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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The Importance of Service to the Church and Community By: Alex Gaffney Service to the Church is an important aspect of our Church life. We should all do this‚ as God calls us to do so. However‚ we shouldn’t limit ourselves to the Church. We should also serve the community‚ to be a good citizen of our country. Serving the community is also serving the Church because Jesus states we must treat others as we want to be treated. Serving the Church and community teaches moral values that
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Amir Mayo Keystone Assignment Forty Hours Of Community Service February 20‚ 2013 Should students complete forty hours of community service before they graduate? That’s a very good question‚ so should they? I think they should for many reasons. One I think it will be a good experience to interact with the community. Two it teaches people that not all good deeds have to be paid for. Lastly those forty hours from every student can be calculated all together and can help get the school recognized
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The debate on whether or not high school students should be required to complete community service has been a long ongoing discussion. Many are still split on the topic. While I believe high school students should be required to complete community service‚ I don’t think they should be required to complete three hours a week. Being forced to volunteer defeats the whole purpose‚ along with those who come from low income families find it pointless when they could be doing something similar and be getting
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completing your community service work‚ you will write a reflection paper that will give you an opportunity to revisit or look back upon your service activity. Remember five (5) of these hours must be tied to your career pathway. You will need to include each of the guidelines below to complete this paper. All components of this paper need to be typed. 1. Begin your paper with what community service means to you and the importance of community service. 2. Describe the community service you performed
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Community Service Essay When I think about community service‚ the feelings I recall are pleasant‚ yet unexpected. I was fortunate enough to get the chance to work for my mother helping transport the elderly in a nursing home. Going into the experience‚ I honestly expected boredom and cranky‚ lonely grandparents. Coming out of it‚ though‚ I found myself with a newly gained insight and knowledge I never expected. Truthfully‚ I was landed with the job on complete accident. An employee scheduled to
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My community service was done at Goodwill Super store on 11/4/13-11/5/13. Goodwill is an organization that sells clothes‚ furniture‚ shoes‚ toys‚ decorations‚ curtains to almost anything you will find similar to a TJ Maxx store. But these items are donated from people who do not need their items anymore and these items will sell for much less than a retail store. Goodwill is mostly for people who can not afford the things that they need in life because they ay be struggling with a money problem
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Tracking Social Media The Social Media Tracking Centre and the 2011 Nigerian Elections Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation About the Authors Dr. Judith Burdin Asuni is the Executive Director of Academic Associates PeaceWorks‚ a Nigerian NGO working in the fields of conflict management‚ peace and development and peace education. Dr. Asuni has researched and written extensively on conflicts in Nigeria‚ particularly in the Niger Delta. AA PeaceWorks has established a social media team to engage Nigerian
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You’re rushing home after practice to get ready to do volunteer work. While you are doing your work you start thinking to yourself of what you have to do once you get home what assignments need to be due the next day‚ but as well u feel exhausted from practice or you’re after school activity. Once you get home you begin to do your assignments by the time you are finish the clock says midnight. The next day you feel tired and sleepy from not having enough rest. That for I am against for high schools
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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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