Community service has always been a part of what we were taught as an act that must be a part of our lives as students, citizens and as adults. Read More »
social change
Community Service - a duty, an obligation, a choice, a honor, a responsibility, or a personal definition
By Godsanointed1024 - Posted on December 14th, 2008
Tagged: community involvement
• community service
• definition of development
• Duty
• personal choice
• public service
• social change
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Personal freedom
• Better future
Which Is The Worst Of Them All?
By bleedingheart - Posted on November 19th, 2008
The social issue that I find most troubling of all is poverty. Mainly the poverty that exists in the United States. I find it mind boggling that there are so many resources that the United States has, but yet 37 million people still live in poverty in our country. Read More »
Seven MORE Deadly Sins
By sahara - Posted on November 14th, 2008
Tagged: Catholicism
• church
• Ethics
• Religion
• SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
• social change
• Social Justice
As you may have picked up, dear reader, from previous posts, I am a drug and alcohol counselor with homeless addicts in a city setting. One of my clients, during our one on one session a few days ago, came to me with fears that she is going to hell because she is homeless. She informed me that the Vatican recently released a new list of things that are deadly sins, and this was on it. Read More »
Who is going to look out for me?
By sahara - Posted on November 4th, 2008
Tagged: Effective Government
• politics
• presonal freedom
• responsibility
• SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
• social change
• social work
• voting
I cast my vote this morning, and I really struggled with this one, dear reader. I struggled with deciding whether I should vote for the candidate that I thought would be good for my country or the one that would be more beneficial for my family (myself?) and their interests. Read More »
The Angry Black Man is Back
By phendy - Posted on October 29th, 2008
Tagged: social change
• Broad prosperity
Yeah I told you I would be back. I got a lot to say. Yeah, it's great we going have a black President, finally. Like he was the only qualified in the last 30 years. Was not Du Bois qualified? Read More »
Combating Socialization
By whispers awnesty - Posted on June 16th, 2008
Tagged: children. homosexuaility
• homosexual
• Parenting
• social change
• social responsibility
• socialization
• Personal freedom
I wanted to be a different kind of parent. One that would break free of the societal norms and give my children a purer out look on life. Read More »
What does HEALTH mean to you? (Part 1)
By kelliecor - Posted on April 16th, 2008
Tagged: Change
• Disease
• drinking water
• health and wellness
• healthcare access
• international
• international affairs
• medical
• paul farmer
• poor
• sanitation
• social change
• suffering
• Health
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Better future
When most people think of the term "HEALTH," the presence or absence of disease is usually the first thing that comes to mind.
As if health is somehow either black or white, no room for gray.
For example, some common thoughts are: I am in good health if I do not have a cold, if I am not obese or if I do not have any type of cancer (just to name a few). Read More »
Can one person make a difference?
By kelliecor - Posted on April 15th, 2008
Tagged: AIDS
• AIDS in Africa
• Change
• changing lives
• Global Affairs
• helping others
• helping people
• HIV
• making a difference
• public health
• sex education
• social change
• Think Progress
• Education
• Better future
A young woman dying of AIDS lay in the bed before me. Staring at her frail, disease-stricken body, the words of a family friend echoed in my head, "Why is Kellie going to Africa? Does she really think that one person can make a difference?" Read More »
