Personal Narrative: Congressional Internship

C) As a Christian individual, Family Research Policy Council is a non-profit organization that aligns with my beliefs in the world. I always to strive to “do the best for the greater good” for the unborn, the oppressed, and the sick. All throughout my life, I have fought for religious liberties, pro-life, and families. Through landmark court cases, such as Engel v. Vital and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, they revealed the critical need for Christian based representatives in policy.

As an immigrant who has worked diligently to improve my quality of life, each pillar of the National Honor Society has contributed to my development and success. As a first generation American and future college student, I want to use the lessons I have learned from NHS to make my parents proud, honor their sacrifices, and revere the country that has given me the chance to improve my life. Service has not only humbled and matured me as I have worked at a children’s summer camp for five summers and have led church small groups, but has also helped me realize what I want to do with my life. My service, which has primarily been with underprivileged children, combined with my father’s chronic illness that I have witnessed throughout my life,

"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. " This is quoted from Mahatma Gandhi, and is fitting when talking about my experiences in the JROTC service programs I have involved myself in so far this current school year. Not only have I been able to provide a service for Central High School, athletic games, and Veteran's Day programs for children, I have been able to gain more respect from my peers, superiors, and myself. My services for JROTC have all ranged in description, but all fall under color guard events I have volunteered myself part in. These services have included taking part in a team that worked on several color guard events for volleyball games, a competition team where we represented Central High

What draws me to City Corps is my interest in protecting the city I call home. Being a "Brooklynite" in an low income neighborhood, life was not easy growing up as a black man. As a child, I lived through hardships like losing both my grandmother and my mother at before the age of 16. The joy I get from helping people is a feeling that never goes away, but is also a concept that is increasingly neglected and being replaced with racism. Being apart of the conversation is the only way you can begin to find a solution to the growing complex social issues in our society today.

For me, from the moment of the election of the Service Learning Project, I didn't like the simple fact of having to “work for free,” and the idea was transformed into a boring activity to do with the mere purpose of completing the project. However, as I started to help at the food pantry, I became aware of how wrong I was and my opinion about the social service changed, I realized how the simple fact of providing support to the most disadvantaged groups of society, was very

“ Motivate young people to become better citizens”, a motto I have stood by for the past four years of my life. This program has helped shape me into the great citizen I am today. I used to think volunteering was a punishment for disobeying the law. I soon realized that volunteering is for everyone. JROTC has also helped me improve on my public speaking, that is something that was a very rough task for me I would break myself apart with anxiety and panic.

Since I was ten years old, I have been a member of the Young Marines, a program dedicated to the enrichment of youth. Aside from my family and school, this organization has had an incredible impact on my life, not only providing me with many unique and amazing experiences, but by shaping the foundation of my character by instilling in me the three core principles of the Young Marines: Discipline, Leadership, and Teamwork and also by emphasizing the importance of community service. I have had many amazing and unique experiences as a Young Marine which included the challenges of promotion to become the senior ranking officer, learning many new skills such as CPR, teaching Drug Demand Reduction, leading and mentoring the members of the Unit, going on encampments and traveling. In my sophomore year, my Unit Commander, a Korean War veteran, selected me to travel with him to Seoul. Every few years he chooses a Young Marine to take to South Korea based on merit.

I believe that those who have served our country in the past deserve to be treated with the utmost respect and appreciation. It outrages me when people talk badly about our veterans and attempt to take from them. I have challenged these people by donating to organizations like the Wounded Warrior project and by showing those around me that they can help those who have fought for our freedom. By doing so, I hope to get more people to spread the word on the poor treatment of the most important people in this nation and hopefully, the way they are treated will change for the better in the near future.

Service learning is an important concept because it builds one’s character by allowing an individual to step outside their comfort zone and become involved in the community. This year, the Dragon Battalion was tasked to create a fleece blanket to donate to the Salvation Army. Before we began our project, we had to learn what service learning was and what we needed to know about the overall project. Lesson one discusses the difference between two types of service: community service and service learning. Unlike community service, where you are forced to help the community, service learning allows an individual to learn from an experience.

At first it was only a small rumor, a trip to Washington DC and New York. I heard about it through a friend who was considering going. When I talked to my mom about the trip she seemed very encouraging that I should go. The trip itself was very pricey, over two thousand dollars to be exact. We somehow managed to pull together the amount.

Villanova Essay Prompt Number 2 When I day-dream I dream of being a golfer on the PGA Tour. I spend countless hours a week practicing and becoming better at golf with the goal of becoming the number one golfer in the world and becoming the greatest golfer of all time. I absolutely love the competition that golf presents and love that it’s truly a game of hard work. “Natural talent” has very little correlation, physically, to golf