community service reflection

Mae Dempsey
Community Service Essay

For my community service project I chose to volunteer my services at the Foothills Animal Shelter. My jobs were simple; do laundry, clean dishes, wash the kennels and wash the windows. Their mission is to rescue as many needing animals as possible and youthanize as little as possible. If they get too crowded and noone is willing to be a foster owner then some do have to be put down. I had a very small yet very important part in it all. I kept everything thise rescued animals needed clean so they could remain healthy during their stay at FHAS.
I don't know how anyone else felt but it sure as heck pained me and I'll tell you why. Becuase every time I went in and told them I was there for community service they looked at me in discust or confusion; that is until I told them it was for school. Now-a-days everyone assumes that if you are doing community service at all, it's becuase you committed a crime of some sort and you were doing community service to make up for it. We need to volunteer more so when you do community service people look up to you instead of down. I have finished the prodject but I volunteered with the children at my church during second service and during the summer for VBS. Plus I'm doing Outdoorlab where I will get over 100 community service hours. If everyone did it then society would see it as a good thing to do and helpfull.
Without this opportunity society might shut down. Let me explain why... First, without community service workers buisnesses that can't afford to pay enough workers but are very important (like shelters) would eventually have to shut down becuase not everything could be kept up. Second, some community services include picking up litter which is an important part of cleaning up our invironment. If people never picked up the litter, in a few years we would all be swimming in trash. And finally, jails would be overflowing with people who couldn't afford to pay off fines like speeding tickets becuase they had no alternative to paying the fine. Which hurts families and when worse criminals are caught it cuases delimmas with cell spaces.
To sum-up  community services are helpfull and very much needed. But even wuth the people paying off speeding tickets and DUI's, community service shouldn't have to be looked down upon by others as a "last resort" to pay off debts. It should be looks at as a way to help people and the invironment. Even now, where volunteering and community service are literally the same thing, they are look at like the difference between scum and a nice person. They are the same thing put on different terms and it shouldn't be like that.

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Part 1;
     This week we finished off working with equilibriums. And howbthe markets will always eventually go back to the equalibruim prices and quantities for maximum happiness for buyers and sellers. We also ended the week on friday talking about price floors and ceilings. Price floors are the minimum prices that goods or services can be sold at. Price ceilings are the maximum price goods and services can be sold at like rent control.

Part 2;
     The government uses things like subsidies, they pay companies to make products that they predict will do well, taxes on produce, they tax food and other things people need to get more money out of it, and regulations, they control how much a person can buy or produce a good or service of. One that we talked about in class was rent control. The government used to put a price ceiling on rent to prevent over pricing and descrimination. Even know I'm still unbiased about government kimd of, there are some really good places they should intervene in and also some really stupid ones that are outthere but I can't list off the top of my head. I have no questions.

Part3;
I have finished all 10 hours of my community service hours at Foothills Animal shelter. And I have not even started the essay yet, is it due on the same day as the last part of the community service packet? I might do it during spring break.

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Part 1:
    This week
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    Demand and supply curves and schedules relate to chapter one in one major way. In freemarket if people like your product then you will be successfull and can produce more and sell more for higher prices. If buyer don't like your product or the price of your product you have to produce less to cover costs.
Part 3:
   Sorry I apparently didn't have permission to view the article so I couldn't read it, therefore could not answer the designated questions