Volunteer Essay

1)List any volunteer, extracurricular activities, or work experience in which you have been involved in the past two years. In the past two years I have helped the community in various ways. I have a passion for helping people and making a difference, I enjoy it because I believe little things you do for others will be returned as a favor to someone else and eventually the world will become a better place.To start off ever since I was young, I would volunteer at Saint Emydius church organizing…

On first thought, the word “volunteer” itself brings about connotations of selflessness, of community service, and of outward devotion. In no way are these translations incorrect, yet they only scratch the surface of what it truly means to be a volunteer--both in wholehearted spirit and on the University of Tennessee campus. Don’t get me wrong; dedicating one’s self to community service is great and all, and I know that the time I’ve spent doing so has been instrumental in my awareness of…

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Policy Analysis In the paper that follows I will analyze the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program, specifically working to break down the success of the program based on the history and how much the program has changed. This includes the source of financing for the programs and how that impacts its effectiveness; the laws that directly relate to the VISTA program; the achievements of the programs since its inception; the measurements of…

For twenty years of my life, I have never done any volunteer activities for the soceity. Although I have donated money to some of the organisations, I have never joined any activities physically. As in the class Social Ethic: Phil 123C we discussed at the beginning of the semester about “you” and “me”, I always think in term of “me” instead of thinking for the soceity. I want all my free time after school is only dedicated for myself, even if I just doing nothing for a whole day. When I take the…

In the summer of my junior year, I had the opportunity to volunteer at Scott & White Hospital. Known in the area for their exceptional care, I was ecstatic to discover that I was chosen out of hundreds of applicants to participate in their Junior Volunteer program. The program enables high school students to shadow medical professionals, ranging from lab technicians to orthopedic surgeons, and learn about the medical field. The thought of learning about healthcare while helping people in need…

After graduating from church school and receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation, I decided to volunteer as a teacher’s assistant at my church school to help the older generation teach the youth about the Catholic faith. This volunteer experience helps me realized that my purpose in the Catholic Church was to help the people in my community, to give them positive influence allowing me to gain personal growth and reach my potential of a selfless person learning to take the role as a leader. That…

People volunteer for many different reasons; it could be because they are required to volunteer, to gain new experiences, or to explore career options. I volunteer because I love making connections with other people, and helping others. Volunteering gives me a sense of accomplishment and allows me to know that I have done well for others. This past summer I had the privilege of volunteering at the Virginia Association of Family and Consumer Sciences annual conference, as well as Brookdale…

For years, the American fire service thought that the number one killer of firefighters were heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies, due to the high number of them and the physical stress of firefighting. The American public probably thinks of the number one killer of firefighters to be thermal injuries or structural collapses. Surprisingly, the most powerful enemy to the fire service, a silent but deadly one, is cancer. When I first started as a Firefighter, a short nine years ago,…

It was dawn turning dusk and 1987. Andrew, Arnold, and Anthony were getting tucked into bed. Their parents Randy and Ross kissed them goodnight and went downstairs. Slowly, the kids fell asleep into their comforting beds. They couldn’t stop thinking about the warm sunny summer days ahead of them. All of the sudden, a loud alarm went off. The kids got out of bed and smelled some smoke. They inferred it was a fire and did the precautions their parents said to do when there was a fire. They all met…

The Fire Fighter I choose to interview for my term project is Andrew Huizinga I picked him because I work at Fitness 19 and we’ve talked about me becoming a fire fighter and he has given me a lot of advice on what to do. Andrew was in the coast guard for 4 years then he went to school for engineering at Cal Poly. The first set of questions I asked Andrew were about the fire academy and why he wanted to become a fire fighter. The first question I asked Andrew was when and why did he decided to…