Click here to visit a Web site that talks about college students and their volunteer efforts. After reading the brief news release, comment on how this information could change or reinforce your views about the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge project. You must post a response by noon, Monday, Sept. 26.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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Click here to visit a Web site that talks about college students and their volunteer efforts. After reading the brief news release, comment on how this information could change or reinforce your views about the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge project. You must post a response by noon, Monday, Sept. 26.
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I found this statement; "As nonprofit
ReplyDeleteorganizations across the country continue to face serious budget challenges, the vital contribution volunteers
make takes on more importance all the time" to be the most influential to me. I like to keep up on current events in society and in the media. It is quite obvious that our country is in in debt and will continue to be for many years. Possibly leaving our generation without social security benefits. My donation of one hour of my time will generate approximately $21.36. I am not in congress, and I doubt congress will ever hear my opinion of the budget plan but, if my volunteering my time I am generating tax free money for our country, count me in.
The more volunteers that step up to serve our communities the better. This helps our government, and society as a whole. We allows for free labor so that money can be spent towards material or supplies needed for task at hand. I feel that if this route continues we can make small dents in America's overall problems and possibly help our future generations by giving them the benefits our past generations have been fortunate enough to have.
ReplyDeleteUsually kids our age think volunteering is dumb or it takes up oo much of their time, but they don't realize how much it helps the community. Volunteering can be a great way to give back to the community and to help self gratitude. If more people would help out than the world would be a much better place. After reading this article I'm kind of excited to go to the wild life refuge and volunteer our time to help out.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty excited to go to the wildlife refuge. This won't be the first time that I have done volunteer work before, but definitely a different kind than I've ever experienced. It should be interesting.
ReplyDeleteA huge point of the article deals with money and the United State's finances in general. With people volunteering, there are so many pros: less money spent and characteristics being achieved (courtesy, respect, responsibility, helpfulness, etc).
The article stated that teen years and mid to late twenties are the age groups in which we get the most volunteers. Obviously as people get older with age, sometimes they physically can't volunteer. In my eyes, I see it as follows: weight of the world is on the youth's shoulders. As a "millennial," I am the future to this ever changing and fluctuating world.
Being introduced to the project at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, I was eager to volunteer. Although this particular project is apart of a curriculum, I don’t see this opportunity as a requirement, but a chance to be apart of something bigger.
ReplyDeleteThe article articulated that rates of volunteers, ages ranging from sixteen to twenty-four have increased every year since 1974. Not only does this display a population growing as partners, but as selfless individuals, creating tax less dollars for our society. Being conscious of this noble work is a step further in awareness but physically taking action in a movement first-handedly can change the perception of one’s community; we are all apart of what makes the “world-go-round”.
Volunteering is very important to our human nature because when we volunteer we give freely of ourselves and show others that we care about them. I have volunteered for many events in the past and I am looking forward to the Detroit River service days. Although I believe that volunteering is important, I felt that the article was perhaps a little too interested in the numbers and didn't look far enough into the reasons why the volunteer rate has been rising. The article made it seem like more people have been volunteering since 1974 just because they felt like it or because human nature has suddenly taken a benevolent turn. A possible reason to the increase in volunteers is that many organizations, schools, churches, jobs and other such groups have been requiring more community service than in previous years. Even though these required or "suggested" community service hours have often been coined volunteering it raises the question is mandatory volunteering really volunteering.
ReplyDeleteGoing to volunteer at the wildlife refugee could be the start of something bigger, in the sense that it may inspire me to continue to volunteer with other events as well. I was truly shocked at how many hours these people put into just volunteering. They put so much into it and recieve nothing out of it but the satisfaction of helping out. That is truly inspiring. Seeing how much effort these people that volunteered put in makes me want to volunteer not only at the wild life refugee, but other places to volunteer at as well
ReplyDeleteI believe this is a great process to instill in people and encourage them to try and attempt to change the gray future of America. I do however see that there is more of a rebelling sequence that will occur when people are FORCED to volunteer. By definition, it isn't volunteering when the person is forced to take part... But I do see a light when glancing at the graph.
ReplyDeleteAs the world begins to dwindle in chaos, that is when people will step up to the plate and take charge. It is only on the brink of time does our humanity really decide to kick in.
After reading this article about how much people have gradually increased voluntering in this world. It just shows that more and more people are inspirational to young teens these days and that we can all start to make this a better place to live if people just help out. Going into this wildlife refuge doesn't so much feel like volunteering compared to these other things, but it has to start somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI've volunteered prior to this upcoming project and must say that I had no idea that so many people in the world were stepping up to volunteer. I view volunteering as something that doesn't just help others, but helps you too. You end up learning new things, growing closer in the community, and maybe even giving others a positive outlook: both on life and their attitudes towards other people.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't so excited for this forced community project before, but I don't think it's going to be so bad. In fact, I think I'm going to love it.