Having the opportunity to attend sleepaway camp has shown me the type of person that I truly am. After continuing my summers at the same camp‚ this past summer I had the opportunity to be a Counselor In Training. Taking all of the lessons I had learned over the my time there‚ I applied myself and became a responsible role model. I was able to comfort children who were coming to this camp with the same fears that I was initially faced with and make them feel at home. My days with the younger children
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been attending Camp Sankaty for 5 years now. I am a captain in one of the dormitories‚ meaning I am responsible for teaching the younger campers the ways of camp‚ keeping the dormitory cleaned‚ and helping staff members with various jobs. I have won various awards during my tenure here at camp. I won awards for basketball‚ checkers‚ and volleyball. This past year I was awarded the Tiger Woods scholarship by the Ouimet Foundation. Also‚ this year I am one of the editors of the annual camp newspaper.
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It all started in the summer of 2010‚ where I was sent off to Massachusetts for the next seven weeks. I was going to Camp Winadu‚ which is a summer camp that my dad attended from ages four to nineteen. My Dad and I boarded our flight at O’Hare‚ and during the whole two hour flight I was nervous about being away from my parents for almost two months. Adding even more onto my nerves‚ I was the only camper that wasn’t from the East Coast. After we landed‚ I was whisked away in a van (in a good way)
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concentration camp refers to a place in which people are detained or confined‚ usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal normality of arrest and imprisonment that were acceptable in a constitutional democracy. In Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945‚ concentration camps were an integral feature of their government (from the Holocaust Encyclopedia at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The main reason that Hitler and his Nazi Party sent Jewish people to the camps was because
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Keith Salenski Jen Stauss History 201 May 31‚ 2005 Japanese Internment Camps in WWII For over a century‚ the United States has been one of the most powerful and influential states on the globe. However‚ every nation has made mistakes in its past. Throughout our country’s history‚ certain groups have had to endure horrible injustices: the enslavement of African-Americans‚ the removal of Native Americans‚ and discrimination against immigrants‚ women‚ homosexuals‚ and every other minority.
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his goal by using a very systematic plan. One of his main methods of "doing away" with these people was through the use of concentration camps. In a meeting in January 1941 Hitler‚ along with some of his top officials decided on a plan that was called the "final
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“In the concentration camps‚ we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill‚ and the victims came to die” Elie Wiesel. Concentration Camps are specific places in which individuals are detained or confined usually under harsh conditions. They were used to hold political and religious enemies of the Nazi party throughout most of WWII and a majority of the camps were in Poland. They held Jews and various religious groups prisoner. The horrific acts committed
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During WWII & the reign of Hitler was the Auschwitz Concentration Camp‚ a labor camp‚ which could be considered to be one of the worst places for a person of the Jewish faith place to be at that time in history. Handed down through history‚ it is considered to be one of the brutalist places on earth that a person could be. As James Deem described it‚ “Prisoners receiving punishment were often placed in cramped basement cells and deprived of food” (9). To be put into simple terms‚ it was torture.
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The Unimaginable: The life in Japanese Americans Internment Camps By OUTLINE Introduction Thesis: Even though the Japanese Americans were able to adapt to their new environment‚ the Japanese American internment camps robbed the evacuees of their basic rights. Background I. Japanese Americans adapted to their new environment by forming communities at the camps. A. One of the first actions that evacuees took is establishing school system. B. The evacuees established self-government
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The best decision I ever made was going out of my comfort-zone to apply for nurse camp at the University of Washington. Out of 150 applicants‚ I had the privileged to be 1 out of the 22 selected. Nurse camp was a tremendous enrichment experience that I never thought imaginable. I never thought at 17 years old‚ I would get the opportunity to save a simulated patient from dying of a heart attack in the UW Medicine’s wish lab. The adrenaline rush I got from doing compressions‚ trying to save a mannequin’s
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