Community Service in the Heart of Hurricane Sandy Community service does not have just one single meaning; it has many. Community service means something different to every person in the world. To me‚ community service means helping not only your community‚ but also your school‚ state and country. It means to be kind and caring to others‚ to help out those who are less fortunate then you. Community service is when you take time out of your life to do something that will better other people
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this class due to the service aspect of the course. I came from a high school in the Philadelphia suburbs that encouraged service to the community. Students were required to log service hours by themselves and during school service days. During my time in high school‚ I had logged over 300 hours of community service both locally and through the class sponsored trip to the Dominican Republic. One of my favorite locations that I served was a senior assisted living community that we visited once a
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The Freshman Service Project is the first service that I have ever done in my life. Although I have volunteered to help in local events and charity organization occasionally throughout high school‚ those can’t be classified as a service. Unlike volunteering‚ which only benefits the recipients‚ a service benefits both parties‚ the helpers and the people that we are helping. The Freshman Service Project in my opinion is a brilliant way for us college students to give back to our society. It is beneficial
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Pamela C. Rubiano MLS CWTS Insight Last December 20-21‚ 2013 we conducted a community immersion in Barangay 8a Upper Madapo hills Davao City. At first‚ I was very iffy about attending immersion. I didn’t see the entire point of attending something that didn’t seem to mean much to me‚ But as the days wore on during my immersion‚ I came to realize how blessed I was in life
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High demand of community service has made a huge financial burden to the government. This poses a concern whether or not this aspect should be solved by integrating unpaid social work to high school programmes as a compulsory course. I am inclined to agree that it should be a good suggestion due to its advantages which will be discussed below. First of all‚ it is observable that unpaid community work made by students offers various benefits to the public‚ government and students themselves. When
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perform minimum of 40 hours community service to graduate from HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school" \o "High school" high school. Many high school students do not know how to have well communication and organization skills‚ so I think that students have to complete community service hours to graduate‚ so that they will become responsible members of our society in the future. Community service assignments can teach students to be on time for a service they are providing for. The
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Name 100 Essay #3 Community Service is Good Community service is a two-way street. Volunteering can benefit students and his or her family‚ as much as the cause. Personnel growth can be enhanced when a person learns about new things‚ and volunteering teaches responsibility. I hear too many people with opinions about why community service should not be mandatory for students. Although there may be some reasonable concerns in regard to mandatory community service‚ every student should participate
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the best form of service that an individual or a group of volunteers can perform is community service. Generally community service is the thoughtful practices of people in order to better their environment and society. Actions such as helping the homeless‚ cleaning up after vandalized walls‚ providing food for the less fortunate‚ educating children with learning disabilities‚ recycling‚ and helping the aged are all forms of performing community service. A successful community service involves the best
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SERVICE LEARNING: CONTRIBUTING TO THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH WE LIVE BY APPLYING THE KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE Milena Ristovska‚ M. Sc. Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Economics University “Ss Cyril and Methodius” Skopje‚ Republic of Macedonia e-mail: milena@eccf.ukim.edu.mk Abstract Although well-established and with a long tradition in different countries worldwide‚ service learning is a completely unknown practice in Republic of Macedonia. This is the reason why the author attempted to make a
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Is Community Education a myth? Over the course of this project I intend to answer the question‚ is Community Education a myth? To do this I will use my own experience of Community Education in a range of settings along with some in depth research to critically examine the question. I will start by defining the key terms in the question such a ‘myth’‚ ‘community’ and ‘education’ to ensure my purpose is clear. Following this‚ I will look at the origins of Community Education as a professional practice
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