sign of respect from the movie or book hunger games although they used their left hand. Anyway, these three fingers have a significant importance in boy scouts as a salute. For them, it is a promise that they’ll respect three main principles - 1. To Honor God and country 2. Help others 3. And Obey the scout law (I’ll talk about the scout law later in my presentation) I read a fictional novel, How I live now by Meg Rosoff. The book is about a fifteen-year-old girl Elizabeth, known as Daisy who
leadership. The Boy Scout Law has ultimately guided me throughout my life during class, after school, at work, home, and beyond. While shooting bows and arrows during Scouting events can truly be fun (trust me, it really is!), I have broadened my knowledge in a wide variety of subjects through Scouting - whether it is to cook the perfect sunny-side up
The Boy Scouts of America is a well known organization throughout the United States. They often work hand-in-hand with the local community. Every year the volunteers and the youth within the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts participate in many different activities within their local community. They will participate in parades trash, cleanup activities, building projects, and also food drives. The young men in the Boy Scouts typically strive to serve any one within the community as a Boy Scout is helpful
“To put yourself in another’s place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily” (Juliette Gordon Low). The author of this quote started an organization that has grown to 2.7 million girls. Juliette Gordon Low wanted to do something for the young girls of the world that could make them a better person. The lessons she taught the girls were to have a greater outlook of life. Juliette Gordon Low has positively influenced many young girls because
In The Cay, Phillip’s character reveals through many conflicts that he developed independence, confidence, and maturity. Phillip demonstrates independence after experiencing blindness as evidence in the novel when he survived on the cay after Timothy’s death. However, before Phillip developed independence, Phillip was helpless at the beginning of the novel. This can be shown by Phillip acknowledging that he didn’t know how to do anything. (Taylor 59). “I knew how helpless I was without Timothy.”
Boy scouts of America: Troop 849 I have been surrounded by scouting my whole life. The my father, my brother, the majority of my uncles and cousins are either an eagle scout or slowly working towards their eagle. Despite this, I never really was interested by it. To me it was a normal thing that I payed little to no attention to. For this reason, I chose to research and observe the boy scouts. What do they actually do during their meetings? What is the value of the scouting program? What are the
Boy Scouts is about adventure. Boy Scouts is about camping, hiking, and first aid. Boy Scouts is about going outdoors and having fun. But Boy Scouts is also about advancement. It’s about trying to advance to the Eagle rank. Some Scouts love the feeling of accomplishment when they reach the next rank or earn a new merit badge. And some Scouts don’t earn any rank in their entire Scouting experience. They love the adventure of camping and being outdoors. The new Boy Scout rank requirements, which
In the book “who moved my cheese” by Spencer Johnson it’s a story about four characters two mice named Sniff and Scurry then two little people named Hem and Haw pursue cheese in a maze. Metaphorically speaking cheese is anything from money to inner peace, things to male us happy. And its speaks about how the mice used the trial and error method. Randomly moving through the maze and finding nothing they’d run down another. While the two people would use their minds to find the cheese but got clouded
Is Everyone the Same? Narrative When I was 13 years old I went to a boy scout event with thousands of scouts, that was 15 days long called National Jamboree, which was held out in West Virginia. It wasn’t going to be like any other normal scout trip I’ve been on where it’s just my friends and I that go on a weekend Campout. This was going to be a fun and a very adventurous trip with people from all over the world in which I had no clue what I was going to expect. I’ve never been around other people
People should be accountable for their action because of their careless mistakes. For example, this person was to excited to go hike at the wilderness and have a good time. When he arrived he felt that he had everything he need for his hike. Later he got injured during his hike. He went through his bag to go check if he has anything to take care of it. When he realize that there was nothing to take care of it he said to himself how can this be. People should be accountable for their action
