Community Service

         Community service is donated service or activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions. Community service also reduces the chances of suicidal actions or questionable behavior in children,teens or young adults. Community service increases chances of getting into important colleges and jobs.
Volunteers may provide community service, however, not everyone who provides community service is seen as a volunteer, because some people who provide community service are not doing it of their own free will; they are compelled to do so by:

• their government as a part of citizenship requirements, in lieu of military service;
• the courts, in lieu of, or in addition to, other criminal justice sanctions;
• their school, to meet the requirements of a class, such as in the case of service learning or to meet the requirements of graduation, or, in the case of parents, required to provide engagement and community, and to help them achieve their educational, developmental and social goals.

Youth service hours and/or projects is often required for advancement, e.g. for a Scout to advance to the next rank or for a high school student to graduate.
Service learning is the deliberate connection of community service to stated learning goals. A common misconception among educators, youth workers, and young people is the notion that service learning can be assigned. Several experts attest to the necessity of engaging youth in deliberating, planning, implementing, and reflecting on their community service, thereby sustaining high-quality service learning. This is intended to make community service an effective learning tool.
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the University of Maryland, College Park researches young people and their community service. CIRCLE analyzes trends in community service/volunteering over time and by subgroups, such as sex, race and ethnicity

The Tour of Rochester

       On July  the 7th ,  which was about 2 weeks ago , all my new classmates, a bunch of other new students and I went on a bus tour to explore and know more about the Flower city, Rochester. Which has beautiful flowers and special flower Festivals such as the lilac’s every year during the summer. Although this name has been recently used, Rochester once was known as the Flour City. This name was based on the enormous amount of flour Rochester was producing time ago. In fact, Rochester was the largest flour-producing city in the world, later the city came to be known less for its flour, so the name was changed to the Flower City. We got to learn about the history of Rochester when we stopped by the Genesee River, Where our tour guide Ron told us all about it.  The city of Rochester was actually found by a man named Nathaniel Rochester, who was a business man and a slave’s owner, who of course the city was called after. As shown in the Photo, the High falls is a waterfall along the Genesee River and in a past where people had no source of energy this water fall was used as a source. It was utilized to power mills which produced the flour. It was very interesting for me to learn more about the city I’ve grown to love for the last 2 months.

 

       We also stopped by Susan's B. Anthony house and walked to the Square named after her at the Historic park. Standing next to Susan's and Fredrick's Douglass statues, Ron told us about Susan. How she stood up for women rights and about the friendship that gathered her with Fredrick, as they were both going through the same thing. She was fighting for women's rights, he was fighting against slavery, for black people's rights.

 

       That day was nice regarding all the information we learned and the sight-seeing, but it was a horrible day when it came to the weather. It felt like the hottest day of the year. We were all thirsty and dehydrated from the heat, so our next stop was the Charlotte beach. There, we got some cold beverages and ice creams to cool our bodies.  After a walk at the beach and taking group pictures, we headed back on the bus and back to Nazareth, which was the end of the tour for me and Juan. It was around 6:30 PM and I was exhausted, while the rest of the students carried on to The Wegman’s to have their dinner there.

 

GEORGE EASTMAN

George Eastman's Life: 

He was born on July 12, 1854 in the village of Waterville, New York. He was the youngest of three children of Maria Kilburn and George Washington Eastman. When George the son was 5 years old his father moved the family to Rochester where he worked on establishing Eastman Commercial College. Unfortunately, the college failed due to George’s father death of a brain disorder in 1862, leaving behind a wife, 14 years old son and 2 daughters Ellen Maria and Katie, one whom was severely handicapped. Due to the bad family circumstances George had to drop off school and start working as a messenger boy in one of the insurance firms. A year later he got a job as an office boy in another insurance company. He was getting raises with time and doing well at his work, but it was not enough yet. George studied accounting in the evenings at home to be able to get a better paying job. After 5 years George finally got a job as a clerk in the Rochester Savings Bank and his salary tripled then. George Eastman has been a great example of a self-educated person. At the age of 24 George planned for a trip to San Diego, after a friend’s suggestion of taking photos of the trip, George didn’t go. He was absorbed into photography and thinking of a way to simplify the complicated process of taking photos used to be. After three years of photographic experiments, Eastman had a formula that worked. By 1880, he had not only invented a dry plate formula, but had patented a machine for preparing large numbers of the plates. He quickly recognized the possibilities of making dry plates for sale to other photographers. In his final two years, Eastman was in intense pain, caused by a degenerative disorder affecting his spine. He had trouble standing and his walking became a slow shuffle, a narrowing of the spinal canal caused by calcification in the vertebrae. Eastman grew depressed, as he had seen his mother spend the last two years of her life in a wheelchair from the same condition. On March 14, 1932, Eastman died by suicide with a single gunshot to the heart, leaving a note which read, "To my friends: my work is done. Why wait?". His funeral was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Rochester; he was buried on the grounds of the company he founded at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York.



