How is community service important?

Question

This is an essay question for my Enlgish class, due tomorrow. All help and or ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Doing a good deed for your community.

Answer 2

Well, if this makes you feel any better, I have 64.5 community service hours. YEAH! I just do it because I know that my community will be clean and safe. I also enjoy helping people with disabilities because I would wish to be treated this way also. I think that these services are important because they show that you love your world and you want to take care of it. So if you wish to get good from others......SPREAD THE GOOD?!?!?!?
Thanks

Answer 3

the main reason young people are sentenced to community service is to teach them a sense of duty and humility. Rather than just think of themselves (ie, I want that stereo, it is not mine, but I'll take it), by having to work under supervision they learn about working for others, giving to others in the hope they will find a sense of pride in a job well done and decide to try working as a way of life.

Answer 4

Making high school students do involuntary servitude as a condition for graduation, it keeps them off the street so that they don't do drugs, commit crimes and stops them from just tooling around in their cars buring gas and contributing to global warming.

Veronica's answer is funny. If she does it so that she'll know her community will be clean and safe, why is she counting the hours.

Answer 5

This is an interesting question. When I was in high school, I was required to do 100 hrs (or more) community service before graduation. It was just one of the requirements for all the students in order to graduate. So like, 25 hours every year for all your four years. At first, I hated it with a passion that I had to take time to work for free, basically, and I thought it was soooo stupid and didn't make sense that I had to do this "mandatory community service." I hated looking for non-profit organizations and asking them if I could volunteer. But in the end, it turned out to actually be fun and now I am glad that I did it. I volunteered at catholic charities org. for immigrants and refugees who are trying to become US citizens and have little money and opportunity when they get here. I also volunteered in various day cares, animal shelters which I absolutley loved, helped with the less fortunate during holiday break, and my most memorable one was when I volunteered at a local hospital specializing in care for women and children and I helped the nurses in the maternity ward and I spent time helping to take care of the babies that are born sick. I even saw a baby die that I helped to take care of for almost a month. Because of my experiences at the hospital, I am now going to school to be a pediatric or obstetric nurse. I don't know how to exactly answer this question, but I think I could say that it was important to me because for one, it helped me open my eyes to things that I've never really understood. The less fortunate, the needy, even when I helped in the Humane Society, I can really say it was all rewarding - honestly. I hated the fact that I had this mandatory community service, but it taught me to serve the community from my heart. A lot of people these days work for money. Well, of course, that's why we work - to make a living - and of course, the more the better. But I never work BECAUSE OF the money. To me, my sanity and happiness is a lot more important. I'd rather work and be happy and get paid ok, than work and dread going to work everyday and get paid better. I used to work at a bank, prior to that I only had retail experience other than the volunteer stuff I did. My paychecks and benefits I received from the bank were the best I had ever gotten at that point in my life. But I went to work everyday hesitant, thinking,"What customer is gonna be a
d!ck to me today?" Working in the bank was hard for me, also cause I was pregnant and simply because people can be so mean. The paychecks and the benefits were nice but my emotional state at the end of each day wasn't worth the stress. Working can be fun.. if you finda job that asks you to do what you love. Cmmunity service is kinda like that. There were so many organizations that I could chose from. But it taught me good morals, to serve my community from my heart, to set good/high standards for myself and to enjoy helping others and to love it.

Answer 6

-It gives teens something to do during the day
-Instills a sense of pride and power in young people
- You learn about hard work and helping others in a time of need

Answer 7

DOING A GOOD DEED FOR THE COMMUNITY AND HELPING YOURSELF FOR WHATEVER REASON YOU'RE DOING COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR

Answer 8

If nobody helped out your community, imagine how bad it would be.

Answer 9

wELL MANY PEOPLE DEPEND ON COMMUNITY SERVICE BUT THIS IS GREAT TO KEEP TEENS AWAY FROM BAD STUFF AND DRUGS HOPE DAT HELPS ♥