Service Learning Experience Paper

I decided to start volunteering at the local humane society because I’ve always been really passionate about animals and wanted to start benefiting them in the community. Prior to my service I was delighted because I’ve wanted to start volunteering for years and was glad the opportunity had presented itself. Throughout my experience I learned a great deal and met a lot of new people. Even though I’ve only just started serving my time at the Fox Valley Humane Association I can truly see the difference it has made in the community.

A Service Learning project is one of the project requirements to complete the Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree through Ferris State University (FSU). My Service Learning experience was completed at the VA Medical Center (VAMC) in November, 2014. This paper includes details of the facility along with the contact information for the coordinator of the project. A description of my role as a volunteer, critical reflection of my experience, and a synthesis of the Service Learning are also included.

While growing up with her father, her religion was forced upon her, as for their punishment the children were sentenced to “the verse”, in which they were required to right out one hundred lines direct from the bible by memory. She doesn’t seem to enjoy the idea of faith, but there is no doubt that she realizes it’s

I, Deputy Cooper along with Sgt. South at approximately 9:30a.m. on 01/06/2017 was dispatched to a burglary at 239 County Road 4589 Winnsboro, Texas 75494.

The problem of pollution comes with the ever expanding human population. With this growing population our demand for products also increases. We live in a consumer society, especially in the United States, and making huge quantities of products generates a large amount of pollution and waste. American citizens love to buy, we represent only 5% of the global population but we use 25% of the world's resources. The unfortunate part is that all the resources we use to make products end up in some landfill somewhere because a huge amount of Americans don't understand the importance of recycling and reducing consumption of products. American citizens throw away 40% of the food they purchase. That number is ridiculous, especially since so many Americans

Taking into consideration that Li is an immigrant, this would mean that she had to assimilate to her newfound husband and country. This created a number of cultural changes for including religion. Being alienated from her family and having to adjust to a new husband and nation would have added stress to the client, perhaps changing her religion to Christianity was a way from her to feel more accepted by her new culture and husband. Little is known about her life in Saigon, but this writer draws the thought that Li valued religion before she meets her husband and moved to America. Perhaps her switching religion was more of a way for her to freely express this part of herself that would be accepted in her new home. After all, if she continued to practice her old religion’s customs she would have been further estranged from her support system. And from the case, it is known that Li has not contacted her family in Saigon for years. The thought of losing another family could have influenced her change in religion. As the Social Worker on this case, Carolyn would benefit from referring to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics. The Code of Ethics discusses the value that Social Workers uphold the dignity and worth of a person (National Association of Social Workers 2008). This value may offer some guidance to the situation.

She doesn’t believe in any certain religion in general but she seeks advise from a Christian leadership. When she needs strength and motivation she prays to the higher being. She believes she can do anything if she puts her mind to it. Not being a part of a religion does not make her feel less because it is a choice she made for her self with nobody pushing her. Their might not be a set of guide lines she follows like other religion but she believes that the higher power will protect her.

Moreover, coming from a country where christian religion still plays a major influence on society, she recognizes she has been fairly influenced by it during her childhood, that is why, despite she stopped going to church and following the christian precepts a while ago, she still considers herself as somewhat a spiritual individual.

Freedom...sounds like such a simple idea.  The United States is the greatest country in the world and I have the honor of living in one of its most beautiful areas.  Northeastern Tennessee is full of beautiful mountains, recreational lakes and proud people. I would like to accept the challenges and sacrifices faced by our service men and women, and, in doing so, proudly represent those people who have done so much for me. I would quickly accept the opportunity to serve our great nation and to help protect our freedoms as our veterans have done in the past.  My interest in serving our country, specifically by attending a service academy, started at a young age.  I attended an air show and toured a battleship while my family was on vacation,

I am writing with great passion to apply for the position of Student Service Advisor. You are looking for someone who has rich student advising experience to solve problems proactively, who can support students as a program liaison, and who is dedicated to helping diverse students achieve academic success. I am that person.

For my service learning project I volunteered my time at the Oregon Food Bank and at the National Day of Service sponsored by the Office of Service Learning (OSL.) By doing these events it made me thankful that I live a life that doesn't require immediate assistance and/or urgent care. It taught me to not take my life for granted and to always count my blessing because one day they might disappear. Without me doing these service events I wouldn't be aware of how blessed my life really is. Doing these service events was definitely a big wake up call for me!

My service learning project is about helping my community by volunteering at my local pumpkin patch with my nana. My nana asked one day if I could help with something and I said okay and come to find out I was helping at the pumpkin patch. I started Volunteering when I was 16 and I helped by driving the train around for the kids to ride in, put the pumpkins where they needed to go, and be a cashier. I absolutely love helping out there because I got to meet new people and see the faces of little kids smile every time they saw a pumpkin. What I learned from working there was how to be a cashier which I have never done before and also learn how to be more involved with my community by meeting new people. I feel so happy and grateful knowing that

Service-learning is a new phenomenon that many colleges, communities, and organizations are becoming deeply involved with. With this being so new there are many definitions and perceptions about service-learning. With multiple perspectives on this community-building program there is one outcome; students gain insightful experience into the workforce in building their communities up. Often this is also referred to as experiential learning. By coupling classroom instruction to the real world experiences the students gains a much better viewing point than ever before. This provides a pathway to success for the student in the community. Service-learning has helped and will continue to help students find the work that they like to build a future for themselves. This

Working with the Service Learning team has shown many of my classmates just what exactly the real world looks like. For many of them I assume this was there first time doing a project of this nature and seeing this sort of chaos. Luckily for many of them this project was handled mainly by a few strong leaders of the class and the majority of them only needed to follow behind and assist with very small mundane tasks. Although some tried to help and get involved it was very noticeable that their efforts were halfhearted, and quickly they would back out of conversation and sit quietly waiting for a decision to be made. Although this sounds harsh and condescending it's by no means meant to take away from their efforts. They all showed up when told to and they each interacted with the children or at least helped us get ready for the activities.

The objective of this report is to contrast and compare the culture of the Calvary Church with Catholicism, which is the religion that I practice. A field trip was taken to the Calvary Chapel in Rancho Cucamonga On February 12 of 2013, in which a clear observation of its services was