January 17, 2010
A volunteers’ friendship can tie their community together more closely, and naturally it will help their local poor. Scheduling this can be fairly tricky by itself, and arranging specific activities can easily eat up free time better used to actually work. Moreover, if volunteering becomes a larger effort with colleagues, it’s likely to be more enjoyable.
This is a call, then, for companies to follow the lead of far-sighted firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to financial and shopping benefits programs like Shopping Essentials made to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity to give its employees more time to give back to the local community. Such initiatives were always rare events - in today’s world, so much more can be achieved. Looking at a specific company, Adaptive Marketing has provided its employees with the chance to take part in everything from running shoe recycling campaigns to local tree replanting weekends. In these cases, the dates, times and locations that had been arranged were published well in advance, making it convenient for employees to know what to expect, and how much of their time it would expectably take.
It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no choice between initiatives. At Adaptive Marketing, the people who brought you Shopping Essentials, staff members are given the chance to choose from a diverse list of volunteer projects. When looking for things to do you see so many; getting involved in the entertainment and education of children, helping with environmental programs, or bolstering the community through theater to list a few that have already been tried. Adaptive Marketing’s staff are sure to have a project they’ll enjoy taking part in, making their time fun as well as useful.
A regular addition to their schedule or a one-off event - these are the most common ways for a business to organize volunteer initiatives like these, maybe at a nearby homeless shelter or one of the local schools. What this means is if you’ve only got enough time to burn to lend a hand with a Saturday morning park clean-up or the public library’s sale of used books, you’ve still got plenty of time to contribute.
Business history is full of tales of companies supporting the people who live around them. Adaptive Marketing like many other businesses maintains volunteer activities in part to spread positive feeling through its home community through its employees activities. The fact is, one of the benefits of volunteer work is the knowledge that you’ve done something good and worthwhile - an upbeat feeling that leaves not just the staffer but the whole company in a better mood.
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November 7, 2009
Volunteering; building a community bond, and supporting the nearby needy. To quote the old saying, charity begins at home. The obvious problem is that organizing your schedule so that you’re free to volunteer tends to consume very time that could really be put to so much better use. And as you can imagine, if volunteering becomes a team effort with colleagues, it’s likely to be far more fun. Following this logic companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, that developed financial and shopping benefits programs such as At Home Rewards, are forming the points of organization for volunteer activities and helping employees make time for reaching out. When you think about company-supported charitable effort, you probably think of giving blood, maybe an annual donation drive, nothing more, but this is no longer the case in today’s world. The employees of Adaptive Marketing have been provided with opportunities to take part in a wide variety of community initiatives. When Adaptive Marketing began central organization individual initiatives blossomed into larger events, with specific dates, times, and locations made public in advance to help those signing up with their time management.
It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no opportunity to select activities. Companies involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, (who offer to the public programs like At Home Rewards) offer their staff members a diverse list of events in their community. Prior projects have seen improvements made in areas as diverse as education for children and young adults, green programs, and events supporting theatre. A happy volunteer is an effective volunteer, so by offering such a variety of projects Adaptive Marketing can be certain that progress will be made in as many projects as possible.
A single big event or a regular addition to their schedule — these are the usual ways for a firm to arrange volunteer initiatives like these, possibly at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. Regardless of how little time you can spare, you’re sure to find some initiative you can take part in, and consequently time is no block against volunteering.
You’ll find plenty of tales of companies supporting the people who live nearby. The activities of the employees at businesses such as Adaptive Marketing create precious goodwill around their home base. The truth is, one of the benefits of volunteer work is the certainty that you’ve done something good — an upbeat feeling that improves the entire corporation.
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September 26, 2009
Wander through your nearest town or city during the early hours of the morning and you’ll meet a number of applied sweepers meandering around cleaning up the mess strewn around by all the partying of last night. It’s a typical early morning setting, especially the beeping noise! We don’t really give rubbish a consideration as we feel keeping the roads clean is not our chore.
All the same, there is a sometimes imperceptible yet important impact litter plays on human psychology. One is more likely to think a neighbourhood is lacking law and order if litter is lying around, and hence criminals see rubbish as a potential signal for a chance of a mugging or robbery. The very same sign creates some fear in other individuals who worry they might be walking through a more unsafe area and are wary of being attacked.
There’s also the impact on the aesthetic appeal of an area. Rubbish scattered around can make an area seem run down even though it’s only been “abused” by people from the previous night. This can hurt the reputation of a location if people are visiting the location for this specific short period of time and only discover it in its untidy state.
Prevention is always better than cure when it comes to litter. There’s absolutely no reason to throw rubbish if there are unfilled rubbish bins in the area. If there is a lack of rubbish bins, or the rubbish bins that are there are overflowing, this is a matter to address the local council with. Throwing rubbish has a negative impact on everybody.
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April 1, 2008
I argue that Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was a destroyer of the
nation (i.e. India) and moreover a threat to the national unity,
integrity, and progress. His threefold satanic legacy is
constituted of his: 1. Principle of non-violence and
misconception of truth 2. Idea of primordial lifestyle 3.
Self-centred dictatorship All these three points are quite
interwoven and ultimately support how he would have continued to
destroy the nation.
1. Gandhi wrongly thought that the principle of non-violence is
a truth. The former is rather a moral viewpoint which is
relativistic and fundamentally pseudo or absurd. 2. The idea of
primordial lifestyle is quite backward and unworkable as it
tends to suppress the natural human instinct to make progress.
3. An example depicts that Gandhi considered his own interests
to be over and above national interests. He had the power to
save the lives of three Indian freedom fighters namely Rajguru,
Sukhdev, and Bhagat Singh. However, considering their popularity
he did not utilise his power.
The points 2 and 3 themselves suggest how Gandhi was a threat to
the nation. Moreover, when all of them combine they come up with
a distinct satanic picture.
Mohammad Ali Jinnah blackmailed Gandhi that if he did not allow
him to have separate Muslim state (i.e. Pakistan) the country
will have to face a civil war. Gandhi in return blackmailed
Indians with his principle of Satyagraha and allow Jinnah to
create separate Pakistan thus dividing or destroying India. Now
there were many other existing and/or prospective separatist
groups in Punjab, Kashmir, Assam, South India, Maharashtra and
rather all over India who would have succeeded in creating their
own states by blackmailing fellow Indians through Gandhi, thus
diving India into pieces.
Let us now compare this hypothetical situation with Europe.
Europe is not one country but is constituted of separate
countries like Britain, France, Spain, Germany, etc. with
different ethnic origins. Say India is of the size of Europe and
the European countries are like the Indian states. Quite
apparently European countries are capable enough to govern
themselves and be developed but Indian states are not capable to
be separate nations in the highly globalized world. However,
Gandhi could have been happy with this idea as it is rather in
harmony with his idea of primordial lifestyle and society. The
father of the nation would have become the destroyer of the
nation. Moreover, after Gandhi was killed by a Hindu
(Kokanastha: those from the west cost of Maharashtra) Brahmin,
many, many innocent Brahmins were assassinated by the followers
of Gandhi (just because they were Brahmins). They even did not
care to see if those Brahmins were ever against Gandhi or not.
Is this the kind of impact Gandhi had on his followers ? Is this
the legacy of the father of the nation ? Thus, M K Gandhi was a
pseudointellectual and a selfish pacific extremist, terrorist,
and dictator.
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