The scents of Salty, Musk, and coastal trees have always comforted me as a child. Sitting on the golden taupe seashore filled my body with soothing warmth. The Beach is a complex beauty of the earth; as a child, I have always had a peculiar view of the beach. As I flourished, my curiosity started to grow in the environment around me. The tenderness of the beach still stood with me, yet I matured and found more passion for other possessions. In my junior year, I signed up for an ROP AP Environmental class. On the first day, I walked in a feeling of admiration, filling my body lingering sparks of curiosity and joy. Throughout the course, an increasing amount of exhilaration stimulated my head, passion, and a sense of comfort about learning about …show more content…
This particular course has made me want to pursue life around this passion for the environment.
The ROP program has essentially formed an admiration I have never felt about any other course I have taken within my three years of high school. Each segment and chapter of this course has educated me very well about our environment, and I had a strong sense of ambition while learning. I had the ambition of helping others and our future, so I began my ambition to change in my community. I started at my school, first doing a seven-hour recycling and cleaning up. I knew that changes had to begin in the environment of my school. During this time period, I learned about the effects of air pollution and how trash and a dirty environment can contribute to this problem. I felt eager and motivated to change the environment of my school because I knew it could be the start of a cleaner environment for the people in my school. After my clean-up, I worked with my club to publicize the act of sanitation and hygiene and posted posters advocating sanitation in my school. I felt a sense of pride in putting up my posters, and I
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It is not just the fact that the world is dangered; it is the fact that our future is at stake because of global warming and fossil fuels. When studying environmental science, I became more self-conscious of the things I do that affect the environment. This habit began to flourish as I became more empathetic about everything. From the succulents in my bedroom to the people I came into contact with every day. I was determined to create a mindset in which empathy can help you appreciate much more. This course showed me how people are unaware of their actions and how they can have a large effect in the long run. I even realized that I was contributing to this particular problem as well. While I was transitioning to this mindset, I became more considerate of my carbon footprint. It was a very difficult journey, but it was worth it in the end. As I became more empathetic, I started to enjoy simple things, and it was easy to stay happy and joyful. I started helping my family more without being asked; helping out others was something that gave me joy and felt content. If more people become empathetic toward the world around us, international problems will be solved, more kindness will be shed upon others, and empathy can create a world that everyone dreams of. Empathy changed the way I viewed many things; all in all, I became a more positive person. The art of compassion
This project was a lot harder then my family and I ever expected it to be. At first we thought it would be good and we would feel better about not wasting and not having as much trash. But after a couple of days we noticed that we couldn’t do a lot of things we normally do like wipe our hands on a napkin or use a straw to drink at a resturaunt. We as a whole had to make a lot of changes like making our foods the night before and bringing clean towels with us everywhere we went. This project has really made us open our eyes to see what we were actually doing to hurt our environment just by going through our daily routine.
The college's commitment to hands-on learning and fieldwork will provide me with invaluable practical experiences in real classrooms, allowing me to apply the knowledge and skills I gain throughout my coursework. I anticipate the chance to work directly with diverse student populations, and to make a positive impact on their lives. Additionally, Pacific Oaks' emphasis on community engagement and advocacy will enable me to develop a deeper understanding of what my educational goals are. I am eagerly anticipating the transformative journey that lies ahead and the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children through my studies at Pacific Oaks. Being able to access lectures and coursework from the comfort of my own home has allowed me to save time on commuting and adhere to a personalized schedule.
The article reveals that society needs eco-innovation and a sustainable focus in today's rapidly changing environmental context. This change can come from social movements and ground-breaking projects, but educating students about sustainable living is ideal. Educators are responsible for raising environmentally conscious, self-sufficient individuals who understand the importance of protecting the environment. Young people's efforts like Spark-Y embrace practical environmental education while giving students practical skills and helping them realize the domain's value. This source and its relevancy tie back to my topic because the general points given through the source benefit my research on sustainability in
This program has given me the skills I need to adapt to new problems that I would not have anticipated the day before and to have a strong work ethic. Through this group project and the numerous assignments I've had throughout college, I've improved my time-management abilities and learned how to set priorities more effectively. Not only from the coursework but also from the connections to Christ made in
Upon beginning my first class at Walden University, it has been difficult to see myself getting through this 8-week course. Furthering my education has been something I have struggled to accomplish for the last 4 years. I almost decided to give up and continue being just a high school teacher. However, being a senior teacher that motivates my students to go above an beyond to reach their goal has pushed me to work hard and start a new journey. Though it is only the beginning of my journey, I can see graduation.
