Community Service Essay

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Community Service The term “community service” has been changing throughout time. In the 1940’s, during World War II, community service meant cleaning hospital bedpans to avoid the Vietnam War. In 1973, the era of the Volunteer Army, community service was an act of charity to help people in their needs. This theory was developed by Gen Xers. In 1982 community service was part of their academic studies. However teenagers have a different meaning for community service, which is a punishment for drunk drivers and miscreants. Nevertheless community service is not a punishement, it is meant to help everyone, even us. By doing it we learn through experience the relationship between empathy and responsibility about being part of a community. It is also essential for: survival, moral center, personal enrichment, and for institutional community. Everyone most help their community, benevolent actions are necessary to the prosperity of them. Community service is vital to the health of the community. Moreover the moral center is where values such as empathy, compassion, caring, responsibility are found, and also strength is found in it. Doing community service is empowering and also develops in people the ability to connect. Mahatma Ghandi said “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Unless we do something to make a better world, the world ain’t going to change. “Actions speak louder than words”, so do not just sit down and talk how the world can be better do something to change it. If one starts changing the world with his actions moreover people will start doing it too. Nowadays community service is require for students from high school to graduate. As Friedland said “Young people have different motivations, some altruistic, some genuinely, some genuinely civic. But they rarely appeared in a pure form.” In student´s case their motive will be
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