Produced by Annie Collick, a senior at Royal Oak High School in Royal Oak, Michigan.
It's always good that you give back to your community because not only does it help them, it also gives you a sense of accomplishment and as the Michigan student says in the video, "That's just a really great feeling... there's nothing else that can replicate that feeling."
Produced by Gracie Eck, Gracie Hall, Cameron Lane and Risa Tomioka, students at Central Hardin High School in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
It's always important for people to give back to their community because it shows that you are grateful and sometimes people really need the help.
A recent study from the National Conference on Citizenship shows that millennials and teens are more likely to volunteer than other recent generations, and are more civically engaged.
As generations goes on, I think people will realize more and more the importance and value of education since ideas will slowly strengthen by parents teaching their child over time.
nstead of idly standing by, Gabriel took a camera and went around the neighborhood, documenting the damage that these supposedly glamorous efforts to show off in front of the world had really done to the hard-working low-income Brazilian neighborhoods.
Sometimes people don't realize that glorious things that people promise is not always as good and ethical as it sounds. The rich people might host a world cup game that will bring pride to their country, but a lot of people fail to realize who that effects.
Gabriel wasn’t just going to stand by and let some rich old men deny him his right to a fulfilling childhood.
A lot of the time people who are poor in society don't even have a voice to even make decisions about their own communities and their life.
However, as Gabriel and his friends and neighbors soon realized, all this exposure and prestige comes at a cost and, ironically, it is not those with an overabundance of wealth to give that are expected to pay the price.
''ironically, it is not those with an overabundance of wealth to give that are expected to pay the price.'' This is true for a lot of things in the world, not just about how rich people destroy communities for a world cup game. Most of the time when the privileged people made a mistake or decision, the underprivileged people are expected to pay the price of it.
I had the privilege of hanging out in a women's center at a Catholic college, eating bad Mexican food with Mennonite feminists, and chatting with aspiring writers and activists at a college in which half the students are the first in their families to experience higher education.
How is eating bad Mexican food and chatting with aspiring writers and activists at a college a privilege? Isn't that more of an oppurtunity?
They funnel their outrage into weekly club meetings and awareness campaigns that look good on paper
The education system really has to change so that students actually feel the need to do something about issues in the world and not just so it looks good on paper.
. Our generation needs to step into our raw power -- the priceless power of being young and mad. We need to stay hungry long enough to get angry.
The central idea is that the education system needs to change so students have the right intentions and mindset to make a change and be a youth activist.
sanctioned, existing clubs, rather than launch their own radical actions, without much resistance or critical questioning.
I surmise that this means that they feel the need to do something bigger than themselves but again don't have time to do it from scratch and are busy doing things society requires or make you think you have to do like standardized tests, building your resumes with internships and assistantships.
to secure girls the right to at least 12 years of quality schooling, no matter their circumstance.
It is crucial for people like me to realize that we have the privilege to go to school when some people can't, but there are still a lot of problems with the school systems in developed countries.
But she and her father, a politically active teacher, both spoke out for education rights
I surmise that her parents are the reason why she advocated for girls rights to have an education.
Most teens spend their 18th birthday celebrating with friends. Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai spent it in Lebanon, opening a school for Syrian refugee girls while bombs dropped 20 miles away across the border.
This shows that how selfless she is choosing to spend time with other girls who do not have education that is not from Swat Valley. She could've just celebrated her 18th birthday after advocating for education in her country, but she moved out of her way to open a school in a war affected country because she knows the importance of education.
Women are more likely to volunteer through religious organizations, education groups and health-related organizations, while men are more likely to be involved in civic organizations (such as Rotary International), a sports group or public safety organization.
Why does society have to categorize people based on gender? Are women more likely to volunteer in health-related organizations because society tells them that they have to become nurses?
30.1% of women who work full-time also find the time to volunteer in comparison to just 23.8% of men.
No matter if men don't have the time to volunteer, women are still way more likely to volunteer than men even if they also work full-time!
Regardless of whether they work or not, how old they are, or how rich they are, women just volunteer more.
The central idea of the text is that women no matter where they are in society, they are more likely to volunteer and is the more altruistic sex. Although, men still volunteer.
Though women volunteer more than men at all ages, the effect of having children does seem to be greater for women. We can see in the chart above that the gender difference is largest between 35 and 45, when 10% more women volunteer than men.
I surmise society expects women to need to have children and take care of them, while the man just earns money and doesn't have much time to spend time with the child.
But once Americans finish high school, volunteerism becomes less likely. We seem to be at our most selfish in our early 20s.
This means that most people only volunteer because you are required to. I surmise why people in their 20s are less likely to volunteer is because they have just entered adulthood, and still thinking about where they should be in society so they don't have time to think about others.
So are women just the more altruistic sex? Or is this a reflection of other social realities, like fewer women choosing to be in the labour force, or working part-time?
Women and men both have their differences.
Though the letters were sent out to a gender balanced group, 95% of the responses came from women.
Why were they mostly all from women when it's a gender balanced group?