a. What does community service/ volunteerism mean to you? I define volunteerism as the act of willingly and voluntarily doing things to help others when you get nothing tangible in return for efforts. This may be done for a number of reasons which should not include gaining publicity for the individual initiating the activity. It is humbling and rewarding to serve others. I believe one can benefit from volunteerism by growing their knowledge base about the activity in which they are participating
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Pacific Islanders live a very social lifestyle steeped in family hierarchy both immediate and extended family. Pacific Islanders’ cultures follow ways of life based on very old philosophies that promote living a principled and dignified lifestyle. These cultural aspects are passed for one generation to the next thru traditional storytelling along with music and dance. While Pacific Islanders had no form of written communication for many centuries music was a crucial mean of expression. They used
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for group Honest. The whole field immersion was not effortless‚ at all; there were problems and some circumstances that the team had encountered during the times of engaging in the community. There was the problem of shortage of budget which was probably prime concern of the team since without enough funds the project would not be done in order to meet the needs of the community. In addition‚ the Honest group also encountered the problem about their project which is the water pump. There are two
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On November 14‚ 2013‚ I attended an event held by‚ “Lakota Dance Troop.” This event was located in Sykes Ballroom C. The scheduled time for the program to begin was at 12:30 PM and end at 1:45 PM. This program was attended by Prof. Ingersoll and his Race Relations classes. This event was attended by people outside of the race relations course as well. The hosts of the event wanted to introduce everyone into their culture before starting the program. Before the event began‚ everyone was asked to
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Cultural immersion can be simply defined by placing yourself out of your comfort zone and becoming surrounded by an unfamiliar environment and culture. Through cultural immersion a person can gain insights and characteristics into a community far different than their own. These experiences can truly open a person’s mind and views to others that are different than themselves. Through this experience I placed myself in an environment I knew that I would transform from a majority to a minority. I became
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ABSTRACT The Remote Media Immersion (RMI) system is the result of a unique blend of multiple cutting-edge media technologies to create the ultimate digital media delivery platform. The main goal is to provide an immersive user experience of the highest quality. RMI encompasses all end-to-end aspects from media acquisition‚ storage‚ transmission up to their final rendering. Specifically‚ the Yima streaming media server delivers multiple high bandwidth streams‚ transmission error and flow control
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Many people are suffering from treat phobias‚ PTSD‚ burns and phantom-limb syndrome. Facing these problems‚ virtual reality (VR) is employed to help people with misery. In “Total Immersion: How VR Is Transforming Everything from Education to Medicine‚” Liat Clark describes how VR impacts healthcare industry. She begins this essay by illustrating an example to show VR’s effect on improving patient’s condition and treating phobias. Chris Merkle‚ an American soldier‚ watches one of his most exhausting
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In order to graduate some people feel as if teens should have a community service project. Should they have a community service project? As like many things doing a community service project can have some good things to it like for instince helping others at free will with no money or keeping teens out of trouble. But we have found more bad reasons to this rather than fiinding good ones. Here are some of these reasons‚ like many people in this world most teens do not have transportation and not havinig
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Cultural Immersion Every winter the subject of homelessness and being homeless comes to the forefront. TV stations‚ radio stations‚ community leaders‚ everyone wants to lend a helping hand to those in need. After all it is the time for giving and helping all mankind. Every year it seems as thought the numbers are increasing‚ since this is an invisible group it is very hard to give you exact figures as to how many are on the streets every year‚ but if you live in San Diego you can see many
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Participating in community service is a good way to give back to the community that I live in‚ therefore I have always been excited when I have the opportunity to volunteer for my community. I was extremely excited when I found out that I have to do a Service Learning Project for this class because I have always enjoyed doing community service since I started doing it in high school. I had a hard time deciding what to do in the beginning‚ but later I realized that I could be a leader of the Awana
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