Research real world examples of how kids around your age or grade level have helped to improve their community. You might choose to stick to local news stories, or expand your search to a national, or even global level! Share an article, program/organization website, or video that you found particularly inspiring or thought provoking. Summarize the content of the your web source briefly, highlight an excerpt or two that you found surprising or interesting and explain why.
In both your post and comments, share your reactions to the community improvement project and try to make connections to your own community and what might be done to improve it.
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Will Schmidt
11/28/2017 07:16:01 pm
So I heard about this topic and if you told others about this topic they'd probably be like,"Kids can't really make a difference, right?" Well these people are wrong. Kids our age and sometimes even younger make differences throughout their communities and the world every day. This could be from simply dedicating hours to a soup kitchen or participating in a marathon to spread awareness or help with a certain problem to saving a gorilla species. Kids are also one of the biggest factors into helping communities around them and in those communities they live in. So I went to the site http://www.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=504 and saw just how cool and extremely helpful it is to help out in your community. There are tons of articles on how kids contribute so much to their community to help out and how you could help too. Just the smallest contribution or donation could go a long way to our community for example. You could donate to kids who aren't as fortunate financially. Or something smaller just by getting service hours. So just doing these simple things can turn small things into great big things if we all work together and contribute our share.
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Fernando Lopez
11/28/2017 07:48:00 pm
I honestly don't help my community because I don't like it. But these kids are amazing on how they help their community because they both lose something important to them. Their are two kids who lose both parents in one week and basically lost two dad because he lost his biological dad a long time ago. They now help other grieving kids by donating gifts to them. I like this project because they too faced the same problem and can relate to them. If I lost both parents in one week I would be sad and wouldn't get over it very quickly. I wouldn't help others but wanted to be help but these kids are the opposite of me.
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Karon Teat
11/30/2017 08:14:18 pm
You did a great job of summarizing in your blog post. Unfortunately though, I didn’t know what you were summarizing. Also there were a lot of grammar mistakes. But, over all I did like it. It was straight to a point and that is good. Also you connected the example with your own life which can sometimes be a hard thing to do.
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Alexis Hambleton
11/28/2017 07:51:11 pm
The act I choose to write about is one I recently participated in. On Sunday from 9-12 a bunch of people got together to clean out and repair Ben’s Red Swings. I know the story of why the park is there and decided it would be fun to help. I was given the chance to do it by my soccer association SUSC( Salisbury Untied Soccer Club). A few people in the club and Boy Scouts went to the park and help rake, trim bushes and overgrown plants, put new sand and mulch down. It was very fun and looked really great in the end.... oh and there was coffee and snacks :)
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Karon Teat
11/30/2017 08:00:28 pm
I really enjoyed your blog post. It was straight to the point and didn’t contain any “fluff”. Sometimes it’s hard to not to have any of this especially when you have certain guidlines. I also like how you actually chose to clean up the park instead of doing so off of coercion. There are stereotypes about teens saying they’re lazy and selfish. Its amazing how you are breaking those stereotypes here in salisbury.
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Jadyn Carroll
12/1/2017 11:53:02 am
I think it's really cool how you chose something you did. I like how you knew the story behind the park, and how that made it important to you that you should help. I think it was important that you chose something that you did to show that we know people who are helping make Salisbury a better place. You're showing that people do care about where we live and that people are willing to help clean it and keep it usable.
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Brayden luers
12/2/2017 07:07:32 pm
This is really cool that you participated in an act like this in our own community. It is cool how you made a personal connection too. I really enjoyed reading about this. I am still shocked that this took place in my community. I will look out for something like this in the future.
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Carli Jett
12/2/2017 08:00:22 pm
Your experience in helping the community is great. I like how you went and helped for the community and not for something else. I actually did something similar to this in Colorado. I helped with putting new mulch down also at a park. I thought it was fun. I really don't think there is any way to improve this type of helpful community act because you helped improve a local park that many small children go to.
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Breanna Moir
11/28/2017 08:39:37 pm
I decided to do this blog post on Finn Wolfhard because I knew other people probably wouldn't pick him. Finn Wolfhard is an American actor that made his first debut as Zoran on the hit tv show "The 100". Since then he has been cast in many famous roles such as Mike Wheeler in "Stranger things" and Richie Tozier in 2017's remake of Stephen Kings "IT". I have seen him in all of the roles and didn't even recognize him in "The 100" because of the makeup he had that made it appear he had been effected by radiation. Finn is active in supporting the LGBQ community, and once wore a & symbol to represent it. Finn also had been sexually assaulted by his agent Tyler Grasham, but he has also done it to many other young male actors. For example Godbe Lipman had reached out about what he encountered, and how Tyler gave him alcohol at what was suppose to be a "meeting." Finn is becoming a rising star after his performances in some of the biggest deals of 2017 such as "IT" & "Stranger Things." The fact that these type of things can happen is sickening and most of them assaulted are young. Most of the time actors/actresses won't speak on the situation because their agents could end their careers. The last place you would think sexual assault could happen would be the acting industry, but it happens all the time. I feel that most rape or sexual assault victims never speak out on the situation because they're scared people will think "They were asking for it" which is sickening because who would ever ask for that. Rape is a crime that happens a lot and half the time the person who did it gets away with it because no one actually believes the victim. This leaves the victim feeling hopeless and alone in this world. Finn also deals with a lot of 18 year old fans sexualising him and he is only 14. Recently he had a 27 year old actress said on twitter to call her in 4 years. Which is a gross remark coming from a 27 year old woman. I just think it's insane that all of the cast of "Stranger things" is being sexualized by all of these older fans.
