While literacy events refers to discrete situations, literacy practices refers to the larger systems which these events create within a community.
Nanny (Ms. Merkerson, known to most viewers as Lt. Anita Van Buren on "Law & Order") creates a boardinghouse community within a community in Lackawanna, a city in the northwestern corner of New York state, close to Lake Erie.
The superintendent is a proponent of religion among prisoners for what he says is its ability to "create a community within a community, which allows an old con to put an arm around a young con and tell him to cool down."
"They are afraid that these people are coming into the community not to build it up, but to create a community within a community, and that doesn't work."
Establishing a dog park can create contention within a community when residents worry about noise, smell, and traffic.
Open space reserves may be urban, suburban, or rural; they may be actual designated areas of land or water, or they may be zoning districts or overlays where development is limited or controlled to create undeveloped areas of land or water within a community or region.
Irregular property reassessments have become a serious issue in the commonwealth as it creates a significant disparity in taxation within a community.
A mill is $1 of tax for every $1,000 of a property's assessed value Irregular property reassessments have become a serious issue in the commonwealth as it creates a significant disparity in taxation within a community and across a region.
