Oluwatobiloba Thesis

Life is full of little meaningful events and experiences, they go so unnoticed that we don't realize they can change our lives forever. Sometimes those little moments can mean so much more than what they seem. One way an experience can develop into something meaningful is when you can express it in a way to help others. This experience for me was when I won SGA Vice President. Being Vice President today is a challenge and a blessing. As SGA Vice-president I am responsible for the activities of the entire school. When I accepted the position of Vice President my abilities were tested to the fullest, this leadership role forced more responsibilities such as public speaking, calling meetings, and developing strategies under difficult circumstances. For instance,

Furthermore, I have been involved in impacting my community. Through my work with the Young Men’s Service League, National Honors Society, and Methodist Richardson Hospital I have insight into the importance of helping others. Volunteering with the Special Olympics is one of my favorite activities I have done through National Honors Society. The sense of fulfillment that pervades my body at the conclusion of the volunteering, knowing I was able to brighten up these kids’ days, is

The process of being chosen for Future Leaders of Jones County included writing an essay and then being interviewed by a panel that oversees the Future Leaders of Jones County. In the organization, we were broken off into small groups and mixed with students from different schools around the county. I played a large role in my group— the fundraising leader. Our goal was to meet the needs of our local Battered Women’s Shelter, which were providing bedding, laundry, and a new playground for the women and their children that were also being homed. This project was very close to all of us in my group because there are so many battered and abused women in our community. In order to achieve the shelter’s wishes, we had to raise at least $1,000, so I had to go out and raise the money. With the help of many in our community, I was able to help my group reach our $1,000 goal, and we were able to go above and beyond accomplishing our project of service. After buying the necessities (pillows, sheets, blankets, detergent) for the shelter, we were able to purchase and put together a completely new play area for the children. The whole project was a success and getting to help better our community by enabling these women to stand up and get out of the situation of being abused so that they can start a new life. Seeing women like this made me realize how important it was

Over the past two years (2014-2016) I have participated in the National Junior Honors Society. As a member, I commit to completing community service and to learning among my peers in order to develop into a superior leader. I have taken part in activities such as fundraisers, team building activities, and several forms of community services such as working in a soup kitchen, daycares and organizing social events. Recently, I volunteered for a week as a vendor at a temple in Tacoma, raising money for the establishment during the Cambodian New Year festival.

Contributing to my school and community is a true passion. I am involved in programs like the Red Cross, Angel Tree created by The Salvation Army, and Olive Garden’s Pasta For Pennies. My school hosted a Red Cross blood drive, and I was responsible for promoting the event to individuals within our school. We had a total of two hundred students donate blood. We helped save a total of six hundred lives! I also assisted the Program Angel Tree by promoting the program among the student organizations within my school. Our involvement has helped hundreds of less fortunate children and seniors receive necessities and gifts! As a team, the student council also collects spare change from students in our school. Our collaboration with Olive Garden has helped fund the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's School & Youth campaign. I am truly glad that my contributions have made an impact within my community and society! My strong involvement in extracurricular activities has helped me become knowledgeable, principled, and a risk-taker. I carry a strong sense of respect and righteousness, and I approach unfamiliar opportunities with a vision and great courage. I seek to set an example for members within my school, community, state, and

The National Honor Society has gave me the opportunity to help others in ways that I could not have done on my own. I have had the opportunity to help many in our community with our multiple different community service projects. Last year we sold raffle tickets for a gift card basket. All of the money that we earned went to a family in our community who had been through devastating house fire. They lost not only there house but all of their personal belongings too. The fact that we have the opportunity to help those around us makes the service projects seem even more meaningful. We also took up donations of paper products to give to the Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House is a place where families can stay while they have a child at the Ruby Memorial Hospital. They can stay there for as long as

As a result, understanding and embodying this idea is another important aspect for those considered to be well rounded individuals. Service to the community builds connection and helps those in need, which in turn builds character ensuring that everyone benefits. Thus, my association with the marching band and lacrosse team and the service we do within those groups is an extremely important part of my character. I have also extended this service within my youth group and volunteered to help out sports events and others in the community. Furthermore, the service done with the school or in the name of the school has exemplified the character and true quality of Central Dauphin students. Thus, through the importance of service and what I believe I have contributed through it, I think that my embodiment of this quality qualifies me for membership in

