The professional football team from Detroit, Michigan, the Lions compete in the NFL as a member of the NFC North division. The team joined the NFL in 1930 and had won numerous titles since then, including four NFL Championships. They are also tied for 9th overall in total championships amongst all 32 NFL teams. The Lions play their home games at Fort Field in downtown Detroit.…
The Knights of Columbus was founded by an Irish-American Catholic priest, The Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut. He gathered a group of men from St. Mary's parish for an organizational meeting on October 2, 1881 and the Order was incorporated under the laws of the U.S. state of Connecticut on March 29, 1882. Though the first councils were all in that state, the Order spread throughout New England and the United States in subsequent years. The primary motivation for the Order was to be a mutual benefit society. As a parish priest in an immigrant community, McGivney saw what could happen to a family when the breadwinner died and wanted to provide insurance to care for the widows and orphans left behind. He himself…
The city of Memphis is located in the western corner of the state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis is the biggest city in Tennessee, and the third largest in the United States. The residents of Memphis are referred to as “Memphians”, and the Memphis region is known as the “Mid-South”.…
A new cornerstone will be established into Episcopal Sacred Learning Academy (ESLA) on February 29th, 2020. It will be held at the school. The ceremony will take around 1 hour and 30 minutes. A cornerstone is a stone forming a part of a corner or angle in a wall; specifically a stone laid at a formal ceremony. The event will be held at 3:30 p.m. The event is for anyone to come, even though most people going will be involved with the school somehow. The placement of this cornerstone is extremely important and signifies a new era of the Episcopal Sacred Learning Academy.…
One time when I was four years old I was playing outside and I got scared of the water coming out of our garden hose, so I ran and hid behind the hose real and asudentaly fell asleep, later all my nabours and the police were searching the nabourhood and eventualy my nabour foud me behind our hose…
Giving service to your community is one of the most important attributes in a person. For example volunteering shows character, self-efficacy and teamwork. Service to your community has many benefits for you and others too. It makes you sympathize more for others and shows that you can put others before yourself. Therefore giving back to your community is essential to being a good community member and a commendable person in general.…
The National Honor Society is a society for leaders and has been established since 1921 .I too, am a leader in society and feel that my leadership accomplishments and goals would reflect off NHS. It is a privilege to receive an invitation to become part of the academic leaders of Willingboro High School. I would love to be a part of the National Honor Society because it will give me more opportunities to be a leader, participate in community service, and to help and influence the people around me. As you see, the goals of the NHS and my goals are both similar. I would be proud to be a member of the NHS and would serve the Society to the best of my ability. When I received the invitation, it gave me a new insight of my projects, worksheets,…
The National Honor Society is a highly prestigious organization designed to acknowledge the most well rounded students within a high school. To take part in this important society, applicants must exemplify the qualities of Leadership, character, and service throughout their daily lives. These different qualities are at the core of my activities throughout the day and are pillars in what makes me who I am. As a result I believe I am a great candidate for membership to the National Honor Society because I do not only show flashes of leadership, character and service, but they are major parts of the person I am.…
It is truly an honor to be considered a candidate for the National Junior Honor Society. Members of the National Junior Honor Society all possess common traits and qualities such as: leadership, service, citizenship, and character. I believe I possess and demonstrate the qualities required and expected of a National Junior Honor Society member.…
Honors Study Hall is a highly debated topic within Wild Rose High School. People talk about where it should be held, who should be in it, and even if we should have it in the first place. This year our school decided to take honors study hall from the cafeteria and place it in the library. This was a bad idea because instead of changing the location, the subject in which should change is the people who are allowed to be in honors study hall.…
Along with many other achievements in the last three years, my involvement in National Honors Society is one of the most significant. In the past two years I have been a part of National Honors Society at my high school. The four pillars of NHS include: scholarship, service, leadership, and character. I believe I am a leading exemplar of those standards. Scholarship entails more than just getting good grades. It is achieving recognizable grades in rigorous courses that challenge you to learn outside of your comfort zone. National Honors Society has encouraged me to make an impact on my community. Community service is not an obligation, it is a choice I make because it is selfless and rewarding in ways far beyond words. Volunteering is doing…
I would like to thank you for considering me as a future member of the NHS, I will do my best to honor this society. The qualities that the National Honor Society requires are qualities that I strongly admire. I hope to grow into a person that not only retains these qualities, but that exhibit them on a daily basis and with ease. Helping others and serving my community is something I love and enjoy to do. I respect the responsibilities that come with this organization and I understand what would be required of me, if I were so honorably chosen.…
Ever since my freshman year of high school, I’ve wanted to be a member of the National Honors Society. Being a part of the National Honors Society meant that I would have done well in both my studies and contributing time in my community. In order to reach my goal, I took multiple honors and AP classes to enhance my knowledge. These classes were indeed rigorous and there were many occurrences where I stayed up late doing homework or studying. During these times I felt like giving up, but the passion I had for conquering my goal burnt too brightly. The hard work I’ve placed on my studies has certainly paid off because now I’m at the top 5% in my class with a 3.8 GPA. Also throughout I’ve helped my community in multiple ways such as volunteering…
due to cultural and ethnic beliefs in the African-American culture average products for each group are:…
Heritage makes up a large portion of our History. Combine that heritage with race and you have a foundation for establishing different beginnings of races that can trace their early origins back to the beginning of the United States. A giant melting pot as it has been described due to all of the immigration that occurred in the early nineteenth century. African Americans have established an enormous role in the beginnings and the history of the America. Their continuous fight for equality and rights as American people have spanned many years. The actions against African Americans immediately following the conclusion of the civil…