My Experience At A Children 's Camp

Last summer, I attended a summer leadership and citizenship program in Sacramento, California. Fitting with the Boys State Camp's emphasis on civic service, each delegate was given the opportunity to run for a political position. It's selection process was highly competitive and to be elected to one of the highest positions puts you among the top leaders in the state. While this meant that I would have to push myself out of my comfort zone, I was not going to waste my chance to shine at Boys State, so I set up to be appointed as Fire Chief. The following morning, my heart pounded as I walked into the hall where speeches were to be made. When the moderators finally called my name, I closed my eyes and blocked the whispers in my head, whispers

Boot camp techniques vary across the country but usually the methods are predominantly structured to parallel military training camps for new military associates, in which staff members act as drill sergeants, inmates are referred to as recruits, and intense physical challenges are routine. Two months to a year stays in residential programs filled with military drills, counseling, and education are viewed generally as “intermediate sanction” in the juvenile justice system. Proceeding from the “tough on crime” increase of the late 80’s and early 90’s, the intent of boot camps for juvenile offenders has been to discipline and “curb criminal tendencies.”( Erin Hanusa,2006). However, the popularity of boot camps has suffered

I would like to work at Camp Freeland Leslie because last year when I went to NYLT, I was inspired by the staff’s hard work and commitment and I want to give back to my fellow scouts by helping out in a staff position and want to given them a great camping experience. I would also like to further develop my leadership skills I learned at NYLT and apply them while working in the camp on the staff. In 8th grade I attended the STEM Partnership School at Aurora University and learned how to work better as a team. While there, we worked on several group projects and even won two science competitions. Working well on a team is a very useful skill because I will need this throughout my entire life, from school to working at a job.

Education 2110 has taught me a multitude of things, such as ways to implement cultural education and the effects of people’s low socioeconomic status on their lives. Throughout my experience at the Boys and Girls Club and the Feeding Site, I have noticed the importance of connecting with students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Children feel more comfortable when we adapt to their needs, such as providing them with learning material in English and in Spanish. Spanish is apart of most of their daily lives; therefore, they establish their comfort zone and open up to us. As we discussed in class, most children that have a low socioeconomic status do not live positive lives, know where their next meal will come from, or have many things to look forward to. Their focus is not on playing; it is about survival. My experiences at the Feeding Site brought to my attention everything I have gained while being with students, such as connecting with bilingual students, learning teacher preparation skills, and feeling how rewarding it is to teach the children who might not receive any teaching at home.

Bettering oneself is excellent and much-needed for a happy and successful life. However, if people constantly compare themselves to others, the betterment they have achieved is counteracted. No longer is the change for the individual person, but it is a change to mold into the conformity of society. Seeking change to please oneself and seeking change to please others are two different ideologies.

Personal Reflection Paper As this writer writes this paper, the thought that is pondered is whether this writer has ever experienced invidious comparison or vicarious traumatization. Invidious comparison is when someone compares themselves to others by sex, race, religion, or class. This can cause depression and stress, and also make a person feel less about themselves and the individual(s) they are comparing themselves to (University of Phoenix, 2014). People may not readily admit it, but this writer believes that at one point or another in everyone’s life, they secretly compare themselves to someone else.

During the time of World War II, many people in Europe who were not of Hitler’s Aryan race had been held captive in concentration camps that were placed in various spots in his conquered land. Two types of camps were touched upon in the memoir. They were either death camps or working camps. Weinberg wrote this memoir in order to preserve the historical facts of the holocaust and share with others for the generations to come of what he had gone through from the ages twelve to eighteen. Taken captive in 1939, Weinberg had gone through five concentration camps such as Terezin and Birkenau where most of his time was spent and had survived. Although he almost did not survive the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. In this touching memoir, Boy

During the last two weeks of my summer employment with the Salvation Army Pine Lake Camp, a team including myself was sent to The Salvation Army Berkshire Citadel to run a series of camps, but there was a few unforeseen complications. Our team lead had to be suddenly transferred to another team, leaving the Calgary team in a predicament. Before the issue had even been raised to the group, I was approached by the camp program director, she pulled me aside and asked if I would be willing to colead the team. I was shocked, and honored she acknowledged me, as the youngest person on the team, to be given so much responsibility. The role I had been given required myself and a college student to work together to coordinate, promote, budget, and