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Jocelyn Miltz
12/2/2017 12:16:57 pm
It is truly crazy how people find this okay. Just because these kids are on such successful career paths doesn't give other people the right to be so fowl and disgusting. Sexual assault is a very serious matter that needs to be addressed. Whether we like it or not this world is full of not so nice people and we can't really do anything to change that, but the fact that such a well known person like Finn Wolfhard is striving to help the LGBQ community is rather interesting. Many people view teens as "lazy and immature", but in reality not every teen is like that. It's very reassuring to hear that someone part of our generation can lead us and be strong. Great job :)
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Mikayla somers
12/2/2017 07:37:40 pm
Me being someone that avidly supports equality I really enjoy his support of the Lqbtq community. The lgbtq community has been throw a lot in these past years and needs all the support it can get. Him showing an interest in the lgbtq community results in others taking an interest because. Its really great that hes doing something with his platform unlike others his age.Its really noble that hes doing something to help the community.
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Annie Elburn
12/2/2017 10:32:58 pm
OMG OMG OMG I LOVE FINN WOLFHARD SO MUCH!! Okay Annie, calm down-had another fan girl moment... Anyways, I didn’t know that Finn spoke out about this stuff. I saw on the news that he fired his agent but never knew the reason why. With this being a big issue, I find it interesting that even children are going through this. I’m glad Finn spoke up about what he thinks and that he has gotten positive responses.
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Gage Sabater
11/29/2017 04:35:50 pm
Helping the community is a very crucial component to creating a better living space for whoever it houses so that development of good and bad become evident to the children living there ( Though that's not the only reason for a community). An example of creating a better community is located here at, www.modbee.com/living/article3129105.html, describing how teenagers and some younger ones created houses for the less fortunate. "The work is very tiring, but you get to experience new things and it teaches you how to help others." This is a quote from one of the volunteers stating that devoting their time is worth helping other in need. Another example of young-adults helping the community is RaSia Khepra, a freshman in college. After losing his friend to a shooting incident, Khepra decided to step up and stop gun violence with project Orange Tree. "I don't think having somebody that close to you can ever leave your mind if they've been taken in such a way," as described on https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/18/teenagers-changing-world-malala-yousafzai. This explains one of his reasons for creating Project Orange, so that others don't have to follow through the same events as he has and experienced. Both of these organizations aim for a complete fix in the problem theyre helping, I mean why wouldn't they? Though both of these ways are national (kind of) it doesn't mean you can make a change in your community or something like that, I don't know. I want to delete that last sentence now cause it sounds weird but I need sentence length.
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Fernando Lopez
12/1/2017 05:45:38 pm
I liked how you went beyond expectations and listed two examples of teens/people helping their community. Each person helps other in their own way. But what I realized about your blog is that one of the person helps other because of an incident that occur to his friend. That change him and made him help others. As for the other teenager they help others as they make house for the homeless and even though it's tiring it's worth it.
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Paul Yang
12/2/2017 05:06:29 pm
Gun violence has been a major thing in today’s world because thousands of people are dying due to gun violence. Although in our community there’s really not much of gun violences, but we still have them in our community. I also believe that gun violence should be stopped or at least controlled to its lowest possibility because if not it could cause the deaths of many people. To stop gun violence in states the state or government must take action in making more laws or stricter laws in handling firearms for any use. Gun violences are seen everywhere in today’s world, there’s not one place where a gun violence has not occurred. To make a better community for everyone more laws for guns are going to be made and should be made to make the world of communities safer.
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Octavia
12/2/2017 10:53:32 pm
I think that getting people in the community to build houses for homeless is a great idea, better than just having a company build them instead, because it A. gives the people building the houses a sense of charity and general kindness, and probably means more to the people living in the houses because they came from their own community not just some government funding. I think Salisbury could benefit from this because we have a lot of unfortunate people who need housing, but can't get it because of certain qualifications and standards. Gun violence is also something pretty much every city has now, and starting a project like that is a great idea.
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Aniya Brinson
12/2/2017 10:57:23 pm
It's really good how a person is inspired by losing someone special or close to you instead of turning it into something that would weaken them. And they take their time out to build houses for the people who don't have a house. If there were more people like that in the world the world the world wouldn't be this evil place. To me it's like they took something that bothers them or make them feel some type of way and they turned it into something good. As the saying says "volunteering plants the seed of kindness." I feel touched by this because when I go to places like Baltimore I hear people telling me stories about the hell out how they lost friends to gun violence. And then I remember watching this video on CNN Student News where these people were going to different countries and building houses for people who don't have them. I really hope that this makes more people aware of what's Happening. It could be like a domino effect.
