buckets of water to extinguish fire. Many people were throwing sands and dust over the fire. A few people were trying to control fire by throwing blankets on it. But the fire was ravaging. It was a horrible sight. This house was a three-storeyed building. Some inmates of the house were on the second floor. The fire started from the ground floor. Soon‚ it spread to the first floor. The inmates of the house who had been entrapped on the second floor were crying for help. Someone in the crowd informed
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John Puls Skolnick ENC 1101 5/4/2013 Modern Communities The values and characteristics of a healthy community have remained largely unchanged over the years; however‚ with the invention of online communities they have become significantly more impersonal. Accepting people for who they are and showing empathy towards others are indispensable values of a community. The values of a traditional community as outlined in Azar Nafisi’s essay “I believe in empathy” and Sarah Adams’s essay “Be cool
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Organizations In Community Development Visit PD&R’s Web Site www.huduser.org to find this report and others sponsored by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). Other services of HUD USER‚ PD&R’s Research Information Service‚ include listservs; special interest‚ bimonthly publications (best practices‚ significant studies from other sources); access to public use databases; hotline 1–800–245–2691 for help accessing the information you need. Faith-Based Organizations In Community Development
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industrial buildings. During the last twenty years‚ this building type has increasingly been protected as a symbol of the historic value attached to the physical remains of the industrialization process. The best way to secure their continuing role in the urban fabric for the future was through adaptive reuse. Conservationists prescribe design guidelines for the conversion schemes of all protected buildings in formal terms‚ requiring that the ‘aesthetic integrity’ of the protected building is maintained
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Earthquake Resistant Buildings A Research Paper in Writing in the Discipline Emilio Aguinaldo College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Course in Writing in the Discipline Submitted by: Manicdao‚ Marlone S. Introduction Earthquakes are major geological phenomena. Man has been terrified this phenomena for ages‚ as little has been known about the causes of earthquakes‚ but it leaves behind a trail of destruction. There are hundreds of small earthquakes around the
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SMART BUILDINGS INTRODUCTION We have been used to create better and better ambients from the very beginning of humanity‚ first adapting caves‚ then building structures up to modern skyscrapers and dwellings. As technology has increased we have learnt to shape ambient to better fit our needs and lately we have started to pay more attention to their efficiency‚ like better insulation for lower energy consumption. HISTORY Arne Olander in 1930‚discovered a phenomenon of SME(Shape
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Geraldine Kalabai ID#: 5098 PG303 Community Development and Practices Topic: Community Empowerment Due Date: 30th March 2012 What is empowerment? Many use the term empowerment without understanding what it really means. A literature review resulted in no clear definition of the concept‚ especially one that could cross-disciplinary lines. This article defines empowerment as a multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. It is a process that fosters power in
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Community Planning‚ Disaster Risk Management and Community-based Resource Management (FINAL PAPER) Bernabe‚ Jan Michael Busilan ‚ Yula Carillo‚ Jackylene Garcia‚ Benjamin Go‚ Lindsley Hayuhay‚ Ever I Nessa Community -based coastal Resource Management (CBCRM) Community -based coastal Resource Management (CBCRM) is an all-inclusive practice or strategy that involves the active involvement and participation of people or the community as a whole in the management process of
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My idea of a healthy community would be that of a place where health promotion is pushed by creating a suitable environment for the wellness of everyone. There is much that can be done to create healthy communities. Communities that support people in making healthy choices help prevent chronic diseases and the complications that can result from them. Public health works with a variety of partners to create healthy communities including transportation planners‚ city planners and land use experts because
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Large public buildings (Introduction: mention that public buildings exist in all cities and towns‚ large and small‚ e.g. post office‚ court pause‚ places of worship‚ theater) A public building is a building that belongs in some way to the state. The number of public buildings in any town or village will depend on the size of that community and its needs. For example‚ you will usually find a town hall of some sort‚ a school and a place of worship at he least. In anger communities there will be
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