Week 13: Project Actions
1464 words by kateyjames
The boxes placed around school……..
As all of you already know the issue that I have chosen to improve is poverty. I have done some things throughout this semester that have helped to improve this issue. One aspect of the project was the canned food drive. My group and I titled our canned food drive “Xavier Cares.” My group and I have already put boxes around the campus for students and professors to donate canned food items. We have also posted flyers around the campus in various locations. My group and I covered the boxes and placed them in locations that are heavily populated on campus. We have already made a pick up, and we brought the obtained cans to Second Harvesters Food Bank. We went around to each of our boxes and posted flyers and signs on the boxes to direct attention to them. The flyers contain the headline of our project, “Xavier Cares,” and it also contains statistics to help motivate other people to donate food. On the flyers we also put contact information in case a pick was needed to be scheduled. We have made ourselves available in case someone is unable to bring the cans to the school but would still like to donate something. We also attached bags to the boxes in case other individuals prefer to bring their cans to a specific food drive like a church group rather than the one we have chosen. Many bags are missing from the boxes which is hopefully a good indication that some people have taken action to donate cans themselves. The turnout of cans donated in the boxes was small, but still important. We plan to leave the boxes out a little longer in hopes that other individuals at Xavier University will take the time to donate to a great cause.
Along with the boxes around campus my group and I also volunteered at Second Harvesters Food Bank. As explained in previous blogs, we went to the food bank to help donate our time and hands to providing food for hungry children around the world. When we arrived, we started an assembly line and helped package various food items. The items included: pudding, jello, fruit, raviolis, breakfast bars and many other common food items that young children enjoy. We packaged these items in many plastic bags and placed the bags on palettes ready to be shipped out. During the process we placed multiple boxes on the palettes, and we placed the bags in the boxes and labeled each box with the name of the school it would be going to. The bags were designed to provide food for local elementary school children. These children are unable to obtain food over the weekend, and Second Harvester’s provides these bags as a food source. Most of these children receive free lunch during the week, but on the weekends food is not provided to them by the school. By providing these bags Second Harvesters is allowing these children to eat over their weekend breaks. Each local school required at least 40 bags, and some even required over 100 bags. This shows that many children around our area have a huge lack of food sources. Most people do not realize how many local children are starving, but as I volunteered I got a good insight as to how many children actually lack the proper food sources to survive. We provided bags for about 10 local schools and overall our group assembly line packaged about 900 bags. Each person in the assembly line had a different task including: labeling, packaging, and bagging. My role in the assembly line was to take the filled bags of food and place them on the palettes. During my task I was required to count the bags being filled and also to label each school the bag would be going to. We spent a few hours at the food bank and accomplished a substantial amount of bags. While volunteering we received a tour of Second Harvesters Food Bank, and we were allowed to see the various things this company does to provide food to the needy. Some of the other things provided by the company include: salvaging unwanted food, placing the food products on trucks to be shipped out, and also to process food on a conveyor belt and sort the food into different groups. Second Harvester’s Food Bank is a wonderful corporation, and I am proud to say I was able to be a part of it.
During the time period of Jesus many people were trialed for committing crimes, and if found guilty there punishment was crucifixion. According to Wikipedia, “Crucifixion was an ancient method in which a condemned person was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead.” This crime was so horrible because the individual was left to die on the cross in front of anyone who wanted to watch. The person gradually loses blood resulting in a slow and painful death of suffocation. Throughout the time of Jesus he claimed to be the King of the Jews, and also claimed to his disciples that he was the Messiah. As time progressed Jesus obtained a large number of disciples which infuriated the Jewish and Roman officials. Jesus was then subjected to trial in front of the officials. Jesus was trialed in front of Jewish authorities and also Roman authorities. In Jesus’ trial with the Jewish officials he was convicted for committing the Messiah crime. In Jesus’ trial with the Roman officials he was convicted for committing the “King of the Jews” crime. The Roman and Jewish officials could not accept the crime committed by Jesus. After being convicted of these two crimes, Jesus was sentenced to death by crucifixion. He was nailed to the cross and his crime “King of the Jews” was placed over his head. Although there is not much evidence to prove the specific time and location of Jesus’ death, it is commonly known that Jesus was killed on a Friday, and he later resurrected on a Sunday.