Uplifting Report

In our book groups we discussed two essays “The Connection Between Strangers” by Miles Goodwin and the essay “The People Who Love You When No One Else Would” by Cecile Gilmer. In my group we said that “no matter how big or small your act of kindness is, it could change someones life” was demonstrated in both essays. In the first essay, “The Connection Between Strangers”, shows this because this little girl walked up to this solider and congratulated him. Little did she know, that the small action had changed the soldier’s life, as he said in the essay, “That girl undoubtedly has no memory of what happened years ago… It doesn't matter why she gave me the magazine. The important thing is she did” (Goodwin 83).

Acts of service always created a desire in me to help make people’s lives better. People often put forth their best when

For this project I chose to complete three random acts of kindness. The first random act of kindness that I completed was done at the University of Saskatchewan campus. One afternoon, I wrote the same message on roughly 10 different flashcards. My plan for this act was to pass out flashcards with kind messages on them and pass them out to students in Murray Library. Attached to the flashcards was two mini chocolate bars. The message read “Good luck studying for midterms! You can do this. I hope this little treat helps you get through our day.” The day after I finished writing all the messages and attaching the chocolate bars, I proceeded to walk around Murray Library and pass them out the strangers. I intended to approach individuals who were sitting by themselves because I people who were by themselves would appreciate it more. Individuals who were sitting in group of people may have been distracted by their friends in order to sincerely take in the random act of kindness. Additionally, I did not want to approach groups of people because then I would feel obliged to give every person in that group a flashcard and some chocolate.

Being the sentimental and the compassionate person of my age, I always get praise and plaudits from my family for making them feel proud. I get straight A’s and never put a unfinished task to rest. I am currently volunteering at Beacon

Honorable, industrious, frank, and conforming are the four principles that I have been adhering to ever since my first moral lesson twelve years in ethics school. But human is a social animal—in the wide ocean of socialization, we are forced to face different situations that may require individualized solutions, with the four principles being broken at times.

During his 48 hour shifts we would go down there to cook dinner, to watch tv, to get homework help and other things. It was a lot different than what the dynamic was in most of my friends households. Their parents would work 9-5 jobs, and both their parents would be home for dinner and would be able to spend time with them after school. In my case it was different, my father wouldn’t be home for 48 hours straight, so if I needed help on homework or to ask him about sports or anything I would have to go to him. Another thing that was vastly different was that there was always looming possibility that my father could leave in the middle of anything. Most of the time it was during dinner, or some non-important event. However, there was one event which has stuck with me about growing up in a First Responder Family. It was my senior year parents night for my high school basketball team and right as my name was called to walk with my parents, my father got a call and had to leave. Up until that point I had known that things were always different in our family setting because my father’s commitment to his job, but up until that point he had never missed an important event like

In my LTI foundation of leadership class, we were given an assignment to do something nice for anything and share with the class how it felt. I wrote a thank you letter to AP Government teacher for being so open with her ideas. She shows the importance

Veterans live quiet lives in our neighborhoods, silently making a difference in the world we live in. They are the ones willing to fight for justice and freedom and give up their lives for our own. If they’ve already sacrificed us, how can I show my gratitude for them? This question was fulfilled by the VA’s Summer Volunteering Program, where I helped perform numerous tasks including reminding veterans of their doctor appointments, helping staff by getting supplies and transporting materials to certain locations, escorting patients, re-stocking supplies in examination rooms, etc.

Our fire department has come to the rescue on several fires and medical emergency. The department has men and women who work extremely hard at keeping us safe and secure. Recently, Caitlin Mather (EMT), one of the departments finest, saved the life of a small baby. The baby's mother drove into the Douglas City Store and let them know that her baby was not breathing. They quickly called the Fire Department and Caitlin, living so close by, was the first one on the scene. She reacted immediately, sticking her finger down the baby's throat, tipped her upside down, gave her a pat on the back, a pinch on her little leg and the baby let out a life saving scream. Thank you Caitlin for being on the team and for your dedication to your work, you are truly a

Happiness: a Human Disease -- An Examination of the Allegorical Theme of Existentialism in the Happy Man

First and foremost, thank you for your military service. As a fellow service member I often feel that we don’t thank each other on a more personal basis.

On our final local community service day, we were primarily accompanied by the 2 of the more abled patients in Dover Hospice. Their positive energy illuminated the room, they were cheerful and entertaining as we folded paper flowers together. We even began singing songs in the midst of folding the paper flowers. Once we were completed, we attempted to brighten their day through distributing the papers flowers we made, and interacting with the patients.

I chose to watch the TED Talk entitled ‘Life lessons from a volunteer firefighter’. It was a really interesting TED Talk about a volunteer firefighter and one of the stories that really stuck with him during his time of service. He was helping it put out a fire and his captain asked him to go get the homeowner a pair of shoes. He thought this was a super trivial act but he got them anyway. A few weeks later when the homeowner wrote a thank you to the fire department, she noted how with all the kindness shown someone even goet her a pair of shoes. I feel like this one instance shows that even if you don’t feel like it, every ounce of kindness you show someone could make the biggest impact on their life I really made a personal connection to

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There are good days and bad days but sometimes bad more than good. When we focus on the bad days that takes away the positive things in life. I have the world's best parents all they want to see me do is succeed but I have let them down. It makes me mad when I let my parents down because I know I could do better but I do not. When I was younger I was depressed and was not happy. My mom tried so many different counselors and nothing ever worked. No one could change me I had to change myself.