue, challenge, or problem did the program, initiate, or effort attempt to address? The Silver City Neighborhood Alliance (hereafter "Alliance) is dedicated to creating safe, attractive, and resilient neighborhoods. The Alliance is a grass roots community resource that focuses on strengthening neighborhoods through connecting, communicating, coordinating, collaborating and celebrating. To that end, the individuals living in a neighborhood determine the boundaries of that neighborhood, even if…

Community means a myriad of things to different people. Often people are mistaken with the word community. The first thing that may come to mind is your location, where you live, the people who surround your home. That is not necessarily the case. A community can be a group of people who share common interests. For example, there can be a community of middle aged moms going through a hard time with their families or a community of men and women who enjoy fishing. The key to understanding what a…

things are accepted now that wasn't in the past, a new world full of discourse communities. “A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions and ways of communicating about those goals.” “Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. I choose the discourse community of anime. I undertook this study because I wanted to observe anime from a…

Being part of a Community I believe that everyone should contribute to a community in order to improve our own lives and society. Being part of a community can mean attending church, being close to friends and family, being part of a club, attending charities, shelters, or any kind of volunteer work. It can be almost anything, as long as it feels good to be part of it. It also helps create a sense of belonging and closer relationships with people. Overall, it is important to to be a part…

prompt describes the most critical aspect of community: “part.” Communities develop in hierarchies, with those who hold power at the top, and those who follow the voice of the leader. However, to exist within a community, one must understand that the necessity of the community comes before individual drives. Community, inherently, carries the connotation of partnership, communication, comradery, altruism, and trust. I have stayed a part of my minority community through small bodegas that allow…