Character is the one pillar that shines through the other three pillars. For instance, my ambition helps me to sustain the scholarship pillar. Maintaining grades tend to be difficult throughout the years; however, having goals, such
The four pillars of the National Honor Society - character, leadership, service, and scholarship- give rise to an image of a building held up by four legs. In my mind, however, I see a triangular-shaped building with three legs on the corners and a pillar of character in the center. I believe that my character is what affects leadership, service, and scholarship and makes me an excellent candidate for the National Honor Society. A multitude of things, people, and ideas that surround themselves with…
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my character truly shows why I exemplify what it means to be a member of Timberlane's National Honor Society. I represent each of the four different pillars in many different ways. This is seen by my rigorous schedule, in school and out. I am a hard working student but also take on many after school activities that show who I am as a person and what my character is like. The first pillar of National Honor Society is scholarship. To me this is about school and not just plain grades but how hard working…
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The four pillars of National Honors Society have had a large impact on me throughout my childhood and my growth into adulthood. Scholarship has made me into a critical thinker, always asking why and how things can improve. Leadership has taught me how to be responsible, not just for myself, but for an entire group. It has also taught me how to be assertive when need be and how to listen to others. Service has made me want to serve more; it made me realize how much I love working to make someone smile…
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Throughout all three years of my high school career, I have demonstrated scholarship, leadership, character, and service. I believe because of all my experiences with the four pillars demonstrated by National Honors Society members, I will be the perfect candidate. Scholarship has always been one of the most important aspects of my life, even from a young age. I achieved a principal's list last year and have achieved honors every other year during my time in high school. I also take two advanced…
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Being considered for the opportunity to join the National Honors Society is a tremendous honor, one that I am delighted to accept. The NHS has four main pillars that it values and I think that the one I exemplify the most is the pillar of scholarship. I have learned a lot about myself throughout my three years of high school, and I have grown in not only knowledge, but social skills as well. When I entered high school, I had just moved for the second time and it was post-Covid, so I had attended…
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option to be included in the National Honor Society. Being chosen and enlisted into the NHS would be an achievement that I would wear proudly with my head held high. Throughout my high school career, I have demonstrated all of the important pillars of scholarship, leadership, character, and service that all make up a National Honor Society member. My academics have always been one of the most important parts of my school career. For the past three years, I have been on the honor roll and currently have…
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Character, Scholarship, Leadership, Service. These are the four pillars of the National Honor Society. Although it is important to have all of these characteristics, I think that leadership is the most important, and is the characteristic that I exemplify the most. I exemplify this characteristic at home and at my place of work. In the summer of 2023, I was given the opportunity to teach children how to swim. Since this was my first time teaching children how to swim, I was not put in charge of…
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The National Honor Society has four pillars and they are character, scholarship, leadership, and service. I feel I best exemplify the pillar of service. I have completed eighty-two hours of community service so far in my high school career and I plan on enlarging that number as my high school career carries on. My hours of service are distributed between three things, FCA athletics gate concessions and set up/clean up, hurricane clean up, and baking cookies for the Homeless Coalition. The majority…
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of those workers and their children through the layers and institutions of French society, the social uses and political abuses of "immigrant culture," and the everyday life of Algerian slums on the Parisian periphery during the fifties, all informed by an acute awareness of the political-economic roots and import of human transhumance1- the Algerian sociologist both elaborated and demonstrated the potency of three pivotal principles for the study of migration. The first is the simple but fundamental…
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a pagan religion. The term pagan is from the Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic", or "of the country." As a noun, paganus was used to mean "country dweller, villager." So Shinto is an Animistic Pagan religion but on a national level so it compares itself to Ancient Rome and Greece in a pagan stand point but also compares to tribal Indian or tribal African religions. Shinto also like all other religions has a creation story and a supreme being who started it all but it…
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