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To have good citizenship means to live life in a way that is respectful and helpful to

those around you whether it is people, pets, or the environment. Civic engagement

requires one to know what needs to be done and the means to accomplish that.

Civic engagement entails helping the community by volunteering and making it abetter place and being a good citizen. Volunteering can be in many things and must

involve donating time to interact with the community and help where it is needed

and be continuous with it. I have volunteered in many places the most being at an

organization called the ebb !oundation. It is a faith based organization that puts

on events to bring the community together. I volunteer at their Islamic school on

"undays. I also volunteered at #lmhurst hospital in the #$, assisting the sta% and

patients.

LO Global Perspective

&aturally people rely on connections with each other in order to accomplish a

variety of tasks. Causes and motives bring them together and separate them at the

same time. It is important to understand other cultures and perspectives because it

helps build deeper relationships and stronger connections and makes

communication easier. That is why it is also important to understand communication

methods between di%erent cultures. 'i%erent cultures have di%erent means of

introduction like shaking hands or bowing. It is important to know this because

sometimes it can be o%ensive to others if the wrong action is taken. ( person has a

responsibility to their community to help those around them. ( person is like a cell,

an individual cell is part of a larger system of a tissue, an organ, an organ system,

and an organism. (ll these little cells seem minuscule but they all play a veryimportant part to make success happen on a larger level. In today)s world that is

connected e*tremely well it is important to be able to communicate in a di%erent

language in order to make people)s lives easier and to get the message across

e%ectively. +eing an internationals student has helped me become more aware of

di%erent communication channels. Volunteering with many di%erent organizations

has helped me learn to communicate with di%erent people and to help communities

large and small alike. +eing bilingual and learning "panish has helped me

communicate with many di%erent people. n certain occasions during volunteering

I have had to serve as a translator for people.

LO Breadth of Knowledge

It is important to be knowledgeable in many di%erent -elds. This is because

knowledge helps people relate to each other and shows intellectual capacity.

Connections and comparisons between di%erent disciplines shows that a person has

a good intellectual capacity and can think critically. They can use those skills to

learn more information about speci-c topics to boost their knowledge. It is very

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important to apply what is learned in class to the real world because that is what

college is preparing for. I had to use various areas of studying when preparing for

the C(T verbal section. I use classroom knowledge in my internship and research

to accomplish tasks and learn why certain things occur.

LO Personal Growth

The want to learn in me has always been something that)s always been there. I get

curious about random things usually. ( thought will pop up in my head and I will

start researching about it to get more information, which will lead me to look at

more things. This has helped me increase my knowledge and helps keep a balance

in learning what is taught in class and me teaching myself new things, like using

icrosoft #*cel. (lmost all of what I know how to do on #*cel is learned. I was

taught a few things in "tats class and in +iology lab but everything else I know like

formatting a cell to perform speci-c calculations is stu% that I needed to learn on

my own so that I could be more productive and e/cient at work. Throughout my

time at +enedictine I have taken on many roles of leadership at school and outside

of school. I have been on the board of a club, a student senator, and outside of

school I have taught and lead an organization for high school students. I have an

appreciation for art and music but I could develop it more but my creativity is a

valued trait of mine not 0ust in an artistic sense but also in many other aspects of

problem solving.

Preparing to present yourself

Show progress-how much my wor and thining has improvedo The biggest part of learning and re1ecting is to see the growth that has

occurred over a long period of time. I did not really notice how much I

had improved until I went through and looked at my work I had done

previously. I learned how to write a proper thesis. I learned that the

most important question I had to ask myself when coming up with my

argument was 2why3. If I could answer that then I would have direction

on my paper. Persistence-ability to stic with a pro!ect over a long period of time"

o The three things I have worked for over a long period of time are my

running, webb foundation, and mist. $unning is something that has

helped me learn about patience because of in0uries that I have had

that have set me back and I have had to overcome them. I have

worked with webb foundation, a faith based organization which

emphasizes community service, for 45 years, starting as a student,

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then a student leader, T(, intern and a teacher. I have worked with

I"T, a competition for high school students, I have been on the

competitions committee for the past three years, revising any

competitions that need that done, also I had to help come up with

topics for some of the competitions.

#le$ibility-ability to write in di%erent styles or voiceso I have learned many di%erent writing styles and improved upon them. I

learned how to write a narrative, autobiography, analytical, critical

thinking, reviews, articles, research papers, and I have also learned

how to communicate with peers, professor, and coworkers in a proper

manner.

&i'cult LO

The +enedictine and Catholic "ocial Teaching learning ob0ective was the hardest one

for me because we covered it freshman year -rst semester and it was covered in

my religion6ethics class second semester of freshman year and since then it has notbeen covered that much. I have been to the opening mass but besides that I have

not had much e*posure to it. The posts about communication were helpful. I think

all of them helped equally under communication as everyone has their own

e%ective means of communication. The breadth of knowledge and integrative

learning will be the 7 that is improved upon the most as I am taking at literature

class and the honors humanities class will open up new e*periences to me.

Revised (arrative

alking into the worship area of "t. 8rocopius (bbey for the 'u8age InterfaithThanksgiving "ervice I was thinking to myself I wonder what is going to be

presented there. It was a dark and peaceful night, slightly chilly. I could hear and

feel the crushing of the fallen leaves as I walked from my car towards the main

entrance. !rom the outside the monastery didn)t seem very big. It has an old small

wooden door. The buildings do not seem very tall. (s I entered the lobby I noticed

that I was very dark and had low ceilings. That all changed as I walked into the

worship area of the monastery. The ceiling rose so incredibly that I had to crank my

head all the way back in order to see it completely. (s I walked through the hallway

into the worship area it opened up into a massive hall. I could see why it would be

designed as such because it shows how miniscule a human is compared to 9od. (t

the service I got to see representatives of Theosophical, $oman Catholic, :ewish,Islamic, +uddhist, ;indu, "ikh, traditions give a

short prayer. I had sat in on a !irst ?nited ethodist and a Catholic religious service

before but never any of the other ones besides Islam obviously. I had an epiphany

that even though religions are all practiced in their own ways but they serve a

common purpose, which is to bring people closer in the remembrance of 9od. (s a

result of these four events I have found an interest in attending the services of other

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religions and interfaith dialogues to increase me in my knowledge and to get rid of

my ignorance and to e*pand my comfort zone and understanding. (lso I have

learned by going to di%erent services helps eliminate tons of stereotypes.