Rake Leavess: A Short Story

One day last winter, I was leaving work and I was approached by a street-person. Living in the city most of my life, I had

Attention Getter: Has anyone ever stopped to help you when you were in need? How did it make you feel?

The gift that my group performed for the community of Juneau, Alaska is snow removal. The group consisted of my two most trustworthy peers Marcos Yadao and Mitchell Laudert. We all understood that living in a small tight knit town such as Juneau; the smallest of tasks can have the biggest impacts. That is when the light bulb in our intellectual brains and the idea of snow removal came to mind. It was an appropriate job for the winter season. With heavy snow flurries in the forecast, this would be an achievable accomplishment. With the service in mind our next step was to pick a location. We did not want to select the wealthy neighborhoods because the residents there would probably be financially able to pay for such services. The location that we settled on was not a poverty stricken area, but the homes consisted of elderly residence. To avoid complications with the occupants of the home and explain our reasoning for the free service we wanted to only do homes were the residence weren’t present. That did not hold up to a standard when we actually got around to carry out the service. The whole point of going out and helping people of Juneau with their snow blanketed driveways, walkways, and porches too was to gain self respect and also to prove to the world that good can come from anything and anywhere too.

In this passage, Ruth L. Ozeki is portraying the theme of isolation, loneliness, and death or suicide. The theme of death and suicide is apparent when Akiko wonders what it would be like to be incapacitated like the girl. The word “wonders” connotes a sense of desire and admiration as if to be deprived from strength is something Akiko wants. Perhaps, Akiko wants to “slip into a coma” in order to escape from pain and responsibilities. The use of the term “slip” gives the impression that being in a state of coma is easily achieved. Moreover, the theme of isolation and loneliness can be seen through the fact that no one knows about her illness. Akiko is surrounded by “high-rise buildings” that has a “population five times that of town of Hope”

Me and my brother sometimes helped my grandma with mowing her lawn for her and feeding her bull.Sometimes we helped clean her cars.Sometimes me and my brother helped clean the horse stalls and exercise the horses.She sometimes gave us riding lessons.

Tracey my neighbor said “Come and do your laundry at my house”, my mom replied ‘sure’. I was touched by the generosity but failed to understand why the houses on the opposite side of my house had power and we were still without power even after ten days. Mr. Mike, called me and said “come in and cool down, take some cold lemonade”. I replied happily “Ok!”. He even wanted us to come sleep in their house as we had no power.

We stayed in the dorms and were broken up into groups based on age. On the first night I thought I heard crying so I grabbed my roommate and searched for the source. We stopped at the door it was coming from and knocked. A girl from our group had ended up with a single room and was homesick, having never been away from home. I immediately went to our group leader and explained the situation and asked if we could move the girl’s mattress into my room so she didn't have to be alone. The group leader agreed, and for the rest of the camp she slept on her mattress on the floor of our room. At the end of the camp when all the parents came for a last day picnic I remember her parents coming up and thanking me for what I had done. At the time I didn’t think it was a big deal, I did what I thought was right, not realizing how much of an impact my action

I have done many nice thing over my 18 years of being alive. The one thing that I have done that I would consider to be my nicest thing was spending time with one of my campers at my Summer camp that I work at Over the Summer. I am a summer camp counselor at my local Boy Scout camp. I have worked there for over five years now. I have earned my Eagle Scout during my time on this camp staff. I learned many skills through this job. The one skill that I learned was the ability to work with a homesick camper. This skill was helpful when one day I saw a kid sitting by himself. I went over and discovered that the boy was crying. I sat down with him and asked him his name and what was the matter. He wouldn't respond to me because he was too homesick

For my random act of kindness, I helped a stranger who ran out of gas on the highway. A young woman riding a bicycle waived my husband and me down in front of the Support Site gate. She began to explain to us that she had run out of gas on the highway near the Carinaro exit, and needed assistance getting to the closest gas station. Usually, I am a naturally suspicious person and would have made up some reason for not being able to help her but this time I figured why not. The women got into my car and we began heading to the nearest gas station. During our ride, we exchanged pleasantries and made small talk.

One day me and my and my friend chloe where up in the trees in her back yard we were having the best time sitting there talking and laughing about when we were little and not afraid to do anything. well that when i decided it's time to step up and make a difference and not to just sit there. well that did not end well chloe walked down well i decided to jump to the other tree and i … fell and got hooked to the tree and then fell to the cold hard ground. It did not hurt so i sat down then chloe's brother who is 5 years older than me.

she took the money and walked away not a single thank you was said to us. My mother told me some people don't realize or appreciate the things given to them. We kept walking and went along with our day. When we got home my mother told my dad what had happened although it wasn't that much big of a deal, my parents shared everything with each other. Which at that moment taught me about love. Love is a funny thing it could hurt you so much but also fill the emptiness and sadness inside you, seeing how my parents are able to share every detail of their day and how they are able to handle the situation in a good manner showed me something that I would use my whole life. I mean my mom could have taken the money back, she could have been rude back but she wasn't. She decided to leave it as it is because in life you never really know what someone has been through, whether they had a bad day or they just don't have manners. Well anyways as my mom sat down with my dad she explained how it all went down and that she needed to go back to the store and get some things the next day because we had forgotten about buying milk. I

The time I went out of my way to help someone is when I was at work. I had only been working as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) for a couple of months. I was in and out of clients, when they asked me to work for this couple that needed help cleaning around the house. I did not mind since I desperately needing money at the time. This couple and I got along incredibly well, they was friendly, nice and loving. They told me what I needed to do and how to do it, I did everything they needed with time to spare. In that spare time we begin to chat and get to know one another. I learnt that they knew someone of my relatives and was my late Uncle Dannys best friend, when they was children. I worked for this couple many times after my first time

When we arrived at the food drive, it was packed full of people, from old men to children, waiting for food and plenty of volunteers due to the upcoming holidays. As I entered I prepared to help however I could. I served food for hours to people and they all were very appreciative and spoke about this will be their only meal today. I continued to serve food to everyone then suddenly I saw a family approach, a girl who looked about my age came with her mom and little sister up to the serving area and I immediately took notice to them. I

On December 22, I volunteered with Centre 55 through Minga. Our group put together boxes of food and moved supplies into trucks to be brought to where we would donate them. These boxes had food for a holiday dinner as well as other supplies, that particularly seniors are unable to get themselves. Once we had packed the trucks, we went to a few apartment buildings and brought it to the doors of the people. One challenge was that the boxes were heavy, and we were having a hard time carrying them to people’s doors. My group decided to take turns carrying the heaviest box so that everyone had a chance carrying the lighter bags. When residents of the building saw us, they were happy we were helping out, and this personally motivated me more.

My service has impacted my community by presenting myself to volunteer and help those that are in need of a help. It allows those to learn more about there is a citizen out there that is willing to help out. While I was doing my two hour service learning at the Thrift Shop, I was able to broaden my horizon out further than usual. This elder man came up to me after I had just placed a heavy couch onto the back of his truck; he thanked me so much and kept thanking God that everything fell right into place. He began telling me how he traveled all the way from Chapel Hill just to pick up this particular couch for his youngest daughter. He was very devastated by the fact no one was able to go with him to pick up this couch. He was concerned of how