Scholarship Essays. Why do You deserve this scholarship ? “When you do the best‚ God will do the rest” – this quote is the lamp that guided me‚ and always will throughout my academic career. I still remember how uncomfortable it felt when I missed lessons and tuitions due to illness. I never wanted to let classes go unattended. I never wanted to burn the midnight oil when the exams are around the corner. I am always responsible‚ enthusiastic‚ organized and focused on achieving my goal. Since young
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My name is ‚ and currently I am a senior at . After high school I plan to go to college and major in Nursing and minor in Physical Therapy. Throughout my life there have been a number of people giving me advice‚ but the one person that stuck on me the most is Minister George M. Howard Jr. my youth minister. This man has been like a father to me knowing that he will always be there when I need lifts my spirit. Minister George M. Howard Jr. told me that “It’s not about who you know‚ it’s about who
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‘If Only I Knew Then What I Know Now’ is such a haunting statement‚ it’s a story in and of itself that we can all relate to. As a title ‘If I Knew What I Knew Then’ redefines and adds context to the painting by revealing another layer of meaning. American artist Maggie Newman revisits her past and connects to her viewers in this 1997 portrait by subtly evoking the feeling of grief and melancholy without overpowering the work with emotion. Style: In and of itself Maggie Newman’s painting isn’t much
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i Robot Science fiction has come a very long way in the last few years. With the development of new technology‚ science fiction becomes more and more believable and realistic. Many sci-fi books have been made into movies. This is the case with i Robot which was first a book by Isaac Asimov. This movie is very realistic and answers many “what if” questions. The movie begins giving background information on Del Spooner‚ a detective that is suspicious of the robots that have taken over everyday
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28 November 2012 Essay 2 This I Believe Essay Throughout elementary and middle school‚ I always thought education wasn’t as important as other things such as the sports I played‚ hanging out with friends and doing things that I enjoyed. I would often find myself blowing off homework and doing it last minute or not even doing it all. I’ve changed quite a bit since those days‚ but it took me some time to realize that what I was doing wasn’t any good for me. I believe that at some point in your
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I don’t believe it was acceptable for the U.S. to drop the atomic bomb. Because of Truman‚ over 70‚000 innocent people died. Had he not chosen this path‚ there would have been no civilian casualties. But I can also see where he was coming from. He wanted to save American lives. Truman believed he was doing the right thing. He had to make a decision based on what had happened. He was trying to gain a victory in the pacific by getting the Japanese to surrender. His option was that or the ‘or else’
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I Remember “Mom did you just see that‚ a plane just fell from the sky.” While I sat on the floor I couldn’t believe what I had just said. A plane fell from the sky. I had just turned six a few hours ago. Any child who was basically five years old would never be able to grasp the concept of why a plane would crash into a building. Not only would they not be able to understand one plane falling‚ but three in just one day. I could only look to my parents for answers. I remember my birthday
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Iraq invasions The Iraq war was a horrible thing. It caused many things to happen. I’m against going to war with them because there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as the US government claimed. One of the main reasons listed by George W Bush for the war was to secure Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons‚ which did not even exist. Secondly‚ there were no terrorists in Iraq‚ and Iraq had no connection to Sept. 11. We should have focused our resources in Afghanistan where the real terrorists
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assignment I created a cover for The Great Gatsby using photshop. This is a project I really enjoyed doing and it let me test the knowledge I had about photoshop‚ and about the symbolism in the novel. I wanted to keep the cover rather uncrounded and simple while packing in a lot of this symbolism. I did not include the authors name F. Scott Fitzgereald on my cover because I didn’t want to draw the attention away from the images and colors on the cover. I figured that if this was a real book cover they
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"I think‚ therefore I am" The statement "I think‚ therefore I am" lays the groundwork for Renè Descartes ’ argument in the Meditations. To understand this expression‚ one must put themselves in Descartes ’ place. He started off trying to figure what he can know with certainty. He examined a large body of knowledge and figured out that he cannot be certain of any knowledge at all. Beginning in Meditation Two‚ Descartes searches for the something that must be true no matter what. This led to the conclusion
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