Goals are often set by people, some are unattainable, some are small goals that can be achieved in a day or less. My goal was to earn the rank of Eagle in Boy Scouts. When I was the age of five, I joined the scouting program. I have been involved for almost three-quarters of my life, and still am very dedicated to my troop. I currently serve as the Senior Patrol leader for my troop of forty-plus boys ranging from eleven to eighteen years old. As the Senior Patrol Leader, I am charge of running each meeting, planning the meetings, and camping events. Scouts has been an enormous part of my life, and will stay with me for the rest of my life, no matter where life takes me. My goal was to earn the rank of Eagle. It is every young scouts dream when joining a Boy Scout Troop; however one in one-hundred actually achieve this rank. I am very proud to say that I am well on my way to the rank of Eagle. I just finished my Eagle Scout Service Project, which is an …show more content…
I wanted to create something that would benefit my community. After brainstorming multiple ideas, I decided to build “Buddy Benches” and gardens for the two elementary schools I attended. The “Buddy Bench” are trending concept for elementary schools; the “Buddy Bench” serves as a serve haven for any child being excluded or bullied, where the child can make new, healthy friendships. The process began with the initial planning, and meeting with each principal on separate occasions. Both principals were uniformly thrilled with my proposal, accepting this concept into their school community. The benches were built out of pressure-treated wood for durability, and painted for presence. To make these benches stand out, and involve the community, young students placed their hand prints on each of the “Buddy Bench” to make them welcoming and peaceful. The “Buddy Benches” are installed along the schools’ playgrounds to make them accessible for those students in
In Engaging Apolitical Youth by Melissa Ames the idea that young readers today are becoming more involved with how our country is being run and what the leaders are saying is a prominent theme throughout this article. I believe that Ames if using a lot of facts and it seems as if she has done extensive research into all of these topics. I believe that Ames is backing up her statements with many different sources and references. Ames is clearly saying that there is a direct correlation between dystopian novels and the amount of your adults interested and involved with politics in the modern world. Ames shows this by bringing up that “total vote has increased consistently throughout the past four presidential elections: 2000, 14.3%; 2004, 16.0%;
A Long Way Gone is about a 12 year old boy soldier who struggles to overcome the Sierra Leone Civil War and get his normal life back after he enlists into the army because his village was starting to get attacked by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and that was the only way someone could survive. Due to being a child soldier, he was exposed to many bad situations for kids his age. One of those situations were drugs. When he was age 16, a group of men by the organization of UNICEF rescued some boys, whom one of them was Ishmael. Ishmael and the rest were taken to a rehabilitation center where they ended up causing a lot of trouble to the staff.
“Kids at Hope” has become a part of the Herndon High School’s framework for all students and the entire staff. Kids at Hope is “a strategic, cultural framework designed to engage entire communities to support success for all children, no exceptions”. It is a cultural framework with strategies based on three leading principles and practices: We Believe, We Connect and We Time Travel. The “We Connect” component of Kids at Hope supports the notion that as long as children have meaningful and sustainable relationship with caring adults they will be successful. Those caring adults are called the ACES.
The YMCA’s methods of capturing and preserving the interests of its target audience remains almost exclusive to its overall brand. Although the organization’s prosperity is greatly due to strategic planning and the overall uniqueness of the establishment, the YMCA must still consider the challenge of neighboring businesses willing to compete. Two of the YMCA’s biggest competitors may include Fitology and Planet Fitness. Generally, each business exhibits its own unique standards of services, equipment and resources, and overall culture that are explicitly specialized to its objective.
In the book, Soldier Boys, by Dean Hughes two boys who are on opposite sides of the war tell their struggles and stories of battle in the War and how their two different lives collide together. The author of the book, Dean Hughes, has spent 7 years doing research on World War II and finding information about the war. Dean Hughes has interviewed war veterans, studied newspapers that were written in the time of World War II, and read hundreds of books like, “The Burden of Hitler 's Legacy” by Alfons Hecks to help his understanding of this time period and events. With all this information and facts he collected, he wrote the book, Soldier Boys. The years that World War II took place was in between 1939 to 1945 and around those years the holocaust
A second paid opportunity I have had serving children has been working as summer camp counselor for the past three summers. Each summer since May 2013, Warren W. Willis United Methodist Summer Camp has provided me with the opportunity to mentor a wide variety of children ranging in ages from rising fourth grade to newly graduated high school seniors. Here I have taken on many roles of mentor, advocate, listener, friend, small group leader, activities facilitator, etc. Here I have interacted with children and adolescents of all backgrounds and cultures.
The coming of age is the process of growing up or entering adulthood, a stage of life that every living thing goes through from human to fish, although it comes at times that are unexpected and at any age, sometimes it might be fast or it could be a slow process. In the book TKM many characters go through the coming of age from old to young. This essay will be talking about Scout, Boo,and Jem and their journey through the coming of age. The sense I have decided upon is the scene where Scout and Jem are attacked In the forest, On the way home from a the school play. And how literary terms affect the thought of the scene First in the book TKM when Scout and Jem get attacked I believed this played a large role in Scouts coming of age.
“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” Ray L. Wilber’s statement is one I came to realize after becoming a summer camp counselor for girls ages seven to twelve. Only in my first few days as a counselor, my eyes were forced open to see the greatness inside each of my campers. For some children these gifts only need nurtured; others require assistance in uncovering their distinction. Here in lies my passion: to convince each child I meet of his or her infinite potential.
Dalton Huya Mrs. Clemons Pre-Ap Writing 18 October 2015 Summary of Soldier Boys Soldier Boys is a fictional story set in during World War ll. It shows the perspective of an American boy and a German boy wanting to join the Nazi’s.
Upon becoming an Eagle Scout, I may plan to stay in Scouting by advancing as an Assistant
The transition from childhood to adulthood occurs when an individual is able to recognize the impact he or she can leave upon their community, gaining life skills doing so. An accomplishment that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood, would be best demonstrated by the process and completion of a leadership responsibility when I performed my Eagle Scout Project. I joined the scouting program when I was very young, and have been very active since ever. Becoming an Eagle Scout has many challenges that a young Boy Scout must undertake, including the completion of a community-based project, which is an important step in obtaining this notable rank. The Eagle Scout Project is designed for the scout to learn different leadership responsibilities.
Soldier Boys, by Dean Hughes, recounts the experiences of two young soldiers, one American and one German, fighting in World War 2. In the book, Hughes brings up issues like the persecution of Jews, the social conditioning of young children, the use of adolescent soldiers during World War 2, and the question we all have asked ourselves at one point or another: why do we have to have wars? The first main character is Spencer Morgan, a 17-year-old boy who drops out of highschool to join the army and fight against the Nazis, even though his family urges him to stay out of the war. Spencer becomes a soldier because he wants to prove something to his friends, family, and the young woman he once was infatuated with as a boy: LuAnne Crowther. Eventually
My outside of school activities have a few goals as well. For Boy Scouts, I would like to become an Eagle Scout. I am super close, I just need to finish a small amount of paperwork and attend a few meetings. For ultimate, I have a few. I would like to finish the season with no major or minor incidents.
Career Paper Earl Nightingale once said, “People with goals, succeed because they know where they 're going. ”1Therefore, without goals a person will lose and not be successful. This paper will discuss career goals, professional aspirations, short term and long term goals and the salary obtained at a given time. I have always wanted to work in the Air Force, whether an officer or enlisted. I was in ROTC; however, I was medically disqualified and could not continue in the program.