Personal Narrative: The Young Men's Christian Association

The short story, The Yellow Wallpaper was written by a lady named Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “Charlotte was a young lady born in the 1860s right into poverty. Her upbringing was in poverty and didnt have it very easy at a young age. She was born in England and at the age of 22 she married a man by the name Charles Walter Stetson. They eventually had a child and almost immediately right after the birth of the child Charlotte fell into a deep depression. She then entered the controversial treatment in a sanitarium in philadelphia” (Gilman Society). The biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the hard times she had to go through. The short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a story about what she went through. She went to a sanitarium just like

Can happiness be found outside of societal norms? Although this is a difficult question to answer, author Jeannette Walls attempts to do so implicitly in the given excerpt from the novel The Glass Castle. In this passage, the speaker is sharing her story about how she saw her homeless mother on the streets of New York City, digging through the trash. Despite the mother's difficult financial situation, as well as many other problems that she appears to be encountering at the time, the mother continues to emanate happiness. The speaker, however, does not feel the same contentment, despite living according to the prescribed societal norms of living in a large city: wearing expensive clothing, going to large parties and living in a nice apartment.

The Monterey County Department of Social Services (MCDSS) has a great impact on serving older adults in the Monterey County. The MCDSS has a variety of services in the county including the cities of Salinas, King City and Seaside. The MCDSS mission statement is very clear and precise in what they value and how they will help others value themselves. They have one goal and one goal only, to help serve the client. Just by searching their website, one can see they offer many different services to help meet their potential/current clients’ needs.

One sweltering, stifling hot afternoon in July, I had the immense privilege of participating in Share-the-Lake Day as one of my first volunteer events being a member of the National Honor Society. Share-the-Lake Day is an annual sponsored event that offers nursing home inhabitants an outdoor lunch and a day out on the lake. I have always enjoyed spending time with elderly people because I find their wisdom and experience to be incredibly intriguing and fascinating. I loved listening to their stories of which they were extremely content to share. To see their eyes dance as they recounted a fond memory from their youth or witness their excitement when I mentioned various thoughts of mine that reminded them of a favorite family member or close

Due to my financial hardships, I was unable to attend any of the famous Mississippi conferences for the Social Work Association. However, I was able to attend a conference in Birmingham, Alabama. The Arise Conference that I attended focused was a one-day conference that started around eight o’clock in the morning until three in the afternoon. Their attention on many different topics that Social workers need to be informed about. One of the topics I had the opportunity to be informed about was Medicare and its growth. Another interesting topic that was focused on during the conference was advocacy. During this presentation, I was able to learn about what advocacy really is and is it better to advocate for someone or something on paper or verbally?

The Arthur R. Baxter YMCA is a non-profit organization that has been bringing about positive change to south-central Indiana for half a century. As a part of the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis and the YMCA of the USA, the Baxter YMCA is a driving force behind the Y’s mission to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

Trinity Lutheran Church. Any day, any activity. I am a participant, a student, a leader, a pioneer.

The event was the YMCA event, and my sub-group and I worked at the station called, “Move it, Move it, Move it.” The YMCA event is at San Jose, where different age groups at the YMCA facility where they can come join the event that my team and I created. Family and their children can come enjoy the stations that the team had created. The stations were arts and craft, making pledges, games, and physical activity. Our team overall goal is to be part of the community where we can give back to community where kids can learn new skills, be active, access of opportunities, and having fun. I worked on with other two members on the station, “Move it, Move it, Move it” which it’s all about being physically active. Our station’s goal is that we want kids

The establishment of the Young Men 's Christian Association better known as YMCA, was in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1885. Originally founded in England by George Williams in an attempt to assist the unhealthy conditions created by the industrial revolution, the program was picked up in 1851 for similar reasons. It wasn 't until 1866, that New York established a YMCA in order to advocate the improvement for spiritual, mental, physical and social conditions.

On March 27th, I attended Living Water Presbyterian Church Service to witness a different style of music. Every Sunday, at my church, there is a different type of music consisting of old hymns and modern day Christian music. So it was going to be a surprise because I didn’t know what they were going to play. Since the church service was primary focus on Easter, I expected some old hymns. When we entered the church, we were feather with palm leaves and the welcomed into the church with hand clappers. The people on stages look comfortable being up on stage and seemed to enjoy welcoming people on the service.

My professors can also influence me and they do. Many of the professors I have now I thoroughly enjoy their classes. Professors at bigger universities do not care about what is going on in the students’ lives, but at Grace the professor are here for me, personally. They want to hear what is going on in my life and see if they can help with anything. My professors make me want to become a fun, loving person who just cares for others even if I don’t know them. School changes my Christian worldview because of how many things I didn’t know about the Bible that I learned in my classes.

It was early 1995 when I first turned my life over to God, at this point in my life I had lost hope of moving forward in life. Got a call that my best friend had been killed due to a gun shot to the head

Over the past few weeks we have been reading the multifaith manual and from reading it I have begun to see some of the other religions in a different light and leaned about ones that I have never heard of before, it has been an eye opening experience in many aspects, some more than others I have found to be fascinating.

Before I discuss my experience at Grace Lutheran Church I feel it would be beneficial to explain my Church Background, so that you can better understand my outsider view of the Sunday morning worship Service I attended. I have been raised in the Baptist/Southern Baptist church my entire life. My parents are from South Carolina, which is also where I grew up, so our idea of Church has always been a small community with a very relaxed atmosphere. I stopped attending the Baptists church when I was 16. I chose to join Bent-tree Bible Fellowship, a non-denominational church. I attended this church for about 2 years when I started my sophomore year at DBU and was offered a position in children’s ministry at First Baptist Colleyville. Bent-tree and FBC were the two largest churches I have been a part of both between 3,000-5,000 in total Sunday attendance. Both follow the same basic order of service. Begin around 11am with 10-15 minutes of worship singing, then announcements, followed by an special aspect of the service like a video a special song etc.… The sermon lasts about 25-35 minutes and we close with prayer and one final worship song. Again all the churches I have ever attended have been very relaxed, shorts

Growing up Christianity had always been part of my life and there was no question about it. My family was christian and the culture that my parents grew up in was heavily religious. However, I personally never had a true connection to Christ at a young age. To me church was the place I went to answer questions in Sunday School and win prizes for it, and that was how I saw it for a long time. It was hard for me to see it has more than that and from the outside I may have looked like the kid had a true connection with Christ by the way I talked in front of the church when my class presented, or the fact that I was able to answer most if not all the questions correctly. As a kid, I thought that made sense and that there was nothing wrong because