My motivation narrative essay
Jazmyne Turner
Lydia Gwyn
English 111 N4
February 12th, 2015
Dr. Crumpler motivated to change my career goal into becoming a biomedical technologist
Dr. Crumpler motivated me to change my career goal into becoming a biomedical technologist. It all started when was reading an article online for a black history story for a program at my church on someone famous from the past. So I decided to do some research about Dr. Rebecca Crumpler. I found an article about Dr. Crumpler. Although I could had have chosen other people but I chose Dr. Crumpler. However, she was an amazing woman that loved to help people. She changed the way I think about doctors. This strong and amazing woman was born as a free slave. She was taken and raised by her aunt who cared for infirm patients and neighbors. I reflected this on my past. I was raised by my grandparents till the age of two. Dr. Crumpler moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts where she became a nurse. I have had a chance to meet new people at a camp that I went to while I was in Durham a whole summer. The clinical staff at duke, that had become friends’ with submitted letters recommending that I should be admitted to the camp. When reading the story I found some great facts about Dr. Crumpler. Like she was the first African American to go to New England Female Medical College and graduate from the college. Also that she graduated in 1864. After graduating from the college, she accomplished becoming the first African American woman in the United States to earn a medical degree.
But what surprised me the most was in the middle of the story I found out that Dr. Crumpler had published a book on a journal that she wrote in written a book that was based on journals she kept during her years of practice. Her book was called “Book of Medical Discourses”. In one of her stories in her book she quoted this becoming a doctor is “a proper field for real missionary work” and also that "It may be well to state here that, having been reared by
Lydia Gwyn
English 111 N4
February 12th, 2015
Dr. Crumpler motivated to change my career goal into becoming a biomedical technologist
Dr. Crumpler motivated me to change my career goal into becoming a biomedical technologist. It all started when was reading an article online for a black history story for a program at my church on someone famous from the past. So I decided to do some research about Dr. Rebecca Crumpler. I found an article about Dr. Crumpler. Although I could had have chosen other people but I chose Dr. Crumpler. However, she was an amazing woman that loved to help people. She changed the way I think about doctors. This strong and amazing woman was born as a free slave. She was taken and raised by her aunt who cared for infirm patients and neighbors. I reflected this on my past. I was raised by my grandparents till the age of two. Dr. Crumpler moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts where she became a nurse. I have had a chance to meet new people at a camp that I went to while I was in Durham a whole summer. The clinical staff at duke, that had become friends’ with submitted letters recommending that I should be admitted to the camp. When reading the story I found some great facts about Dr. Crumpler. Like she was the first African American to go to New England Female Medical College and graduate from the college. Also that she graduated in 1864. After graduating from the college, she accomplished becoming the first African American woman in the United States to earn a medical degree.
But what surprised me the most was in the middle of the story I found out that Dr. Crumpler had published a book on a journal that she wrote in written a book that was based on journals she kept during her years of practice. Her book was called “Book of Medical Discourses”. In one of her stories in her book she quoted this becoming a doctor is “a proper field for real missionary work” and also that "It may be well to state here that, having been reared by