Who are you? Why do you deserve a scholarship? If not awarded a scholarship‚ how would you otherwise pay for college? I am a first-generation immigrant with Korean roots. Entering a foreign country within a land of opportunity at the age of nine‚ I was unsure of what I wanted to pursue in life. At such a young age characterized by curiosity and perplexity‚ I did not have many personal goals laid before me. I found myself in a new complex world with a challenging language I had to learn from
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Walkin’ Lawton We have all heard of Governor’s‚ right? Well‚ one thing you probably don’t know is that we (Florida) have had forty-four different governors. Well‚ if we were to cover all of them‚ than we would be here all day long‚ but we’ll just talk about former Governor‚ Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. He was the 41st governor of Florida. He did a lot of work‚ like being in the Korean War from 1953- 1954. He is also known as “Walkin’ Lawton” when he walked 1‚003 miles from Key West to Pensacola in just
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My Journey to Georgia College On a bright Sunday morning‚ in a West African country called Nigeria‚ my phone rang. Who was on the phone? It was my father who resides In the United States. He called to inform me of his intention of bringing me over to the U.S. to complete my higher education. As young as I was then‚ I graduated from high school at the age of sixteen years old. I have always lived with my grandparents ever since I was forty days old. I objected to my father’s intention; I said‚ “No
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Student ID: 209153 Scholarship Essay I am always optimistic even as a high school senior that one day it can be done. It is going to defnitely take some time before our current leaders realize the need to embrace change and stop worthless politics of hunger for power and money. The community and the world around us have become hostile even to innocent human beings. People are increasingly becoming selfish and full of greed with the mind of amassing wealth in banks as they oppress the poor
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that if I do not complete my college degree I could never have the opportunity to achieve my career goals. So‚ I believe that I deserve to be selected for one of your foundation IJM’s scholarships because as a hard working student I commit myself to effectively take advantage of the opportunity that the scholarships will provide me. Besides‚ I am a student that does not only persistently work hard academically‚ but also I constantly try to improve my own community’s quality of life by doing volunteer
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My name is Kinsey Bates and I am the second in my family to attend college‚ but the struggles of being a college student are very new to me. My mother is a single parent of three kids‚ and is watching two of us go through college at the same time. She doesn’t have a degree higher than a high school diploma and works very diligently as a secretary for a plumbing shop‚ and is very supportive of all three of her kids. I’m diving into everything head first as a college student‚ working 36 hours a
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Scholarship essay As Franklin Roosevelt once said “It is only through labor and painful effort‚ by grim energy and resolute courage that we move on to better things”. My childhood was filled with memories of happiness‚ sadness and the loss of experiences that have made it hard for me to grow up. I’ve had to show my strength to overcome things and the courage to walk away from things that aren’t good for me without knowing if it will affect me in a bad way. Throughout the past few years I have
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skill. What makes me stand out from the hundred others armed with such skills is a concrete belief in myself‚ and the courage of my convictions. I have been motivated throughout my life by the example set to me by my father and my Uncles who are all self made men. They have taught me that circumstances can be won over and we are what we make of ourselves. During school years‚ I took a very serious attitude towards study. I have proven that I am a good worker by putting my effort
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Self-esteem and individual health at the work place Abstract The literature review was taken up to study the relationship of self-esteem between stressor and strains. The particular subject has been chosen to assist the interested party retrieve the basic knowledge to understand how and why people will react differently under stressors in the workplace. After revised the ten literatures‚ fours ideas have been drawn the underlying conclusion which is; global self esteem shows negatively related
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Self introduction speech Some of you might think I brought in these boxing gloves because I am a boxer or inspire to be a professional fighter someday‚ but in all honesty its none of these things. When I take a look at these gloves I see my past‚ present and future. How these boxing gloves represent my past is the way I grew up as a kid. As I was younger I was always moving locations‚ didn’t have many friends and was not the biggest kid in school‚ so for some reason I would get bullied
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