Game Changer Post #4
After finally having a game changer meeting with Mr. Shingler it is looking like volunteering is going to be my main topic for my game changer. Volunteering is a great choice to make for anyone. Devoting time and effort into helping someone else can bring moral satisfaction to oneself. This can also lead down a path that is very rewarding because what comes around almost always goes around and by helping some else out, something is almost certain to help out in return. In terms of what could a greater purpose of volunteering could be is simply uniting the community for a purpose that could lead a positive end result. Now a greater question could be asked why did I finally-potentially settle on volunteering? Well this can be attributed to a project and the actual ‘doing’ of the game changer and for my project. I am still not 100% sure what exactly I could do for my project but all I know is that this is my overall idea I wish to peruse. This is also makes my project easier because I have already done countless volunteering projects and volunteering services to help outside organizations. I will use my experience from these projects to help voice my opinion about them and the greater idea that I have behind them. Maybe Mr. Shingler will allow me to use My Eagle project that I used last year to be my ‘game changer’ project. This would be perfect because I took leadership and responsibility for this project and helped an organization for retired veterans than had no where else to really go. I could talk about in my presentation about this community and the potential of how the selfless acts than myself and the other volunteers who committed their time and energy to help this community could really produce such a positive result.
“I’m telling you this because the people of your culture are in much the same situation. Like the people of Nazi Germany they are a captives of a story.” – Daniel Quinn’s Ishnael pg. 52
Here is another quote I found from Ishamel, a book I have read in my AP Environmental Science class. This quote relates to what I am describing in my post about my Game Changer because it talks about how the people of a culture act and try to do something and survive. In terms of volunteering this can have the same goal. By a group of people coming to together and working for a greater goal can make a community of people survive. This will probably be my last entry from this book. The next book I might move on to or use will probably be from my actual AP Language class and not my AP Environmental Science class.
So far for my game changer I have been quite please for how far I came in starting this grand project. My ideas where very scattered and indecisive but now after having my first discussion with Mr. Shingler I feel this is the right one. I am still not sure what I will be getting out of it other than the moral satisfaction of doing and discussing volunteering and of all of its perks. However I am sure with another brainstorm of ideas, I can easily summarize what I wish to obtain or see in the future. For my presentation I have that easily locked down for volunteering. It is such an easier and familiar topic to talk about to a crowd and even analyzing it even more to an audience will be no problem. The whole concept I will be pitching is that volunteering will being something to a community that will unite them and makes something else happen. That was a relatively rough idea I had about it, but hopefully the point got across. As the weeks go by on this project I really am at a loss for words and discussing what exactly to talk about especially future ideas for my game changer. But maybe that’s just the point of the project. To spend a great deal of time to think and discover what is coming out of the project that will be most important to all of us. Because just like at the first post, school life and homework assignments seem like nothing. However after all of this, we would have to deal with the real world.
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