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Politically, socially, environmentally or one person at a time, how will you give back to society? Day in and day out many citizens change the world, or they do just the opposite and make the world a worse place than when they woke up. The article I chose to review is, “Community Service” written by Robert Coles. The article tells a story of college students who make a difference in the world through peer tutoring, an act of community service, and have such an impact that they act as role models for Coles and he begins to do the same. Briefly in the beginning of the article, Coles states that, “students are likely to express their lofty political and social impulses and practical desires to change the world through community service, even if in limited or modest ways.”(Robert Coles, pg.93) We must make an ultimate decision about the world we live in, will we choose to make a difference in the lives of fellow citizens or discriminate and punish not only them but ourselves by not sharing the knowledge we have been taught.

The New York Times, “When Richer Weds Poorer” article reveals that while it may seem easy, “people who marry across class lines are also moving outside their comfort zones, marrying partners with a different level of wealth and education and a different ideals like manners, food, children, gift-giving and how to spend vacations.” A great example showing marriage can move your status is Ms. Woolner, who married a working class man she met while test driving a car. He was from a working class family and had very little education. She was the daughter of a doctor who grew up with many luxuries. After they married, Ms. Woolner’s new husband had moved into her home and had to adjust to the higher living status. Ms. Woolner notes that it is not only a class issue that they have merged and overcome but there is also a gender bias. "We've all been taught it's supposed to be the man who has the money and the status and the power." Ms. Wolner’s new husband gives another view point of Fussell’s

In today’s society, identities play a big role in a person's life. To everyone that knows me, i am identified by being the “Greek Girl” that cares greatly cares for others more than herself. I am also identified by the person that does so much volunteer work that they wonder how i keep up with all the basics. I believe, that a person who can freely offer to lend a hand does so much good impact for the community. Volunteers impact everyone they help whether it be towards school, an occurrence of a natural disaster, or church.

funding for social welfare programs, but also to bring attention to the need for direct

I found that the two articles “Community Service and Critical Teaching” and “Why ‘Servanthood’ Is Bad” very similar to the speech that Ms. Sorensen gave in class on Thursday. The goals of both of the article is to communicate that charity is not the best method to help those that are less fortunate. “Community Service and Critical Teaching” reviews a class at Bentley University that spent a school year volunteering at a homeless shelter. In the end, the students learned that there are social biases against the homeless that can be temporally remedied by handouts, but the charity does not help them learn how to fix their problems. “Why ‘Servanthood’ Is Bad” focuses on the economic side of helping the homeless. The author found that in an area

The reason that I believe that volunteer work and work in general is vital to success in the today’s world and society is because the generation that I am apart of is lack of a better term lazy.The motto of the entitled generation is procrastination is key. The most important part in forming a generation comes from the parents. The outcome of a generation’s attitude always leads back to the source (the parents). Volunteer work in present time is very important for the youth, but is equally as important for adults too. Some local organizations in Juneau are Love Incorporation, Helping Hands-Healing Hands LLC, Saint Vincent De Paul, and Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). It is a non profit organization that provides health care for residents of Southeast Alaska. Saint Vincent De Paul is an organization that provides housing for low income families in Juneau, Alaska. Service is an essential

In todays society there are many things that people can be involved in. One is volunteering. Local organizations around my community are always looking for people to come in and help volunteer with the young and the old. A local Boys and Girls club is one that I volunteer at when ever I get a chance to. Volunteering with the Boys and Girls Club has allowed me to help the boys and girls to have a safe place to come learn and grow while having fun. It is a place where young people can come and know someone cares about them. Volunteering makes a difference in the lives of boys and girls in the community. (Volunteer1) Volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club has taught me more about the organization, what a volunteer does, and what I can learn from volunteering.

Volunteer work is a task everyone has to take on, whether they are a high school student or a prisoner in jail. Mark Shrivers novel, A Good Man, displays a great understanding and representation of Marywood’s Core value of service. Marywood states service as “A commitment to promoting social responsibility which fosters community engagement to meet real needs.” Shriver demonstrates his use of service throughout the novel many times. Shriver clearly demonstrates the value of service by building and opening programs for those in his community. In A Good Man places such as Head Start and The Peace Corps were built by shriver. The Peace Corps are always there to help others and be supportive to those who are in though times. The Peace Corps, without a doubt, is a great act of service that Shriver represents throughout his

I have always believed that it is a great idea to volunteer, especially if it helps the community. Volunteering can really make an impact on the community. Volunteering can definitely create empowerment. I believe that everybody at least once should choose to volunteer somewhere or place that helps a cause that they believe in. After reading the article, I started to better understand volunteerism. It’s very great for people to put in time in exchange for feeling great for helping someone or something within the community. Depending on the cause, it is very possible someone will come head to head with some pretty heart-wrenching situations. As a role as a volunteer, you can expected to keep a calm and positive demeanor.

Though most Americans today identify themselves as middle class, American society and its culture are considerably more fragmented. Americans derive a great deal of their identity through their work and professional affiliation, especially among individuals higher on the economic ladder. Recently professional identification has led to many clerical and low-level employees giving their occupations new, more respectable titles, such as "Sanitation service engineer" instead of "Janitor.” Many Americans belong to non-profit organizations and religious establishments and may volunteer their services to such organizations. The Rotary Club, the Knights of Columbus or even the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are examples of such non-profit

The lack of dignity that these individuals feel is a direct effect of society’s disrespect for the lower class. The stereotypes of the homeless conceived by upper social classes, cause the lower class to lose any respectable role they may have in society. A homeless man in Oberlin, Ohio says, “Many of us historically invisible people, in our quest for visibility, have chosen to take the routes of organization and alliance building. Often we tend to find that our muted voices have more resonance, bass, and credibility within these snugly, institutionally sanctioned cubby holes” (Laymon). After failing to get sufficient help through

Later on Rich believed that women who were starting to make a difference towards society were switching their gender roles by surpassing the male. In the essay she claimed that “…middle-class women were making careers of domestic perfection, working to send their husbands through professional school, then retiring to raise large families” (Rich 9). She argued how women are supporting their spouses when the men are dependent and how women later put their dreams on hold when they start a family. But men don’t have the same sympathy towards the women’s careers, when they have children they don’t let them continue ‘their careers of domestic perfection’, instead they make the women become dependent on them. This is ironic towards the male and female roles because now the male is portrayed

For lower class marriage is important and it also brings to people together so they can pay for everything equally in the family. As for higher class the marriage is a usual thing that they can do it are not. Divorce for lower class is not as popular as it is in higher class. Lower class needs to work together to pay for everything, and higher class they have a lot of money so they can do what they want. Higher class people don’t value marriage as lower class does. As for lower class child rearing is hard, because lower class does not have money to give a good life for their child. Higher class child rearing is easier, they have money to give the best life for their children. For lower class education is a hard or even imposable to get. Most

In my five years of active volunteer work with multiple non-profit organizations, I have seen firsthand the lack of attendance of my peers in times of great community need and support from its members. Although it has become more complicated to find time to give back to the community, with a full-time school and work schedule, there is always spare time to give back. The rapidly growing demand for volunteers in communities all across America is increasing and it is everyone’s duty, especially college students, to pay their dues to the

President Kennedy made this statement at his inaugural Address: “… my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” Part of being an active citizen is volunteering. People who volunteer give up their free time and give back to their community, which relates to the statement President Kennedy made; it encourages Americans today to go out and help their community in ways such as volunteering. Volunteers are like mortar while their community are like the