When asked why I want to become a counselor‚ or specifically a trauma counselor‚ I always focus on my upbringing. I come from nothing; my family struggled to pay bills month after month and often unable to pay them‚ stress began to build in my household which led to high levels of trauma exposure. As I was growing up‚ I saw addiction swallow my family whole. As my mother’s alcoholism took over our family‚ my father started experimenting with drugs‚ which in turn‚ made him violent. The abuse started
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Careers Connections- Slumdog Millionaire 1. Jamal’s personality and morals remained relatively constant throughout his life despite many traumatic and difficult experiences. From what I have seen in the movie‚ I can conclude that Jamal is a kinesthetic learner‚ meaning that he obtains his knowledge physically. These events shaped Jamal positively‚ because through his life experiences‚ he has acquired and obtained a great amount of general knowledge‚ more than what is expected from a “Slumdog”. As
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up as a child. My family moved from Guyana to the United States when I was a young child. As an immigrant family‚ my parents suffered financially to provide for my brother and I. Not only did we suffer from poverty my younger was also born with Down syndrome. My parents did not know much about this mental illness disorder coming from a third world country‚ there is not sufficient information and resources about mental illness. I am very thankful everyday that my parents were connected with a supportive
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because I will be the first in my family to graduate. I will also be the first to graduate from high school. My mom dropped out of school when she was a freshman and my dad did not make it passed third grade. I want to obtain my degree because I want to be a social worker for children. I want to get more people to become foster parents to help more children. I was in foster care when I was younger and it put an impact on my life to the point where I wanted to help more to put myself out there. I had
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my life ever since I decided to join elementary school choir in third-grade. Since I have discovered my passion for performing the musical arts‚ I have also been someone who has sat back and talked to everyone to get their opinion. I believe that my appliance to Drum Captain will be a natural transition as I always try to do the best for those around me. My goal has been to inspire the group with my accepting personality by leading them into becoming better musicians and people. I believe that by applying
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My motivation for becoming a social worker came about from my own past experiences. During my adolescent years‚ I both witnessed and experienced numerous families in a crisis. This had a profound effect on my perspective on life and the meaning of family. Growing up‚ I was taught that community engagement and offering assistance to others are vital for a productive life. I was raised with the belief that if you are fortunate enough to be in a position to help others‚ and can positively contribute
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me to do once I graduate high school is one of the hardest things to do. There are many of careers that interest me‚ I have chosen two that would benefit me in the best way. One career that I explored is a financial manager. I chose this career because I have an interest in the accounting side of math and would enjoy working with numbers and also working with farmers and families trying to expand their operations. The second career that I had the most interest in was a crop farmer. I chose this career
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Why do I want to become a teacher? All of my experience for the past 10 years since I have been in USA led me to realizing that I am passionate about teaching and working with children. I migrated to this country from Slovak Republic right after graduating from Comenius University with the major in Biochemistry. Being only 22 years old I wanted to experience some adventure before getting the regular 9-5 job at some Research Laboratory. I signed up for a Summer Program with YMCA and came to Poland
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the most” I become clueless. Looking around the English classroom‚ I was hoping to find a few other confused and distracted faces‚ but instead‚ when the teacher asked the class if we had some good ideas‚ everyone was obediently nodding. All I could think about was how well these videos were directed and how clever they were. Then I was left thinking‚ am I that uncreative and unoriginal? Surely it couldn’t be that hard to string 500 words together on my thoughts about a one minute video I watched –
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future. I would like to tell you why I would like to become a special education teacher and what has led me to this decision and why I want to become a teacher. I have chosen to become a teacher because I myself am a product of someone whom I consider to be the best teacher in the world. As a child in Virginia‚ I was inspired by a wonderful coach and teacher named Mr. Scott Nunnaly. Mr. Nunnaly taught me that any dream was possible. If I put my mind to accomplishing any goal I could make
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