I want to be awarded this scholarship because of my passion for learning and my drive to change the world. Currently‚ I attend Colorado State University and I will be entering my sophomore year. At Colorado State University I major in International Studies with a minor in Political Science. As such‚ I have a focus on the Middle East North Africa region and my goal by the time I graduate is to be fluent in Arabic. I want to learn Arabic because I believe learning languages is a way of creating tolerance
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Single Parenting Single-parent families are very common in today’s world. Two-parent families can no longer be seen as the traditional families because today‚ more than 30% of families in the United States are headed by a single parent. Despite different racial and ethnic groups‚ the number of children that live in a home with two parents has been declining over the years. Of course single parent households are faced with many challenges and difficulties for both the parent and the child‚ but
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Single Parent 1 Living in Single Parent Households- The Positive Views Marlene Matos Axia College of University of Phoenix Single Parent 2 Is a two parent household upbringing better for children than a single parent household? Many of today’s society will answer yes to this question. “Children who grow up in house-holds with different family structures experience different outcomes since family structure is changing rapidly”. (McLanahan‚ 2007). What if the two parent household
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Denn-Kroeff Family Scholarship If you could change anything about the last four years of your life‚ what would it be and why? If I could change anything about the last four years of my life‚ I know of a few things I would rewrite. To begin‚ I would remind myself to stress less about petty things‚ and instead focus on the reality. I would tell myself that my real friends would reveal themselves‚ and to sooner accept that not all childhood friends would stay. Furthermore‚ after finding those true friends
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confident‚ that if these qualities remain with me I will become a successful and contributing member of society‚ in spite of any challenges and uncertainties I might one day face. I consider myself an outstanding candidate for the St. Cloud Orthopedics Scholarship due to my career ambitions‚ my diverse experiences‚ and my history of
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ever. The college I have chosen not only provides me with the hands-on training‚ but also teaches me about real-life skills and communication. But due to a high financial cost needed to attend the college‚ I am very limited on my resources. My mother has a hard time taking care of the household‚ and thus does not have time to work. My father is the only source of income‚ and he works very hard to provide us with family necessities. It would really ease the burden on my shoulders if I had received
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I am Edgar Zimmerman‚ Jr. and I am sending this correspondence as my personal statement and request to receive your financial support again for your Actuary Science Diversity Scholarship. I am now 18 years of age and currently a freshman at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). My major is Mathematics for Business with a Concentration in Actuarial Science. Every actuary professional that I have talked to about becoming an actuary has recommended that I take the actuarial exams
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Single parenting Single parenting is where a parent lives alone and takes most of the day to day the responsibilities in taking care of a child or children without a spouse or partner‚ in other words single parent involves a single person plus a dependent child (more likely to be a female parent) and is sometimes referred to as the broken nuclear family (where mom and dad and kids live under the same roof but parents decide to spilt-up). In Trinidad and Tobago there are 18 percent single parent
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2012 DREAM ACT STUDENT ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Since MALDEF’s founding‚ the civil rights organization has awarded scholarships to support the higher educational attainment of students who seek to further MALDEF’s mission of advancing the civil rights of the Latino community in the United States. In 2012‚ MALDEF will offer scholarships of up to $5‚000 each to selected DREAM Act student activists. MALDEF seeks to support the nation’s college and graduate student leaders who have
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From abrogating the infamous problem of world hunger that is prevalent among the developing countries to the preservation of Mother Nature who seems to exponentially spiral down towards death in correlation to our nonstop industrial poison‚ the premiere issue that arises to be solved is not utilizing these funds solely to discover or use on research for the historically-yearned panacea of all these problems‚ but to discover the grades of importance to which these problems need to be chronologically
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