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cooperation for mutual benefit” (65-78). The amount of social capital is not at the same level as it was in the past. This is due to a change in the amount of civic engagement throughout communities. In most areas and organizations today, either a higher degree or a lower degree of civic engagement is observed. In my community, a lower amount of civic engagement is evident in children’s involvement in youth-related activities and adult involvement in youth-related activities when compared to the…

The way police serve their communities have been organized around different philosophies which are not always perfect but have had a lot of success. Traditional, problem-oriented, community oriented, and order maintenance policing models of policing are very different but ultimately have one goal, a way to solve problems in the community. Crime has evolved over the years and so must policing so that there is order. Some of these methods like traditional policing is still widely used and is the…

within modern society. Many institutions and clubs still stand to help individuals find others with similar attributes, knowledge, and aspirations in order to strengthen the groups and ideals they present. The Magnolia Campus of Pellissippi State Community College is no stranger to the use of clubs and social constructs. In the school’s current state there are a total of fifty-two recognized clubs, ranging from ASL Please! to the Welding Club. Though the variety of options is present, the…

represents the first step in their educational advancement as they prepare to go on to college. Many will start their college education at the community college level, while others will go directly into a four-year institution. How do students and their families make this important decision? After doing some research, students may discover that community colleges and four-year universities differ in some key areas, including the cost of attendance, the flexibility of class scheduling, the…

are going to schools like the Ivies are benefitting most from the financial aid. Statistics from Mr. Davidson’s studies reveals that students who goes to private nonprofit colleges receives about $25,000, public colleges receives about $13,500 and community colleges only receive about $8,000 a year. Students who actually has money is being given even more financial aid to go to those colleges while those who barely get enough struggles paying for…

Critique of Reflection on “Excerpt from Why School?” By Mike Rose In this article, Professor Mike Rose reflects about an encounter many years before in the library of a community college, where an underprivileged adult student with learning disabilities from a prior injury is working to improve his education through a program that the college offers for continuing education of adults that were not prepared for college education. The specific story that he is telling relates to Anthony who is in…

Bowling alone by Robert Putnam is primarily summarized as our disengagement from the involvement in our communities. Putnam describes to the reader a decline in the civic engagement initially through our politics, particularly in the decline in “turnout [of] national elections over the last three decades,” “attendance [of] a public meeting on town or school affairs,” and “attending a political rally or speech, serving on a committee of some local organization, and working for a political party.”…

That is why any tuition reductions should be means- tested to target those students for whom affordability is barrier to completion.” The things they talk about these article is very true on that they talk about, because if community college would become free then anyone would want to go just to save money for two years then to later going on to transfer to a university or a four year college. If this would get to happen then they should also take in note that the federal government…

Race should not be a criterion for college admission because students are with higher grade point averages and SAT scores are being denied because of their white race. Blacks, Hispanics, and Native American applicants receive a more privileged status. Critics argue that the admissions system is biased and hypocritical because students like Grutter, Hamacher, and Gratz, feel that they are discriminated against in a country that is supposed to oppose discrimination. Applicants who are children of…

GRINDR: The demise of the gay community The advancements of the Internet have recreated just how we conduct and sustain interpersonal relationships. Through electronic communication, individuals can interchange frequent electronic messages and join diverse social activities exclusively through cyberspace. Online dating, for example, has profoundly altered the manner of establishing a relationship. Dating app users can link up across vast geographic regions, and send a series of pictures, text…