Throughout the past four years of high school, I have done my best to try and stay actively involved in the community. I have been presented with some amazing volunteer opportunities such as Huron Safety Town, STAR Leadership Camp, American Red Cross, and Huron High School Girl’s Basketball Biddy Program. I spent over 24 hours at Huron Safety Town where I was able to help young students, mainly those going into Kindergarten, learn how to stay safe while on the road. I was also able to spend over 24 hours at STAR Leadership Camp where I was a councilor to those going into the sixth grade. I made sure that each student understood the importance of being a leader in today's society and how important they are to Huron’s community. Through National Honor Society I have been able to maintain in constant contact, approximately 10 hours, with the American Red Cross by volunteering in monthly blood drives. I have also dedicated 16 hours of my time to those young girls interested in someday being a varsity basketball player through the Biddy Basketball Program.

Over the course of my academic career, I have volunteered with Key Club at my school and other various places, such as the Poe Center for Health Education and WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Involvement with each organization has had a tremendous impact on my character. Often, while at the Poe Center, I had hours alone to create educational tools, file papers, and enter data into spreadsheets which taught me responsibility and integrity. I always strived for the best when I completed tasks at the Poe Center and at WakeMed. Each organization has been impacted through my volunteer services. With Key Club, we had monthly trips to the senior home. Each time I visited the senior home, the elder’s faces would light up because many of them did not have

Becoming a slave at the age of 11, when he was captured and sold into slavery in the area that is now modern Nigeria, Olaudah Equiano can be considered a pioneer in the abolitionist movement. Most of the information regarding his experiences as a slave and a freeman, along with his thoughts regarding slavery and abolitionism, can be found in his autobiography. In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, we find numerous accounts about the atrocities committed against the enslaved Africans. The reader is also able to experience, by participating in the work of the author, in the physical and spiritual transformation of Equiano, from a freeman, to a slave, and back to freedom.

After surviving their horrendous voyage across the Atlantic, both Equiano and Cuguano experience what it was to sold in a Salve market. Oladuah Equiano arrive in Barbados, after several days they were corral into a yard were at the beat of the drum saw a rush of buyers come to inspect them. He was then sent to Virginia were his name was change to Joseph, and one of his first task was to fan his new master while slept. At his master house’s he was notice by a Lieutenant of the Royal Navy named Michael Henry Pascal and he purchase him for at least thirty pounds. His new name became Gustavus Vassa. He was treated fairly by his new master. He learned how to be a sailor and travel all over the world even Antarctica. Pascal sent his to attend to

Olaudah Equiano was a righteous man who was stolen from his home as a child, and made into a slave. Through Equiano’s time as a slave he endured many hardships and made many friends who he would never see again due to death, or the slave trade. Equiano made a memoir to show readers what it was like to be a slave, and to show his hardship through his own eyes without showing himself as someone who is looking for compassion or compensation of any kind. I believe Equiano wanted to provide his readers with hope no matter how dark their situation by showing them through his eyes the despair he endured and overcame.

The summer before high school, I decided it was time to get involved in the community. A close family friend who attended my church offered a volunteer position with her organization called Clothes to You that supplies low-income families with free attire. The non-profit organization resonated closely with me as my tribe, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, suffers from severe financial hardships, and realizing how life changing an organization such as this could be I promptly accepted her offer. On designated days we drove the mobile van to predetermined locations and transformed the desolate parking lot to a bustling shopping center. People of all ages filled the aisles and I assisted shoppers searching for outfits as varied as interview

Tolulope Omokore, a Nigerian-born and Maryland-based basketball player for the University of Central Florida. Family oriented and very cultural is living 868 miles from her hometown. Somehow manages her time between 35+ hrs of training a week, being a full time student, as well as working an internship for marketing and fan development with UCF which includes managing and assisting with all elements of Game-Day production.

Through this experience, I have gained a valuable understanding of the work, which I found very intriguing through all the different tests and prisms involved, as well as the diversity of the patients’ conditions. Even though it may sound cliché I have always had this sense of altruism within me, especially towards more vulnerable groups like people with special needs and children, something that I implemented through visits to kindergartens to connect with the kids and to renovate their school yard. With the Welfare Club we also visited an institute for people with Down syndrome where we helped the students. I was a volunteer in the Special Olympics and participated in many concerts, money collections and fairs for various charities.