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Kilee Taylor
11/29/2017 05:25:22 pm
In the Spring of 2015, one of my really good friends was diagnosed with Leukemia, and he battles it until the end of January last year. He died on January 30, 2016, when he was only 13. One of my other really good friends was on a DI team, and they chose for their big challenge of the season, starting in about September 2016, to find ways to fund raise and make money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, since his family would not accept any money. Their biggest fund raiser was called Hoops for Hamza, since his last name was Hamza and he loved playing basketball. This was a big basketball tournament where the students would go against the teachers, and Sammy's brothers even participated. Unfortunately, he died less than a week before this event took place, but all the money raised went the the LLS. This really inspired me and a lot of my friends because I wanted to try to find ways to help other families and people not go through what I had seen Sammy and his family go through. "Normally Destination Imagination teams puts on plays said team member Alex West, but the students in his group decided instead to do something for their classmate Sammy." This really surprised me when I found out they were doing this because, being a member of DI, I know that things like this are pretty rare. This event brought awareness not just to those who knew Sammy, but also to those who didn't all around our community. People from all over Wicomico County attended, in honor of Sammy, which I was pleased to see, especially since he battled for so long.
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Will Schmidt
12/2/2017 11:27:06 am
I like your post very much! Were you in DI which made this story more important and personal? This was a great idea to honor him by doing Hoops for Hamz. It connected his love of basketball and raised money for Leukemia research. So since his DI teammates did something for Sammy and donated the makings to Leukemia research the humbling it made him feel and encouraged him to fight harder.
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Jocelyn Miltz
12/2/2017 12:34:17 pm
I'm so sorry that you had to loose your friend at such a young age. Someone from my old school had died at the age of 12, and it was such an unexpected loss as well. It's very encouraging though to see how the students at your school tried to raise funds by doing something that Sammy enjoyed. I know for a fact that it is not easy to loose a loved one and I couldn't imagine losing any of my friends at that young of an age to such a terrible disease. With trying to cope it is so amazing to see that those young teens were able to put aside their differences to work towards honoring such a beautiful soul. Fly high Sammy :)
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Annie Elburn
12/2/2017 10:37:36 pm
I remember hearing about what happened to Sammy in seventh grade. Even though we went to a different school, people at Wi Middle were still affected by it and wore orange to school the next day. I am so sorry that your DI team had to go through losing a member like that. It’s good though that even though he was struggling, your team stuck together to try and help him.
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Aniya Brinson
12/2/2017 10:50:55 pm
Awww that's sad but joyful.It makes me sad to know that at any age you can be sick with something that is so aggressive as a child. But from what i read about you're friend he sounds very strong. I wish more people could do what youre friends did.I hope you continue to keep helping and supporting kids with leukemia.
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Mikyra Dale
11/29/2017 05:58:21 pm
Julia Bluhm, 15, from Waterville, Maine, is a blogger for the girl-fueled SPARK Movement, which fights against sexualized images of women and girls in the media. She got news outlets buzzing last summer for starting a petition on Change.org that asked Seventeen magazine's Editor-in-Chief Ann Shoket to publish one spread each month of unaltered pictures. In turn, Shoket had the entire staff of the magazine sign an eight-point pact, which includes a pledge to "never change girls' body or face shapes" and will only include images of "real girls and models who are healthy." Hurrah, Julia!
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Sephora Frejuste
11/29/2017 06:04:40 pm
As i was looking for a person who made a difference in their community,a little girl from Frankfort Illinois popped up and really intrigued me. Her grandfather was about to be admitted into a nursing home, and she wanted to give him a home-made present that would always remind him of home. Thinking of something really creative, she decided to make him a blanket. She had such a great time making it, she decided to make a blanket for one of her neighbors going into a home. Soon after that many request started to flood in, and that was the beginning of the "Warm Hearts Club." She asked her friends from school to help her with making the blankets, then came the idea of helping the poor, the sick and the homeless. In addition to every blanket, there is a note card and a ribbon that goes along with it. I feel as if Peyton is doing a good thing to improve her community and spread the warmth.
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Fernando Lopez
12/1/2017 05:16:26 pm
I think that you can learn from these girls as one little thing made a huge difference to someone life. If u have fun doing something that benefits ohters in a good way then you should make it a hobby. I could do this but I don't like sewing so even though this is helping the community I wouldn't do it for the fact that I will get bored easily and not do it at all. Those girls are really caring as they take time out of their busy day to help others and enjoy doing it.
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Carli Jett
12/2/2017 08:09:58 pm
I think this act is amazing. I would like to make blankets for people in need, but I can't sew. I also think that Peyton is doing a good thing in helping her community. I think that because she is helping people in need that can't afford the necessities to stay warm during the winter. The connection I make is that I once made a pillow thing with my mom for my grandma when we were moving away. A way that Peyton could improve this act could be by making a pillow that goes with the blanket because people may not have a pillow either.
