Kristin Basmagy
5/11/2014
Corc 3208
Section 45080
The difference between a neighborhood and a community is something I never gave much thought about until this assignment. We all live in on a continent, which can be broken down to a country, which is then broken down (in the US of course) to a state, which can further be broken down to a city. After having a city to live in, it is again broken down to what neighborhood you live in, and last but not least, which community you belong to. Now most people, non-religious or who do not have a cultural identity, from my experience and research, do not belong to a community, they just live in a certain neighborhood. In the end though, most people live in a certain neighborhood because of a cultural, religious or even race based reason. The neighborhoods I will be writing about are both located in Brooklyn, NY. My neighborhood/community is Gerritsen Beach. The other neighborhood is Bay Ridge.
Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn is a small neighborhood located between Sheepshead Bay and Marine Park. Gerritsen Beach is a small peninsula, most people who live in Brooklyn have never heard of the neighborhood, as a matter of a fact before I moved here I had never heard of it. There is only one way in to the neighborhood and one way out. Gerritsen Beach was named after Wolphert Gerritsen, a Dutch co-founder of the New Netherlands Colonies. (Lanier, 92) In 1920, Gerritsen beach was founded to become a beach resort for middle class families. All of the homes built in the neighborhood were tiny beach bungalows; it was strictly a neighborhood for summer homes. Eventually owners of these summer homes enjoyed the time spent here and they began to winterize their homes. During the late 19...
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...ht the food back to feed our own people. We had to begin our own fundraisers, and contact the media to get our stories out there. The community came together. We were all working on each others homes, helping one another clean up, and taking care of each other’s pets. No one else was helping us; we had to help each other. We couldn’t be the victims, we had to become heroes and come out of this disaster together. From this point on the neighborhood became a community. Groups were formed to unite the neighborhood. It was all donations from the people of the community, each who had lost something, we wanted to help others who lost more. Although I still feel like an outsider in the community as a whole, I know that if anything, god forbid were to happen like this again, or even to just my family or I, I know that the community would be there to support us.
The book In the Neighborhood, by Peter Lovenheim is a very interesting look into the lives of residents in modern suburban neighborhoods. His neighborhood in Rochester New York mirrors many communities across the country. He paints a familiar picture of a community that waves at each other as they drive by, yet do not know the person they are waving at. This disconnection of people that live their lives so close to one another was completely unnoticed by Lovenheim until tragedy struck his community. One night in 2000, a routine activity that Lovenheim practiced, walking his dogs, exposed his consciousness to the lack of association he shared with those who live in close proximity to him. As he approached his street he observed emergency vehicles
The Rose Garden Neighborhood is located in central San Jose, CA on the west side of central San Jose, CA. The Rose Garden Neighborhood is located west of Sunol-Midtown, north of Burbank, northeast of Winchester, and east of Cory neighborhood, and southeast of the City of Santa Clara. Rose Garden Neighborhood gets its name from the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, a 5½ acre (22,000 m²) park with thousands of rose bushes. The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden is located at the intersection of Naglee and Dana St in San Jose CA, 95126.
Understanding communities and neighborhoods is not always an easy thing to do. Between the different types of power found in neighborhoods, the types of neighborhoods out there, the changes in neighborhoods there is a lot to look at when viewing a community or neighborhood. Hopefully this paper was useful in identifying some of those neighborhood aspects.
Many studies have shown that adolescents residing in low income or high crime neighborhoods are more likely to get involved with deviant behavior or committing criminal acts. (Deutsch, 2012) There are several neighborhood factors that affect the crime rates of the neighborhood such as overcrowding, low economic status, the neighborhood’s reputation and its residential instability. These may create a disorganized community, leading to distrust and cynicism among residents in the community. As a result, there would be a higher rate of opportunities for crimes and delinquency. (Kurlychek, 2011) Thus high rates of crimes and violence are more likely to occur at these areas.
Community service has become a requirement for an eighteen year old student to get admitted in an university or to pursue a paying job. Although I am involved in many community service, I personally believe that it should not be a requirement. A student should desire to work voluntarily. He or she should not be forced to perform the community service to make their college application look better. There are several learners who are against volunteering. The high school students have various things to see and learn. They should be able to help others by their own choice. They should not perform it just to graduate. Pressurizing can lead to have short-tempered apprentices which is not good.
