I was able to complete over two hundred hours of community service in 4 years of high school. I have done several communities services such as volunteering summer camps‚ family markets‚ and providing tutoring for students at a local elementary. In the summer camp that I have volunteered‚ I have chosen to be a coach and teach children how to play soccer. I have learned a lot from my service because it has demonstrated me that I work well with others‚ especially children which made me realize that
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4/4/2013meaning of community service essay The meaning of community service‚ everyone has different meaning and different views for it. There are some people in the world who think that community service is just helping out the environment by not littering or polluting the air. This is true but its more than that. Its helping out the people that are around you giving back to the community that has helped you so much when you were in the time of need. In my opinion‚ I think that community service is is helping
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AP English 5th Hour 11-13-13 Community Service Albert Einstein‚ one of the smartest men to ever live‚ is quoted saying “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” This is achieved through striving to uplift those around you with volunteering. Anything from cleaning up garbage to offering companionship to elderly and disabled people is a way to change the world‚ bit by bit. However‚ no single person can change the world on his or her own. There must be a constant effort from all of
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Reading and Writing Community Service Essay Why do College Students Need to Graduate with Community Service? According Websters Online Dictionary1 community service is a services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or any kind of different institutions. Students who participate in community service are more likely to grow up to become volunteers in most of the activities. College students doing community service can help them learn that if you give‚ you receive
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According to Getting Started in Service-Learning‚ service learning is an educational initiative for students of all ages. Students will move beyond the classroom and use their own knowledge and skills to help others. Getting Started in Service-Learning also says we serve and learn. I think this means that when we get engaged in our communities we learn about each other and how to work together within our communities. It connects what we know and learned in the classroom and then that knowledge is
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Community service‚ work done without pay‚ is becoming increasingly familiar to high school students nation-wide. Schools are encouraging student to participate in communities that contribute so much to their public education. However‚ requiring 100 hours of community service is asking too much of students and should be reduced to 50 hours. Students already have their hands full among homework‚ clubs‚ sports‚ and their actual lives. Because the work may not be volunteering if it is required‚ then
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Mrs. Shafer IU English 19 December 2011 Community Service as a Graduation Requirement A wise person once said‚ “If you light a lamp for someone else‚ it will also brighten your path.” This particular quote has helped me realize that not enough teenagers are helping their community become a more desirable place to live. Implementing community service into the senior project outline as a requirement would ultimately benefit the students and the community. Not only will the students become more aware
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Community Service Journal For my community service‚ I made mayday baskets for the residents at the Waterford apartments in Country Manor with my grandma. So in order to make the mayday baskets‚ we need to plan what we were going to do beforehand. So a few weeks before mayday me‚ my mom‚ and grandma decided what kind of mayday basket we were going to make. Then when we decided on that we went shopping to get the items we needed in order to make the baskets. Then the Sunday before mayday we went to
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Community Service is a personal commitment‚ not a corporate responsibility. Community Service‚ in another word‚ means doing something that is meaningful for the welfare of the people who are in needs. To involve or not to involve in a social work depends on our own decision‚ not a corporate’s decree. Social Services is defined as the professional activity of helping individuals‚ groups‚ or communities in enhancing and restoring their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions
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I had no intention of becoming involved in community service. As a high school sophomore‚ I was required to complete five hours of volunteer work in order to join the National Honor Society. I cleaned and organized bookshelves at my local library‚ and that was that. Over the next year‚ I volunteered with school cleaning‚ dance set-up‚ and other events not out of graciousness or compassion‚ but solely to maintain my NHS membership. However‚ as a junior‚ a teacher nominated me for the United Way Youth
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