Church Community

This essay is about my church community. I first join the community in November 2004. I still go to the same church every now and then or when I can. I join this community because it was something new to experience and my whole family wanted to go, so I decide to follow and became very grateful for having that opportunity to be in a safe community. People there were very friendly and active of what they were doing as in praising and celebrating with each other. The benefits is learning close relationships and growing in a spiritual way which feels like being healed. A disadvantage is when rumors spread throughout the congregation, a lot of members become doubtful or have second thoughts about the church. For the success, being able to have great partnerships and the church is known throughout the states. The problems are that people would gossip a lot inside the church. The members have a choice to join or not, it is up to them to decide. What I enjoy about the community is the activities they had as of Friday nights would be youth nights. I also like the events they had like sports and games. I enjoy the time with the youth a lot, being able to be a light for some of the kids. My dislikes about the church is that everyone thinks they know who you are by what you do, and that is what upsets me very much. The church community I go to is great and I am proud to be a part of it.

Strengths and Growth Areas.....

Plus +	Growth Areas -
Respectful to others.	Continue to do well in public speaking
Good Listener when instructor or colleague is explaining a topic	Getting more sleep to have more energy every morning.
Turning assignments in on time	Be better at annotating articles.
Being able to adapt to new things as environments.	Improved on proof reading.
Staying organized of notes and homework sheets	To work better on my grammatical errors
Arriving on time to school or work.	Participate more in class.
Public speaking improving	Not to be distracted by unnecessary things.

What I have learned in module I am being able to understand the curriculum of Business Communications and CNIT. I have become more computer savvy as I continue learning about CNIT and performed well in grammar for better speaking skills. I surprised myself being very committed and determine in all my assignments.

The Opposite of Gentrification

When I was growing up, my neighborhood was nice and relaxed in a way where it felt like a community. I lived in a peaceful environment until I was in my teens. After coming home from middle school, I started to notice changes within the environment that made me concerned after coming home from middle school. I lived in an apartment complex and made a lot of friends that ended up moving out because the upkeep wasn’t affordable. People with good money or that can afford the price moved into a complex.  The complex improved over the years I lived there, but at the same time the community started to switch atmospheres from calm and relaxed to dangerous and unsafe. I became more aware of my surrounds because of the unsafe activities that were occurring around the environment I lived in. Before, it was safe to play outside with your friends, stay the night at friend’s house, trade Pokémon cards, and have community get-togethers with everyone that lived inside the complex and even people from outside can be invited. Now you have to be careful when playing outside, or just stay inside, and worry about getting into fights or getting jump because that person thought you were looking at them the wrong way. To receive gun threats on a daily bases is scary because you could never know what is going to happen to you. I have witnessed these things that have happened and it is not pleasant, not great to have happen in your life. I am who I am despite the neighborhood I lived in because of my family. My family did their best to keep me out of trouble and show me their mistakes and taught me how to handle and prevent those mistakes from happening. Thanks to them, I am the person who I am today.

If Businesses Were More Reliable.......

My intake on the article makes me mad because businesses take advantage on low-come customers, but at the same time customers don't reseached any of the companies, or reading closely on the contract that's given to them. The way how these buisnesses are affecting the opportunity divide in a negative way is that it cancel's a customer path to success if customers do not know how to use credit cards. It also gives freedom and temptation to buy things that customers like instead of what they need. Customers get to far into debt and businesses take advantage of that, its what they need to keep their business running. Shut's down opportunies for the customers that are trying to be successful in the business world. The businesses are there to set up customers and not help like they are suppose to. I believe that businesses need to be honest and actually help customers in times of need instead of not caring and tricking the customers into buying the product.

I think corporations, government, and individual businesses are all measure of some responsibility because all three could be buying off of each other in certain area's that customers wouldn't know or lying on the contracts of being credit free. Resources that are needed would be where customers are able to afford and payback the loans with fair interest in price. It would be great to have honest and reliable businesses that want to help and not just take advantage of the customer. The employee should sit down with the customer and explained the contract in a way that the customer understands what they are getting into before signing the papers. I believe by the buusinesses helping customers would help reward them in a nice and health way instead of guiding the customers the wrong way and not feel guilty or don't even care about the contract.The world would be better if businesses took the time and show the customers how to manage credit.