Service Catherine Mcauley the Meaning Term Paper

Total Length: 1025 words ( 3 double-spaced pages)

Total Sources: 0

Page 1 of 3

Playing as part of a team reinforces social skills that will last students a lifetime, like listening to the coach (yes, that's me, I admit I'm biased!), treating their fellow players with respect, and also having patience with some of the mistakes of their team members. I point out that if you have patience with someone else's mistakes, the other members of the team will have patience if you later make an error on the field -- and no one is perfect, even the coach! I am proud of my team's record, and even though we may not have won every game, I know that every game the team plays as a unit is a victory for the team's collective character. So long as the team tries hard, I feel as if the team has won. I hope the moral lessons I teach, as well as the need to live a healthy lifestyle in a fashion that makes you feel good about your body will last for forever.

Finally, I am also a peer tutor for students my own age. I have learned so much doing this, as this often brings me in contact with members of my high school whom I would not know otherwise, had I not accepted this position. Again, mentorship by someone in your age group is an education for both the tutor and the student.

Stuck Writing Your "Service Catherine Mcauley the Meaning" Term Paper?

I also return to my own schoolwork with greater appreciation for what I know and do not know.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines service as "an act or a variety of work done for others," but service also, however unintentionally, benefits the giver as well as the recipient. "To be of service" is defined by the same dictionary as "to be ready to help or be useful." I hope that I have indeed been useful in all of my community service, and I continue to offer my help and aid to anyone who will need it now, and in the future. Although someday I will leave the place and school I now call home, I will use the lessons I have learned to continue to serve others, wherever I may find myself in the future.

The gifts generated by service have no beginning and no end. Service is ultimately an investment in others and yourself. The gifts I began my life with were great, but because I have extended myself to serve others and to serve my community, my original gifts have multiplied tenfold. Every genuine gift you give to others comes back to you, in unexpected but always wonderful ways.

A service," the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004, Answers.com 18 Apr. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/service.....

Show More ⇣


     Open the full completed essay and source list


OR

     Order a one-of-a-kind custom essay on this topic


sample essay writing service

Cite This Resource:

Latest APA Format (6th edition)

Copy Reference
"Service Catherine Mcauley The Meaning" (2007, April 18) Retrieved May 20, 2025, from
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/service-catherine-mcauley-meaning-38475

Latest MLA Format (8th edition)

Copy Reference
"Service Catherine Mcauley The Meaning" 18 April 2007. Web.20 May. 2025. <
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/service-catherine-mcauley-meaning-38475>

Latest Chicago Format (16th edition)

Copy Reference
"Service Catherine Mcauley The Meaning", 18 April 2007, Accessed.20 May. 2025,
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/service-catherine-mcauley-meaning-38475