Community Research Paper

In his autobiography Life Lessons from Little League, Vincent Fortanasce says “Winning is never final, and losing is never fatal.” At the end of a game, one team will win and the other will lose. Failure to accept this concept has become detrimental to American youth sports organizations. Our society has become infatuated with winning, and all of the additional perks associated with it. What is considered the “best” for children as young as five years old has grown to an unrealistic extent. Parents want their children to be in a reputable organization, young athletes want to play with highly skilled teammates, and coaches want to recruit talented players all in hopes of being the absolute “best”. The amount of young athletes, ranging from five to fourteen years old, participating in local sports organizations has declined within the last two decades due to the highly competitive and unhealthy environments they are being exposed to.Taking pride in your local community has decreased form an athletic point of view. Representing the place I grew up in was a motivating factor when I put my uniform on for every single softball game I played in high school. I had the privilege to play on the field next to girls I had grown to love the sport with ever since our tee ball days. Today, young athletes are branching out from their homegrown roots to play for club teams who recruit players from a larger region. The popularity of traveling teams has substantially diluted the

Social Interest to me is when you communicate and work with people to help them.

Playing on a team helps them grow. They become more fit because of all the exercise, and they develop important social skills that will become crucial later on in life. People need to focus more on the the people and not the prize. For instance, a group -having fun- could practice for months and still fail.

Many people never understand the importance of team sports and activities until they have been a part of one. Being involved in a team demonstrates personal strengths can be used to grow as a team. Being a part of my soccer team, Fox Run, for seven years of my life truly changed every person on the team. Even though our team has split apart due to seniors graduating, the lessons we learned will continue to last forever. From fourth grade to eleventh, the sport through Fox Run has shown me to respect others, create lasting friendships, and persevere through the wins and losses.

Within this Sport and Fitness Internship, it was my agreement to coach a minimum of 40 hours at Darrough Chapel Park through a partnership with the Kokomo YMCA’s Soccer Program. This permitted me the chance to put all my knowledge and skills to the test, whether it was being recalled from my soccer experience growing up or getting the first hand feel of how to apply what I have learned from my courses at IU Kokomo University in the past semesters. Regardless of which method gave me better insight on coaching, this internship has become a stepping stone in showcasing my efforts don’t go unnoticed and that I am going to do great things

Concord AYSO (Adult and Youth Soccer Organization) is a predominantly a volunteer based organization which provides soccer lovers in the community of Concord, California with facilities, games, and coaching in soccer. The age ranges of those who enroll in the Concord AYSO program fall into three categories: children ages 4-19; adults 19 and over; and mentally or physically handicapped children starting by age 6. My first three observations were with volunteer coaches: Armando Rivera, Fan Yang, and Brian Johnson, all of whom were working with groups of children and adolescents under the age of 19. My last three observations were with volunteer coaches: Larry Durham, Yoni Dahan, and Mark Hansen, working with the adults over 19. The specific training routines and drills of each class run by each instructor tended to vary in some details though there was a solid amount of consistency between the regimen that one instructor followed and the regimen another followed.

Throughout my soccer career here at South Rowan High School, we have orchestrated a youth soccer camp for a week each summer for kids ranging from the ages of 6 years old to 13 years old. The summer going into my freshmen year, Walker, who is my best friend, and I were assigned to the youngest kids in the camp. Obviously, the younger kids in the camp were going to require more patience and attention than the older kids.

In the spring of 2016, I began to think about my senior project while I was preparing for my own spring soccer season to start. My friend, Atya Van Ness, reached out to me about an opportunity of coaching a U6 team that same season. I enjoyed the idea of coaching the next generation of soccer players and building their skills and passion for the sport the same way I did almost 10 years ago. I immediately told her I was interested and began the process of searching for a mentor.

The 2016-2017 JV and Varsity PRHS Girls Soccer Team is composed of 31 young student-athletes that tried out for the teams, endured a disorganized and unfair elimination/selection process, only to find out that was just the beginning of that was to be what some players describe as a "miserable" season. Although most players maintain their commitment and focus, attended their practices, and showed up to their games determined to play their best, their head coach did NOT. The answers to the questions in this survey, describe an egotistical head coach who is lazy, immature, and bickers with his players. Such leadership is not based on respect and mutual trust, unfortunately, it led to moments of chaos, and discontent within the team, in which poor

For individuals to “serve the common good” it is essential to put others before themselves. Individuals need to be selfless and look at their actions as they relate to the well-being of those around them. In business, it is necessary for the employees to think of the company as a whole instead of individually. If this were to be achieved, then the world would no longer face issues such as poverty and homelessness. Individuals need to learn how to be empathetic and this will translate into the business world. Currently, the world of business is strict, unforgiving, and selfish, and this is not conducive to a healthy world population. If this were to change then the common good would be CONCLUSION SENTENCE.

Central to the thinking of Martin Luthern King Jr. was the concept of the “beloved community”. He had a vision of an integrated society with loving citizens and justice. In his mind, a community would also be the ideal corporate expression of Christian Faith. King thought that desegregation was the key negative root in communities. King believed a beloved community would need to have integration by having the community become a group as a whole.

Knowing that your camp offers general activities such as arts and crafts, music and games as well as more specialized programming like skating, visual arts, dance and sports, I believe that my skills that I have gained will be an asset to this position. Starting out with my time on the Outdoor Boys’ Soccer Team at my school, it has allowed me to experience what it feels like to be part of a group. To add on, being coached by my coach showed me ways that I should be as a person when I work with a group of students. This experience got me to become a volunteer at the Scarborough Town YMCA. From September 2014, I have assisted a soccer coach for a Youth and Teen soccer club. Here I embraced and improved on my leadership skills while working with the youth and teens as I coached them on soccer drills.

When people read science articles, it’s assumed that all the data calculated comes from the publishers themselves, but that’s not the case anymore. Many people are beginning to become more involved in a plethora of projects near their neighborhoods, and by doing so are giving scientist more data that can hopefully create change and have an effect on their ongoing projects. In 1990, in a Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, this act was given a name (Haven, Henderson 1). Citizens Science, the idea that “all walks of life [could] participate in the scientific process and help advance knowledge in a wide range of scientific disciplines” is one of the many definitions for this and is clearly influencing many projects in different

There are myriad things a person could use $100,000 for to benefit their community, but one certain situation stuck out to me. Based on research I conducted there are several people that live below the poverty level in Posey County. A 2014 estimate concluded that Posey County has about 25,540 residents and about 10% of those residents live in poverty. That is why, if I had $100,000 I would build another food bank in Posey County. Posey County currently has two food banks. The St. Peter’s Food Bank is located in Wadesville and then there is the Mt. Vernon Food Pantry. I recently took the time to talk to an individual who is associated with the food bank in Wadesville. I was able to learn that they serve 600 to 700 people once a month. Due to government commissions, an individual can only receive food from a pantry once a month. I believe it would be beneficial to open a food bank at a different location on a different day of the month. My church, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, in Poseyville has a storage room that would be beneficial for this type of program.

STUDENTS’ ASSESSMENT ON THE EFFCTIVENESS OF CLASS ADVISORS AT THE PARENTS FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION (PAREF) SPRINGDALE SCHOOL FOR BOYS