 

Inventions:

        The camera was as big as a microwave oven and needed a heavy tripod. It needed a tent so that  could spread photographic emulsion on glass plates before exposing them, and develop the exposed plates before they dried out. There were chemicals, glass tanks, a heavy plate holder, and a jug of water. It was a very complicated , expensive and out of reach of all . George Eastman invented a dry-plate photographic system, and later the system of film on rolls of gelatin-coated paper. In 1888 he invented the "snapshot" camera, under the name Kodak. George Eastman was the first to make photography available to everyone and easy enough to be taken anywhere, by his genius invention of the dry, rolled films and the hand-held "snapshot" cameras. His invention changed the world, everyone was having their own cameras an taking their own photos. Beautiful memories and special moments were not lost nor forgotten anymore.

Kodak:

• In 1888 the word Kodak was first Registered as a trademark.
• George Eastman invented the word Kodak which was turned into a world wide trademark.
• The letter K was George's favorite letter so he thought of a word that starts and end with " K "
• He and his mother devised the name with an anagram set.
• George had three concept principals that he followed in creating this word:

1. It should be Short
2. one can't mispronounce it
3. to not resemble or be associated with anything but " Kodak"

• The first model of Kodak camera appeared in 1888.
• in 1892 the Eastman company was renamed " The Eastman Kodak Company" after that the first line of products known as Kodak was in the market.      

Philanthropy:

        after he made a fortune of his company, George wanted to dedicate something to the world and since he came from a family with a history in philanthropy, it was in his blood too.

• He began giving to nonprofit institutions when his salary was $60 a week -- with a donation of $50 to the young and struggling Mechanics Institute of Rochester, now the Rochester Institute of Technology.
• He donated about $20 Million anonymously under the name Mr.Smith to the M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). that shows how generous yet Modest he was as man.
• He devised complete plans and financial backing for a $2.5 million dental clinic for Rochester.
• He established and supported the Eastman School of Music, a theatre, and a symphony orchestra. He just loved music and wanted others to enjoy the beauty of it.
• He promoted and brought to fruition a program to develop a medical school and hospital at the University of Rochester in addition to signing away $30 million to the University of Rochester, M.I.T., Hampton and Tuskegee

       Most of his gifts were dedicated for Education as noticed, and that's because he believed in the importance of Education and that the progress of the world depends almost entirely upon it.

                   

             

ZOO ASSIGHNMENT (1)

I honestly don’t know what this assignment should exactly contain, so I’ll give the definition of some words I had to look up their meanings, plus use them in sentences.

un-included Vocabs:

1)      Hoof: the protecting ends encasing the foot in certain animals as the ox and horse (ungulate=hoofed mammal)

·         The horse had worn out hoofs from getting lost in the desert.

2)      Cud: it is the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.

·         The cow been chewing a cud

3)      Prey:  (Noun) an animal hunted or seized for food mostly by a carnivorous animal.

           (Verb) to seize and devour prey.

·         Foxes prey on rabbits.

4)      Hibernate:  to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition like bears.

                      To winter in a place with a milder climate.

·         Each winter finds us hibernating in Florida.

·         Antonym:  Estivate , to spend the hot dry summer at a certain place with a better climate.




Included Vocabs:


1) Carnivor: is an animal that eats flesh like dogs, bears and seals.

    * A dog is a carnivorous animal.


2) Herbivore: is an animal that feeds on plants, like a deer and goat.

    * A lion would feed on herbivores such as deers


3) Ruminant: is any even toed, hoofed mammals, like cattle, giraffes, buffalo and deer

       *     A cow is a ruminant that is also cud chewing quadrupeds.


4) Omnivore: is an animal that eats both animal and plant food, eating all kind of food indiscriminately, like pigs and raccoon.
    
     *  The pig is  an omnivorous animal.


5) Amphibian: is any cold blooded vertebrate comprising frogs,toads, and salamenders.
    an amphibian lives in water as well as on ground.

  * Leaf frogs are amphibians.


6) Vulnerbale: means difficult to defend or susceptible to be wounded or hurt.
     I think it can also mean Weak or lacking the strength .

 * the little veal seemed so vulnarbale when was assulted by the lion.

  7) Mammals:  are warm-blooded animals -- meaning they do not rely on an outside source for heat -- with fur. These animals are also capable of giving birth to offspring. Some mammals are carnivorous: black bear, long-tailed weasel, Canada lynx, red fox and river otter. Other mammals are herbivorous:  deer, moose and beaver.

* whales are an example of water mammals.