In this essay, you will describe your real-life or online community, and connect

In this essay, you will describe your real-life or online community, and connect it with the ideas about community contained in the articles we have read.
First, consider your real-life or online community. What communities do you take part in? Describe one of them (A club or organization, a class, a neighborhood, Facebook, Twitter, a discussion group, an online game, etc.) and tell how it functions for you as a community of friends and/or support group, and/or weird and dysfunctional family. What lessons have you learned from this community? What kinds of conventions are important in this community? Is there a particular style of dress, language, or behavior?
More interesting options: a group you are a member of that should be a community but is not; a community that provides more bad experiences than good ones; a community that lacks some critical element; a community that seems to be falling apart.
Next, consider the current thinking about community, as represented by the readings in this unit. Include a paragraph that describes the importance of community to our health (and, perhaps, the possible bad effects of a bad community on our health). Summarize and/or quote from at least two of the essays.
Last, blend your personal experience with the research. Viewing your own community through the lens of the research and commentary you have read, what conclusions can you draw? How might the articles you have read make you feel differently about your community?
Format:
Two pages long, typed and double-spaced, composed in Word (I am not able to open documents composed in Pages or Notes).
* Include a Works Cited list at the end of the essay in MLA format.
* Include a title, centered on the first page. Do not simply use the title “Community.” Try to be a little creative with this part–titles make a good first impression.
* Do not begin the essay with a dictionary definition–save the definition for the analytical section. Instead, consider beginning the essay with an anecdote (a brief story about an experience you had in a community).