Essays on Community

A woman around the age of 80 sits on a rocking chair with a journal. The journal holds all the memories of her youth. She smiles to herself yet feels a tinge of sorrow. Her childhood had been filled with bliss and imagination. She would…

Prevention is the action of stopping something from happening. In health, it comprises of a wide range of activities known as interventions aimed at reducing risks or threats to health. Primary Prevention is a category of prevention that is all about the promotion of health…

The social media is a phenomenon that is considered an infection that spreads between us and has no cure for it. Sadly, social media controls not only our habits but our behaviors as well. It is impossible to imagine our life without social media nowadays….

In 1962, James Baldwin gave a speech to a community church in New York City titled, “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity” and it left an impression on the people because of the meaning tied behind it. The speech discusses problems that the twentieth century United…

This paper was prepared for Mr. Ian Green An Introduction to the Community, of Damarie Hill, and an Overview of Education, and Education in ‘DE OLE’ TIME DAYS. A Historical, Political, Cultural and Socio-economic Overview of My Community. I live at Damarie Hill, Guaico, just…

Diaspora is identified as the displacement of people from their homes transferred to a new homeland. Diasporic people face critical challenges as they tend to experience a change of lifestyle in their homeland and try fitting into a new identity. These diasporic individuals can be…

I chose my hometown of Crisfield, Maryland, as a population that is at risk to disastrous hurricanes. Crisfield is considered a population at risk because, we are a low-lying town, on the water, in the poorest county. I am not zoning in on one specific…

As our communities continually evolve, we are living in more heterogenous societies where we encounter peoples that differ in intellect, religion, ethnic background, socioeconomic background, or political beliefs, just to name but a few. Many predict by 2055 there will not be a single racial…

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead Community Psychology is a new field with an exclusive perspective with regards to understanding an individual in the context…

To truly understand the impact of alcohol dependence on communities, we need to first look at the alcohol-attributable burden of disability and disease. The WHO states in the Global status report on alcohol and health 2014 that: “Harmful use of alcohol is one of the…