During a two week mission trip to Trujillo‚ Peru I volunteered in a medical clinic. My life purpose; becoming a nurse‚ was revealed to me while comforting children with distended abdomens due to malnutrition and contaminated water‚ as well as elders with crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis. This heartbreaking experience‚ gave me a cultured view of global healthcare needs. My goal as a nurse is to bring joy and comfort to patients. A girl from my highschool was diagnosed with stage 4 Rhabdomyosarcoma at
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English Comp 1 20 September 2013 Christmas Decorating A tradition is like playing the lottery. When you do it once‚ you will do it over and over again. Christmas is always a big deal in my family! We all throw a little extra hustle and bustle into the holiday season. Every Christmas season starts with me getting down the decorations from the attic. There are so many boxes to take down and it seems like the number of boxes grows every year. After taking down the multiple boxes of decorations
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1. Indicate interests (academic and creative/cultural) as they relate to the study travel description: Academically‚ I am interested in this trip because I want gain to knowledge on the health realities in Africa. I run an organization with my friend Jaree‚ in which we seek to improve the health of women in underserved communities and I hope this experience will shed some light on some common health issues that may be a reoccurring issue among women of color. In addition‚ as a political science
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Feminism is a very controversial topic in today’s society and has been growing greatly ever since World War II. In general‚ feminism refers to movements aimed at instituting and protecting equal political‚ economic‚ social rights and equal opportunities for all women. Some of these rights include legal protection‚ inclusion in politics‚ business‚ scholarship‚ recognition and building of women’s cultures and power. Feminism is contentious because it faces traditions in many areas especially for
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Before I arrived at NCOA‚ I wasn’t sure what I was going to learn throughout the course. Some friends told me the course was amazing‚ while others said it is just a vacation and I should enjoy it. Then‚ there are the people who just plain hate school and said it was the worst time ever. I tried to keep an open mind about the course‚ but it becomes difficult when you have so many people telling you so many different things. I tried to put all my opinions and misconceptions aside and give the material
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Mythological Influence in Today’s Society – Reflective Essay I’ve always thought myths were irrelevant. Dead‚ even. Things that no one thought were more than just stories made up by old dead people when they were bored‚ without any real purpose. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Through analysing numerous parts of Greek mythology‚ watching Harry Potter‚ and then putting our knowledge together with the mythology photo essay‚ I have come to learn that myths are anything but dead in modern society
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StrengthsFinder were: Empathy‚ Developer‚ Intellection‚ Input‚ and Adaptability. All these traits will be very beneficial to me as a future adoption caseworker. Empathy is the top strength I got‚ the StrenghtsFinder writes about empathy as “You can feel what they are feeling as though their feelings are your own.” My intuition towards other’s feelings would help me help others‚ especially if someone is giving up their child to give to another family. I would be able to identity how they are feeling to
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The First day Reflective Essay “The First Day”‚ by Edward P. Jones is pretty simple story to read. It is not complicated if only reader understand the concept of how adults who don’t have ability to read or write have to get through their lives harder than ones who have that kind of ability. Author want to give reader an idea how a girl feel when she find that her mother struggled in placing her daughter in a school only because she cannot do what other people normally can do. But that doesn’t stop
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William Hobart Jr.‚ was a carpenter (“Hobart family history”). Due to his choice of career he was able to gain a special set of skills‚ which ultimately lead to the fact that the house he built for his family was the most expensive in the area. From what I found on the 1940 U.S. Census‚ my great grandfather’s house was worth $18‚000. Given the fact that the dollar had more value back then this amount doesn’t look like much‚ but it was actually pretty expensive. The average home in America cost around
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I am a determined person and I use this to help me improve at gymnastics and I think I am gradually improving. I believe that if you are good at something then you should not cover up your talent. You should let everyone know‚ and be confident in what you do. I try to do this but I would hate to boast about my skills in gymnastics no matter how good I may or may not be. I also enjoy dancing as the group I am a member of involves gymnastics. Any new skills I learn‚ whether it is at school‚ gymnastics
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