Alternative giving

find a person that would need help, although many people need it, they aren't willing to admit it. With time we found a family in need. When I contacted the mother of the family, I could tell she was so relieved someone was able to help her make this Christmas special for her girls. When she told me what she thought would be the best gift for her family, I didn't know how to react. I was telling another officer all of her information to write it down and I saw their eyes widen when I told her what they wanted. She wanted a computer. I was in a panic because I did not think we had enough funds to buy a computer. We also had another project during that month, so it would be very difficult to complete both. I immediately asked if there were alternative gifts she think her family would enjoy. She gave us her daughter's clothes and shoe sizes. She continued to talk about her need for a computer. She told me that the night before her daughter…

gorgeous locks of hair? Well, they certainly do and hair loss may be the side effect of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and stem cell transplants. These treatments can cause hair loss by harming the cells that help hair grow and during this process hair may fall out entirely, slowly, or in sections. Hair loss related to cancer treatment is usually temporary, however most of the time, hair will grow back, although rarely, it may remain thin. Therefore, the patients will want their hair back.…

When implementing visual effects it makes things seem more real, giving the illusion that you, yourself are personally giving to that person in need. There aren 't really any major improvements I would make besides making the billboards globa. It is only located in Europe specifically in Germany. If they make the billboards in North America, South America, and so on Misereor would get more help than they asked for. Also some people don’t want to pay $2 to donate they should have an option on…

profitable to make differences in the lives of others. The secret to growth intellectually, physically, socially, spiritually and emotionally is in helping others grow. Mahatma Ghandi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”. An act of kindness, no matter how small it may be, shall never be considered is considered a waste. Therefore, we all must be kinder than necessary because almost everyone we meet is fighting their own kind of battle. Your life…

Nothing Else” and “The Gift of the Magi,” Tellez and O’Henry use symbols to express a deeper significance. Using the fob and combs that Della and Jim both give each other for Christmas, O’Henry demonstrates that love is truly what gift giving is about in “The Gift of the Magi.” The very sharp razor that the barber possesses in “Lather or Nothing Else” represents the choice the barber has to make. Both of these symbols play an extremely important role in the lives of all of the main characters…

Giving always causes me to pause. As an item leaves my hands, or a person leaves my presence, and there is emptiness created that feels pregnant, as if my palms hold a phantom, or the room a ghost. Is giving always a form a losing? But what of these things that give and go on giving? As it leaves your hand, it is already there again to be given once more. It is a gift. This is what my children have taught me. A mother’s love, being imperfect, and intentions, always impure, can never give the…

For my random act of kindness, I chose to help some individuals with special needs. My father is an Athletic Director and special education teacher at the AGWSR middle school. He has to deal with kids that have special needs in school. I decided that my random act of kindness was to take the Friday of fall break and go to the middle school and help my father with the special needs kids. My father and the students were unaware of the task I was about to perform. That Friday of fall break I went…

An estimated 1.4 million blood donations are annually assimilated by The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) in Australia alone. ARCBS uses this picture as propaganda to persuade the adult audience to aid hospital patients by donating blood. The message of this ad is that ARCBS is majorly in need of blood contributions and also of money. The significance of this ad is to be able to reveal to the audience the desperate need of blood and money donations The purpose of this image is to…

The Northwest Indian Tribes were bustling about preparing for a potlatch. They were cooking meats, smoke rising out of the baskets in which they cooked. You could hear the, "Cha, cha,cha" of the lusciously dressed dancers practicing. They were all waiting for you to finish their totem pole. What is a potlatch? Potlatches are big ceremonial parties, that took a lot of money, and time to plan. In a potlatch,…

Provided that the enticement is moral, a charity should utilize any and all means in order to advance its noble cause, otherwise it can neither be pursued nor fulfilled, eventually resulting in a failed charity that has not justification to exist. Because altruistic yield is substantially larger when an incentive is provided, it follows that such organizations implement enticements to afford themselves additional means. It is often argued that ethical individuals donate out of their own…