Kadoka High School
Kadoka, South Dakota
Teacher: Teresa Shuck
You Should Help Clean Up
The Community
by Preston Patterson
Grade 10
There are many things we can do for Kadoka’s community to improve the quality of life. One thing is we could start by cleaning up the community. We could go to the park and pick up the trash, and also fix all the broken equipment. That way Kadoka would look a little nicer for all the other people to look at and say, "we sure have a clean community".
Another thing we should focus more on is helping the unfortunate. People should always pay more attention to this topic because there are many people that are ignored by their children as they begin to get older. There shouldn't be a person in this world who ignores their own mother or father. Especially, after they raised and supported them until they were old enough to be on their own. When they get old, people like you and I could go around mowing their lawns in the summer time, and scooping snow off their driveway in the winter. Another idea is to volunteer to drive them to appointments, especially if they are not able to drive. You could be on the volunteer list. There are many volunteer jobs a community could have and one of those would be working at the dump. Nobody wants to work at the dump, but somebody has to do it. We could volunteer to work there every once in a while to sort out the trash and tell people where their garbage goes.
Volunteer work for the fire department is another job in the Kadoka community. The city should not have to pay people to put out fires in your town because it is a service for us. The ambulance crew should be volunteer also; it is not that hard to take the EMT coarse. We should not get paid for this, our pay would be the thanks we’d get for saving someone's life. Everybody should be on the ambulance crew to help save people's lives,
There should be something in here for kids also. People in the community should get together and get a clubhouse organization going. If we had a place where there were games, pool tables, and other students to hang out with, it might cut down on the alcohol consumption and juvenile crime. It would keep younger kids out of trouble more also. If there wasn't anything to do you could go down to the clubhouse and keep yourself entertained.
People should always be involved in clubs, that way they don't commit any crimes or other things like school shootings. There are getting to be more and more of them. I think they are just doing it for attention because they don’t have any friends so they try to be cool and kill people. That is not the thing to do, go meet some friends at a new clubhouse and get attention there.
When a tragedy occurs in a small town, we need to pull together and help out the com-munity. For example, if somebody dies or their house gets burned down, the community should show some respect by helping out. If their house burned down, show some support to them by supplying them with clothes, food, and a place to stay until they get a new house. Trust me, it means a lot to other people by showing you care about them.
You could also get a real job at the Post Office for example. We could help the community by getting their mail into their box and helping the old people with big packages. There are many other jobs in the community we could choose from like, helping the old people find what they need in the grocery store and then load it up for them. We could load everybody's groceries though, not just old people.
A great deal of people in my community help out in the farming and ranching business. There are many kinds of food people eat with wheat and other kinds of plants
farmers and rancher raise. If we didn't have them, we wouldn’t be eating a lot of the foods we do.
These things that I have stated would make my community better. Like cleaning up the park and fixing the broken equipment if there is any, help the unfortunate people like the old people help them get their groceries and clean up there house for them. You could be a volunteer fire fighter along with an EMT on the ambulance crew and save peoples lives. Make some clubhouses for kids to hang around in so they stay out of trouble. Well, that's all I have to say.
Questions
Ql - How does society invest in marriage in the USA and in Manus?
Society invests in marriage. Experts say that in the United States, people get married so often, it should be once and a life time deal not two or three time.
Manus financiers invest in marriages, or better yet the economic exchanges which center around marriage.
Q2. - Interview 10 married
people (no names.) State the length and number each one's
marriages and a line or two of advice from each on how to maintain a long, happy
relationship.
1. She has been married for four years. Her comment to maintain a long happy relationship is to express your feelings to one another, express the truth. Only been married once.
2. She's been married for twenty years. Her comment is to be open and honest with each other and to have faith for each others needs. She only been married once.
3. He has been married for seventeen years. Ms comment is to communicate with each other. He has only been married once.
4. She has been married for twenty-one years. Her comment is to believe that nobody is perfect; has only been married once.
5. She has been married for twenty-three years. Her comment is to communicate with
each others problem. Only been married once.
6. She has been married for nineteen years. Her comment is to communicate with
each other and accept the way they are have commitment. She has only been married once.
7. He has been married for twenty-five years. His comment is to love each other and have respect for each other. He has only married once.
8. He has been married for ten years. Ms comment is to be honest with each
other. He has only been married once.
9. He has been married one year. His comment is to share love for each other and
communicate by telling the truth. He has only been married once.
10. He has been married for seven years. His comment is to communicate with each other and do not lie to them tell the truth. He has only been married one.
Q3. According to Richard Eckersley, what should our collective goal be?
Our collective goal should be, that if two people get married and have a child or two they should stay together through the thick and the thin. That way a child does not have to be in tears every time there mother or father saw them after a long period of time.
Q4. Write a worthy goal for your local community.
A worthy goal for our community is to see that married couples stay together for the rest of there lives. If you should happen to get married married it should be for the rest of your life, not for 18 months or less. Either that or you should get married. If a couple has been living together for a while and have kids they should get married not just live with each other.
Q5. Comment on the experts from "Tomorrow’s Child.
Some comments on the experts for "Tomorrow’s Child”: It is true that when parents split up the child can only go to one of the two parent's. If it goes to the mother the child will then miss his or her father because usually they won't get to see him for a long time.
Q6. - How does the fact the USA is a democracy make lawyers particularly help .helpful, according to Kathleen Sullivan? How does our diversity, wealthy and size make lawyers particularly helpful?
The US can make lawyers particularly helpful, according to Kathleen Sullivan. The US has been extraordinary by world standards not just respect to religion, but with respect to the race, national origin, and in the 20th century with respect to women. The United States is an extra ordinary wealthy society by world standards and by historical standards. The size we are not a village with a single custom.
Q7. - Ms. Sullivan claims bad practices are charged either by regulations or punitive damages. Which do you prefer and why? Can you think of an alternative?
Are they caused by regulations or punitive damages? I think they are caused by punitive damages because if you are talking about fairness nothing is fair any more in this world. If you are going to sue somebody for some dumb thing like the McDonald's ordeal that isn't fair for McDonald's. I can not think of any alternatives, except that if people was going to try to sue somebody make it worth while.
Q8. - Briefly describe three ways society would benefit from the coming retirement of baby boomers, according to the required reading.
Society would benefit by the retirement of baby boomers. Their would be more job openings. Our society would probably be more advanced, because back in the sixty's there were not even computers, there may have been computers but not in school or any other teaching.
Q9. - Evaluate the likelihood of President Clinton's anti-poverty program making a real impact. Give at least to back up your conclusions.
President Clinton's anti-poverty program. The poor countries probably can not generate 15 billion dollars they would probably have to get jobs and pay it back. We already have to give money to Native Americans.
Q10. - Name three things Truett Cathy and Tom Lewis have in common.
Three things Cathy and Lewis have in common are. They both talked about the school policy. Starting a new franchise, they talk about no matter what a kid wants it may come true if you believe in yourself.