Fun With Milagro

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Fun With Milagro

• By Stacy Zahn, Rhonda Williams, Tawanika Minner,
  Stephanie Moeller, Eric Green

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Ecosystems Perspective

• Community Assets
• Land
• Water
• Beauty
• Climate

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Functionalist Perspective

• Community Assets
• Bar Place where information was exchanged and
  place for gathering
• Church Meeting place and for worship
• Bean Field Served as a catalyst for change
• Police Mediated conflict between the residents
  and land developer and government

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Conflict Perspective

• Race Hispanic Community
• No political power
• Exploitation
• Manipulation
• Entropy

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Rational/Social Exchange Perspective

• Land Developer
• Economic gain
• Joe
• In the pursuit of his own self interest, did not
  consider the affect that planting the bean field
  would have on the community

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Constructionist Perspective

• Land Developer People in the community were
  treated as a commodity
• College Student Wasnt welcomed or trusted
  because he was an outsider
• Bean Field Agriculture
• Hispanic Community Wanted to keep their
  tradition and heritage