A community that I personally value and hold near to heart is my little hometown of Rockport, Massachusetts. With an estimated year-round population of 6500, I definitely grew up in a close-knit community in which I am grateful for. Not only am I grateful for More

One of the communities I cherish alot and have lots of great memories made, was a small city town called Tartu. Located in the country of Estonia, which has a small population but is their own prideful state. Which makes Tartu so special to me More

The city of Bangor, Maine has an issue with modern technology. While the city itself doesn’t mean a lot to most people, its where I am from. In Bangor there are streams that feed into the river, which goes straight into the ocean. Our biggest More

Corporate Influx On Small Towns Journal 7: New Media 200, by Claudio van Duijn Franchise businesses and their influx on small rural towns For Journal 7 I will be discussing my home town of Blue Hill Maine. Blue Hill was founded in 1762, a small More

The community that I personally value the most at this moment in time would have to the town I was raised in for the majority of my life, Topsham, Maine. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always appreciated the healthy balance of rural and More

Journal 7   My community: Standish, ME. My hometown, a small southern Maine town outside of Portland. We have a population of a little over 10,000, with our community mostly founded on agriculture, Portland jobs, and small local businesses. Standish doesn’t use technology particularly uniquely, More

1. Pick a real community that you value–maybe it’s a city like Bangor or Portland, maybe its a small lakeside or coastal town in Maine, maybe it’s your favorite National Park. Explain why this community means something to you–why you value it, what about it More

A community that I value is the University of Maine campus that we all attend. Even though we are a moderately large campus and school, the community here is very tight and supportive. I value this community because it is a place I live at More

I would say that the community that I value is the people on the floor of my dorm. The reason that I value this is because not only are my friends from last semester on the same floor, I have met so many new people More

Jake Perry Journal 7 My community is Portland. The reason I choose Portland is because thats home. It’s a city on the ocean that doesn’t have a big city vibe, mainly because it’s not a big city. It has a lot of personality and character. More

I’ve lived in West Hartford, Connecticut for all 19 years of my life. Its become such an important place for me, especially now that I’ve left for school. What I really admire about where I grew up is how close the community is for everyone. More

One community that I highly value is the city of Boston. I am from Massachusetts about 40 minutes away from Boston, in many ways it holds a great place in my heart. One reason is that I have a personal connection with it, my Papa More

Zion National Park in Southwest Utah is one of my favorite areas on this Earth. Although it was intentionally sheltered from the onslaught of the atomic and information eras, it has still befallen some ecological damage due to humanity’s impact on the area. I love More

A community I really value is Greek Life at the University of Maine. I am a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity on this campus, but beyond my own frat, there are a couple dozen other greek organizations on this campus. While there has More

I have a soft spot in my heart for the town of Acton which I moved too in the 8th grade after spending my whole life in Missouri. despite spending the majority of my life in Missouri I did most of my growing in Acton More

  (New Version) A community that will always be near and dear to my heart is my home town of Scituate Massachusetts. A modern technology that has impacted the lives of the townsfolk recently for the better was the construction of a brand new middle More

This may seem odd to some people but the community I value the most is the Town of Orono.  I have lived here my who life and so has my dad so we’ve been here a combined nearly 75 years.  Ever since I was a More

Journal 7 By: Carly Cornish One of the communities I value is the community I have with my two other roommates in our apartment. This community represents peace, connection, and friendship. Even though we all have our own separate rooms, we’ll congregate in the living More

The community that is of great value to me is Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa. The reason this place is so special to me is because when I did my exchange program in South African during my senior year of high More

A community that I value is my hometown of Sterling Massachusetts. I was raised in this town my entire life and left to come up to Maine. Sterling is a small town of just over 5,000 people, and consists mainly of sparce rural homes and More

For Journal 7, I am choosing Acadia National Park. I’ve only been to Acadia a dozen times, few when I was younger, and just recently a couple weekends ago in October. Although this is not my favorite National Park, it has a special place in More

Community The community that I value is Nonthaburi. It is the city that I was born and raised there. The city is located in Thailand (close to the capital city called Bangkok). This community means a lot to me because I spent almost all my More

Part One A community that I have slowly been learning to respect and value is the rural Maine community. Coming to college here has shown me that a lot of students don’t have the same survivability and resourcefulness that I learned through growing up in More