In my response to why I want to be accepted in the Physician Assistant program‚ I find it important to share a little history that literally started me on my path into the medical field. Since I was a little girl‚ it has been my heart’s desire‚ and now my mission‚ to be a physician assistant! I want to help prevent‚ diagnose and treat health conditions. I believe that the following experience that I will share here will shed more light into my character and work ethics. I came to New York at the
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My admiration and respect for the profession of medicine developed at the age of 8‚ due to a close encounter with death. I was admitted in a hospital due to an extremely low and rapidly deteriorating blood platelet count. At first the doctors provided me with a treatment that should have treated 90% of the cases‚ but they didn’t have any effect on me‚ and with the time running out quickly they resorted to the next best treatment. If this treatment didn’t work‚ I was only left one other option and
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DNA is the most important for life One of the most complex and mysterious aspects of contemporary science is the constitution of life. While it goes without saying there are an enormous amount of components that collaborate to achieve the most effective and efficient components of life‚ it’s also clear that some of these molecular components contribute to the actual function of living system more than others. This essay argues the DNA is the most important molecule for life. Deoxyribonucleic
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waiting to have a life altering surgery on his clubbed foot. His family had sold everything they owned to put him in a van that would take him across the country so he could have his surgery. Meeting him and hearing his story had a direct impact on why I decided to pursue a career in medicine. Knowing that there
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My First Skydiving Experience "Jumping is fun! Skydiving is not just falling; it is flying—the closest we have been able to come to free‚ unencumbered‚ non-mechanical individual flight‚" says Mike Turoff in the book The Skydiver’s Handbook. I totally agree with him because skydiving provides the maximum liberty that one can ever experience. In this article‚ I’d like to describe to you my first jump in order to show you how much fun skydiving is. First of all‚ I learned about skydiving via the
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I am the youngest child of my family. In addition to that‚ my older sibling is an inherently dominant boy. Therefore‚ I have spontaneously felt inferior to him. My strong sense of leadership was not established until I left my home country. A thirty-hour exhausting flight physically transported me from Vietnam to a foreign land - America‚ as well as figuratively transformed a childish girl to a young leader at the age of fifteen. I moved in with my uncle’s family in Texas. From a careless‚ youngest
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European as they come. My fraternal grandparents came over from Denmark and if we go a little further back‚ my maternal extended family‚ came over on the Mayflower (John Alden to be exact) from England and Ireland. At some point they all landed in the Midwest either in Wisconsin or Minnesota. We have always enjoyed a combined heritage experience when it comes to special holidays such as Christmas and Easter‚ but we have also been fortunate to share in Ramadan‚ Seders and other experiences due to the progressiveness
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together to assess the student’s knowledge‚ what she or he needs to learn to improve and extend this knowledge‚ and how the student can best get to that point (formative assessment). Assessment for learning occurs at all stages of the learning process. Assessment for learning Comprises two phases—initial or diagnostic assessment and formative assessment Diagnostic Assessment- This set of diagnostic assessment materials for literacy‚ language and numeracy (Entry 1 to Level 2) was a national development
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My most significant accomplishment was being first chair trumpet. When I first started playing trumpet in fifth grade‚ I was terrible at it. I started practicing more in middle school‚ but I still wasn’t progressing much. I then started taking lessons during sixth grade and learned that my mouth position was very wrong. My lesson teacher was able to help me fix that problem but then I got braces. When I got braces‚ I took a huge step back. I had to relearn how to play the trumpet. I eventually got
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Hannah Schleis FSN 250-01 April 15‚ 2013 Ethnic Dining Experience Since I have been living here in San Luis Obispo I have walked by Thai Palace many times while downtown but I have never gotten the chance to go. This assignment was the perfect opportunity. I have tried Thai food before‚ back home in Idaho‚ but have only tried a few of the most generic dishes offered. This time I was eager to try something a little more out of my comfort zone. As I walked in the restaurant I noted a very distinct
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