The organization I chose to visit and volunteer in is called DC Central Kitchen. The reason for why I chose this organization is because of the two main issues this organization seeks to address; which are combating hunger and creating career opportunities within our community. DC Central Kitchen focuses on targeting low-income and at-risk neighborhoods; whom are unemployed people from our community that are looking to replace homelessness, addiction, and incarceration with new careers. DC Central Kitchen was founded in 1989 they have prepared more than 25 million meals for low-income and at-risk neighborhoods in Washington DC. According to DC Central Kitchen’s mission statement their goal is to use food as a tool to strengthen our community.
Dc Central Kitchen definitely addresses many issues that in one way or another helps strengthen our society to be a better one by helping those low-income and at risk neighborhoods with providing them with prepared meals every day and also by offering rigorous Culinary Job Training programs for unemployed people from our community who are looking to replace homelessness, addiction, and incarceration with new careers. One of the toughest challenges ex-convicted offenders face after getting out of prison is unemployment. Most companies do not want to give them an opportunity to work and because of this; these offenders commit crimes again. As a consequence, they go back to jail and the government has to spend thousands of dollars to keep them imprisoned. According to article “Downsizing Maryland's prisons” in Maryland, the state's prison population has tripled to more than 22,000, at a cost of more than $783 million a year”. That is why the work Dc Central Kitchen is doing in our community is so important, since they are helping the community a great deal by providing these ex-convicted offenders the opportunity of creating a career for themselves to live a good and healthy life, one that will help them as human beings and will also help our country as a whole. It
Attention in History Class? Everyone has watched movies or studied texts about Adolf Hitler and therefore witnessed the powerful actions and decisions he placed on the population throughout his reign of Nazi Germany starting in the early 1930’s. When he seized power on January 30, 1933, many thought his incentives seemed to be creations of his own ideas, but his views and opinions show a structural model because they were based off of several significant periods of time throughout German history. These…
Case Study #1 After reading the case study involving a group project for a history class, it was made very clear that the group had some issues that needed to be resolved. Work was not getting done and it seemed almost inevitable that they would fail this project due to a lack of group effort. Some of the key problems that were noticeable during their group project included some serious communication deficits and horrible time management leading to some member giving up almost completely. Some members…
Jorge Rodriguez SM 1301 Civilization Class Task #3 1. The first article that I have found meaningful was “Modern Humans Came out of Africa, Definitive Study Says”. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070718-african-origin.html This article basically says that the modern human beings originated in Africa. In this article the author says that many investigations took place to propose the theory that early humans colonized the planet after spreading out of the continent some 50,000 years…
Harlem was the largest city for migration of African Americans, amongst the variety of blacks that strived for opportunity. The blacks divided between classes; through middle and lower classes. The middle class is what was described as comfortable; educated, with well off jobs. The lower class suffered in poverty; lack of education and jobs. The Harlem Dancer by Claude Mckay, describes young people entertained at nightclubs in Harlem. A scene in the poem is described by a young man watching with…
Application There are many reason I wish to take an AP Social Science. First, I feel like I can get more from this class then from regular U.S. History. This is because the class is AP, but also the people who also enter this class will be people I can learn from. I also feel like I am good with history as a subject and want to improve myself intellectually. Another reason is that this class is weighted and will prepare for college. I want to take as many AP classes as I can and try to keep all my doors…
AP WORLD HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2014 About the APWH course: You have chosen to join the fastest growing AP course in America. AP World History is a rigorous yet enriching course of study. This college-level class entails the study of 10,000 years of history in 35 weeks. It will demand more attention and time than any other class you have ever previously encountered because you have the opportunity to earn college credit by passing the College Board’s APWH exam with a score of 3, 4, or 5.…
Historical Survey of the Arts: Renaissance to Modern Professor: Darius A. Spieth Art History Program LSU School of Art Outline Lecture 1 Welcome Where to find answers Syllabus/Requirements/Technical Support What is Art History? A short history of the idea of Modernism Where to find answers Print out and Read the Syllabus! (It will answer almost any question you might have) Class materials will be posted on Moodle (This includes Syllabus & my PowerPoint Presentation)…
What is history? History is much more than just past events. History is all things that man knows about, that has been recorded. It is past events, past people, and everything that is been recorded that we know to this day. John F. Kennedy said “History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” This quote is what I think history is because, history is all the past rushing into the future for us to know about today…
How important is history to the average person today? Well I don’t think that anyone especially in school, like high school kids take history very seriously nor do they think that it is important to them. The kids know that they have to take a history class to graduate from high school, so they just take the class and go on about their business. Some adults don’t understand either why they need to understand history. Without history, we would not be where we are today. By learning about the…
can't remember! For the sculptures it's quite easy, you know the book we use in class? Just go through them and learn about 4 sculptures in detail (pick one classical one Hellenistic and one archaic and the other one it doesn't matter) I'm doing the diskobolos, Laocoon and sons, anavyssos kouros and the kritios boy. Just learn their pose (contrapposto etc) and their sculptors/ artists and their dates and stuff and history about the period might help like Hellenistic period archaic period etc and that's…