Empire State Building

With the rising popularity of social networking websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, an increasing number of people are using these sites as tools for promoting civic engagement and collective action (Gil de Zúñiga, Jung, & Valenzuela, 2012). Recently, scholars have debated whether these are effective in facilitating civic engagement (e.g. Loader, Vromen, & Xenos, 2014), or if they merely encourage widespread slacktivism – a willingness to perform a relatively costless, token display…

Individual social movement participation can be largely understood through transition points – moments in a person’s life when his or her daily routines are drastically and irrevocably changed. Munson (2010) defines transition points as a simultaneous change in an individual’s everyday routines and a change in their social networks. Those who become active in social movements must change their daily routines in order to participate in meetings, protests, and demonstrations. This adjustment is…

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…

Interview Preparation The purpose of this assignment is to help you begin forming responses to common interview questions. You are welcome to reference this document as we practice interviewing in class. You are welcome to use bulleted statements or type in full sentences for this assignment (I usually find bulleted statements more useful…that way, you don’t try to memorize specific lines, but focus on key points you want to communicate). Tell me about yourself. (Fill in the common content…

Community Means Survival When it comes to survival Leah A. Murray in her article, “When They Aren’t Eating Us, They Bring Us Together: Zombies and the American Social Contract” suggests that individuals that have a community built on a common goal gives these people the best odds of surviving a Posthuman event. The episode “Killer Within” of The Walking Dead shows Rick, Carol, Maggie, Glenn, and Daryl acting individualistic towards members not in their pre-established community in an effort to…

Current census data has projected that roughly one-third of the Tenderloin’s 34,000 households earns less than $15,000 a year. More than half of the neighborhood is listed at below 200% of the census poverty threshold. Distrct 6, which includes the Tenderloin, is home to over 40% of the City’s homeless population. The median household income is just over $29,000 per year, compared to the 2013 citywide median income of $75,000 per year. (Esri 2010) The Tenderloin is also an extremely diverse…

and interdependent objectives. These evenings occur as part of an information sharing technique. Before the two-way asymmetric model could be fully implemented. The community 's relationship towards the WCD needed to be repaired. A step towards building a better relationship, to engage the local community publics was done through Grunig and Hunt (1984) The public information model, a truthoriented approach to public relations. (http://www.nzta.govt.nz/about/media/releases/4042/news.html) lists…

their community with the intent to reflect and grow without distraction. Today, we isolate ourselves because of imaginary benefits of online socialization,empty vanity, self love, and convenience. It’s hard for people to be independent from the inert state of…

the ‘creation of buildings which are energy-efficient healthy, eco-friendly, comfortable, flexible in use and designed for long life’. Besides, Green design should have the least impact for the environment, both in terms of products and materials used in the construction but in the functionality of the building. And there are a life-cycle for these building, from planning to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation,…

The video focuses on a new social dialogue between religions described as “interfaith”. There are many diverse religions and cultural traditions that has helped keep American’s separate for many years in the United States. The main topic of the video is the study of “American Pluralism Project” which became an organized group at Harvard University, created by Professor Diana L. Eck. She created a team that would map the religious landscape and use interfaith dialogue…