Community Service In The United States

What does community service mean? Community service, to me, means bettering the community with volunteering at local places, business, or helping the people themselves. Community services is very important due to most of the things in a community such as parks, food banks, etc. being ran/used by the community.

Perspective is everything. You need to think about one thing in different perspectives. Imagine walking into a neighborhood with people that are in situations, such as, being hungry or in poverty and you are wealthy so you do nothing. However, if you were living in their shoes, you would be begging for a meal or even a roof over your head. This is the reason why there needs to be more volunteers for community service to help others that do need the help, even if they don’t ask for it. In this article, “Should the United States Establish Mandatory Public Service for Young Adults?” by Kent Ansen (2013), the proposition that the author made is an interesting one and one that I believe in but I think that it should be suggested rather than mandatory.

I believe that the United States should perform one year of community service by the age of 30. The reason why i think that is because i think it would help people understand eachother and bring us all closer together in many ways. One way is that it would pay good so there would be less homeless and less people fighting to feed there families. I believe that kids and odulats would be more thankfull and respectfull for what they have and try harder to become something after they see what they can do.

I helped with the veterans for my hours it was really a lot of fun they needed help with transporting them back a forth to the lunchroom and taking them to activities they really love people coming up there to see them because nobody cares if they're up there and they never go to see them. They love to see strangers faces even if they don't know you. They would love to tell you stories about how they was young and how they grew up or doing things in the military. They was this one guy he told me how his family was poor and all they had was a field of corn to their name so he wanted to go to the military and make a better life for himself and he said he killed hitler himself and that he was the one who meet george washington and queen elizabeth

The topic of mandatory national service has been around for years now, and there will always be arguments on whether it should be enforced or not. Some may say that it takes away our freedom, but is it not what gives us freedom in the first place? The United States’ military, national service, as well as community service is based on volunteers. That is what makes this country great, but there are less volunteers as years go by. Crime increases, streets are not safe anymore, Americans are oblivious to what is happening around the world. There are so many opportunities to give back to the country, yet, not many care. Today’s generation is based on social trends, and self-gratification. There is also the fact that many young people do not know what to do with their life after high school, some continue to college or focus on work, others do not work nor study. Therefore, all young men and women should be required to give two years to national service because it can help solve problems as well as build the community back together.

Lots of people fulfill obligations beyond themselves that aren’t “public service”: helping to support a single mother; taking care of a sick grandparent; working so a significant other can afford school…Is it proper to compel those people to reallocate their time, so that they’re serving “the public” rather than their family, friends or neighbors? Everyone’s life is different and everyone finds ways to give back to their community in different way. Instead of forcing people to contribute, wouldn’t it be better to leave the decision to them and let them contribute in their own way, not just when they are 18-20 but throughout their adulthood lives? Volunteering is a treasured centerpiece of civic life in America and deserves public support, but we should resist letting its successes become an argument for mandatory national

“Community Service is important for many reasons. Taking part and volunteering teaches compassion and understanding. You can volunteer for something you really believe and have an interest in, and can volunteer as much or as little as you'd like or have time for.” Community service is really easy to get into. I mean, it is not like you have to put out an application and have an interview in order to do it. It is really easy to get into, and is really fun. It is things you wouldn’t even think are considered, like:

Why should high school students have to complete community service hours to graduate? When students start their high school career, they are thinking about their diploma and their future. People should not have to rake leaves for elderly people or serve food for their local retirement home to go to college. Getting good grades these days is hard enough, but trying to earn a certain number of community service hours makes high school even more demanding. Helping the community is great; however, during school hours, community service can cause students to miss class work, tests, etc.

Service was really good apart from them forgetting about our bread on the table until our starters had came out we noticed this because everyone else had had there bread before the starters and we never. They served everything really well they never leaned over anyone to serve someone else even though the chairs were close to the window the still managed to get round them to serve them the food. You could tell they had a lot of training and experience with this because they done everything wonderfully. They were also good at keeping a eye on how full peoples glasses were and if they were nearly empty the came and filled it up. The silver served each course and explained what was in each one.

Community service is an important part of our country. Volunteering makes everybody feel good, whether it be the person helping or the people recieving the help. Unfortunetly, some believe that it should be required that all adults between the ages of 18 and 30, to do so. I see many possible issues if that becomes mandatory.

In "The Importance of Service" and "The Heart of Service." Both paragraghs do have a soild point about community service. Like how communtity service is a huge part in a day to day lives. But they also forget to talk about how volunteering just to help raise money for a child or adult in need can change the outlook on your day to day life.

Earlier this year, I saw the same homeless man sitting on the curb with all his belongings in a cart and his dog at his side. I saw him day in and day at the same curb with the same clothes and the same despaired look on his face for several months. I would often think to myself that I should probably give him some money or even the left over sandwich that I had from lunch that day, but I never actually did. Until one day, it dawned on me that it had been awhile since I’ve seen him. At first I found myself pondering the thought of what happened to him and if he was okay then I started to wonder what if I could have made a difference if I had done something different. I acknowledged that characteristic about myself early into the semester, so I decided to make a change. In order to transform that aspect of myself, I decided to do something. I took the liberty to sign up for several different community service activities through the Alternative Breaks Program at Florida International University that benefited the campus and the homeless. I wanted to take action and help the less fortunate. I want to help those individuals who don’t have a warm bed to sleep on or clean clothes on their back. I want to be a lending hand for those in need. I feel sympathy for those individuals who have to suffer through a life with the bare minimum or even less than that. As stated in the article Self-compassion, empathy, and helping intentions (Welp & Brown, 2013) Because the self is often the

The Criminal Justice Department will seek to bring some relief to those affected down east through a community service initiative. Therefore, Criminal Justice students are requested to bring water or toiletries item to the main campus bldg 5 Criminal Justice lab. All collected goods will then be carried to the affected areas as a source of welcome relief to those impacted by hurricane Matthews.

Both articels disussed whether communitie service should be forced or not. Both atticels made valid points but i gennaraly agree more with the one who is for volunteer work only, because some volunteer work requires training. One reason i think communitie service shold be volunteer is because those who don't normally volunteer might not work in the same loving way as those who do. When I was younger I volunteered for the local fire deppartment, when I got a call I was the the first risponder and did all the work then people that got paid for the job shoed up and played around like kid's. This is one of the reasons i think it should be volunteer and not forced communitie service. Thats why I gennarly agree more with the articel who is for volunteer

There are many Registered Student Organization’s (RSO’s) at SVSU that focus on civic engagement and service giving. However, Alternative Breaks (AB) is an organization that goes above and beyond in not only surrounding communities, but communities in other states. This organization is made up of a group of people who try and volunteer time, help come up with solutions, and perform solutions for communities that are in need of help. One of the reasons I choose Alternative Breaks as the organization that I wanted to focus on was because they have bigger goals. Not only are they trying to do the best for their own community, but they are spending a lot of time and effort in communities much further than their own. The other reason that I choose this organization was because I admired their sacrifice in using their time off to give to someone else. For these reasons, I am going to discuss the history and purpose of the organization, characteristics of members, the projects they work on, how these members contribute to the public sphere, as well as, the opportunities and challenges that Alternative Break members face.