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    Communities Filled With Unique Individuals There are many people in the world who go out of their way to make themselves more unique and more of an individual, as well as people who will do anything to just be a part of a crowd or a community. Is it possible for an individual to be strictly an individual and not a member of a community, or visa versa? Although everyone is their own person, and has their own unique personality, thoughts, and beliefs, we are all a part of a community, whether that

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    Community Gardens Essay

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    Cities all around the United States are creating community gardens to help make improvements to problems in their area such as: high crime, hunger, and urban blight. A community garden is a piece of property, private or public land, gardened by a group of people. The property will produce fruits, vegetables, etc. These gardens can be found in neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, assisted living and apartment building complexes. Community gardens are also being placed in unused vacant lots to help reduce

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    Community: Movie Analysis

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    I truly stop to ponder about it, I cannot fully articulate the meaning of community. From other people’s definitions, the general meaning appears to be a group of people living in the same place who share common goals, interests, and characteristics. As for my own definition of community, I first thought of my family, friends, and neighbors. Yet, these are not part of the definition, but simply the evidence of a community. After more contemplating, certain values and qualities start to emerge, such

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    Community is a word derived mainly from old French and Latin. Each of these languages and groups had different principles and ideas for what community mean. The word comunete comes from old French meaning thoughts about the wonder of communing with others. The word Communitas is derived from Latin meaning the spirit of being together. I still feel as though community is so much deeper then these two definitions. Community in my opinion means a group of people who unite together to be friendly, spirited

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    The community I live in acts like a small town of sorts. The “town’s” (community) name is Knoll. Knoll is a place that is small and mostly undisturbed, not counting the house and the apartments being built near us. I have lived in this community as long as I have breathed and it has expanded immensely oved the course of fifteen years. One of the unique aspects about my community is that my family were on of the first ‘settlers” here. When my family first situated themselves into this neighborhood

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    A community: otherwise a group of people who share common culture and heritage a populace, an alliance, an association, a neighborhood, a district, a society. A dictionary definition is what the population settles for as far as the context where they consider themselves as apart of a community. The word community in the 14th century, had derived from the word “common,” in that time, meaning fellowship in a ‘community’ of relations or feelings. However, the term then became used concretely as to pertain

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    group and I ended with the Seniors group. I enjoyed my time with “Mujeres”, unfortunately the group was dissolved. One lady was very worried about this group ending. In her words “It is a biblical thing to do, it is our responsibility to the community, and we should be very upset”. It was a very sad day. We ended our last session in prayer, and to my surprise, Alice prayed for the SHOOTER and families of the Sutherland Springs shooting. I had heard so many mean words from other people about

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    had the opportunity to attend Fayetteville Technical Community College’s (FTCC) ribbon cutting of their campus cafeteria. Not only was the ribbon cutting taking place, but the revealing of the campus cafeteria name was designated for this event as well. Trojan Eatery, symbolic of the campus mascot, was derived from Michael Morrison a student who submitted the winning name of the new cafeteria. This paper discusses my reflection of a community group visit as it relates to the purpose of the group

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    Discourse Community Essay

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    and addition of knowledge in discourse communities. A discourse community is a group of people that develop and share a sense of identity primarily through the sharing and exchanging of information on a specific subject or field. The two main form of communication in discourse communities are through reading and writing. Through reading one becomes familiar and starts to understand a community, and writing is when one participates in it. Each discourse community develops its own unique technical language

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    need to negotiate their inclusion into the national community that dissimilar to that of their ethnic heritage. Strategic representation is needed to collaborate their identities as migrants with their claims to inclusion. Of course, some migrant children born in their parents’ host country may find themselves at odds with the previous generations’ methods, and struggle to make themselves out as people who grow alongside the national community. Ultimately, it is a matter of what migrants and their

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