...The Salvation Army is the largest non-governmental direct provider of social services in the country. The Salvation Army Thrift Stores are dedicated to raise money for its rehabilitation programs by selling donated used items such as clothing, housewares, and toys at a cheaper price for those in need (“History,” 2016). Like many other thrift stores, The Salvation Army thrift stores suffer from the increasing problem of waste disposal due to unwanted donations. While most people drop off easily sellable items, some donors are treating the thrift stores like garbage dumps, which forces the Salvation Army to pay huge amounts of money to dump its garbage. This has become a frustrating issue for the company as it decreases the support for the mission directed activities. To determine the best possible...
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...The Salvation Army Week4TeamC Ethics and Social Responsibilities 17 June 2013 Professor Ward Scheitrum The Salvation Army The Salvation Army’s duty to the community stems back in history. In, 1852, William Booth started his ministerial profession, desiring to win over the hearts and minds of England and bring them to Christ. He would walk the streets of London as an advocate for the gospel of Jesus Christ and would primarily focus his messages to the needy. He disagreed with the ideas of the stance that the churches of London took. He decided to take his idea to the people, instead of fighting the church. His commitment led to the disagreement with the religious leaders, who believed in the teachings of the churches beliefs. He decided to leave the church because of that reason and toured across England, to establish meetings in order to gain substantial like minded believers. This essay keys in on a few important points, such as; influences of the organization’s social commitment, social responsibility, and their potential moral and ethical effects on the world today. What many people do not know is that the Salvation Army is motivated by the Christian church. The Salvation Army improves the quality of life and to meet the needs of those less fortunate regardless of religious preference or any other bias. They are here to help but their main focus and social initiative is to spread the word of God and to help others in his name. This is their...
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...The Salvation Army Long Point Camp 2012 Summer Staff Application The questions asked in this application are within the limits established by The Salvation Army’s Equal Employment Opportunity Guidelines. All information requested is considered valid for job performance or living conditions. The demands of camping require vitality, physical fitness, and age difference appropriate for supervision responsibility. Living units for families are limited and other units restricted according to gender, requiring supervision by a person of the same gender. All Salvation Army service is based upon prescribed doctrinal beliefs, a copy of which accompanies this application. Also enclosed is a copy of the goals of this camp that includes a statement of purpose. Except for specified positions an applicant need not subscribe explicitly to Salvation Army doctrine, but all staff must be able to support and interpret the camp goals and accept intellectually the stated purpose of Salvation Army camping. Complete the application in its entirety. Use additional pages when necessary. Personal Information Last Name: First Name: Date of Birth: Home Address: Phone: Current Address: Phone: E-Mail: Gender: o Male o Female Marital Status: Dependents’ Names and Ages: Church Name: Denomination: Pastor’s Name: Have you been convicted of a felony in the past seven years? o No o Yes If yes, please explain on separate page. Staff shirt- Please select...
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...Improved writing skills My written communication skills have improved greatly since I started college four years ago, as a freshman. I have gain more confidence in writing essay and other assignments. I no longer have a since of complete dread when it comes to essay. Example #2 Example #3 Competency 2. Engage in Diversity and Differences My Sophomore Field Period at the Olean BOCES as a summer school teacher aid taught me a great about working with individuals who are diverse and have differences. I engaged with students who had different abilities. My main responsibility was working one on one with an individual who had Down Syndrome. This experience was the first time I worked with individuals with different ability, I went in as a learner and engaged with students and teachers to better understand how having an ability impacted their life experiences. I learned to communicate differently for I was understand by the individual who I was working one on one with understand me....
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...in the world being women while the remaining 15% being men. The ad derives from The Salvation Army, an international charitable organisation that focuses on “doing the most good.” The ad was released in early march by the South African branch of The Salvation Army, when the viral sensation, #thedress, sparked a massive online debate. The viral phenomenon is a picture of a dress that caused some people to perceive the dress as black and blue or white and gold. The Salvation Army took the opportunity of the hype of the trivial conversation to promote awareness on...
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...MAJOR BARBARA by George Bernard Shaw THE AUTHOR George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born into a lower-middle class Protestant family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was an alcoholic failed merchant, while his mother was a professional singer. When Shaw was sixteen, his mother ran off with her voice teacher, leaving him at home to complete school, which he despised. In 1876, he joined his mother in London and took up a career in journalism and writing, beginning with a string of five unsuccessful novels. Meanwhile, he became interested in political causes, especially socialism. This led him to become one of the founders of the Fabian Society, which had as its stated goal to transform Britain into a socialist society by means of education and legislation, while scorning the revolutionary violence of some of the Continental socialists. His first success as a writer came through his works of art, music, and dramatic criticism. It was not until 1891 that he wrote his first play, but once he started, he rarely stopped until his death at the age of 94, eventually producing a total of sixty plays. During his first twelve years as a playwright, he wrote a number of plays that are now highly esteemed (Arms and the Man, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida), but found that London theaters were unwilling to stage them. But in 1904, the Court Theater in Chelsea came under new management, and Shaw’s plays found a home among people interested in experimental drama. Here, he was able to direct his...