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Sephora Frejuste
12/12/2017 03:25:09 pm
sorry i forgot to put the website:
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Paul Yang
11/29/2017 06:14:14 pm
The person that I found that had improved the world or community is Jack Andraka who is from Crownsville, Maryland. Jack Andraka had invented a new method to detect lethal cancer in his sophomore years in which he won the youth achievement Smithsonian American Ingenuity in. Jack Andraka had also won a grand prize of $75,000 at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in his freshman year. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/jack-andraka-the-teen-prodigy-of-pancreatic-cancer-135925809/ This article was an article that I had found interesting and provoking because it had shown his beliefs towards his discoveries while also explaining his discoveries. Jack had come up with this idea when one of his friend’s family member had died due to the pancreatic cancer and coincidentally Jack was reading about. Jack had also enjoyed using carbon nanotubes to screen compounds in water from the Chesapeake which he later used as a knowledge towards changing the medical world. Jack had discovered something that scientists haven’t yet developed to look for a red flag that issues an unmistakable distress signal due to an overabundance of a protein called mesothelin caused by the cancer. Jack had discovered that using a blood sample placed on a strip would cause the protein mesothelin to penetrates the nanotube network and would form an immune complex with an antibody. The excerpt that I had found interesting was where Jack explained his discoveries to the world and the scientists because it was a discovery that no one had discovered while the cancer was becoming deadlier at the same time making it such a coincidence.
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Dong Lee
12/2/2017 10:15:10 pm
The fact that Jack was a sophomore when he discovered a new way to detect lethal cancer is incredible! I think it would be incredibly difficult to do that at such a young age and the invention actually working impressed me! I couldn't dream of doing that at a young age or at al! John did something way different than what the person I researched! This person helped his community and the world a lot!
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Jocelyn Miltz
11/29/2017 06:19:27 pm
When searching for a person our age who helped to improve their community I came across one young lady whose name is Mary Katherine Douglas. She is 16 and helped her community improve by assisting children, less fortunate, and being a leader. Mary was constantly helping the children at First Methodist Church of Shreveport VBS (Vacation Bible School). One thing that came as a surprise to me was when the article stated that when she volunteered at the summer camp she didn’t view it as an non paying job. She said, “This is what I love to do. I look forward to working Vacation Bible School every summer and I love to work the different camps with children and get to know them and their stories and their life.” This came as a huge surprise to me because the majority of teens now a days do not find pleasure in helping children or other people in general and that makes me sad. It’s a shame how much we don’t try to assist others and Mary Douglas inspires me to work harder and volunteer more because just like her, I find it easier for me to work with younger children (mostly because my generation is so disrespectful) . Trying to improve my own community I would most likely volunteer my time at food banks, blood drives, homeless shelters, and maybe even humane societies. Everything that I want to positively change my community starts with me and I intend to make an impact to improve my community.
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Will Schmidt
12/2/2017 11:50:31 am
I like it how you found someone who fits this topic perfectly. She cares about volunteering for VBS and listening and getting to know the kids' stories and their life. Even if you don't volunteer as she probably does just volunteering and caring about it can make anyone feel humbled. So you should keep volunteering and you'll find it is one of the greatest things to do in your community ever.
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John Rodriguez
12/2/2017 10:43:53 pm
Jocelyn I can relate to you and Mary in one way. The way I'm talking about is by helping children. This year since the beginning of October I have been volunteering at my old middle school W.M.S. This is as I help children with there homework every day from Tuesday to Thursday. Its not as hard as you might think as I'm still 14 so they dint get mad at me, but they do at teachers. This is sad as its not good manners to scream at your teacher or call her things right. But kids still do as there kids that's why I'm there to help them do the right thing. Just like Mary does with the places she volunteers.
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Kailey Moyers
12/3/2017 12:14:25 pm
I wrote about her, too! It’s inspiring to see how passionate she is about helping out the kids in her community. She didn’t even think twice about helping, she just did. I want to help our community the way she did. I bet those kids were very greatful and happy for the work she did with them.
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Sephora Frejuste
12/12/2017 03:45:29 pm
I totally agree with you. If you want to make a change you have to start with you. I like how Mary doesn't care about what is happening around her, or what the people say, but still out of the kindness of her heart she wants to help. If many more people were like her, this community could be a good one. I believe most people are good, but just need that extra push to show that they aren't afraid to stand out
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Kayla Thornton
11/29/2017 07:21:57 pm
The person that I chose to write about does not share her name in the video. She helps her community in Belcourt, North Dakota by rescuing animals. She and her friend have been going around North Dakota in search of animals to help. Her story really interested me because I love animals. I really like how she is trying to make a difference in her community by helping any animal she sees. Even though she is helping the animals in the community, she is also helping the people. In the video, she said that there are not a lot of resources to help unwanted animals (and there are a lot), so by putting these animals in a good home it helps other people not have to waste their resources on unwanted animals. Over the past few years, her and her friend have rescued over 150 animals. They have managed to turn the lives around of a lot of animals, and I think that that is wonderful.
