Giving

The Gift of Kindness When one thinks about kindness what comes to mind? Maybe helping an elderly with something they can not do anymore or making somebody feel better when they are having a bad day. Whatever it is it is always something that is positive. Kindness is something that can change somebody’s feelings, it can help to create a better society, and it is also proven to improve one's health. In the story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” there was a man who was…

Picking out the perfect gift for Dad takes a little planning and effort. You want something exciting and unique, but you also want it to be something he’ll cherish forever. Finding the right gift can be even more difficult when you have a Spanish-speaking father, as many personalized gifts are only available in English. Whether you’re shopping for Dad’s birthday or looking for an ideal holiday gift, here are some tips to keep in mind. Choose Quality Over Quantity It can be tempting to buy Dad…

From a little girl, until now, I have always been raised on the principle of giving back to your community . For over seven years I have been an active volunteer at the Inidantown Food Pantry. Though it seems like a minute role, it is a very impactful one. Indiantown is a small cited triangulated between Okeechobee, Stuart, and Palm Beach that, by statistics of the 2016 Census, houses just a little over 6,000 people. Within that number, there is an estimated twenty-five percent poverty rate,…

popular type of economy that currently coexists with capitalism is a gift-giving economy. Though now they exist in a kind of symbiotic relationship, someday, capitalism or some other similar type of market economy will eventually take over, simply so that the people and their economy can better interact with the rest of the world on a global level. In Western culture, it is usually believed…

People are faced with several perspectives on charity. Charities do not always solve the problems they aim to solve. Charities’ target issues that are far too extensive to be fixed with mere money. Therefore, they are not fixing the issues, but rather they are covering them while the main issues continue to grow larger. Charity also does not always go to the destinations in which one believes that he or she is helping. Also, donating all of one's extra money is a completely absurd idea to…

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,…

The practice of making charitable donations is prosaic in American society; accordingly, in this mundane culture, benefactors are frequently motivated for reasons other than their own magnanimity. Illustratively, in my community, a local public broadcasting station fundraises and offers a special, refillable coffee vessel in exchange for a certain sum of donation. This is not unusual, in fact, when acts of charity are requested, organizations often incentivize support. Their goal is to create…

Last year, I had the chance to work with an organization called Santa’s Little helpers. It's an organization that raises gifts to give to children in orphanages, hospitals, foster care, ect. It was the first time it was coming to the Portland area, and the person in charge had allowed me to help out and be part of the team. A big problem was how we were gonna have the event run smoothly and set up an incentive that would make others want to donate. Since the event is on one specific day (like a…