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...Our planet is in great danger. For the last one hundred or so years, the people of earth have wasted and misused the natural recourses of earth. Several plans have been developed to stop the abuse of earth. Some of these plans I will discuss in this essay, many of which can be executed by any one. Environmental problems have become so complex that many individuals feel they can have no effect on them. Problems like oil spills, hazardous waste, loss of rain forests, endangered species, acid rain, the ozone layer, the municipal waste crisis can feel out of our control. At the very least, these problems require group and corporate action or government intervention. However, there are some things the individual can control. Our waste reduction and recycling activities can make a difference. That's why so many communities began voluntary recycling programs. There are some household items that are dangerous if they are just thrown away with the regular garbage these items can damage the environment and injure plant and animal life some of these may include moth balls, spot removers, aerosol cans, fluorescent light tubes and shoe polish. Your local waste management agency has information on how to properly dispose of these items. A compost bin may be set up in your yard. Compost bins return plant and some food materials to the soil through decomposition so it can be used as a natural soil additive, called compost. Compost improves soil texture, increases the ability of soil to...
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...The development of neuroeconomics has provided a new a fascinating ways of engaging conventional economic theories. This essay seeks to outline what neuroeconomics is and how it has been received by its critics and proponents. It will provide examples that neuroeconomics can shed light on that conventional economics has struggled to explain. This essay will also outline key assumptions in neuroeconomics and how they vary from standard economics. It will address the global financial crisis from a neuroeconomic point of view and finally it will offer real world applications for the insights neuroeconomics offers. Neuroeconomics is the name that has been given to the latest generation of study in the field of economics. The field of economics has seen a number of developments in recent times as scholars have sought to use other disciplines to further illuminate economic theories. Psychology has been tried but over the last decade the focus has shifted to the more scientifically measurable field of neuroscience. The result is a new area of study that seeks to clarify and correct many of the previously unmeasurable assumptions about the way humans make economic decisions. While this new field of neuroeconomics has seen many papers on the topic published, not all scholars agree. Ariel Rubinstein makes an interesting observation. "The rise of neuroeconomics is coming at a point in time when economic theory is not producing any exciting insights." (2008, p.485) Rubinstein critiques...
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...SOR ASSESSMENT II: RESEARCH ESSAY SOR ASSESSMENT II: RESEARCH ESSAY “Rites of passage in Christianity allow adherents to obtain deeper knowledge and beliefs about their religion” How does this statement explain the significance of baptism for the Christian community and the individual? Baptism allows adherents of Christianity to acquire a deeper understanding and resonate with the beliefs of their religion. Baptism refers to the religious rite of passage involving the application of water in association with an individual’s admission to the Christian Church. It is a significant rite practiced by a majority of Christian adherents with the exception of Quakers and followers of The Salvation Army. In many denominations, baptism is performed on young children and is accompanied by name-giving, referred to as ‘Infant Baptism’. These denominational families include Catholics, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, Presbyterians and other Reformed denominations, Methodists and some Nazarenes, as well as the Moravian Church. Another form of baptism involves the initiation of adults and is referred to as ‘Believers Baptism’ practised by a minority of Christians including Protestants and followers of the Pentecostal and Baptists sect. A key concept in believer's baptism is that a credible profession of faith must be given by the recipient before baptism. The American Baptist Church, for example, declares: "We insist that baptism be administered only to those who have...
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...in which the parents drive their children, the views of both the child and parent on success and failure, and the responsibilities the child will endure once they have grown up. Keep in mind that these are just two parenting styles out of the numerous other ways to parent a child. All styles should be considered when determining what is the best style for you and your child. Please remember that this essay will only discuss these two styles and the ways in which they are different. “Driving” our children is undoubtedly an important factor as parents that we must do to ensure that our children reach the success that they deserve. These styles of parenting reach this success level in a two very different ways. Amy Chua, in her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, discusses a story in which she pushes her child, Lulu, to complete a piano piece perfectly. She explains the difficulty behind the piece and how her daughter was unsure of herself and he abilities to do this piece perfectly. The story goes on to say that Chua resulted to threats of donating her toys to the Salvation Army if she does not perform the piece perfectly and even resulted to screaming. She screamed to the point where she lost her voice. The “war”, as she describes it, turned worse. “I rolled up my sleeves and went back to Lulu. I used every weapon and tactic I could think of. We worked right through dinner into the night, and I wouldn't let Lulu get up, not for water, not even to go to the bathroom. The house...
