I am greatly honored to be one of the selected students who are being considered for the Spring induction of National Honor Society. As a current eleventh grade student, I believe that I have exceeded in demonstrating all four qualities of the National Honor Society. With my previous experience in the National Junior Honor Society, I have bestowed the ideals to my community as of the beginning of my middle school career. This has led me to take pride in the community around me and help create a greater society with the foundation that the National Junior Honor Society has introduced to me. The quality of Service is an ideal that I can directly relate to through personal experience, therefore creating significance in my life.…
Junipero Serra was a man who did incredible things for God. He was a Franciscan teacher in Spain. Later, he received a call from God to become a missionary. Obeying as God wished, Junipero Serra spread God’s love and word through Mexico. Additionally, he came to California and built missions.…
My experiences volunteering for Food Recovery Network and the Knox Farm have been quite transformative. I never would have thought that I would have my quench for volunteering come from taking School and Society. Initially, I wasn’t completely sure about whether or not I would enjoy the experiences, but I ended up getting so much out of all the experiences. When it came to the first couple weeks volunteering for Food Recovery Network, I ended up falling in love with the concept of donating food that would have been wasted to the cafeteria to places that need help. I volunteered almost every monday and friday then an entire week.…
The service animal industry is at a rise in today's society. Many individuals can not make it through everyday activities: getting a water, turning on the lights, or closing a door. Service animals have stepped in and have taken the responsibility to guide an individual with many different reasons. One may gain a service animal for multiple reasons: physical: blindness, epilepsy, diabetes, etc. Mental: PTSD, emotional support, anxiety, etc.…
Outside of school, I have many hobbies. A few that I am most passionate about include volunteering, art, photography, reading, and horseback riding. In the spring and summer months, I am a regular volunteer at Shining Hope Farms, a hippotherapy services program. Due to my busy schedule during the school year, I am not able to volunteer much during the fall and winter but help out when I can.…
Furry Animal Shelter will need a system in place that will guarantee the efficiency and effectively of the services we provide. The information systems will offer online resources to help match different features with different prices and functionality because our goal is to focus on the quality of services, rely on the internet to promote the shelter and adopt production techniques such as enterprise resource planning, computer-integrated. (Nickels, McHugh & McHugh, 2015, p.245) One of the information system we will implement in the shelter is a website called sheltermanager.com. This website is a solution for animal shelters, rescue groups and animal control facilities ("sheltermanager.com - About sheltermanager.com", 2016).…
How can someone look into the eyes of an abandoned animal, without taking it home? How does an animal shelter worker find that forever place for these homeless animals? A day in the life of a animal shelter worker is nothing but hard work between dealing with the animals, adoption and adoption failures, funding, and the emotional impact brought on and taken home. Playdates with the other dogs to practice good social behaviors. The decision to make the shelter a traditional open admission shelter or no-kill shelter takes play as well.…
Pigs, Cows, Chickens. Oh My! In the United States today the most consumed food is meat. Most people have it three times a day. Maybe have some bacon for breakfast, chicken for lunch, and maybe a cheeseburger for dinner.…
This past summer while shadowing at an equine veterinary clinic I was asked to hand walk a horse who was acting up in his stall. He was a beautiful black stallion, and I felt power and fear radiating from him. When I took him outside, I saw why he was there. A huge raw cut covered a quarter of his flank, the skin had been ripped away, exposing the red damaged muscles underneath. This had happened when he spooked after being handled by his rescue family and he had ran into barbed wire.…
Each and every year, throughout the United States, millions of animals are left abandoned, abused or even killed. In addition to this issue, there is currently a pet overpopulation occurring in the U.S due to excessive breeding at puppy mills, dog breeding operations that put profit over the health and well-being of the animals. The majority of these animals, when left abandoned, are then euthanized due to minimal room in shelters. Upon having strong feelings towards this problem and wanting to take a stance, Jennifer Tlapanco, Mary Fan and I decided to volunteer at a nonprofit animal shelter, Sean Casey Animal Rescue.…
Animal euthanasia is not a hot topic in Hong Kong but in fact it is an issue that we need to care about. In Hong Kong, pet is known as the “asset” of the owner, so pet euthanasia is legal in law. Although the action is legalized, there are two different voices in the society. Pet lovers believed that the pets have their own feeling and should not deprive their lives and it is not ethical. While some pet owners claimed that it is a method to release the pets’ pain and it can reduce the financial burden.…
What would happen to the animals if they run out of supplies? Will they die of hunger? Or will they attack one of the volunteers that have helped them? None of the volunteers know and neither do the animals. All the animals know is if they’re hungry then they have to find a way to eat.…
In the world today, people cannot do without animals because they have become an essential part of human existence to both vegetarians and meat eaters. Some animals serve as pet, and some serve as food, and others are used for sports and laboratory experiments. Although some animal activist advocates for animal rights, there are limits to that right because animals cannot be equal with human. They don’t have the intellectual ability that humans have to take responsibilities and control what happens around them. These animals are important in the society and the need to treat them with respect is paramount.…
There are two different groups from where stray dogs come: 1. Those pets who were abandoned by owners (both puppies and adult dogs) and 2. Those born on the street. 3.3.2 Abandoned by owners: Abandoning an animal is never acceptable under any situation, yet many people do just that by dumping their animals that they no longer want, or perhaps can no longer afford.…
Project 8 How many of you think it's wrong to hurt animals? So you already believe in being a vegetarian. Good evening to one and all present here.…