Post #4 Community

POST #4 - Discuss all facets of GROUPING such as family, religion, race, culture, language, and wealth. Sometimes, we choose to become members of a certain group; sometimes the group divisions seem to be made for us. Try to think of all the ways people (in our world) become divided into groups and address those issues. Think back on the "family plan" from The Giver- how will your plan compare? Think about how we see differences in real life based on just the one factor of wealth- homes, cars, other material possessions or privileges such as educational opportunities or traveling? Combine those differences with all the other factors that create grouping. This post should read more as a philosophy than a step-by-step action plan like the genetic engineering in The Giver. Your utopian philosophy should address what makes your island a COMMUNITY- "a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially while living together in your island space." Based on this definition, living in a common location alone does NOT create a community. As the utopian island community planner, you must address this issue by adding a philosophy for sharing a common interest and forming relationships.

This post will have 3 different parts. Please label each as you post.

A. Create and post the philosophy for your utopian COMMUNITY.

B. Research a career as a community planner. Post a 5-8 part job description and share link(s) where your information was found. (President Obama was a community planner in Chicago.)

C. Write a reflection based on the following poem written by John Donne.

No Man Is An Island

No man is an island,

Entire of itself.

Each is a piece of the continent.

A part of the main.

If a clod be washed away by the sea,

Europe is the less.

As well as if a promontory were

As well as if a manor of thine own

Or of thine friend's were.

Each man's death diminishes me,

For I am involved in mankind.

Therefore, send not to know

For whom the bell tolls,

It tolls for thee.