The Christian Community

Without a doubt, there are many places in this world where people are able to socialize and mingle with their fellow human beings. Each place is unique of course, but the place that combines so many different social settings in one area is a mall. The Roosevelt Field Mall is a humongous space where so many stores co-mingle with one another in a 2,244,581 ft² space. Due to its immense size, and the variety in locations it has to offer, could that deem it an ultimate social center for those all…

How can I save my community when it needs me more than ever before? That is the precise question I ask myself every day when I get ready to perform my responsibilities as a volunteer for Lincoln Hospital Recovery Center at Segundo Ruiz Belvis. Lincoln Recovery Center is a substance abuse center, which main objective is to help those individuals with drugs and alcohol related issues. Segundo Ruiz Belvis is a Diagnostic and Treatment Center, also located in the South Bronx. Substance abuse is one…

years like Eggers. “In 14 states, a bill was passed that required 90,000 students perform 25 hours of community serves’’ to help out the community and to probably get their asses of their couch. In the story Eggers mainly supports the idea of students working or helping the community because it helps them understand the way of life. Students in colleges should have a part time job and help the community so that they will learn some value lessons. The majority of the students in colleges get full…

In Gee’s article “Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces” he first discusses the rhetoric behind the idea that a community is a “community” (214). A community implies that there is membership and for their to be members or membership means that some people or group of people need to be excluded. That is why Gee argues that we should no longer be call classrooms communities but instead call them spaces. A space is just an area or place to be used and does not by definition exclude anyone. To…

People can contribute to their communities in many ways. Some of which are donating to a local charity or volunteering at a shelter. For example in Extreme Makeover; Home Edition they contributed in their own unique way. They contributed by building people in need of a home homes. For example one family they helped were the Gilliam family. They helped the big family by building them a house that was suitable for them. The team has also benefited from contributing the houses. As an instance they…

Community service has always been a priority in my life, with this scholarship I will have more time and freedom to pursue my philanthropic goals. As a Diversity Scholar I currently volunteer 10- 12 hours a year for the Department of Community Engagement and Multicultural center on campus. Yet, due to my demanding work schedule I am unable to participate in many other community service projects. However, if selected for the Shawn Carter foundation scholarship I plan to meet the 25hr/ of…

Mary Puls Communities are a place of deteriorating for a numerous amount of reasons . John McKnight explains his theories of the professional problem that helps explain the role it plays into the community and how there are too strong of service systems that weaken the communities. Wendell Berry argues about globalization and the loss of the many factors of our planet that looses the community as well . McKnight would explainexlpains that professionals are well educated and are taking…

societies to live in the community and elsewhere. Elsewhere has both good and bad things. Good things like love and bad things like war. The community is in the middle. No love but also no war. Elsewhere is a better place to live because good things are what people live for. If there is no good then what's the point of life? People live for the moments that make their heart thump, their blood pump, that’s what people live for. Two reasons why no one should live in the community are no one has…

come upon us as a community. A question we should all be asking ourselves is; how many of us would like for a ruthless tyrant to be roaming the same streets that our kids play on? I am sure that this is a question that we don’t even want to think about. I have been a member of this fine community for a little over 20 years, and as a husband, father, and a friend; my goal is to keep our community safe. It’s been a few years now that a tyrant has been terrorizing our peaceful community and we all…

out the community and show the people that there are African-American teenagers doing good deeds. Compared to the activities we did before, this one was different. Figuring out how to help these people in need was an underlying issue my club was trying to figure out. There are a million possibilities that pop in our heads to help out the community. In high school my Gentlemen of Distinction Club came to the conclusion that a canned good drive would be the perfect way to help out our community.…