Community

The Community Nursing (3QQ3) course has been an eye opening journey for me in to the world of community nursing. At the start of the initial course doing the practice tools I was quite apprehensive and had no idea what to expect. It was hard in the early few weeks to see how this course would evolve. But, as I became oriented and more familiar with the community the bigger picture began to form. Indeed, the windshield survey was a great tool to assess our community. This was an assessment unlike…

Communities and organizations can collaborate to promote resilience with families and children. In order to increase protective factors in a high risk community, it is often necessary for agencies to work together in order to provide comprehensive services. As a human service professional it is important to recognize both the benefit and challenges of providing these services. Communities, agencies, and families can work together to increase the protective factors identified in resilience.…

semester, I participated in serval service-learning events which have broaden my insight on issues within my community. I participated in service-learning events held by Faith in Fresno. The overall mission statement of Faith in Fresno is to “…unlock the power of people to put faith into action in the public square, and to advance a movement for racial justice and health equity.” The community service related events I participated in were Day of Action and Rapid Response Training, which were…

Through education programs, community engagement, and city-wide collaboration, this project strives to create opportunities that support the remedial efforts at the waterfront via agencies (ex: BARC), community groups, and public volunteers. Hamilton residents now have the opportunity to shape the future of the West Harbour community by participating in community engagement events such as: “A West Harbour Engagement Planning Stakeholder Workshop”…

Discourse Community: A discourse community can be defined as a group of people who link up in order to pursue objectives that are prior to those of socialization. Which basically means it’s a group of people that share the same interests and goals and communicate in a certain way. These discourse communities have several different genres including: books, debates, sports, lectures and more. You need to master specific terminologies in order to be a part of a specific discourse community.…

A primary discourse community that I am apart of is an academic one. Harris described academic discourse communities as a “…meta-community tied to no particular time or place” (Harris 14). As a college student, I am constantly writing papers and turning in assignments. Likewise, I am held at a high standard as a Miami University student to follow certain guidelines, whether it be a part of Miami’s policy or simple assignment guidelines set by the professor. As Swales talks about in an article,…

text “Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People.” he defines discourse community as a close or loose knit group of people who have the same interests or beliefs (Bazerman). In the church that I partake in follows a god that died thousands of years before I was introduced to him at the early age of 6. Through Bazerman’s definition of a discourse community he states that the social facts are believed to be true and most of the facts can be proven to be true…

with those who share the same views, abilities, and language as them. A discourse community is typically described as a group of people with similar goals, customs, and experiences. A person may belong to multiple communities and may very well overlap. I belong to four main discourse communities: Hampton University Student body, McDonald’s crew member, Social media, and Family. Each one of these different communities contain different vocabulary , specialized language, purposes for writing ,…

is Not Just a Discourse Community, it’s My Life. Throughout our life time, we have all been apart of a discourse community before, whether it has to do with a specific sports team that we participate in, or an online community like Facebook, twitter, and Instagram. John Swales definition of a discourse community is simply a distinctive group with descriptive characteristics. The discourse community I ended up choosing was my own, which is my soccer life. A soccer community can be defined in so…

“Community” is a word that connects us with each other; it highlights a specific experience that we all share, a community is more than just a neighborhood, it is a common identity, and it is a set of relationships among people. It is pivotal that each and everyone of us give back to this experience in anyway we can. It is our civic duty as members of our communities to engage in some form service. Giving back to the community has a lasting and positive impact on society at large. Community…