Volunteer military Essays

  • Volunteers Joining The Military

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    Growing Force The military draft has become a thing of the past since World War II and the Vietnam War. Today the military draft seems obsolete with the rise in volunteers. Over the past half-century, military drafts have controlled the fates of eligible men on and off the battlefield. Thankfully this is not the case today with eligible men and women signing up and risking their lives for their country. With the United States at war in the Middle East, having plenty of volunteers is becoming beneficial

  • Exemplification Essay: Do Americans Benefit From Volunteerism

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    help the intended people, but the volunteers as well. People gain so much by volunteering. Volunteers are able to grow in many ways you might think are unattainable through their work. Some people may crave the feeling of being needed or wanted; that may be the motive for why they volunteer. According to a recent found study, volunteerism keeps adults healthy and happy (Nauert par ). Normally people would assume volunteerism would only benefit those we volunteer for; the article "Volunteerism Helps

  • Community Service and Volunteering

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    “Volunteers are not paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.” - Sherry Anderson (Volunteering Quotes: Finest Quotes). On average, when people think about community service, they assume that volunteering is just ‘hours we need to be able to graduate’ and that is it. Community service is more than just hours; community service is based on the acts performed by someone with the purpose of helping or bringing benefits to his or her community. People frequently compare

  • Civil War Diary Of Cyrus F. Boyd

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    was even changed. All of these things were talked about in "The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd". Boyd talks about how everyone was very eager to volunteer to join the military to have fun and to make some money and it seemed to be very easy because the war was expected to be very short. Things started to look a bit different even when, the volunteers got to the first destination to be sworn into duty. They started to wonder why they were being sworn in to service for 3 years when they all thought

  • American Legion Post 44

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    felt. Community service is a great thing to put time and energy into. There are a lot of positive impacts that are made by individuals who contribute to community service projects. There are many different associations and activities that one can volunteer for to help out the community. I have done many different

  • The Bean Trees

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    their original country. Most of these aliens are searching for a better life in America. Mattie assists them by providing them with housing, food, and medical attention whenever needed. She knows the consequences involved, and yet she perseveringly volunteers to give these people sanction. "There was another whole set of people who spoke Spanish and lived with her for various lengths of time. I asked her about them once, and she asked me something like had I ever heard of a sanctuary."(Kingsolver

  • There Is More To Being A Teacher Than You Think

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    monitoring the halls and bathrooms between classes duty. In education, “duty” means teacher exploitation by administrations and boards of education. “Duties” have little or nothing to do with education, and they are things that aides or parent’ volunteers could easily perform with little on-the-job training. Duties require little professional ability, and they are a major factor in keeping today’s teachers unprofessional and subordinate to administrative fiat. Faculty members must set good examples

  • Rough Riders

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    to force the Spanish out, a military invasion on Cuba would have to take place. More than 250,000 soldiers rushed to volunteer for service. Soldiers gathered in Florida and waited impatiently for supplies and transportation. Some individuals organized and outfitted their own regiments. Teddy Roosevelt was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at the time, he resigned his post and formed a voluntary cavalry. As soon as word spread that Roosevelt was looking for volunteers, the War office was swamped

  • Wernher Von Braun

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    spending so much of his time building a car, he flunked in mathematics and physics. However, it was his decision to explore rocketry that led to his great impact on history. Von Braun, at the age of 16, organized an observatory construction team. His volunteers built a complete observatory in their spare time, working as diggers, bricklayers, and carpenters. In 1930, when he was 20, he enrolled at the Berlin Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, and was offered

  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier

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    Catholic, he was chosen leader of the Liberal party in 1887. Nine years later he became prime minister. He was knighted in 1897. "Build up Canada" were the watchwords of Laurier's government. Laurier was loyal to Great Britain, sent Canadian volunteers to help in the Boer War, established a tariff favorable to British goods, and worked to strengthen the ties between the two countries. But he saw the British Empire as a worldwide alliance of free and equal nations, and he opposed every attempt