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...Around this time every year, you begin to see the “Help A Child In Need” commercials, The Salvation Army standing outside of every grocery store, and the canned food drives everywhere you go. But have you ever thought that when you handed the man wearing a Santa Clause hat a canned food item or your hand-me-down jeans that you could be damaging another countries economy? Although your donation was courteous, it was also a harmful action to a another country's economy. On the subject of donations and its effect on the economy, two supporting essays are, Charles Kenny “Haiti Doesn’t Need Your Old T-Shirt” and Tate Watkins “How Olibert(e), the Anti-TOMS, Make Shoes and Jobs in Africa”. In a likely manner, they both demonstrate the impacts that...
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...National feud: Should America keep the penny? Many people pick up pennies on the sidewalk, do you pick them up, or are they worthless? I argue that we should keep the penny! The cost of producing the penny, charities, and America’s history, for these reasons, we should keep the penny! If America gets rid of the penny, we would have to make more nickels. Although the penny is more expensive to make, than it is worth, the nickel is even more expensive. The penny costs 1.8 cents to make,while the nickel costs 9.4 cents to make. So, if we do get rid of the penny, stores would have to round to the nearest 5 cents. Most likely, stores would round up, which would create more nickels in circulation, and less money in your wallet! Secondly, the...
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...solution to a problem is to fight always ending in an ocean full of despair and corruption. Mark Twain compared us to animals and saying that they are the superior race. He compared the English Earl to an anaconda and found that the anaconda only kills what it can eat and doesn't waste anything. "The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn't." He watched the anaconda only kill one calf because that is all it could eat, compared to the earl who enjoyed watching all the buffalo die and he only ate one. This shows how inconsiderate and careless the human race really is, we enjoy to watch others suffer and to kill just for the pure satisfaction of it. Mark Twain’s essay “The Damned Human Race” also shows how he believed the human race is flawed and corrupt. Twain talked about how man is the only religious animal. This...
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...In Cold Blood Character Analysis Essay Perry Smith Is one born a murderer or does one become a murderer? That is the question that Truman Capote tackles in his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. In his 1966 novel Capote relates in detail the true and horrific murders of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 in the town of Holcomb, Kansas, but more specifically focuses on the murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, and their motivation to commit such a cold blooded crime. Out of the two, Perry Smith is the most complex character who displays a natural ability to kill, but who also has been shaped to become a murderer, making a more “likable” character than his co-murderer Dick Hickock. In the first part of his novel entitled The Last to See Them Alive, Capote gives the reader hints that Perry Smith is indeed born a natural killer. When he was jailed in the Kansas penitentiary “Perry described a murder, telling how simply for the hell of it," he had killed a colored man in Las Vegas - beaten him to death with a bicycle chain” (Capote 54). After hearing the story his future partner in crime Dick Hickock “became convinced that Perry was that rarity, "a natural killer" - absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows” (Capote 55). Perry Smith certainly proved to be “that rarity” when he cold bloodedly killed with a single shot in the head Nancy, Kenyon, Bonnie Clutter, and cut Herb Clutter’s throat...
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...prizes awarded for the best essays and such awards could help to support your University Application as evidence of outstanding academic work and independent effort. How long and of what nature should my essay be? Your essay should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words (excluding notes and bibliography) and represent original and independent work. There may be a case for writing a slightly shorter essay if one of your universities requires a shorter sample essay. Supplying an accurate word count is in any case crucial. Your essay should aim to be quite a focused piece and be a work of analysis and interpretation rather than just description. You may need to seek advice on the planning, structuring and the title of your essay. Some modifications may be necessary for scientific submissions. Where will inspiration for my essay come from? Your essay may, or may not be, a further development of normal subject work (e.g. Physics Research and Analysis, English Phillimore, History Gibbon Prize etc); it may be on subjects which have no existing prizes; it may be on a subject which is not on the curriculum (e.g. Anthropology) or which is cross-curricular (e.g. English and History of Art); or it may have emerged from Cultural perspectives lessons, the Cultural Perspectives timed essay which you take at the end of this term, be inspired by Critical Thinking work or be a ‘further developed’ praebendum essay. You should state in a covering note how and why the essay came about. Of course,...
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