The main location an all-girls Christian Camp Resort in Pocono’s Pennsylvania, early spring, 60-degree temperature. Spacious cabin with a fireplace, two queen beds; nightstand, reading lamps, two rustic dark brown outlaw leather chairs, and ottoman; dark maple wood study desk, two Contemporary English Bibles and study materials. The landscape, mountain pink creeping phlox and fantastic trout lily, Virginia bluebells in shades of pink, blue purple, and white cover the winter barren ground and bees and butterflies hover in mid stillness extracting nectar from the flowers. Kizzy’s eight and Diamond seven; Kizzy suspicious of unfamiliar people. The two become friends after Diamond catches a snake hid under the kitchen cabinet sink. Kizzy feels

Everyone has a sense of self. This idea of self is how a person maps out who they are in the world, but one way a person can develop a sense of self is by making social comparisons. Social comparisons are when a person defines their sense of worth based on how they compare with others. They base these comparisons on things such as looks, social status, and abilities.

In the summer of 2016, I was chosen to be a camp counselor for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in Birmingham, AL. The camp was from June 29, 2016 to July 1, 2016. It was at Camp ASCCA in Alex CIty. In order to be selected, there was a lot of paperwork and interviews to be done. Each person selected to be a counselor was assigned to one child who suffered from a variety of muscular problems. Our job was to have our child to their designated activities on time, wake them up, get them dressed, and make sure they stayed fed and hydrated. The child I was assigned to could walk but she got extremely tired at times so, she wanted to use her wheelchair. The camp gave the children many opportunities to do things that they normally would not be allowed

While comparing to a lower level, or comparing yourself to the less fortunate, can in fact be a benefit to one’s self esteem, it also comes at a very dangerous price. It requires that we take pleasure in someone else’s misfortunes or failures in order to feel good about ourselves, which can lead to mean spirited competitiveness, and jealousy. “When comparing leads you to devalue yourself or others you have entered a dangerous territory” (Huffington Post). Most of the time what you are comparing yourself to is inaccurate information. A lot of people tend to hide the entire negative in their life and just show the positive, is it really fair to compare yourself when you do not have all of the information? Comparing yourself does not actually help you accomplish your goals. When you spend all of your time focused on how someone else is better looking, is more successful, or has more friends it is both ineffective and time consuming. Comparing yourself to other people is a losing battle. If comparing is how you evaluate your self worth, you will always be losing. You will never reach a point where you are better than others in every way that you would want to be. That is part of what makes life so interesting, learning from the talents and qualities of others. Instead of comparing yourself and trying to be better than or as good as others, focus that energy on bettering yourself and being the very best that you can

Growing up, I was always very shy. I even had a teacher once tell me that I was the only one in the class who was allowed to yell. Perhaps the reason that I was so reserved was because I was the only person that I had to think about. Speaking up never seemed very important to me, so why should I? That all changed for me when I began working at a summer camp two years ago. When I first started working at the camp, I was paired with another, more experienced counselor. I wasn't too nervous, after all I only had to follow her lead and let her take the reigns on this first session. Unfortunately for me, she got very sick within the first two hours of the session. The kids had just gotten there, and suddenly there I was, in charge of twenty little

Example: I tend to compare myself to others with a higher fitness and education level and feel worse about my life.

Social comparison is a tremendously pervasive procedure which impacts how individuals think about themselves, how they feel, what they are inspired to do, and how they carry on. Social comparison consequences thereby span all center of human mental working. This striking omnipresence is coordinated by a comparably striking compexity and multi facetedness of the center comparison process itself. Not only to do social comparison impact perception, motivation and behavior. To date, these diverse impacts on social comparison procedures have been basically considered in relative isolation. Actually, the historical of social comparison research is a history of consecutively switching foci (Buunk & Mussweiler, 2001; Suls & Wheeler, 2000), beginning with a strong focus on motivational impacts and a relative neglect of cognitive underpinnings and closure with a strong focus on cognitive underpinnings and a relative disregard of motivational impacts.