Sense of community

A community can go beyond the realm of a physical territory. A community does not need district lines or boundaries to set it apart from other municipals. A community can be so much more than an area enclosed by limits. A sense of community can exist in many different forms. From actual groups of people, to the intense feeling of connection and belonging, a community can be a way of life. In clubs and organizations, there very much is a sense of community – whether that sensation is good or bad. When there is an atmosphere of positive community, individuals are attracted and retained due to a sense of belonging. In the workplace, establishing a sense of community can be both constructive and beneficial. A community is built in several varying ways. One way a community is fostered is through means of bringing people physically present. For example, people gather together at a particular time and location such as for a club meeting. Likewise, it is created when individuals unite together at a specific place for a particular reason…

people throughout their day, but for them something as simple as getting to the next floor or even joining an activity that others are doing is not an option. The option to do these things is not determined by them, but rather the world around them. When working with kids with impairments it is easy to learn how they are simply denied the ability to accomplish simple tasks, such as riding a horse or even just simply making a choice for themselves. One organization that tries to do the opposite…

obtain information and are they considered to be “normal”? These are questions that have crossed many people's mental, even if they never could acknowledge it. The contrasting question is: what is normal? My description of this experience was that I would not like it because I did not know if I had anything to offer this society. This spring camp was put together last year and I did not grasp the concept of why I truly was there. So I decided to give it another try. I signed up to become a…

Local is the sense of familiarity generated as you interact with the same things, people, shops, or parks for example, again and again, creating a knowledge and memory of where things are, how things work and what significance they have in your day to day. It is far more than proximity and geography. In my experience, locality creates a sense of home. Every individual, even those living in the same location, has a different experience of the local. Social spheres cause many of the people in my…

WHAT SENSE WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO LOSE IF YOU HAD TO LOSE ONE? WHICH SENSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE MUCH STRONGER? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS. Of course I would not want to lose any of my senses, but if I had the choice of which one to lose I would pick the sense of smell. There are so many beautiful things in the world to see and hear, that I would not want to lose the ability to do so. The loss of smell can be partial (hyposmia) or (anosmia) which is complete loss (Mayo Clinic, 2017). There are many…

What are the Limits in Perception, and does it Greatly Affect Us? Sense perception is way of knowing information of the outside world be using sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch (though it’s debatable if there are more sense). Sense perception can be argued as one of the most important ways of knowing out there, as it’s greatly used in the other ways of knowing. Without it, you can’t reason because you need to be able to see what you’re reasoning, and you can’t know language because then…

communicating and this is the way we are going to work with you…” Not all choices that families made were considered intentional. For example, while families had chosen to use hearing aids, their descriptions suggest a default nature to the decision. One family described their communication this way as well: “There’s no reason why we’re not using sign language other than we are just in his face talking,” similar to the description of an “unconsciously oral family by Kluwin and Gaustad (1991).…

Visualization and Mind-Dependent Objects If I tell you that everything in the world that you can see only exists in your mind, would you believe me? Most likely, you would think that the idea is absurd and that it is against common sense. What if I say that there are philosophers that can prove this concept? In the First Dialogue of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley does just that. He simulates dialogues between two philosophers to try to show that mind-independent…

In planning to dismantle the plans of using 150 acres from the Central Ward to build a medical school, robbing many homes from the black community, information for an alternate plan of action was gathered through Junius William’s collaboration with the Law Student Vistas. Yes, the building of the medical school would push for urban renewal. However, in the process so many families would be displaced due to an excessive amount of land being used for something that was not a necessity but an…

But if we work to gain control of our own lives and strive to make something happen, or attain goals that we may have perceived as unattainable, we will have created what Csikszentmihalyi calls “the optimal experience”. He says that optimal experience is something that we make happen in the difficult and uncomfortable moments of life. As Csikszentmihalyi explains, the optimal experiences “usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish…