VENDOR WRITING
A Powerful Place: "Social media" BY MAURICE B. As we examine the many things that we are made of, we must also look at what we make. When it comes to social media, we must consider the ways we make it and the entrance of how we do what we do to connect ourselves. The powers that lay ahead in a few days, a few weeks, a few years are all how we conduct the past paths that we have taken towards our futures. Yes the majority of circumstances of the mass of people have been changed by our mental departments or capacities, and then we can see that there are some that haven't gotten the grasp by their concepts of not being as quick as the others within the mass of society. Social media refers to the means of
interaction among people in which they create, share and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. Some do not understand the definition of purpose; there are many that choose not to be connected to "networks" because of fear. Fear is the well known actions of and unpleasant emotion caused by the beliefs that someone or something has or had done that is figured to be dangerous or likely to cause pain or threat. Social media is such a powerful player in today's means of life that it brings about that fear. Now there are two types of fear. One is good and the other is a bad fear. Social media has broken barriers and brought many individuals and
different races, as well as nationalities together in many avenues of life. Yes, there still needs to be work done, "a fine tuning" here and there, but in all things there needs to be some kind of work. A concept of togetherness (it takes not only a mother and father to raise a child) has been brought about through social studies whereas the media "the network" system has assisted in a variety and a wonderful means of ways. The adoption of the modern concept of networking is how we can expect to accommodate this upcoming future of ours whereas to think that things will return to the ole fashion ways is like a host or better yet a ghost. Yes the old ideas of trade and sales will always
stand, but the new and improved ways to orchestrate them is by networking in which stands alone and that way is by socially gathering. The new world-wide pandemic of the Coronavirus has held many apart from one another and from individuals going about and from doing their daily bids of things, but through the new and improved networks brought about by social media individuals are able to check up on things and order and pick up things, as some would say in a better manner. Yes there is work to be done to better the formats, but by networking which stands for all to communicate and add their input things can get better.
Does the Post Pandemic Pivot Point Us to the Past or a Future? The eighteen months of the pandemic have found most people wanting for change. Many are changing jobs. Others are changing personal priorities. Many are focusing on relationships. In Nashville, our city is growing at a dizzying pace. There is so much noise of change around us that we can struggle to hear ourselves. Let us listen to our HOPE.
Faith in God, duty to country and love of our neighbor are elements of the American dream for many. How do we extend the strengths of the achievements of our community for those who are not thriving in the same dream? How do we hope that the quality of life of our community may be the quality of life of all?
Hope arises from a sense of moral and social order embodied in the expression of key cultural values: faith, family unity, service, effort, morals, and honor. These values form the bedrock of resilience, drive social aspirations, and underpin self-respect and dignity.
This is our Hope for families struggling with the toxic stress of the pandemic.
However, economic impediments, social expectations, and cultural dictates also combine to create entrapment, as the ability to realize personal and social aspirations is frustrated by structural inequalities injurious to health and wellbeing. Hope is a catalyst of the American Dream - Andrew Delbanco recognized in The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope, that hope is central to the romance of American nationhood, and to individual identification as an American. Delbanco noted, “’Expectation of fulfillment,’ is there in represented by the ideal of the self-making individuality, which in turn is fused with a nation as a site of special possibility.
This is our Hope for children struggling with pandemic learning loss. This is our Hope for men who have given up on employment. This is our Hope for women living in tents. This is our Hope for friends wanting belonging. This is our Hope for you. Reflecting the quality of community in the lives of others increases the quality of life of all. This is the hope for us. Major Ethan Frizzell | SalvationArmyNashville.org
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