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ZJ Cutrara
12/2/2017 06:21:58 pm
I feel that there are many millennials that are scared to death of other living creatures. Now days there seem to be less and less people volunteering to help animals in need and even their own community. There needs to be more people willing to get out in the world and help animals, especially due to pollution and extortion. Our future of the planet rests in the hands of those who around us. Even just helping one animal at a time could make a difference. (sorry this sounded like one of those sad animal rescue commercials).
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Octavia
12/2/2017 10:42:23 pm
This is kind of similar to the article i read, which also is for helping animals, but i think this would be great for salisbury, because we too have a lot of animals that need help, and not that many willing to help. It takes a lot of patience to work with animals too, because they might try to attack you, and if they don't want to be helped at first you have to have enough patience to get them to feel comfortable around you.
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Kailey Moyers
12/3/2017 12:18:22 pm
I love animals too, and I hate seeing them in pain or alone. A lot of people just don’t care and it sucks. They have feelings too, people can’t just shut them out. When people like her go out and help them it really makes a difference in their lives. I also want to help out animals that are in need.
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Dong Lee
11/29/2017 07:26:56 pm
After doing some research on kids who have made a difference in a community, I stumbled upon this article. This article was about a boy named Blaze helping other children after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. After he saw another boy crying in a newscast he felt sadness toward the condition the boy was living in. He suggested to create a drive for the children in Haiti. His teacher announced his drive idea and other schools started to help the cause. He rasied about 25,000 teddy bears and sent them to Haiti. He has began to start collecting school materials and toys. The sentence that I found that was amazing was, "...gave 25,000 teddy bears to the island nation...". This is an incredible amount of bears he collected to help other people in an another place. It is incredible how one idea of helping others became a reality and raised about 25,000 bears and 22,000 more
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Paul Yang
12/2/2017 05:43:15 pm
Helping the needy is very important to today’s world because many people are in poverty with different causes and natural causes that are the most severe. Although we don’t have as much people who are needy in our community when compared to other communities, but we still have a lot. We need more people like Blaze who are willing to give back to the community economically and socially to help those who need it. I think that if more people participated in helping and donating money to the needy our community would become a healthier community. I like how Blaze, an ordinary boy, is capable of using his time to raise money to help the people in Haiti who were going through a hard time after a disaster.
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Breanna Moir
12/2/2017 09:16:40 pm
I think it is very important people help with natural disasters. This is very important because disasters happen out of nowhere and are unexpected. Therefore no one was ready for it and the people need all the help they can get. Some places still don't have electricity from when the last hurricane Irma hit. You can help out in many ways either by cleaning up, feeding, or donating if you can't travel there.
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Sephora Frejuste
12/12/2017 04:16:45 pm
As i was looking for a person to do mines on, and i saw the person that you did yours on, and thought of doing it since it was my parents home country, but then decided against it. Anyway i like that he took into one persons consideration to make a change for a whole country. There are many things that people aren't willing to do anything, but there is that one person that is. I want to one day be able to make a difference in someone elses country. I really enjoyed your post.
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Octavia
11/29/2017 07:33:45 pm
So for this i found this thing and it's during the summer (this summer, all the spaces are filled.), and it lets kids get 20 service learning hours, and a chance to play with dogs! (Okay so it's not just about alot of hours for playing with puppies, but thats a plus.) It's called kids for K9's, and it's run by the Maryland SPCA. It's a program that has three individual week long sessions. The program helps get shelter dogs more friendly and used to people, while educating the kids about animal cruelty, and how to help prevent it. One thing i found perticularly intresting was that not only did the kids get to work face to face with the dogs, but most of their time also has a briefing on animal cruelty. This stood out to me because I know in salisbury, alot of animal abuse/cruelty takes place around here, and not many people know that or acknowledge it. I feel like this program is a pretty good idea, because the youth now is going to eventually be in charge one day, and if we teach everyone about the awful act of animal cruelty now, we can stop it later. This gets kids involved and active in stopping animal abuse, which is a great way to improve a communtiy.
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Breanna Moir
12/2/2017 09:20:16 pm
This is a great way to get service hours and it's simple! I absolutely love dogs and wouldn't mind doing this at all. It's a great program because you give these animals joy, but you're also taught how to treat them. Animal cruelty is common and I don't know how anyone could do that, but it happens. This is a great way to get dogs trained before being sent off to a home without any training.
