Hour 1 Today I started my first hour of community service. I decided that I would donate some of my clothes and toys. First I had to think about where I wanted to donate too. I knew I wanted to help out kids in need‚ so I looked up hospitals that accepted donations. It turned out that a children’s hospital had a thrift shop as a means of getting money‚ so I looked into what they accepted. Then I went through everything I owned‚ and got my brother and sister to do the same. Then I sorted everything
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Yesenia Rodriguez 12-5-2011 Reflection Essay Duchesne Scholar As one of the coordinators of the St. Stephen’s AIDS Dinner I feel it’s every individual’s responsibility to help others in their community and beyond. The weekly routine is to travel into New York City to help serve food at Stephen’s church to men and women who suffer from AIDS. The women and men who attend the Saint Stephens AIDS dinner are in a way people who have lost many things in life due to their illness. In many
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Without community service people would not know the meaning of charity and giving back. It creates a better society and helps improve one’s individuality. Community service carries a reward that is beyond the obvious and tangible. Volunteerism is no longer just a résumé padder for college applications; it has become a graduation requirement for high school students in hundreds of school districts across the nation. Some say that requiring students to volunteer as a part of the graduation requirement
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Student Teacher Subject Date Community Service as a Graduation Requirement While high schools should encourage students to participate in community service‚ it should not be made a graduation requirement. If students are forced to do community service they will develop a cynical attitude towards it. Requiring community service in high school will discourage future involvement. Cartoon number 11 points out that community service cannot make up for bad test scores and grades. If students were
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Service Learning for a Requirement to Graduate School and education is something that most everyone has an opinion on. Opinions are okay to have. Education is the method in how people gain a larger sense of knowledge with the help of curriculum‚ teachers‚ administration and peers. This is something that is very important in peoples‚ even though some might disagree. It does not just help students become more book smart but it does help them become more social smart‚ street smart and able to handle
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Community service paper This is my first time do community service. I think it is a good thing. Many think that community service is just something you are forced to do for school. To me‚ community service is a way of giving back. I like making people feel as though they matter‚ and it gives me a warm feeling at the end of the day because I feel I have made a difference. I grow as a person each time I do community service. When I was in China‚ I didn’t do much community service‚ and‚ I do not
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statement saying that there should be 60 hours of community service done‚ in order to graduate. I believe that if a student does community service‚ he or she should do it because he or she wanted to do it. Not because he or she was forced to do it. I think community service is done not only to help the community‚ but to get a sense of gratitude after you have willingly helped out the community on your own. After doing good things for your community‚ you realize how much you helped someone out‚ and
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The concept of requiring community service of college students as a requirement for graduation is based on the idea that communities and individuals can be helped in their development through volunteer service. Community service provides the opportunity for students to share their knowledge‚ skills‚ and abilities with someone who might not have benefited from such actions otherwise. Community service should be a requirement for college graduation because it helps to alleviate problems of society
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In preparing to do service‚ I learned a great deal about what it would mean to do my first community service. I first had to learn that in order to do my service successfully‚ I had to be willing to make some sacrifices‚ my time and energy in particular. I knew that that would be difficult‚ but ultimately‚ I was able to summon the ability to do that. Through my activities‚ I developed‚ first and foremost‚ the ability to connect with younger children. I feel that the kids I worked with
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Michael Brown Mrs. Day 4/11/11 I helped out most of my hours of community service for the Laguna Creek Junior Cardinals (LCJC) football team .What happened was in my first 4 hours of community service I helped divide recycle from trash and empty out the trash at one of my brothers football game. My supervisor for those hours for LCJC was Lora the head coach for the cheerleaders. A week later for 4 hours I clean-up and break down the facility around the field. Later next week I did the same thing
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