Volunteering at the High School The high school was involved through scrap metal drives, the sale of war bonds, and volunteering for the Red Cross. Students of Collierville High School bought and sold war bonds to friends and family totaling around $1149.40 by September 16, 1943. Businesses One business that promoted war bonds in Collierville was the Southern Railway System which forced its employees on the payroll allotment plan to purchase war bonds in order to maintain their jobs.…
Community service is not as bad as some people make it out to be. I myself had an internal groan when I heard that community service was required and would be set as a grade. I had only known volunteerism as doing a dull boring task with no discernible reward. But after experiencing it for myself I found it quite the contrary. Volunteering is a way to meet new people and witness a group working toward a greater cause.…
Volunteering not only helps socially in our communities, but also economically. I believe it helps economically because we could contribute to getting homeless people back in the workforce. In addition, many places that help people in need are more often than not on strict budgets, and I believe if people volunteer than perhaps those locations or agencies wouldn’t have to spend as much money on employees and instead have many rotating volunteers, this could also allow them to use funds for other urgent matters. According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, 61.8 million individuals in the United States contributed 8 billion hours of volunteerism in 2008 alone.…
My goal after completing the BSN program at UST Carol and Odis Peavy School of Nursing is to work in the Medical Center. I want to help make a difference in as many individual lives that I can. I started volunteered at Texas Children’s before getting accepted into the nursing program. Volunteering was an unbelievable experience to be able to work and learn from the nurses. I tried to make a difference in each patient’s life that I encounter.…
In Serve or Fail, the author, Dave Eggers, brings up the point that community service should be required in colleges. According to Eggers, “college is too long-it should be three years-and even with a full course load and part-time jobs there are many hours in the days and weeks that need killing.” He believes that with all of the free time that students have, they should do something productive and helpful like community service. Additionally, Eggers thinks that if colleges were to require community service, then it would not only improve their working environment, but it would also touch and improve each student. I would agree with Eggers because I have found out that when colleges require community service, it increase their students’ self-efficiency, boost their teamworking skills, and helps them find a sense of responsibility.…
Should students be obligated to do community service to graduate? In the article “volunteering to graduate” by Miriam Dodge and Pro/Con: should students service learning hour be mandatory for high school graduation by Claire Koenig and Simrin Gupta it talks about if they should have mandatory service hours to graduate high school. No because if a student wants to learn more skills they should look for a place to volunteer and also some students have an obligation to help out their families for economic reasons. Some students are to busy juggling a job and after school activities to be able to volunteer while they still have their schoolwork to finish.…
Volunteering Require for College Admission Most college students have difficulty finding a job because of lack of experience in their majors or fields. In “Volunteering Required,” Loretta Van Lear argues that it is necessary for the students to be required their volunteer careers in the majors or fields before starting college programs associated with those fields. However, this statement overlooked several points which are rebuttable against it. The most important consideration is that all jobs do not have volunteer positions.…
I am currently volunteering at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center in Grants Pass. The department that I started volunteering at is the Family Birthing Center. Some of the roles that we as volunteers perform include keeping the main window and door secure. It is highly important to keep the whole department safe and for security reasons we need to be aware who comes and goes out of the department.…
Should we Mandate Volunteer Work? Volunteering and helping others when they are in need has been around since the making of the earth. Humans aren’t even the only creatures that help one another when necessary. With many of us helping others in some way, there is still a large need for help in almost every corner of the earth.…
Since college students are well suited for community service, by doing community services, they can "create...a lifelong commitment to volunteering. " They can also start "addressing the needs of those around them" because by doing that, they can help their community become better than it was before. Although performing community service can be helpful towards the individual themself and to those who live in the community, young people shouldn't be required to perform public services. Young people should not be forced to complete something that they do not want to do. Nobody wants to recieve "community service from someone who is forced to serve" because it does not give a good feeling to what they are doing.…
It is optional. Complimenting this claim, he further suggests that even if only half of students, world-wide, become involved in community service, that is still enough people to carry this out as an official quota in the school systems ( Eggers…
I believe that volunteering expands horizons and allows individuals to experience different environments and situations. It shows who you are as a person and reflects the positive character traits you have. Relay for life is a life-changing event that allows everyone in communities across the globe to come together to honor cancer survivors, remember loved ones, and help fight back. Relay for life has allowed me to encounter many people who all share a common purpose — to support the American Cancer Society's mission. This event made me realize that everyone can make a difference and that every person counts.…
If only there would have been more people volunteering, then so much more people could have been helped. And if more people can be help, then the suffering on earth can be ease. The big problem is that everyone is so busy with their personal life that they forget about the importance of helping others. A positive aspect I saw was that those who were already volunteering were really dedicated and kind hearted. I believe they are making a big impact on every person they touched and made it a task to spread their kindness.…
Because of this, the aspect of mandatory volunteering can only encourage teens to get involved in their community. Once they get their feet wet, many realize it is something they love to do. For instance, an eighteen year old senior completed 350 community service hours after being required to do only fifty hours of service. These eye-opening opportunities in high school can lead to a lifelong passion of giving back. Additionally, encouraging students to volunteer also helps their their mind to grow in substantial amounts.…
Student Volunteering Imagine if, Burlington County College decided to enforce community service as a requirement for graduation, that would be wonderful. As a student of the college, I feel we should do this, because helping others is so important. One of the problems with society today, is that people do not know how to give to others. Whether it’s your time or your talents, we always have extra to give to others. Sometimes, in our lives, we, need to be pushed into something, to find out we like it.…