The Essential Question

How does the individual affect change in the community? How does the community affect change in the individual?

 

The individual has a choice in life: to take action, or to sit back and watch everyone else. When someone chooses to take action, depending on the nature with which he or she performed this act, it will either affect his or her community positively or negatively. Everyone has a decision on how he or she will change his or her environment, whether it is helpful or harmful. When the individual decides to take that extra step and help in the community, it benefits everyone within that community and it will give him or her a credibility to share his or her thoughts throughout the group. If he or she decides to do nothing and just sit back, then his or her opinion will be irrelevant to the rest of the people in the community.

 

Whether or not the individual partakes in the community’s activities is a big factor of the community’s effect on the individual, however, the community may still affect they individual even if he or she chose to have nothing to do with it. Whether the individual prefers it or not, the community will always have at least a minimal effect on his or her life. He or she may not particularly like the outcome of the community’s decisions, such as the presidential election, but there if he or she chose not to actively participate in getting his or her desired outcome, then that is his or her decision.

 

The community will always have an effect on the individual and vice versa.