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Alexis hambleton
12/2/2017 09:57:19 pm
This reminded me of a activity I did in elementary school. Dogs would come in our classes and we would read to them and stuff. I had a dark haired lab. I don’t remember the name but it was my favorite thing in school. It was a community thing done weekly. I find it cool that people use dogs to better the community there adorable
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John Rodriguez
11/29/2017 07:37:54 pm
The article I read about was about a kid that found a way to find out if you had cancer cheaper. This boy is from Maryland so some of you might know what I'm talking about so pleas stay and read. This 16 year old boys named Jack Andraka's that lives in Crownsville, Maryland made a great discovery last year. Last year after losing a close friend to pancreas cancer which is horrible to hear but great for the science. This is as when he lost him he decided to look up ways to detected as in most cases when caser is detected is a little to late to stop it. In his impressive research he figure out a way to detected multiple times of cancer. This meted is 168 times faster and 26,000 times cheaper and can detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer. This meted actually cost 3 pennies and takes five minutes to run. This year after winning the International science and engineering fair his going to the big leagues at the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition. In this completion he will show his new idea a device the size of a smartphone that can show any disease.
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Aniya Brinson
11/29/2017 07:47:59 pm
Okay so as I'm doing this assignment I wanted to find a person that could relate to me. At first this was hard but eventually i found what i was looking for. At 15 years old Nadya Okamota became homeless with her family. Being homeless she struggled with keeping up with her hygiene. On her way to school she interacted with kids and people who is in the same situation as her mainly women or girls. She realized that they had the same issues as her mainly dealing with their personal hygiene. But the main thing was that they all felt uncomfortable asking for help because of their situation. This is what led her to start her organization PERIOD. At she only did this in Portland but then she began to Branch out more in became a worldwide thing. In the article that I read the thing that stands out to me is "My passion for menstrual hygiene formed during my family’s experience with not living in a home of our own home during my freshman to sophomore year of high school, and through conversations with homeless women I met." This stands out the most to me because her calls connects to her it's like it's related to her she knows what it's like. And I feel like when you're helping someone it could help more if you know what they're going through. As she's going through her situation being homeless she realizes that there are others who experienced the same thing as her mainly women though. This inspires her to do something about it period while doing all this now she is attending college at Harvard. I like the most is that it's not just a cause to her it's something that's important to her. I feel like she really cares about this because even while she's at this top ivy league college she still she still doing this organization and that's a lot to balance. She is like another inspirational person to me because one she's a female on her grind and not letting anyone stopping her she's really determined and that's one of my go to go codes. She took something that was really painful and personal and turned it into something big and awesome and I love that. I really recommend reading the article before you respond to my comment because when she talks some may feel empowered or inspired by her so please check out the article for more information.
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Dane Stone
11/29/2017 08:22:21 pm
I thought that I should look for one kid instead of a whole group of kids making a difference. The kids name is Landon Castro and he has done a lot of community service hours for his neighborhood. he has met the requirements for graduation 100 times and continues to do more things. currently he is working to make all the 700 kids in an under-privileged elementary school have a good Christmas. hearing about that kid made me think that even some people that have done a lot of community service that next to him everything they did all seem small. i wish that there was a kid like that in every community/neighborhood because then the world would be a much better place. it says " Most of these kids won't receive anything for Christmas and he wanted to make sure that they knew Santa cared about them too." when it said that it really reinforced what i said about if there was more people like him in the world it would be a much better place.
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Kayla Thornton
12/2/2017 08:10:24 pm
When I read what you wrote, I immediately thought about Santa's Angels. Santa's Angels is an organization where a bunch of people (myself included) get together on Christmas Eve and give food and presents to over hundred families each year. The church that helps out with getting the presents and food saves up money every year to make this possible. I like being a part of Santa's Angels because it makes me feel nice to be able to give toys and presents to little kids and to see the looks on their faces when they see Santa and his elves coming to visit them.
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Dane Stone
11/29/2017 08:24:20 pm
oops the link to my website is"http://www.kidsareheroes.org/heroes.htm?SD=216"
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Carli Jett
11/29/2017 08:30:25 pm
There is a 13 year-old girl named Cheyenne LeBrocq who has changed her community in Shreveport, Louisiana. She helped her community by helping others. She started helping others when she was ten years-old. She helps others by volunteering with Meals on Wheels helping deliver food. She also volunteers with the North Highlands Food Pantry assembling meal boxes and with the Salvation Army, assembling gift boxes for children. She helps others because she wants to give to the world. It also makes her happy to give things to people that need them. I think it is surprising that she started volunteering when she was 10. I think it's surprising because there is barely any younger children helping out nowadays. This girl is an inspiration by showing the world that helping people out has no starting age. It also shows that people can volunteer to help and not just to get service hours to graduate. Volunteering does mean you have to have time, but taking time out of your day to help someone else is a great way to spend your time.
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mikayla somers
11/29/2017 08:46:17 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/world/cnnheroes-young-wonders/index.html
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Kayla Thornton
12/2/2017 08:20:04 pm
I think that what he did was really wonderful. I have contacts now, but before I had glasses, I was constantly having trouble with seeing clearly. I remember when I first got my glasses over 7 years ago, and I was really excited because I had always thought that everyone saw like I had. Because of what I experienced, seeing this makes me feel really happy because he helped a lot of children get glasses to be able to see clearly and probably be amazed when they could finally see everything clearly.
