Eagle Scout

on the Stake Youth Counsel Committee and we are in charge of planning large service projects, dances, youth conference which is a spiritual “camp” I guess. We go to classes and do other activities. I have earned my Eagle Scout, and have learned tons of things from being in boy scouts. I have picked up hunting and have enjoyed learning how to hunt and I just love being outside shooting and hiking or fishing really anything. Every year I go out to our farm to shoot a deer I ask the local game…

The losses among the Germanic forces is unknown. The three Roman legions suffered the ultimate disgrace of losing their eagle standards. In Rome, the people were stunned and terrified by the defeat. Emperor Augustus, strongly affected, refused to cut his hair or beard and at times would dash his head against a door, crying "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!" Reprisal…

until he was 13. He didn't know of his birth father until he was 17 when Leslie King made an abrupt stop in Ford's hometown. Ford went to South High School where he was a huge football star and the captain of the team. He also took an interest in Eagle Scouts. As a teen, he earned money by working for his step-dad's paint business and a resturaunt close by. Ford attended The University of Michigan from 1931-1935. His majors were economics and political science. Ford was still very interested in…

I was always an outcast, or so I felt that way. I had a minor accent, knew little to no English and dressed a little different then most. During this period in my life, I had just recently moved here to Little Rock, from Mexico at the age of 7. I came here legally at the time, but can you imagine a small child leaving everything behind, having nothing but the clothes they had on and a couple hundred dollars trying to live here in the US? It was nothing easy, I saw my parents struggle financially…

For most people its satisfying to know they can build something with their own two hands that’s of quality and impresses people. That’s one of the reasons my dad said he loves to do woodworking. People generally take more pride in something they have had to work for or had to do themselves rather than something that was just handed to them. My dad, like most men, is the kind of guy that will try to fix it or make it himself before he has to pay somebody to do it. I was curious as to how he…

police misconduct. People feel like the police are abusing their power and this law reinforces that belief. Minorities are affected the worst by this law, they are targeted by the police. Two white sons whose father was the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles were convicted of having a “emporium of drugs”. Their emporium didn’t get seized by the police. Even though whites aren’t targeted, they are still persecuted through this law. The police don’t look good to the public, they have made some major…

Fallen Chief Crazy Horse was perhaps one of the greatest war leaders of the Lakota people, his reputation and prestige as a courageous and fearless warrior was acknowledged by his enemies and allies alike. He is remembered for being one of the bravest of warriors always riding at the front of a charge. In his lifetime he counted more than two hundred coups which exceeding the likes of other respected warriors such as Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull. If Crazy Horse had lived in an…

To become an Eagle Scout I had to plan and build a community service project, I built a storage shed/shelter in my local dog park, this project, combined with all my previous years in Boy Scouts have taught me the importance of serving one’s community in any way possible. That is part of the reason that I decided to join the Shelburne Volunteer Fire Department and use it as my Graduation Challenge, I wanted to learn skills that would help my community and that would serve me later in life if I…

“Don’t judge a book by it's cover” this is a saying I’m sure most people have heard, but how many of us really take it to heart? In the essay “Working at Wendy’s,” written by Joey Franklin, the truth of this statement is really brought to light. Anyone can find a time, just as Franklin did, when he or she felt as though they were being judged unfairly. I know there have been many times in my life where I have felt as though people have made poor presumptions about me, and where I have been…

Black Elk Speaks is a personal narrative that encompasses an autobiography of Black Elk’s life as a holy man and healer coupled with the tribal history of the lifestyle, and tough challenges that Native Americans faced during the westward expansion movement of white settlers. In the beginning of the book unravel the first unique cultural practice of the Lakota people. That is, before telling his story Black Elk invites Neihardt (the author of the book) to smoke with him the red willow bark in…