Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

* The Leesburg Assembly is an English Country Dance community centered in Northern Virginia, USA.

These have to do with how much and by whom curriculum should be worked out from grade to grade, how much the child ’ s emerging interests should determine classroom activities, the importance of child-centered vs. societal – centered learning, the relationship of community building to individual growth, and especially the relationship between emotion, thought and experience.

Related to similar media sources, the cosplay community forms a subculture centered around wearing costumes and reenacting scenes or inventing likely behavior inspired by their chosen sources, usually from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea ( a. k. a. Korean wave ), China, and Philippines media.

Although short lived the MLF was representative of London's Ladbroke Grove centered alternative and literary community of the period.

There are still many bogs in the town, although the economy is now more centered on tourism and as a residential community.

Many lesbian communities are centered in bars, and drinking is an activity that correlates to community participation for lesbians and bisexual women.

The practice of living communally during the rainy vassa season, prescribed by the Buddha, gradually grew to encompass a settled monastic life centered on life in a community of practitioners.

In a practical sense, what distinguishes Hasidic Judaism from other forms of Haredi Judaism is the close-knit organization of Hasidic communities centered around a Rebbe ( sometimes translated as " Grand Rabbi "), and various customs and modes of dress particular to each community.

The Jews lived side-by-side in a designated area called Shanghai Ghetto and formed a vibrant community centered on the Ohel Moshe Synagogue, which is preserved remnant of this portion of Shanghai ’ s complex religious past.

Within the T2K gaming community, games that are centered on a group of Soviet / Warsaw Pact characters are referred to as " OPFOR games " for opposing force.

Today, there exist many autonomous communities in places such as Borough Park, Williamsburg, and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, as well as more recently the yeshiva centered community of Lakewood, New Jersey, with their own economies, educational systems ( yeshivos ) welfare institutions and gemachs ( free-loan funds for everything from money to household items to tools, clothing, books and services ), medical services ( such as the Hatzalah ambulance corps ), and security ( the Shomrim neighborhood patrol ).

The 1980s generated several major novels that develop a main theme over decades, are centered on a strong-central character person and are built around rural milieu or a local community of a not too distant past.

Orlando, Florida, the gay community is centered around the neighborhoods of Thornton Park and Eola Heights.

The IIT main campus is centered around 33rd and State Streets, approximately south of the Chicago Loop in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, part of the Douglas community area.

The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.

The County was a rural community for years and the population was centered in two areas, one at Manassas ( home to a major railroad junction ), the other near Occoquan and Woodbridge along the Potomac River.

The community is centered in the area of two very large lakes, in the middle of large state forests.

Slash has a different sensibility than gay fiction, probably due to the fact that most slash readers are female and in a closed community that shares their tastes, which makes most stories in the genre centered into emotional relationships, even as sex is very prominent.

While the KRLW & KIYS radio stations are broadcast centrally to the Walnut Ridge / Hoxie area ( a neighboring community roughly 15 miles away ), the actual broadcasting location as well as main offices are centered with KPOC inside of Pocahontas.

In the early and mid 20th century, the town had a large Mexican-American community centered on Perris Boulevard, Ellis Road, " D " Street and Pinacate Road ( see Romoland ).

The unincorporated community is centered on East Ponce de Leon Avenue, between Decatur and Clarkston.

The community has maintained a distinctive identity, centered on its public high school, churches, and locally owned and operated businesses such as the Cofer Brothers building supply business, Matthews ' Cafeteria, and the Tucker Federal savings and loan association ( although the latter institution was merged into RBC Centura ).

From its 1956 origins as a summer retreat, Berkeley Lake has grown into a thriving community centered on its namesake lake.

The older community was centered around Five Forks and Rockbridge Roads.

There are great restoration projects underway around New Zealand and many organisations including community groups, landowners, conservation organisations, iwi, volunteers, schools, local businesses, nurseries and councils are involved in them.

Apart from these there are many semi-professional and amateur leagues around Australia, where they play a very important role in the community, and particularly so in rural areas.

* His view of the second coming of Christ is also unusual ; he suggested that this would not be a physical reappearance, but that the Christ being would become manifest in non-physical form, visible to spiritual vision and apparent in community life for increasing numbers of people beginning around the year 1933.

Though Anthony himself did not organize or create a monastery, a community grew around him based on his example of living an ascetic and isolated life.

He enrolled in a program of graduate studies, nominally working towards a PhD in linguistics, but he never actually attempted to obtain a degree, satisfying himself with participating in the intellectual community around Sapir.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

The Brythonic languages | Brythonic community around the 6th century.

Public discussion revolves around public sector expenditure and social services, the pace of additional economic development, and the status of the large foreign national community on the islands.

* Community College of Denver, a community college with six campuses around Denver, USA

To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

( This rule corresponds to the present exoplanet community usage for planets around single stars.

The community that grew up around the library developed wards and protections against the Horrors, which they traded to other lands and eventually became the powerful Theran Empire, an extremely magically advanced civilization and the main antagonist of the Earthdawn setting.

Obsidimen are loyal to the community around their Liferock, and eventually return to and re-merge with it.

* A community of enthusiast computer programmers and systems designers, originated in the 1960s around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's ( MIT's ) Tech Model Railroad Club ( TMRC ) and MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

The empire was based around trade, with local kings ( dhatus or community leaders ) swearing allegiance to the central lord in order for mutual profit.

By placing parentheses around Pasadena City College, a nearby community college, Mudd students changed the sign to read:

In around 430, the town is also listed as having a Christian community, with a Nestorian bishop.

The Samaritans, a very small community located entirely around Mount Gerizim in the Nablus / Shechem region of the West Bank and in Holon, near Tel Aviv in Israel, regard themselves as the descendants of the Israelites of the Iron Age kingdom of Israel.

Following the destruction of Jerusalem and the expulsion of the Jews, Jewish worship stopped being centrally organized around the Temple, prayer took the place of sacrifice, and worship was rebuilt around the community ( represented by a minimum of ten adult men ) and the establishment of the authority of rabbis who acted as teachers and leaders of individual communities ( see Jewish diaspora ).

Additionally, many contemporary knitters have an interest in blogging about their knitting, patterns, and techniques, or joining a virtual community focused on knitting, such as Ravelry, affectionately known as Rav to fiber-lovers around the world.

A large group of Chinese families moved to Okinawa around 1392 for the purpose of cultural exchange, where they established the community of Kumemura and shared their knowledge of a wide variety of Chinese arts and sciences, including the Chinese martial arts.

Before the departure of British colonial rule and the subsequent independence of Pakistan, the population of the city included Hindus and Sikhs, but the community is still present numbering around 250, 000 residents.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.