Neighbourhood

over the economics and social profile of the neighbourhood as well as the information from the police there are many reasons to why the crime rate has been drastically increasing. Primary reason for these crime is because of the high poverty rate in the neighbour caused by the unemployment of the people who worked at the shipping yard. The lost of jobs lead people to find other ways to make money to pay for there necessities. The people in the neighbourhood didn’t have legitimate jobs because…

Gentrification has been a big topic throughout the years. Gentrification is when the high and middle class population come into a poor neighborhoods and reclaim them. During this process an abundance of homes are rebuilt and the poorer class are being replace. Gentrification has extremely negative effects on inner city communities that are generally populated by African Americans. These communities suffer from the effects of gentrification for years by losing their homes and businesses to a…

I have known this program for years due to the fact that my brother attended, after conducting this interview I have gain lot more knowledge and background of the organization. However, I do remember was that the teachers from the after school program would go to the Public schools in the neighborhood and pick up the children for the after school program. My mom would tell me stories of when my brothers were in the program the teachers would teach the children more than what the DOE requires of…

I heard once that it does not matter where you come from, but where you are going. While this quote conveys a very powerful message, it is simply a dream for many of the people that I’ve grew up with over the years. Some of my friends can only wish for a chance to have a better life or even to move out of a neighborhood where people are shot in their backyards. As we have learned in various class lectures, the overall environment in which you grow up plays a major role in our development, well…

Planning The unit 5 and 6 mastery negotiation 3 required my team, the Concerned Community Coalition (CCC), to take part in a planning session prior to the actual negotiation with the other team, hospital board & administrator, and the meditators. During the planning session our goals were to determine our BANTA, consider the possible response from our opponent, and try to determine what their mindset and emotional state might be when we begin negotiating. Assembling the Issues, ranking…

The community watched as a building progressed into a group home. Throughout the months they discussed whether it would be men, women, or a family moving into the home. They discussed the possible reason and how it could change their lives. This became a constant conversation throughout the neighborhood. They wondered how it was going to affect their environment and hoped that the people were kind. Over time the community realized that three males with schizophrenia were moving into the home.…

I tend to think that community is a kind of contradictory state. To exist within one an individual must give of themselves and take parts of the Other with them. It’s a state of back and forth, a contradictory experience that relies on the self and the selves finding some sort of middle ground. All communities have their contradictions, their between-states and undersides, their rights and lefts, their arguments and disagreements, their pocket communities and outsiders, and their core principles…

20 months ago I had the pleasure of introducing Bruce to some of you during the primary campaign. My guess is all of you are much more familiar with the Governor now then in those days of his political infancy…for me though, he is the same guy I’ve known for decades and I’m hopeful in the next hour you too can get to know more of the man I am so fond of. As I said then, you learn a lot about a guy when you've been his next-door neighbor for over 22 years… You learn about his childish sense of…

According to Freie, community is an important concept when considering sociology. He states that a community “is continually changing and adapting to challenges in the environment and is created over time as people form connections with each other, develop trust and respect for each other, and create a sense of common purpose” (Freie,1998, p. 21). Therefore, genuine communities involve human relationships where people are actively participating and cooperating with each other to create self…

My family contains my mom, my sister, and my dog. Most of my family members live close to my family. We are close to each other. We would make food for my family to come and celebrate the holidays. My family is religious because my grandma showed my aunts and my mom that it is important to go to church and for their kids to get baptized and do their first communion. Where I grew up, our neighborhood was always quiet, calming, and had polite neighbors. Mostly everyone in our neighborhood knows…