Conceptually Kurbin (2009) noted that there are a wide variety of things in which constitute a neighborhood, therefore making it quite difficult to conceptually define. Kurbin (2009) also noted that in terms of operationalization, neighborhoods are often measured in different measurements, thus making the boundaries of a city often difficult to track and measure. What constitutes a neighborhood and how a neighborhood should exactly be measured are issues associated with social disorganization theory that have yet to be fully resolved (Kurbin,
“Here’s the grocery store and here’s Mr. Morgan’s Drugstore. Most everybody in town manages to look into those two stores once a day (5.Stage Manager.) A small town without a lot of people, that’s exactly what the line above just told us. In the Play Our Town the stage manager tells us about a small town called Grover’s Corner. According to Professor Willard “within the town’s limits: 2, 640. (23 Willard)” That’s the population of this little town. Living in a small community can have its up’s and down. Grover’s Corner doesn’t want to modernize, nor is there any privacy, but there are some good qualities like knowing who ever you fall in love with in the town has basically grown up like you, or that you know everyone in the community.
In all of the neighborhoods that I have lived in were all the same community, especially when it came to gang violence that as prevalent with the teenagers. Often times I would hear stories of teenagers being murdered due to being in “the wrong neighborhood”, or “the wrong gang.” If not murder, then they would go to prison for committing crimes.
People’s lives are changed every day by their actions and experiences. This past summer, I participated in a community service project, an experience that opened my eyes in many ways. I was a volunteer at the County Memorial Hospital. In my time as a volunteer at the hospital, I was able to meet patients and staff members from all over the world and learn about their life experiences. Listening to all of their stories has made me truly appreciate everything which I have.
According to Meriam-Webster, community is defined as “a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city, town, or neighborhood)” and “a group of people who have the same interests, religion, race, etc”. Many people think of a community as a group of people interacting in a common location. However, to me, a community is a network of people with a common goal, agenda, or concern, individuals who collaborate with one another by sharing information, ideas and other resources. A community consists of individuals who look to form relationships overtime and help one another in their future aspirations. Furthermore, I believe there are three key aspects that define a community; geography, one’s identity and
Life struggles and injustices in my community have shaped me into a passionate, determine, and empathetic community leader. My aspiration in building stronger and safer communities derived from the obstacles I experienced as a first generation Chicana, growing up in a low income community. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles where at age 11, I witnessed how education inequity played a critical role in the life opportunity and academic success of the youth in my community. During my first two years in Stevenson Middle School, I began losing friends and classmates due to drugs and alcohol, gang violence, and delinquency. Throughout those two years, I lived with fear and anxiety not knowing whether tomorrow I would be alive. I had no mentors
There are various influences on everyone’s lives while growing up. I believe the greatest of these influences is the neighborhood you grew up in. I grew up in a quite large, welcoming neighborhood. While living in this neighborhood, I was outgoing and remarkably talkative. Making friends became second nature to me. Playing outdoors from sunrise to sundown playing sports or exploring the outdoors with my friends became a daily routine for me. I was outgoing, talkative, and active. I believe this is the result of the neighborhood I grew up in.
“People coming together as a community can make things happen”Jacob Rees-Mogg. This quote signifies that communities do not just happen, people have to work towards making it happen. A beloved community consists of different components that should make it unique. The community of Alpena is slow paced and not very intimidating. A community that I would choose to live in would be nice, calm, yet up to date. A good community has good people, and good leaders. Everyone has to work together and agree with each other. The people are what make a community, even though there will be disagreement sometimes, if you have the main qualities it should be a great place.
According to Lorenzini and Giugni, (2010) negative consequences of unemployment, however, might be compensated or at least reduced if young people dispose of certain external resources. For example, the help of the family in supporting them financially might prove essential. Similarly, being in a relationship with a partner and having close friends with whom one can talk to might help overcoming the psychological distress caused by unemployment. “Social integration may increase the individual’s ability to cope in a way that reduces mental health symptoms and prevents social exclusion” (Hammer, 2000). Social integration is understood as having a network of family and friends, but also as having contacts with them. In
Community service has now grown to be a way of bringing a community together. There is something important about doing good for others. Every community wants the people within it to be disciplined and work for change. Community service becomes easily assessable for it is the one of the best ways to teach a sense concern and sympathy to other individuals. Participating in community service, allows children and adolescents to become aware of good values and morals. Implemented values such as humility, gratitude, trustworthiness, genuineness and respect are some of the most vital virtues that one can obtain from helping the community. The importance of community service ultimately relies on how the provider distinguishes it. The more time individuals give doing community labor, the more