Venturing Essays

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,

All Christians and churches should completely sever their ties with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), renowned evangelist Franklin Graham said after praising the Mormon church for its decision to pull out of two programs run by the organization. On May 11, the Mormon Church officially ended its participation with the Varsity and Venture programs, activities that are run by the BSA. The LDS church said it will launch its own program for boys 14 to 18 years of age who were previously under the two programs

Brick by Brick Lay the base, spread the sand, cut the bricks, place the bricks, tamp the bricks, seal the bricks, sweep sand into the joints, step back and celebrate. Consider these the finishing steps to completing my Eagle Scout project, a four hundred brick entrance showcasing the school crest at Kapaun Mt. Carmel high school. With the project finalized and a successful board review, I will have attained my Eagle Scout rank; my most fulfilling accomplishment to date. So, why write about a potential

One of the biggest goals I set for myself was to obtain the rank of Eagle Scout through the Boy Scouts of America. This was in the early months of first grade when I started Cub Scouts and saw older boys from Troop 592 that were Eagle Scouts recruiting for their troop. It wasn't until fifth grade when I graduated from Cub Scouts and joined Troop 592 as a full Boy Scout that I started working to achieve Eagle Scout. It took a lot of dedication go camping every month. For about one year I served as

DEAR 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

As an excited student applying to Penn State, I would like to highlight some of my accomplishments and achievements, volunteer work, and extracurricular activities to portray a little bit more about myself and my personal characteristics. From the age of five years old I have been involved in the cub scouts, and progressively worked my way for the past seven years towards my Eagle Scout. I am very proud of this accomplishment because it took dedication, discipline, and a significant amount of time

Executive Summary What is the purpose of venturing into a for-profit business? It is self-explanatory, it is common sense, and it is all in the words, for-profit. That is, to make money, to make big bucks, to get rich, to focus on the bottom line. Is it getting the money just for the sake of, no matter what the means are? Is it by the principle of “by hook or by crook?” Are the business owners forgetting something? That with the premise of making a profit from their businesses comes the need to give

William Cullen Bryant: Venturing Beyond His Brilliance William Cullen Bryant is a poet and journalist from the nineteenth century who had been famously known for being a Romanticist based upon his poems during the Romantic Era. From an early age it was immediately known that Bryant had pretty much been a “child prodigy” based upon his ability to read and write at such an early age (Goforth 3). Bryant completed his first poem at the age of ten, and published his first book at the age of thirteen;

The Boy Scouts of America consist of four main programs: Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and the order of the arrow. Cub Scouting is the largest program, for boys from 7 to 11 years old. It’s designed to pursue the aims of character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness. Boy Scouting is for boys ages 11 to 18. It uses outdoor activities like camping and hiking simultaneously while aiming at character, citizenship and personal fitness training. When interviewing my

this sentence, “O my Soul, where you stand, Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space”, and the repetition,” Surrounded, surrounded”, help the reader get a feeling of patience coming from the side of the spider. “Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing- seeking the spheres to connect them”. This is another quote that uses the listing of actions to create a feeling of the patience of the spider in doing his

novel as well as how the characters grow throughout the novel. Caney has been emotionally “closed” since opening the café as exemplified through him not venturing outside of the café for twelve years. However, Caney begins to emotionally “open up” to Vena Takes Horse during the first half of the novel. Furthermore, Caney also “opens up” by venturing outside of the café and taking a horse ride with Vena. Letts writes, “Suddenly, Caney grabbed the wheels of his chair, gave them a powerful jerk and popped

The operation was deemed unsuccessful and with nothing to show for his conquests the group split and went upon their own personal agendas, some venturing to the Grand canyon and others venturing ti the Colorado Plateau. Pods of the group started to explore the Colorado Plateau more vigorously and stated to claim many plots of land for themselves, despite being part of indigenous tribes’ territory. The destruction and

Professor Sherman, a retired math teacher decided to venture out with his house converted into a hot air balloon. Later in his journey, he gets stranded on a island of Krakatoa, where he meets several families with their creative inventions and a diamond mines. The theme for The Twenty-One Balloons is likely about adventure and creativity. This is due to the fact that Professor Sherman had a creative idea of traveling by turning his house into a hot air balloon, as well as several unique inventions

From the dawn of time, humans have been exploring. From migrating to foreign lands, to sailing the mysterious ocean, to pondering the unfamiliar night sky, humans have been venturing into the unknown. Despite the terror that the unknown holds, humans choose to continue to probe further and further into the unknown. There is no doubt that the unknown is a dangerous place. By its very definition, we do not know what it holds. Many will brave the unknown only to be left with discouraging results.

encounter barriers that can prevent successful transition, thus having an effect on their perception and the perception of others. The remarkable play ‘Shafana & Aunt Sarrinah: Soft revolution’ -2010 by Alana Valentine portrays the experience of venturing into a new religious world as both protagonists exhibit their juxtaposing perspectives on devotion towards religion as the cultural significance of the hijab becomes a barrier between generations. This provides the audience with an insight into Muslim

device slows down the pace of the passage so the audience can thoroughly envisage the setting Hurston is painting. Additionally, the author expresses a zealous tone with the use of approving diction such as, “mighty nice” and “mighty fine” when venturing into the description of the community’s meals. In like manner of Hurston’s zealous tone, the speaker’s unceremonious dictation with phrases such as “You could,” “-you looked,” and “ -you needed,” enables the residents of Sawley to come to life through

In the article, I have selected to compare to my experience with the Mikes Bikes Simulator, was one that explained how a young man came across a deal to not only better himself, but also better the lives of those around him by targeting his business towards a certain group of people. The article goes on to explain how Trey Harris the owner of Colony Ridge Land was developing lots for homes in Plum Grove, a smaller town outside of Houston, by doing so it helped the Latino laborers find good quality

"[you] can be the most well-provisioned, most experienced and high-tech kitted team in the world and be on the South Col ready for our summit, fit and acclimatised, but the next day could be bad and there's absolutely nothing you can do about that" (“Venturing”). You cannot wake up one day and decide to climb the largest mountain in the world, the preparation could take a

has changed due to a shift in consumers’ attitudes towards healthier products. This placed Starbucks’ coffee culture at risk and threatened the company’s future. Starbucks has tailored their menu to include more organic and healthy product mixes, venturing into tea, bread and fresh juice products (Geereddy, n.d). Starbucks’ cornerstone product differentiation strategies and Human Resource Management are the main impacts to strategy formulation. Starbucks’ is a premium valued brand; costly to imitate

Walt Whitman’s poem “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” presents similar themes to Willa Cather’s novel, O Pioneer! and what it means to be a pioneer. Both literary works discuss the eternal burden of caring for the land and the intuition of some to survive on the land. Whitman describes working the land as, “We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the lesson” (12). The poems illustrates working the land as a task that causes misfortune, anxiety, and pain. It is a job that goes on eternally as the land