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Sanai Brown
11/29/2017 08:50:12 pm
At the ripe age of 9, Dylan Mahalingam co-founded Lil' MDGs, a nonprofit international development and youth empowerment organization and an initiative of Jayme's Fund. Lil' MDGs mission is to leverage the power of the digital media to engage children in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). His organization has mobilized more than 3 million children around the globe to work on a variety of issues, with more than 24,000 regular volunteers hailing from 41 countries. Dylan is a youth speaker for the United Nations as well as a chief strategist and project ambassador for Under the Acacia. The recipient of numerous international and national honors, Dylan is now 15 years old and a sophomore at Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire. Based on his journey to helping the community I can't really relate because I consider my community to just be the neighborhood and I know everybody in my neighborhood so going based off that it's really calm and chill so there's nothing I can really do to improve it.
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Brayden Luers
11/29/2017 08:59:28 pm
I thought this weeks blog post was going to be difficult for me to find one teen that made a difference. I did some research and what I found was incredible! Groveton High School in Texas goes out and makes paper shoes and sells them for 1$ to raise money. They then take needy kids and but them shoes. They have done this for the past 3 years and I find this amazing. It really shocks me how much effort the high schoolers put into it. It’s also very cool that they have this much passion for their community! The kids that started the fundraiser used their childhood as motivation. They remembered when they were young not having the best shoes so they wanted to provide their community with them. I find this whole thing just amazing. I also find it astonishing that’s its kids my age making this difference to the community!
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Sanai Brown
12/1/2017 06:36:48 pm
I like how you wrote just about a paragraph but you were able to provide all the details need to inform us as the reader. When I read your first sentence I also thought that this week's blog post would be difficult because I knew there were people that did things to improve the community but I didn't think there would be much on people our age. People usually describe teenagers as lazy, moody, selfish, and etc. but when I found the information on my article and read everyone else's it shocked me but I really liked your post so good job.
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Brendan Wilson
12/2/2017 07:13:27 pm
When you buy new tennis shoes you don’t think about kids that don’t have shoes. You take it for granted a lot of times. Personally i think shoes are very important and that’s one of the first things i look at. To see this school help kids that can’t afford it is really cool to see. They could possibly change that kids life
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ZJ Cutrara
11/29/2017 09:11:07 pm
Remember the Flint Michigan water crisis? It's not over, and it's still very much a problem in not only flint Michigan but all throughout the word. Gitanjali Rao, a 11 year old girl had decided to do something about preventing possible lead poisoning. Finally someone really going out of their way to solve a ongoing issue. Despite the media no longer discussing Flint Michigan's water crisis, undrinkable water is still persists . She explains that there are over 5,000 American waters systems containing luge possible contamination of lead. Gitanjali had decided that it's unfair for families to have to deal with possible contamination in water, so she had created a device that was to detect if water is safe to drink. For only being 11 years old and solving one off largest issues bombarding the citizens of flint Michigan this century, she is majorly contributing to not only Flints community but to the whole world. By creating a device that will save millions of lives and by finding a solution to a crisis she's setting herself up for success. This just goes to show that no matter the age you still can make a difference, either through sharing your idea, starting a campaign, or just simply spreading the word. Other kids and teens should be inspired by those like Gitanjali and realize just a little can go a long way.
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Brendan Wilson
11/29/2017 09:15:11 pm
On a cold wintry night, Caleb White for the first time had seen a homeless person. He asked his mom why he was there and she had responded and said that they didn’t have a home. Caleb burst into tears. From this day he wanted to help people like the man he saw. He created the Caleb White Project. His nonprofit organization helped provide things for the homeless. He also built 10 small libraries in 10 different homeless shelters so they had a place to escape to. I really think this was a generous thing Caleb did. He continues to help support his community.
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Brayden luers
12/2/2017 07:14:04 pm
Wow this is an amazing story. This makes my heart melt. It’s cool that the youth still has the heart to do this kind of stuff. I hope that his projec works. I’m very glad that I got to hear this story.
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Gavin Wawrzeniak
12/2/2017 10:18:17 pm
Helping the homeless is a great idea. Building libraries for homeless shelters can be extremely helpful to educate the people who need help getting jobs. He isn't just helping the community. He's helping create better lives for people.
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Gavin Wawrzeniak
11/29/2017 09:32:50 pm
I found an article about a homeless boy in Puerto Rico spent his birthday preparing care packages for the victims of Hurricane Maria. The article talks about how he has been homeless since he was 16 and is currently 19. For his entire life, he was liked helping others, and doesn't like seeing other people struggling in their life and wants to make a difference for them. A few of the other volunteers that he had been working with later took him to a birthday dinner. He explained that he felt like he was spending the time with family, which he was grateful. What interested me the most was his reason for giving back to his community. He didn't think about what he didn't have, he thought about what he could give. That made me realize that I shouldn't focus on what I don't have, but what I can give back to the people of our community.
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Brendan Wilson
12/2/2017 07:07:52 pm
I heard about this boy too. It’s a real amazing thing that someone would spend their birthday helping others. This is really inspiring especially since Puerto Rico was recently destroyed by a hurricane. Hopefully more people can help damaged places like Puerto Rico and become a better human being.
