Most know Ronald Reagan best for his acting career and presidency, but not many look back to his past and sees how his leadership roles started early in life; which is where mine starts. Throughout my life, leadership has always been a part of me, I have always strained to help others and try to lead them the right way. Trying my hardest has helped me make a great impact to those around me by showing them what can be done. When I was in eighth grade, a new opportunity was given to my class to take a high school course early, and I decided to be one of the few to go through with it, knowing it would be a lot of work. I started thinking about how this could be a benefit to me.…
The Notre Dame Service Club is a school club organized by senior students and appointed teachers, which assists Notre Dame in increasing the publicity and provides the students various opportunities. High school student members of Service Club perform acts of service in our communities, such as cleaning up parks, collecting clothing, and organizing food drives. They also learn leadership skills by running meetings, planning projects, and holding elected leadership positions at the club, school and district levels. Why the Notre Dame Service Club? The club grants awareness to local and global issues.…
The subculture I chose is the FFA which is also known as the future farmer organization. I started in this organization when I was a sophomore in high school. The organization starts in the middle school and goes into high school. My high school isn’t big on FFA, so I had to find out through a mutual friend. When I started in this club I didn’t know what to except so I was shy at first and didn’t volunteer for activates as much as I should have.…
The four pillars of National Honors Society have greatly influenced my life in high school. It is something I will definitely carry over to my later life as a college student and as an adult. Becoming a part of The Youth Grantmaking Council has definitely made me a stronger leader and has impacted my community service involvement. The Youth Grantmaking Council (YGC) has stressed the need of philanthropy in our community. Being involved within the community is something that I think is very keen.…
Being in FBLA and BETA club, we’re sometimes in charge of decorating for school dances and activities and being apart of that it’s really made me value that teamwork quality and even teach…
At school I participated in the National Spanish Honor Society, which allowed me to engage with other students and community members. Being a part of the organization allows me to bring exposure to the high school community helping students in aspects of improving…
Through student council I have worked closely with my teachers and advisors to better my school by bringing our student body together for events such as pep rallies and competitive games during homecoming week. I have also made great friendships with peers outside of my usual classrooms which has helped shape me into a well rounded person. With National Honor Society and Spanish National Honor Society, we have bettered our community through projects such as a can food drive and buying Christmas gifts for children in need. National Honor Society has also helped me gain connections with our local Special Olympics where I volunteered this past year and plan to continue volunteering. As a member of Mu Alpha Theta, I helped to donate school supplies to children in need as well as a food drive and buying Christmas gifts for more children.…
Cross country and track have the same coach, and most teammates continue to do both sports. Because the teams are so similar, they retain the same captains. I inputted 52 weeks per year for both sports, because I am always running and contributing to both sports. The sports mesh together; I help plan for Track during Cross Country, and vice versa.…
So, Sarah and I decided that in our sophomore year, we would join at least two clubs. We joined the Club for the Integration of the Arts together. It is a club that runs our school’s coffeehouses, as well as the yearly opening of the school’s literary magazine. It was a good first club to join – great people, and really fun activities, but nothing that required work…
Despite the fact that my ultimate goal in college is to attend nursing school, I still thoroughly enjoy activities that involve speech and debate. My school is small, but still offers a wide variety of debate clubs and competitions. I have participated in several, but the one that has had the most influence on me is mock trial. Mock trial is a competition in which students are given a fabricated case complete with characters and evidence. The case is split into teams of plaintiff and defendant.…
There are some things that we want our dear teachers to know and some things we don’t. The top two things on that list that are pretty true for any middle schoolers. Number one, I did not fall of the chair to get attention. It can be pretty bad when you get laughed at by the class. But I only used this because it can happen for other things like getting yelled at by the teacher, falling on the wet floor, I can go on forever.…
Journalist Sarah Thornton wrote the book on ‘Club Cultures’ at the end of the ‘acid house’ movement and the raves within the ‘Madchester’ scene had finished. The rave scene was starting to become more mainstream therefor losing the desirable effect it had on the individuals within it. Because of this, moral panic that had specifically centred around drugs started to lose its newsworthiness. The main theme that seems to run throughout the text is the topic of subcultures and more specifically, subcultural capital, a term coined by Bourdieu (1984), and how individual status is affected by this. Thornton explains how subcultures are a way for young individuals to express themselves and how these individuals see it as a symbolic gathering; where…
I joined DECA. Even though I initially joined for reasons that had nothing to do with the club itself, I ended up thoroughly loving DECA. DECA became one of my favorite parts of high school. Every year I excitedly anticipated the state competition where I could spend a few days attending fun conferences and wandering around the heart of Minneapolis. I took a chance in joining DECA, and through it I have learned about myself, have learned to appreciate marketing, and have been able to attend numerous events I otherwise would never have gone…
Visualize being a kid again, just getting out of school, and starting to walk home. The walk home might be a little different for other young kids, especially those living in poverty. One out of five kid’s lives in poverty and one out of five kids won’t graduate on time. For many of these kids, not graduating on time or dropping out of school is inevitable. Non-profit organizations are providing a safe place for young kids to learn and grow, in particular one foundation.…
Twelfth Night is a story that is written by William Shakespeare. Love is a major topic in the Twelfth Night because many major characters in the story fall in love with each other. In the story, the nature of love does not follow the guidelines of social class. Even though love does not follow these guidelines, the characters in the story still realize what social class they are associated in and it sometimes stops them from seeking out certain characters. There are a few love connections that do defy their social classes.…