Service Learning Project Report

Service Learning Project Report

Project

Task: There are three entries that requires 500 words a piece to explain how a volunteer event and the interactions with the people relate to the reading assignments for that week. I will need you to use your imagination and create a realistic story based off a simulated interaction with people from this volunteer event, and connect the interaction with the assigned reading giving throughout the course.

 

Scenario of what I have been volunteering for: I am currently working at a homeless shelter called Loaves and Fishes every Wednesday. I serve food to the less fortunate and while I do that I am making 1-on-1 time with the people there to try to get their opinions on current events, and how they feel about the government. I am also talking to other volunteers to get their opinions about questions I have received from the course I am taking.  After I do my volunteer, find the assigned reading for the week and relate what I learned from the volunteering event. 

So far I met veterans, doctors, drug addicts, laid off workers, volunteers of multiple communities (LBGTQ, Christian athletes,etc) and civil servants. I use their opinions to answer the question below.

Make up a conversation as if you were talking to one of these people, relate it to the reading, and post 500 words explaining how your conversation applies.  Use the provided sources to complete the entry. I will also include an example of one entry. 

I will include the articles to use for each scenario.

 

Entry 1: Narrate your experiences on the project in a minimum of 500 words. Be sure to relate your project experiences briefly to specific ideas in each of the week’s readings. Ideally, you will synthesize ideas from these readings. You may also briefly reference ideas from earlier weeks of the course, as well as up to four additional sources you have found in your own research. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.

Articles to create experience

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

[Write your entry here]

Entry 2: Narrate your experiences on the project in a minimum of 500 words. Be sure to relate your project experiences briefly to specific ideas in each of the week’s readings. Ideally, you will synthesize ideas from these readings. You may also briefly reference ideas from earlier weeks of the course, as well as up to four additional sources you have found in your own research. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.

Articles to create experience

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_cannabis_laws_in_the_United_States

[Write your entry here]

 

 

 

Entry 3: Narrate your experiences on the project in a minimum of 500 words. Be sure to relate your project experiences briefly to specific ideas in each of the week’s readings. Ideally, you will synthesize ideas from these readings. You may also briefly reference ideas from earlier weeks of the course, as well as up to four additional sources you have found in your own research. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.

Articles to create experience

https://my.uscis.gov/citizenship/information   (Rights And Responsibilities)

https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b3710.html  (Rights and Duties of Man)

[Write your entry here]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entry example:

Narrate your experiences on the project in a minimum of 500 words. Be sure to relate your project experiences briefly to specific ideas in each of the week’s readings. Ideally, you will synthesize ideas from these readings. You may also briefly reference ideas from earlier weeks of the course, as well as up to four additional sources you have found in your own research. Cite at least 2 articles and/or readings from the course in this entry.

Entry ex: The Veteran Perspective

As mentioned earlier, the benefit of working in the shelter is that everyone has a story. The next person I met was a medically discharged civil engineer. He fell off a military 5-ton special-purpose truck, and he damaged his back and shoulder. Like myself, he loved his country and had deployed during Operation Desert storm

 

I asked him how he felt about his time in service and his opinion on how well the government was taking care of their veterans. His response about his time in the military was common, he loved what he did, and he spoke fondly of the bonds he developed over his time, but how he felt about the government and the authority as a whole was oddly a surprising change of heart.  He felt there was a significant difference in how retired veterans were treated compared to those who were medically dismissed from their duty. When asked to clarify what he meant he said once he was broken it felt like they were looking for any reason to get rid of him quickly. Trying to apply for benefits was much harder, and most of the support that was offered came well after he was forced out.

He then proceeded to elaborate more on what prompted him to be forced out. They used the medical reasoning for his discharge, but he said he had made one terrible decision, that he says he doesn’t regret doing it but regrets the timing of his action. He began expressing his opinion to small-town journalist and was making comments about racism in politics, and when they asked him is racism an issue in the military, he said he never experienced personally, but he knew of plenty of black men who are not getting their fair shakes to lead and made references of how some of the members felt about retired General Colin Powell.  This isn’t normally a big issue.  As military members, we are allowed to participate in rallies, speak to some press about certain things as long as we don’t affiliate ourselves with the military, and have opinions about our government as long as we are not degrading them. In his mind he was being an engaged citizen, he wanted to make a point and make a difference in his community. However, he did this mostly in uniform and was representing an opinion from his military branch. This is not allowed, he said it had mixed effects on his neighborhood, but he was immediately discharged after that.

Before I departed he did let me know that over the years it has gotten better with race relations, he felt like he had a small part in it because as soon as it drew some attention, his unit was forced to address the comments published, but he still was kicked out quickly.

 

 

Cites:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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