This week's readings unpack the tricky concepts of "community" and "power" and suggest that public participation can mobilize power within communities.
Drawing from your personal experience (e.g. not from the nightly news), describe a real-world example of an application of power, and then answer each of the following questions:
1. Which definition of power (defined by either author) fits this example best?
2. Was this power empowering or disempowering? For whom?
3. Within what community did this take place (incorporate specific' definitions of community from the readings)?
4. In what way did this application of power help or hinder development of a "healthy community"?
