Dat Nguyen UC Personal Insight Questions Fall 2016 1. Please describe how you have prepared for your intended major‚ including your readiness to succeed in your upper-division courses once you enroll at the university. When I was working in Palo Alto city‚ having to commute back and forth during rush hour on US 101 was not fun. It kept me wondering why we still cannot solve the traffic problem‚ despite of many breakthrough technologies. My dream is one day I could replace the least reliable part
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“I Have a Dream” My dream is to minimize the amount of pollution and waste in the United States. Pollution can be very harmful both to humans and nature. Pollution can cause physical deformities such as cancer and environmental harm such as acid rain‚ destruction to the ozone layer that protects the world from UV rays emitted by the sun. With the help of our nation‚ we can help reduce the nationwide pollution in our cities and the countryside. We can achieve this dream by working together
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I didn’t grow up in the most conventional household. My parents both worked and we consistently had babysitters and nannies taking care of us most of my childhood. My mom was the “breadwinner” she had always made significantly more than my dad and there was really no reason for my dad to work in the first place‚ he really just did it because he loved it. As my 4 brothers and I got older it got progressively harder on my parents being away from home so much. When a job opportunity with less hours
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Domun English Essay I have a dream that one day… I have a dream that one day we will grow up to realize what kind of a world we have created. We have taken this beautiful world for granted too many times and I say that it’s time for change! I have a dream that one day our world will come together as one and fix the mess that we have left behind in our tracks. It seems to me
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Brooke Beckwith- “I Have a Dream” Metaphorical Analysis In “I have a Dream”‚ King uses metaphors as a common device to convey the main issues of justice‚ freedom‚ and equality that were prevalent during the civil rights movement. King uses descriptive imagery in his metaphors so the audience can empathize with the American Negro community. Life as a black person during the nineteen-fifties was horrendous‚ “The Negro [lived] on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material
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Dances of the Cordillera Groups Place of Origin | Title of Dance | Nature of Dance | Costume and Props Used | Dance Description | Mountain Province | Banga | Occupational Dances | Heavy Earthen Pots | Igorot maidens go to the river and prepare for a marriage ceremony. They display not only their grace and agility‚ but also their stamina and strength as they go about their daily task of fetching water and balancing the banga‚ claypots full of water‚ on their heads. | Northern Benguet | Lepanto
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28th‚ 1963‚ King gave one of his most influencing speeches entitled "I Have A Dream." The speech was a critical step toward civil rights movement‚ because without it‚ King’s opinions of freedom and equality would never reach the hearts of his people‚ and they would never stand up as a whole to defend themselves. During the speech‚ King successfully expressed his opinions‚ and emotionally affected many listeners. This success came from his sensitive approach to audience‚ his unique use of style‚ and his
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Danielle Ofri’s Insight On Ethics. Before laws existed‚ people did what they deemed was correct. Could it be that simple? “Common Ground” is a short story by Danielle Ofri. It’s about a doctor who is hired at a Catholic hospital. At this hospital‚ they do not condone abortions or provide referrals for them. The doctor finds herself in a tough situation where her professionalism is put up against her personal duty to her patients. The story may seem to be solely about abortion and religion but there
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If you ask me where I’m from‚ postal speaking I am from a small town named Sandpoint - right in the tippy top of Idaho‚ just below the Canadian border. But‚ when you ask me where I am from regardless of boundaries‚ I am from Sunnyside. In the mid 1800’s a couple stumbled across a field overlooking the lake and decided to make camp on such beautiful grounds. After many days past they began to realize that this land was unoccupied‚ went up the hill just enough to see the lake but to be able to access
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likely to run away from home than an adolescent child. Many people think about running away just to leave there problems behind in turn they create new and more complicated problems. As a teen I ran away for a day it was not a long period of time before I ended up back at home. But since my parents were divorced I ended up moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to live with my mother. From there my life seemed to go downhill because my mother did not care what I did. To this day‚ I still dislike my
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