Giving

I feel that it is important to give back to your community because you get to see all the different families and their perspective on life. Also, you get to know your community better and start relationships that could last life time. When giving back to the community you realize many things. Such as, having food to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. While some people only eat one meal a day or couple days. Also, you realized how lucky you are to have a house to live in and a bed to sleep…

Big round eyes devoid of life stare directly at me. The body lays stiff, unanimated by the pounds of stuffing and the absence of senses. It’s brown fur rubs across my hand as I hold it’s existence. With paws facing forward and the tail posterior to the body, my dog plush was displaying it’s anatomical position. A gift given from my grandmother, my plush’s defining feature was it’s oversized black muzzle and the minute tongue that permeated through. Gifts are meant to hold sentimental value,…

Organ donation is a major role in saving thousands each year. In order for people to be able to live a longer life some need new organs, which is found from the registered donor list. People need to realize that by making an organ donation a more standardized practice, we could save even more lives. When donating organs, people can be at ease knowing that their loved one is still living through someone else, also that they helped save an abundance of lives by just donating. Therefore, we…

Marcel Mauss (2002) in his seminal work The Gift (2002) has said that even though gift-giving is technically a voluntary process and it is allegedly free of any egotism in reality gift giving and receiving is a social obligation and is inundated with self-interest. Mauss adds that the gestures associated with gift-giving, the mask of generosity and disinterestedness, are all mere fictions to appease our sense of propriety. In other words, when people give gifts they do so with the motive of…

Raising Money in North Texas for Important Causes in October Countless people would agree that raising money for various causes is important. Many North Texans might also say that giving back to society is an essential aspect of being a Texas resident. Texans are proud of their fundraising efforts for charitable causes, and North Texans have plenty of opportunities to donate their time and money in October. From the ALS charity walks to the Susan G. Komen fundraising events to the Stepping Out…

“ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give ” by Winston Churchill. Giving is what will make you happy. I would like to give three gifts for Christmas. To begin with, I would like to give my Great Grandpa Grogg back to my mom’s side of the family for a month. I would like to get answers to the questions I have and learn more about him. We can talk about his stories as a team physician on the Mahomet Seymour football team. There was the one time when one of the players…

Giving back and helping others has been my number one goal in life which also has influenced my career choice as a psychiatrist. My mother always told me that it's okay to do things for others but to make sure it's from the kindness of my heart. I think I have contributed to my community to the best of my ability. I first started wanting to help others once I entered the third grade, so I joined girl scouts. In my group every year we would do a program that helped us give the less fortunate a…

There are many reasons that have contributed to my decision to pursue Nursing. Starting with science and learning all the fascinating things the human body can do, then through my volunteer work, but there is one personal reason that made my decision to become a nurse a certain one. This reason is the passing of my younger brother due to Trisomy 13. I was only eight years old but I knew in that moment that I wanted to help people in need. I never want a family to go through what my family went…

America’s Gift To My Generation The gifts America has given us aren’t ordinary, they’re legendary. To be cherished to posses. However, America has given us gifts, to treasure. They have given us technology, freedom, and education. They have generously lost money to help us, and to thrive through the trials and tribulations. We shall be honored and cherish the gifts America because technology is growing, freedom has risen, and education has excelled. Technology has developed eagerly…

The Gift of Mauss is about an economic system based on gifts and reciprocity that was common, under different forms, in many “archaic” societies. The author used various ethnographies to develop a new economic theory different from the barter theory and called gift economy. An important compound of this new theory is the reciprocity, but in order to understand what is it for Mauss, the gift economy need to be explained. First, this new kind of economy is based on the exchange of services. This…