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Annie Elburn
11/29/2017 09:53:09 pm
A lot of people have probably heard of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, but I never knew the full story. So, I decided to dig deeper into research. Alexandra Scott was diagnosed with neuroblastoma before she even turned one. She told her mother when she was four years old that she wanted to start a lemonade stand to raise money for kids who were just like her- who has/had cancer as a child. Her first lemonade stand was a success with raising almost two-thousand dollars. Since it was so successful, she had the lemonade stand again the next year, and the next, and as many as she could- even raising one-million dollars to childhood cancer research. Sadly, Alex lost her battle when she was eight and passed. But, her legacy was continued and has had around two thousand stations every year to continue her work. Now I have seen these stands at Rita’s and have always wondered what the true story was, so I’m glad I found it in my research.
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Mikayla Somers
12/2/2017 07:44:56 pm
I really like this blog post! People these days Care way to much about themselves and not so much about others. This girl has shown great character skills by actually putting her problems aside and trying to help others like her. It’s really noble of her! Hope she’s better now, is she?
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Karon Teat
11/29/2017 09:55:52 pm
https://youtu.be/ukFrcEWfRKY
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Carmen Broadwater
11/29/2017 09:59:06 pm
Caleb White is a 14 year old boy who lives in Detroit with his single mother and his eight year old brother. He started the Caleb White Project, which donates backpacks full of school supplies to children in need, holds Christmas parties for homeless veterans, donates hundreds of boxes of warm clothing in winter months, and opened about 10 small libraries in homeless shelters. Caleb first realized the harsh truth of the less fortunate when he saw a homeless person sleeping on the streets at the age of seven. Ever since then he has been doing so much to help and encouraging others to as well. Last April, the Library Project brought over 3,000 of Detroit's youth together to transform a room in 10 shelters to a beautiful library. It is so heart-warming to see that the community helped to accomplish the dreams of a little boy. Caleb explained "They're just like us- they like to hang out and have fun and laugh." He sees people as who they are and not what their situation is , and that's truly beautiful. Salisbury doesn't have a reputation to help others out, and there are also homeless people here too, but they aren't noticed. We can also make a difference like this, we just need to work together and see things a different way.
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Matthew Waggoner
12/3/2017 10:19:09 pm
The more of these posts I read, the most amazed I become. We could definitely use something like this in Salisbury and the surrounding areas. Salisbury has a pretty big population of homeless people have little to no access to food, shelter, and other basic necessities like clothing. The HALO foundation does a good job of helping these people out, but it would be much better if their were other people and organizations to do what Caleb did here in our own community.
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Madison Palmer
11/29/2017 10:12:40 pm
William Winslow, an 8 year old in North Carolina, took a step to better his community. He wanted to take a step to feed hungry children in his local area. He raised enough food to feed 16 children for a whole year. I think that it’s amazing for children to be raised to want to better the community. It is good to raise the future to care about the world and problems going on. In our local area, we could do something similar with a good outcome. A good drive would be very successful in our community.
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Gavin Wawrzeniak
12/2/2017 10:11:38 pm
I totally agree with you. Raising the new generation to want to help the world instead of just being another silent voice is great. The fact that an eight year old wanted to help other people amazes me. I know that I wouldn't have thought like that at that age. I think that if we held some sort of drive, we could help the people in need to spend or save their money on something that could help them.
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Rebecca Dartilus :/
11/29/2017 10:21:04 pm
When I read about the story I thought it was going to be about some reckless teen. As I kept reading on I realized that this was an innocent teen who was forced to do something she did not do. The last sentence of the article was "Black lives matter". To be honest I am not on if those people that are like "girl power" or "'Black' power", but when I see something wrong I would want to speak my mind about it. I found it surprising that the police officer sprayed her with pepper spray, because I don't think it is necessary to spray someone with pepper spray just to get them to take a seat in the car. People always tell me how much they hate the police. Personally I have a high respect for the police. It is things like this that make people no longer respect the police the people who are supposed to bring us safety so the exact opposite.
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ZJ Cutrara
12/2/2017 06:17:07 pm
I personally feel like there is a double standard for police. What I mean is that a lot of people fear police believing that they are racist and would shoot anyone if they feel threatened well others have never met a police that seemed hostile. I believe that many others feel unsafe around police for the media blasting about the few shootings. Although everyone has their own experiences with polices, I feel that many police are only trying to help and protect our community. I understand how people can feel unsafe and especially if they see/ here others around them getting hurt or even killed by police. This teen whom speaks about her experience has all the right to be upset and share her horrific story with others. I just hope that one day we can look past racisms and help unsafe communities.
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Bryanna DeRosa
12/30/2017 01:10:28 pm
I know of the cte program at parkside. I took a preview of the horticultural class and I learned about some cool things those students have done. They help the community with planting trees, flowers and they even make their own honey. They just started a vegetable garden. I think its good what they do.
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