An experience that has shaped my character to the person I am today, was my journey to the rank of Eagle Scout. This journey began at a young age of five years old as a Tiger Cub in Cub Scouts. From that time of starting Cub Scouts, the program began to shape me and teach me life skills that not only built up my character but gave me experiences in life most others do not experience. Once I crossed over to Boy Scouts that is when the real definition of character and formation of who I was going to be started.
Boy Scouts of America has a foundation on a few main principles and ideas. These principles or codes include the Scout Oath, Law, Motto, and Outdoor Code. Within the Scout Law there are 12 points that a scout must live by, each of which are essential to my life. Along with the law,
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This service project includes an extensive amount of paperwork that goes in-depth in the project, including the benefit, the expense, and the process. The Service project must also be led, managed, and completed by the candidate Eagle Scout. Personally, my Eagle Scout service project cost over 5000 dollars and took over 150 working hours to complete. The scope of the project was building a recreational area for Lake Louisa State Park that included a professional volleyball court and horse shoe pit. My idea was to give families a place to enjoy the day, bonding, outdoors. This project, being a big part of an Eagle Scouts journey, really created my character. This project has taught me what a good leader is, one that does not just sit around and dictate but rather is working alongside their workers. This Eagle Scout service project has given me determination and grit to keep going even when giving up seems to be the best option. This project has given me a humble attitude as I did work for my community, rather than just myself. This aspect of my Eagle journey has added to my
My favorite service project was my silver award for girl scouts. Before Jamie Lince, Faith Brown, and I did the silver award the hoophouse by the elementary school was very rundown. There were holes in the plastic, weeds in the beds, and the wood chips in the aisles were worn down. The hoophouse couldn’t be used. We wanted to fix that problem. First we applied for grants. I never knew how many steps or how much time this would take. It really taught me how to handle deadlines so things get turned in on time. It also taught me that there are people that want to support you, and you just need to find them. The two grants that we received were a Lowes grant for fifteen-hundred dollars and a seed grant from Van Atta’s. The second step was to get people to help weed out the beds so we could plant the seeds we got from the grant. This took a few hours and a lot of people from the community showed up to help. The Lowes grant was used for the plastic that goes on the outside of the hoophouse and new wood chips for the aisles in the hoophouse. We had to have the help of Mr. Montry who makes hoop house...
Boy Scouts of America v Dale is a highly controversial case involving discrimination against homosexuality. It was argued by the Supreme Court on April 26, 2000 and decided on June 28, 2000. Parties involved included plaintiff James Dale and the defendant was The Boy Scouts of America. Dale’s lawyer was Evan Wolfson; The Boy Scouts of America were represented by lawyer George A. Davidson (Boy Scouts). Dale, who had previously been an assistant scoutmaster and an Eagle Scout, filed a lawsuit against The Boy Scouts of America because the association repudiated his membership after learning he was homosexual. The constitutional amendment at issue was the first. The case was first heard in a New Jersey state court where the court ruled that the
Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale has been one of the most controversial cases of the 21st century. The 1st Amendment rights of private organizations were challenged as The Boy Scouts of America banned a former leader and Eagle Scout after learning that he, James Dale, was openly homosexual and a gay rights activist. James Dale then sued the Boy Scouts for violation of a New Jersey’s law that protects individuals against discrimination. The case worked its way up the Supreme Court and was decided that the Boy Scouts have the right to not accept homosexuals through their 1st Amendment right of expressive association because the leader would set a bad example and not represent scouting values. The court also ruled that Scouts could ban homosexuals
Throughout my life I have tried many things snowboarding, sailing, rock climbing, and kayaking. I’ve enjoyed them all but the one activity that has stuck with me more than any other was Boy Scouts. I started scouts when I was 8 years old; I had no idea what I was getting into. I remember walking into the Saint Stevens, the church where the troop held their meetings, for the first time and seeing all of the other cub scouts. I was very nervous and wanted to make a good impression on the other kids. Due to my age I was put into the rank of wolf, the second lowest rank in cub scouts. We were a group of 16 kids. I don’t know how anyone could have controlled us at that young age, we were wild. Only three of the 16 ever made it to eagle and I worked hard to be one of them.