Through completing the course and embracing its resources, I’ve understood how important
My interest in science has forced me to enroll in AP Chemistry and AP Calculus to supplement my scientific endeavors. I believe my high level of proficiency in both classes, will enable me to assist others achieve their desired level of achievement at Governor’s Honors Program. My involvement in the field of engineering through Robotics and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair will also assist me in providing practical applications for science at Governor’s Honor Program. My avid desire to share knowledge in technological integration will accelerate the performance of the Governor’s Honors Program
During the freshman student orientation days at the start of each semester, the school should have a lecture on how students can properly protect the environment and participate in sustaining the nature around them. It would also be beneficial to have a speaker on this matter share at least one dimension session throughout each semester”. I argued that this
The hands-on experience and purpose in this partnership provided an interactive solution to the disconnect and allowed students to learn in a new manner while implementing changes at Ithaca College and in their daily lives. EVI currently is implementing more outreach programs, like pilot programs that allow students to live at EVI while undergoing a unique learning experience. The current pilot allows students to live at EVI for eight weeks and channel their passions for sustainability and
Our own private beach was situated between two jetties two hundred yards apart, similarly dotted down the beach, with neighbors no closer than one hundred feet on either side. The million dollar view was breathtaking, counterbalancing any inconvenience encountered by the cramped quarters. Standing on the porch, visions of swimming, sunbathing and playing on our private piece of paradise took shape. Children from one to sixteen were already shedding clothes and donning bathing suits in anticipation of the cool water awaiting
In “Find Your Beach”, a narrative essay written by Zadie Smith, the writer expresses her belief that is one is adamant enough, one can arrive at their beach - a paradise-like environment that people dream of, but is believed to be very hard to obtain. The idea of a person’s “beach” being hard to discover can be observed through Smith’s personal background, as it is almost mythical for this English writer living in Soho, Manhattan to come by a beach. What I took away from Smith’s text is the idea that when you finally arrive at your beach, “sooner or later you will be sitting on that beach wondering what comes next”. Overall, I interpreted one’s beach being defined as a person’s happiness. It is something we all have the potential to posses
In the NY Times article “Why the Beach Is a Bummer,” Roxane Gay exploits the beach and the ways it never actually lives up to the expectation many have when summer comes around. Gay speaks of her childhood on the beaches of Haiti and how beautiful it was, but how different it is in the United States because there's such a high expectation for the beach since many areas aren’t surrounded by them. “The beach becomes a kind of utopia — the place where all our dreams come true”(Gay), meaning the beach becomes romanticized by so many when in reality there’s just sand in places where it doesn't belong whether in your book or on your body. Gay expresses how soon after arriving at the beach boredom approaches from having nothing to do besides
Growing up, I would go there to play with my siblings and climb the jumbles of rocks that overlooked what seemed like the never-ending vast body of water, pretending that it went on forever. The place not only represented my childhood, but also the start of the end of it. Memories flooded back of endless summer nights of young teenage girls who would sneak down to the hidden beach to get too tipsy and laugh and flirt with boys and pretend that we were grown up. The beach represented not only childhood innocence, but also the longing to leave childhood behind, and this slower sluggish version of myself knew it. It seemed almost poetic that the place I had once felt most alive at would be the place my lifeless body would be pulled towards, almost as if gravity had propelled my body there
A large part of the driving force behind my interest in both Catawba’s environmental degrees and the Environmental Stewards Program is frustration. All too often it seems like people don’t stop to consider the impact their actions can make on the surrounding environment. Well water in neighborhoods similar to my own is poisoned by new developments that spray chemicals in order to obtain the “perfect lawn,” power companies bulldoze entire areas of forests along creeks and rivers with no regard for the destruction of those waterways and the species that depend on them, and those same new developments I’ve mentioned inevitably doom themselves by increasing severe flooding. My goal is to research and raise awareness about issues while helping the
I participated in a service learning activity through Fayetteville State University’s Ethics and Civic Engagement HB-1 class. I immensely enjoyed the experience and the impact I made on the recycling effort in the New Science and Technology building. The goal of the class was to expose students to environmental and sustainability issues. FSU mission on sustainability is “FSU signed the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) now known as Carbon Commitment in April 2010. It is a high-visibility effort to address global climate disruption and institutional commitments to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from campus operations, and to promote the research and educational efforts to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s