National Junior Honor Society Research Paper

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National Junior Honor Society
I am going to tell you how the National Junior Honors Society’s standards of scholarship, character, service, leadership,and citizenship are essential compounds to developing a principled, reflective, caring, communicator, and thinker. One of the things scholarship is essential for is being a thinker. You need scholarship to be a thinker, because if you want to learn at a high level you have to put effort and thought into what you are doing. That is one way you need scholarship to be a thinker. Service is essential for being caring. One example is, if you are doing service for someone you have to be caring for them, because you are using your time for someone else's benefit. That is one way service makes you

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