In the article, “In historic change, Boy Scouts to let girls in some programs”, David Crary, from Fox News, explains the integration of Boy Scouts of America. The club has chosen, over the time period of many months, to admit girls into their programs (Crary 2017). The board of directors believe that it will be of convenience to many families and open the girls up to more programs not available in Girl Scouts (2017). The Girl Scouts officials were offended and have stated that the changes have changed the century-Old bond between the two club (2017). They even go on to insinuate that the changes were due to financial struggles in the all male club (2017).
A couple of weeks ago, the class was assigned a personal narrative essay and the prompt was to tell an interesting story of a specific experience that changed how you acted, thought, or felt. To be honest, I was awfully excited to write this essay because talking about myself is the easiest thing to write about sometimes. However, deciding what experience to talk about was challenging because I have already experienced so much in my seventeen years of being alive from dislocating my hip when I was three, to seeing my grandfather die in front of my eyes, from almost tripping off of the trail on the Grand Canyon, to meeting band members at an airport. Writing this essay brought me many challenges, I did not know what topic to choose, I had no
The core values I think represent me the best are Honesty, Friendly, Helpful, and Courteous. These are a few of the things I learned from achieving the rank of Eagle Scout in my Boy Scout troop, the scout law has twelve core values but these are the ones that best represent me. Each of these four words I depict in my everyday style whether its helping someone with directions or holding the door open for someone whose hands are full to making sure that I am polite to everyone I meet and making sure that I use my own work and to not plagiarize someone else’s just to complete some school work, or receive a higher grade on a test. The other eight values that are in the scout law are my best characteristics and those are loyal, kind, obedient, cheerful,
A person does not experience many events that shape their life in a large way, whether it be for better or worse. I have had just one major situation that has sculpted me into the person that I am today. In February of 2008, I was diagnosed with a life changing disease; it would relieve me of the agony I had been experiencing for as long as I could remember, but also restrict my diet for the rest of my life.
Another influential incident in my life is going to FCHS. Going to FCHS also caused me to lose some of my friends. Even though I lost those friends, I made many friends who are really nice. I also learned alot about who my real friends are.
Everyone has a story, a pivotal moment in their life that started to mold them into the person they are today and may even continue to mold you to the person that you will become, I just had mine a little bit earlier than others. When I was three years old my brother became a burn survivor. It may seem too early for me to remember, but I could never forget that day. Since then, I have grown, matured and realized that what my family and I went through has been something of a benefit to be and an experience that has helped me in deciding what I want to do with the rest of my life.
A couple of weeks ago, the class was assigned a personal narrative essay and the prompt was to tell an interesting story of a specific experience that changed how you acted, thought, or felt. To be honest, I was awfully excited to write this essay because talking about myself is the easiest thing to write about sometimes. However, deciding what experience to talk about was challenging because I have already experienced so much in my seventeen years of being alive from dislocating my hip when I was three, to seeing my grandfather die in front of my eyes, from almost tripping off of the trail on the Grand Canyon, to meeting band members at an airport. Writing this essay brought me many challenges, I did not know what topic to
The American Dream includes wealth, a house, children, education, all of which require money. In the fifties, when A Raisin in the Sun takes place, blacks were still unequal in the eyes of society. The Younger family including Mama, her two children, Walter and Beneatha, Walter’s pregnant wife, Ruth, and their son Travis live in a small apartment in the South side of Chicago. In the beginning of the play, there is a tense and sorrowful ambiance.
Throughout my life there has been many events that have shaped the way I am. The one event that had the greatest impact and has been constant is my military career. Since I joined the military I have changed roles, conformed to new norms, and learned new values. Like most service members the parts that shape your military career is the beginning, so as a focus I will look at my basic training, technical school and first duty station which these three combined events in my life has shaped the last 14 years. Through these phases in my life I have learned a lot about the military society, society in the United States, the world and of course me.
There were many instances in my life that have shaped my values, intellect, and academic or career goals. I was raised by my parents to become a hard worker, independent, and caring young adult. I was taught how to be all these qualities by a combination of experiencing and witnessing them first hand.
My family experiences has shaped who I am today and has given me the base for my strengths and has also shaped what I would say are my weaknesses. Being raised in a low-income working class family we had many struggles to face as I was growing up. There were