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Four Pillars Of The Nhs

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Scholarship, leadership, service and character. These are definitely qualities that a member of the National Honors Society should be expected to have along with the other four qualities. Not everyone can be in the NHS and not everyone has all four of the qualities. Some may only have two. For example, they may have scholarship, but they do not have leadership. Or they might not have scholarship but, they love to help people and are volunteering time at animal shelters and soup kitchens. Either way, having all of those qualities are not possessed by everyone. This is what makes members of the National Honors Society different from everyone else. This is why a member of the NHS should be expected to have leadership scholarship, character, and …show more content…

I feel classwork and athletics have helped to develop my character and leadership skills. All of my life I have had to work for everything I have. Ever since I was little I had to work for what money I had. This helped build a work ethic, and what I did not know at the time was that by having to work for everything, it also helped build the qualities I have today including my character, service, and leadership qualities. My parents not only made me work to have good character but also made me push myself in school by taking honors classes. Thanks to my parents pushing me to do my best, I have an outstanding work ethic in school and on the field. Because of this effort and work put in, I have been a captain on basketball, football, and baseball teams. Not only were my parents important factors but, so were my coaches and teachers. Coaches and teachers have pushed me to do the best I could and told me when I did things wrong, but praised me when I did them right. They helped to slowly build my character, leadership, scholarship and dedication to everything and anything that I do so that when I had to do something it was done the right way instead of halfway. Most of the service I have done has been with my church group. We have helped in the community and we have helped with mission trips. We physically helped one missionary send lumber, windows and

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