Hi Ken! I've started well the week after a Sunday with some nice emotions. Last Sunday it was election day, and I'm pretty glad because my candidates to governor and mayor won and whom I voted for president, Mauricio Macri, has gotten the second place with 2.5 points below the 'winner', anyways this difference is not enough for the winner be president, therefore it there will be second round, or 'ballotage' as it's called this electoral system. In Argentina, everyone thought that the ruling party
Being a member of the Boy Scouts of America has been a significant part of my life for the past ten years. Through this organization, I have had the opportunity to develop important skills and values that have shaped me into the person I am today. One of my proudest achievements within the Boy Scouts was earning the rank of Eagle Scout. The journey to becoming an Eagle Scout was not an easy one. It required dedication, hard work, and a commitment to excellence. Over the course of several years,
6% earn the title of Eagle Scout. I am an Eagle Scout. When I joined the Cub Scouts, my eight-year-old self anticipated joining my friends to wild adventures the way a recruitment poster hanging in the elementary cafeteria showed through its variety of colorful pictures. Reflecting back, Scouts didn’t groom me to become the thrill-seeking adrenaline junkie I envisioned at eight; instead, Troop 119 taught me to lead and serve. Having the role of a leader in the Boy Scouts helped me to become a man
of position holder:Ryan Honwad Term:Fall 2015 Responsibilities Mid-Term/Final Assessment & Comments ⃝ Develop and implement a training program for Leave No Trace. Completed: Learning the Principles is a requirement to rank up in boy scouts, but I have seen many scouts forget them once they have completed this requirement. This defeats the purpose of learning them in the first place. To prevent this from happening, I did a few things. I started to talk to all the patrols about these principles during
Today, technology and interactive media have become a magic to make education for children more fascinating and fun. What is technology and interactive media? National Association for the Education of Young Children (2012), says that technology refers to a broad range of digital devices and interactive media refers to digital and analog materials. Some examples of technology are computers, tablets, multitouch screens, interactive whiteboards, mobile devices, cameras, audio recorders, electronic toys
Academic success to me is achieving good grades and understanding the material to get good grades. Academic success also means to have an good attendance. I already get mostly A’s and B’s, but I am not good at staying on top of things. To improve my academic success I will attend class more often, be more organized, pay attention in class, and not procrastinate. Attending class is important so I don't miss any assignments and get behind. Being in class is important because its proven that students
Imagine yourself on a Friday and your just sitting in your desk, staring at the clock waiting for the bell to ring, well Cris lived it. Cris has plans for the weekend today he's going to a friend's house and tomorrow he is going to the mall and as an early Christmas present his parents gave him two hundred dollars to spend at the mall, he just can't talk for the weekend and then he heard this “The homework for the week will be a 5-10 thousand word essay on how The Happy Birthday song was made and
READER: I grew much in my career as a Boy Scout. I grew both in knowledge and in maturity. Since none have proven their maturity by simply stating that they have it, I shall let you decide for yourself. Throughout my endeavor to become an Eagle Scout, (the highest rank within the Boy Scouts of America), I was faced with many obstacles and challenges. Although I had to rise to many occasions, each yielded great things. In my first two years as a Boy Scout, I was quite oblivious to the reasons why
earned all my pins and achieved my arrow of light, moving from Pack 527 to Troop 527 in 2011. Within my first year of the boy scout program I earned my family life, swimming, leatherwork, fishing, and photography merit badges as well as my totin’ and firemen’ chits. In that first year of being a scout I was extremely active, serving as troop guide and achieving the rank of scout. I made it to the rank of first class just in time to go to the National Jamboree in 2013. Before I went I was inducted into
has heard of the Scouts. Even if hardly anyone believes it, the scout movement can bring a lot of advantages to a person’s short-term life, and even to his/her long-term life. Also, it involves kids from all ages: from 4 years old, to 21 years old. Therefore, being a scout is the best extracurricular activity that anyone could do because they do a lot of physical activity, learn a lot of helpful values, and make a lot of friends from different places and cultures. In the scouts, kids from all ages