As I am sitting at my kitchen table typing this and as I am typing and thinking of why exactly I deserve this scholarship‚ as I am erasing and typing‚ my mother keeps looking at me. As I ask her why she is looking at me and asking so many questions about my text. I realized why she was asking so many questing about what I was doing or why it is that I was focusing so hard on an essay. She didn’t understand because growing up she was not given this opportunity or for that matter any hope of education
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My Special Object “He is so cute” says the nurse. “What is his name” it is chase said my mom. My mom came in with a soft yellow blanket with little mice on it and cheese. When I saw the blanket my eyes locked on to it. Once I got it I was unbelievably happy. Once I got out of the doctor office and got home It stayed with me everywhere I went. I knew I would love this object because I got it when I was born and it was really soft. I asked my mom where she got this object and she got it at the store
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“Do You Need Anything?” When my sister and I were little‚ we would go to our grandparents’ house every day during the summer and every afternoon during school. Every day was a different adventure for the both of us due to our great imaginations. My sister and I loved pretending to be country music stars with our guitars and cowboy hats. Some days we would be princesses and dance as though we were at a ball‚ while other days we were serving food in our own play restaurant. No matter what is was that
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Veterinary Technology Is My Future My parents are the main people in my life that I have to thank for making me the respectable young woman I am pushing to become. Not only have they taught me to work hard‚ but they’ve taught me how to sympathise and compromise to help animals that can’t help themselves‚ and always remember to respect God’s creatures. I have stuck by these beliefs my whole life‚ even as a young child‚ as I believe this is the best advice they have given me towards my future. Animals
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My Future Goals and Why My future goal is to obtain enough education for me acquire some of the skills I want to work with women and children that have been abused‚ either violently or sexually. One of my main reasons for enrolling In the Addiction Studies Program here at Peninsula College is because drugs and alcohol play a huge part in Domestic Violence and other forms of abuse among other things. I would like to open a unique center‚ where women and children could go for safety‚ and I would
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I believe in opportunity. The definition of opportunity is something that you want to do‚ have the chance to do‚ or the possibility·of achieving something. When I was younger‚ I lived in a heavily populated town: Laredo‚ Texas. At the time‚ I was an eighth grader trying to make my mom proud by getting good grades in my classes. Seeing my mom happy was the greatest feeling in the world. My father‚ on the other hand‚ started to disappear on us. I found out that my dad had a drug problem‚ and my mom
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“If I were you‚ I would go to UCLA. You may not realize it‚ but you will appreciate being close to home” my father told me as senior year of high school came to an end. 18 years living in the same house with my family made me want to get as far away from California as I could for college. UCLA‚ a 50-minute drive from my home in Irvine‚ did not seem as exciting as going off to the east coast by myself‚ which was always how I envisioned my college experience. As a naïve 18-year-old‚ I figured I no
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I grew up with my grandparents. My interest in nursing started when my grandmother was diagnosed with abdominal aneurysm. My mother was in the province attending to my younger siblings while the other two daughters of my grandma were out of the country‚ working. I was the one who stays with her at the hospital‚ feeding her‚ giving bath and dressing her up‚ massaging her legs when she complains of her arthritis and praying the rosary with her every night. Back in my country‚ Philippines‚ there
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Attending college to some might just be a traditional thing that everyone in their family does. For me‚ attending college is truly an honor and accomplishment for not only my family‚ but for myself as well. As I embark the beginning of a new chapter of my life‚ I began to think this generic question‚ which is why do I want to go to college. I want to start a tradition and be a role model for my younger sister since I will be the first person in my family to attend college. Seeing my parents work
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Helene Cooper 3/27/13 A Teenage Random Act of Kindness As a teenager not many held much hope for my future. I was constantly in trouble cutting school‚ fighting‚ drinking alcohol and just had an outright horrible attitude towards anyone that attempted to set me straight. There were many reasons behind my anger that this paper doesn’t warrant going very deep into. I knew right from wrong and I also knew that I wasn’t a “bad” person. That being said‚ I found
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