Volunteering and Community Involvement Essay

While at Otterbein, not everything has been so easy, which no fault can be put on Otterbein that is just a course of life. You overcome these struggles and you learn from them. This brings me to my family conflict paper, this paper allowed me to bring attention to an event in my life that is still new. My conflict paper was about my mom and the emotional neglect I had as a child. The paper also touches on the fraud my mother committed against me and my discovery of it my sophomore year while at…

“Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody has those days...Nobody’s perfect.” When Hannah Montana sang the song, “Nobody’s perfect,” she was most likely not thinking specifically about leaders, but this certainly can apply to them as well. Though they are looked up to and followed they are not perfect. They do not all possess the same particular qualities. Especially since, the definition of leadership and the characteristics that are needed to be a leader are always changing. Through this course I…

As I look back on my past experiences of working with children and adolescents, I realize that I have had an innate calling to mentor those who share a similar financial and social background as my own. I grew up in a single-parent household for the majority of my life with my mother and younger brother; my parents separated when I was 4 years old and the divorce was official 3 years later. Throughout all of the chaos and the absence of my father in my life, my brother and I did very well in…

dedication to consulting on the nutritional quality of foods for all programs. An example of her influence is the development of Community Gardens program that increases the provision of fresh produce to clients. Her background is significant considering of her team members, one is also a RD, while the other four have degrees in public health, public relations, psychology, and community health studies. In other words, her education allows her to guide others on what foods will effectively…

they are contributing too. Whereas, people who are less off give what they can financially but their greatest contributions come from volunteering their time in soup kitchens, varying degrees of service projects and areas and genuinely caring and wishing to have a personal connection with the less fortunate. As in the case of the Robert Taylor Homes, it was a community of people coming together with similar goals, life styles and values. They were more like a family then neighbors, they became…

through my career choice. Human Nutrition and my Modern Greek Studies classes have prepared me to effectively apply my scientific knowledge in a multitude of settings, and communicate with an ethnically diverse population. My work experiences, volunteering, and observations of clinical settings have prepared me to meet the demands of an advanced degree in…

1907—long before presidential summits on volunteerism—they have been helping the poorest Americans get off the streets, find jobs and rebuild their lives.” (Tanner) This private charity helps the homeless by offering shelter and food in exchange for volunteering in the facility. Whether it be helping to clean the building, helping serve in the soup kitchen, or other duties. The homeless can either do that or pay a fee of $3 a night to stay. Which I believe is a great way at getting those in…

public school or private school. There are advantages and disadvantages when it comes to knowing if a charter school is truly improving education. A charter school enhances the education opportunities and autonomy that is accessible in a particular community. Traditional public schools are run by a school district or organization, but charter schools are not part of it. Charter schools can select their own charter school members, and they are in charge of seeing all aspects of the charter…

We as a society need to encourage more young girls and women to take an interest in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In 2009, 48% of the United States workforce was comprised of women while 52% comprised of men (Kimmel et al, 2012). While the slight deviation in percentage seems small, when STEM field jobs were looked at in particular, it was realized that that 76% of the STEM jobs are held be men while women only held on to 24% (Szelényi et al, 2013). In…

SENIOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY The role of your guidance counselor and teachers in preparing “Secondary School Reports” is to provide an overview of your academic and extracurricular achievement, as well as, some sense of your promise for further personal and intellectual growth. We need your help if we are to provide college admissions officers (or people who will be considering you for scholarships) with a clear picture of what makes you, “you.” Please give us an honest evaluation of yourself by…