Scouting has had a tremendous effect on my life since I first started as a Cub Scout. Principles of honor‚ respect‚ and responsibility were introduced to me and then developed further through Boy Scouts. These themes have benefited me up to now and will continue to assist me in the future. The next five years of my life will include high school and the start of college. Throughout scouting‚ I have learned that it is up to me to do the merit badges and complete my part through self-discipline. Self-discipline
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Eagle Scouts are an example of hard work‚ strong morals‚ good leadership‚ and determination. Many of Americas’ great leaders are Eagle Scouts. I have learned the value of becoming an Eagle Scout and hope to become a great leader some day as well. When I earned the rank of Eagle in the BSA‚ I fully understood how it could be one of the hardest accomplishments a young man can complete. Only three out of every one hundred boys who begin scouting attain the rank. From learning to follow their leaders
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Dear Scout and Jem finch‚ How is life in Maycomb without my presence? I reckon Scout ain’t got no other man in her life other than For me‚ life in Meridian is pretty ordinary. I wake up in the morning‚ go to school with my brother‚ Dillan and come home with himme. How is “Maycombs Only School of Distinguished and True Excellence” this year? I reckon it is different For me‚ life in Meridian is pretty ordinary. I wake up in the morning‚ go to school with my brother‚ Dillan and come home with himwith
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Life today is very fast-paced. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere and will push you out of the way to get there‚ like it’s some kind of race. In our personal lives‚ we have our cell phones‚ and maybe a home phone‚ scheduled play dates for our kids‚ microwaves‚ satellite TV‚ home security systems that don’t involve dogs‚ solar landscape lighting‚ automatic underground sprinkler systems for our lawns‚ and compact fluorescent lights to replace the incandescent bulbs that waste energy. In the business
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troop guide asks an annoying scout to calm down for the twentieth time. From the senior patrol leader position to helping at day camp‚ Boy Scouts learn how to lead in all situations. As an Eagle Scout and previous senior patrol leader of two troops‚ I have developed leadership abilities that I will use as an adult. I discovered that leadership requires extra work and sacrifice as I led by example and gave up my free time to help other boys finish a task. Truly‚ Boy Scouts has given me and countless
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1 7 March 2017 The Life of Harper Lee Harper Lee is still one of America’s most well known authors‚ not just because of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel‚ but because of the type of person she was. Lee was a civil rights enthusiast and was very interested in the 1960s movement (“Harper Lee: Childhood”). She became famous for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ which tells the story of a young girl in Maycomb‚ Alabama and the racism of the south. She lived a quiet and private life considering the amount
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which was written by Harper Lee in 1960 (Bernard 8). The story is about Atticus Finch’s defense of a wrongly accused black man while the story is told through the perspective of his daughter Jean Louise Finch‚ called Scout‚ and about her life as she grows up in a close together but racist community (Bloom 11). Since it is told through a young girl’s perspective‚ it is a story about a trial‚ yet also a childhood and growing up involving games and first days of school (Bernard 9). Scout keeps her charm
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overalls to a pretty little dress is not something that Scout necessarily wanted to do. Then there was Jem. All he wanted to do was grow up and become a man. Growing up is not an easy thing to do‚ but the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows what it’s really like to grow up in an unequal society. When you are growing up you start to really see what is going on in the world around you that you never noticed was there before. Scout and Jem both started of as little kids in the book‚ but
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not with this little girl named Scout Finch. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Scout Finch is the protagonist. She lives in a town called Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who has a brother nicknamed Jem‚ and a father named Atticus. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee shows Scout Finch as literate‚ curious‚ and violent. The first trait scout is portrayed to be is literate. She is above her peers expectations when it comes to her literacy. Scout says “She discovered I was iterate
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Chapter 4 1. Briefly describe the symbolism of Scout’s nickname and how it is appropriate. Scout is a curious person‚ always asking too much questions. Scout is stubborn‚ always thinks she is right. Scout also likes to examine things and try everything. 2. What does Jem’s response to Scout’s chewing the gum tell the reader about his feelings for her? Jem’s response towards Scout shows the reader that he looks after her and really cares for his younger sister. He does not want her to
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