Community Service

I am very excited to "have" to do community service. Since I was so into sports I had little time to do community service and it's been really frustrating. I love community service because while some less fortunate people are crabby a lot of the people I have met have amazing outlooks on life. For example, many impoverished people I have met are so greatful for what they do have and they focus on the importance of family. I just joined a club called Teen-Aiders which focuses on helping homeless children. I can't wait to play with the kids and let them escape from there tough life style. Another thing I want to do for community service is be company for some people at an elderly care center. However, I don't just want to play bingo once with them, I hope to for relationships with some elders and give them someone to talk to. Recently my great uncle died and my great aunt is blind, so she had to move into an elderly care facility, since she lives to far away I am unable to visit her. She had a bad breakdown because of her loneliness. While I may not be able to help her frequently, I want to help others the way I wish I could be there for her. So I've set myself a goal for this semester I want to do at least 20 hours of community service. :)

Response: The Outlier -excerpt

I have always thought that stress is a major factor in peoples' lifespans and reading the excerpt from Outliers reinforced this idea. By surrounding yourself with positive people who make you happy and ignoring those who don't greatly reduce stress levels. Not only that but it also helps lead a more upbeat and longer life. There has been experiments showing people with less stress have fewer or later in life heart attacks. I also believe it is important to do what you enjoy because it makes life a whole lot more fun...ya it seems like a basic comment everyone knows. However, it seems the more industrialized the world is becoming the more miserable people are. This is because people are more focused on material goods rather than personal relationships. While material goods may bring joy for a little, it doesn't last forever. It is important to focus on the simple things, not working 15 hours a day to buy new things.

Sociologists do base their findings off data because with out scientific proof theories are unreliable. By studying all possible causes to a finding, makes it valid. For example in the excerpt, the sociologist, John Bruhn, researched the genetics, the affect of location of living, diet and exercise of civilians in Roseto and near by places to see why people in Roseto were suffering from so many fewer heart attacks. Having researched all these possibilities and finding none were causing the fewer heart attacked he came up with the theory that it had to do with the life style in Roseto. Having done so much research and collecting data, when questioned on his theory he was able to back it up with scientific evidence.

Understanding sociology is helpful in teaching us how to live our best life possible. As in this article we can learn to live less stressful lives. However, it also can help us understand why people do the things they do and insted of judging we can be accepting. By accepting others we can learn and experience many things we may not have with a closed mind. Sociology is important to teach us how to have better relationships with ourselves and with others.

About Me

Hey I'm Megan. I'm going to University of Iowa next year! I'm going in undecided, but maybe will major in statistics. I played field hockey all four years and was captain and all-state which is probably my biggest accomplishment. I love hanging with my friends. My favorite season is the beginning of fall before school starts because it is perfect weather and the trees look pretty. I love going to the beach so I'm hoping to live in the south when I grow up. While I hate the cold I love skiing, which I started when i was 2 years old. I'm Italian and i absolutely love Italian food. I can't wait for this school year to end so I can go to college. :)