  • The Civil War

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    was a grave turning point in the history of North America. It was a conflict that pitted the Northern states of the American union against the Southern states. The war raged for four years, from 1861 to 1865, and was marked by some of the fiercest military campaigns in modern history. In this essay, you will learn the causes of the American Civil war, as well as the after effects of the war. It has been extremely hard for historians to exactly pin-point the causes and effects of the war. The war itself

  • Consequences of Passion Exposed in The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

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    that Tristan is a marshal hero who volunteers to take a battle against the King of Ireland, in order to redeem the people and the monarch of King Mark. It would therefore, be suitable to say that King Mark has given his nephew the trust to accomplish the mammoth exercise. In Ireland, Tristan faces the challenge of killing a beast that has terrorized the community, and the reward for this is to gain Iseult -- the daughter of the king. Indeed, Tristan’s military prowess earns him the honor of taking

  • John Smith

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    immigrate to America still today. John Smith was born in Lincolnshire, England to a farmer and his wife in 1580. He only had a grammar school education, but with this education he was able to join the British volunteers fighting in the Dutch war of independence from Spain. While in the military, he was captured by the Turks and sold as a slave. He eventually escaped and came back to his mother land of Great Britain in 1605. He then became interested in settling Virginia in the new world. The following

  • General George Armstrong Custer

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    the United States Military Academy. By the time he graduated the American Civil War was under way; and so he was assigned to the Union Army as a second lieutenant. He arrived at the front during the First Battle of Bull Run, and by June 1863, he was in command of a cavalry brigade, with the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. They fought at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania under the command of General Philip Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. As major general of volunteers, Custer participated

  • Immigrant Population Observation Report

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    are some changes that must be made. The needs for my population include more funds for more teachers to increase the amount of one on one instruction. With only one volunteer and one teacher, I had to trust that the students that didn’t ask for my help understood what they were learning. The class had I do feel that having more volunteers would probably change that problem. The needs I saw for my population was mostly more funds for more classes in different library locations. The needs I saw in regards

  • Kaiser Permanente Scholarship Essay

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    teenagers enjoy to pursue rather than develop practical skills. Reaching my second year, I joined the Kaiser Junior volunteering program after unexpectedly running into volunteers during a visit at Kaiser, and it left a warming impression that inspired me to sign up for the program. I vowed to work as hard as my peers and past volunteers, who achieved many recognitions and honorable pins. For the first time, I challenged myself to initiate conversations with anyone while pushing my introversion beyond

  • Bilingual Education: Social Justice for All

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    efforts in embracing diversity, projecting itself as a multicultural institution, and connecting with families regardless of their cultural background. However, in meeting the linguistic needs of its diverse population, Chamberlain falls sadly short. Volunteers or trained teachers pull students out of their classrooms for a brief lesson each day in English as a Second Language (ESL). Language minor... ... middle of paper ... ...eadership (Dec.99-Jan.00): 62-67. Porter Pedalino, Rosalie. "The Benefits

  • The Importance of Geography in The Killer Angels

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    and his superb outlining of the natural landscape. In the novel, Shaara begins by describing the Armies.  On the side of the South is the Army of Northern Virginia, led by Robert E. Lee.  This army is composed of 70 thousand men who are volunteers and rebels.  They are within a certain culture.  The men of this army share  not only a common language and religion, but they also share the same customs.  Most of the men are Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.  Their language is English.  Most of

  • A Environmental Issue Website

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    about Envirolink, and other similar websites such as Institute for Global Communications, and Wild North West. EnviroLink is a non-profit organization and is an online community that unites hundreds of organizations in more than 150 countries and volunteers around the world with millions of people. It is dedicated to providing easy to understand, up-to-date environmental information and news. At EnviroLink, they are committed to promoting a sustainable society by connecting individuals and organizations

  • A Student's Comments on Habitat for Humanity Websites

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    shelter. I wanted to see though exactly how this specific organization made a difference in peoples lives. Hopefully my research will enlighten my readers of the living situations of many families around the world, maybe even convincing some to volunteer themselves. Habitat for Humanity is a nondenominational and nonprofit Christian organization(Habitat for Humanity International). It is involved in the manufacturing and building of houses for those in need of an adequate shelter. Habitat for