Socially Responsible

There are several reasons youth can be motivated to take action for being socially responsible one reason is by become a big brother or big sister to help children, just because they want to make a difference or because some youth may know how those children feel and want to help them. Another reason for youth to be motivated is that draws can be held for doing community work, for example for every five or ten hours your name will be put into a draw for a prize donated by the community for helping. Also another reason is school credits, high school students need volunteer credits and that may motivate a lot of youth to participate in volunteer activities, and some might even like it so much that they will motivate more youth to get involved to.
My personal take on social responsibility is that more youth need to be more socially responsible because it motivates others to be socially responsible, for example, if a teenager is volunteering not just other teenagers might volunteer, but others because if they see a teenager being socially responsible then they can do it to because teenagers have a bad reputation for being lazy. Also I think that some people just don't care about being socially responsible, but it is possible to have fun, for example me and my friends had a car wash to raise money for charity, and we had music and had water fights it was so fun and we did it all while being socially responsible.
To get my self motivated is to having fun with my friends, school credits, and just helping in general I know I am not really socially responsible but I could be, I would like to motivate my friends to help motivate myself and have fun to help people. I am not much of a leader, but in a group we can lead each other especially my friends, so i think if we really wanted to we could influence and motivate more youth to become socially responsible.
To me there are several issues that are important to me, on is our community more youth need to get involve in the community, because there is a massive lack of socially responsibility in my community, also people who do not want to be social responsible or people who just don't care should have more respect for people who are being socially responsible, for example my baseball team was raising money for provincials, and some kids were stealing some of the money we raised, and finally the motivation to be socially responsible should be higher, people who need help for anything can just go to the school and ask for volunteers and it is most likely they will get some.

Peace Heros- Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist, and she was later called the mother of the modern day civil rights movement. Rosa Parks is inspirational to me because she is a woman, who have had a hard time getting rights as it is but she was also African American, and she had to deal with racism. Rosa Parks started her journey by refusing to give up her spot on a bus to a white passenger,after a long day at work, and she was arrested. After that she started a bus boycott with Martin Luther King. she got all the black people living in Montgomery to refuse to use the bus, and many of them including Rosa Parks were harassed and intimidated but the protests continued. Eventually after 13 months the bus company was forced to give in to their demands, because of loss of revenue.
Rosa Parks moved to Detroit and became a special assistant to Democratic Congressman, John Conyers. Rosa was starting to become quite popular, in 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, which helped the young and educated them about civil rights, she also established an annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award, and won many awards her self including, the Springar medal, congressional gold medal, and a statue was put up of her.
Rosa Parks is mostly inspirational to me because she did not give up, even when she was arrested, also she continued with being a civil rights activist after she won the boycott, finally because she is a woman and its great to have women out there making a difference, making up for what we lacked during the time when women had no rights.
The next inspirational peace hero i would nominate would be Lester B Person because he was Prime Minister of Canada and he use his authority for good, for example, it is said that he gave Canada the identity that it has today, he was the first to propose a peace keeping force in response to the Suez crisis in Egypt in 1956. He also achieve many things for Canada including health care and our Canadian flag.
In 3rd place of who I would nominate as a peace hero would be John Lennon because he was not only apart of a music group but he also had time for peace. He staged anti-war art, he announced he would not get out of bed until the U.S.A withdrew from the Vietnam war, and he dedicated many songs to peace or anti-war movements.
In conclusion there are many peace hero's out there but the one that stand out for me are Rosa Parks who demonstrated that you can accomplish what you set your mind to no matter your race or sex. also Lester b person our very own prime minister who was the first to establish a peace keeping force and gave Canadian the reputation of peace keepers, and finally John Lennon, being part of a famous music group decided to prove a point through his music and put out his ideas.