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    2.1 Peace corps and teacher training The first of Peace Corps's three stated goals is "to help developing countries meet their needs for trained manpower. Analogous to this goal is the ancient proverb (and commonly-cited Peace Corps philosophy): If you give people fish, they will eat for a day; ifyou teach them how to fish, they will eat for a lifetime. Peace Corps teacher training aims to do just this - in this case, to train enough local teachers to meet a country's teaching needs. This is an

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    According to the Peace Corps website, “The Peace Corps is a service opportunity for motived change makers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side by side with local leaders to tackle the most pressing challenges of our generation.” The West Michigan chapter and the entirety of the Peace Corps hold the same values and missions. They want to promote world peace and friendship by fulfilling three goals, according to the Peace Corps website. According to their website, the three goals

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    backward Middle East” (Targeted News Service). The organization being named the Peace Corps, is still up and running and working hard to help thousands of people in need. They took people out to poverty, changed American’s minds, and accepted diversity. Reasons that go beyond my wildest dreams, are why people should continue to support the Peace Corp. A report done by Ryan Rommann states, “from 1961 to

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    Americans more to spread democracy, peace, development, and freedom, so he started the peace corps with his brother in law. After a month of debating it among people, they decided to start it in February of 1961. The Peace Corps was established by executive order on March 1, 1961. The congress approved the Peace Corps as a federal agency within the State Department, on September 22, 1961. In 1981, the Peace Corps was made an independent agency. In the 1960s, the Peace Corps was very popular with college

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    2017, I attended the “Peace Corps: Making a Difference in Communities Abroad, in the Lives of Volunteers and in the U.S.” talk for International Education Week. I had always been curious about the workings of the Peace Corps, and I thought that learning more about it would be beneficial and I was pleasantly surprised by just how much I learned about this incredible organization. The theme of the talk was “making the most of your world.” Anne Tatarsky, the local Peace Corps recruiter, was the main

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    The Peace Corps has values which I believe in and would stand for, given the chance. I would like to be given the chance because I want to partake in educating those in need. I believe that the Peace Corps can help me do so. For example, the Peace Corps educates the communities in order to ensure that they will be able to support themselves after the volunteers leave. This is important to me because it is not enough to simply teach someone how to do things, but to reevaluate that they can do it themselves

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    The Peace Corps, officially established on March 1st 1961, is a governmental agency devoted to world peace and progression. The Peace Corps was established by Senator John F. Kennedy when he inspired a group of students at the University of Michigan to work for their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing societies abroad. From that encouragement developed an agency of the federal government. The Peace Corps is organized into groups of volunteers and trainees that are

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    John F. Kennedy peace corps First I will start by telling what the peace corps the peace corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. John F. Kennedy ( JFK) started the peace corps to help out the people in need and give them chance and is giving them technical assistance. They have helped several people in the united states that was in need for shelter and in need for technical assistance. The united states mission of the peace corps provides technical assistance also helping

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    The First Years of the Peace Corps Essay

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    four-year American style university, but was having trouble recruiting teaching staff. The Peace Corps made up a third of the staff at the university. In 1971, the Peace Corps left Nigeria. Nevertheless, the Peace Corps legacy was not forgotten, and in 1991, an interview with Bukar Zarma, the editor and publisher of Nigeria’s capital city newspaper, stated, “I was extremely motivated in science by my former Peace Corps science teacher who had such a passion for space” (“Nigerians Speak Warmly… 1). Other

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    solution in the form of international youth volunteers. A stark contrast to American stereotypes of using violence and warfare to achieve victory, the Peace Corps provided a unique way for young people looking to further the United States’ global position to avoid the bloodshed and gore of the battle field. By making peace instead of war, the Peace Corps made a lasting impression upon its members, America, and the world with its non-violent founding in the midst of global tension, its formation of a

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