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Question: Popular culture has dubbed you and your contemporaries . Respond to this label and describe any feelings brought about by this.
My main objective in writing this essay was to articulate my feelings on a topic which should matter to those of us...
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Scholarship Essay
?Did life exist on Mars??
?What would it take to build a spaceship that could travel at the speed of light??
?When will the moon be colonized??
These are just some of the questions that wander through my mind all day. Fascinated by the...
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Scholarship Essay
Since the day I was born, I have enjoyed story-telling. My first memories are of my father spinning me tales, as I nodded off. Every night I traveled back in time through his stories. I learned of Nero's sadistic burning of Rome, Adolph Hitler's...
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The prompt is: Describe and evaluate one experience that significantly influenced your academic interests. Be sure to explain how this experience led to your setting the goals you know have for yourself and why you think the academic program for which...
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Woman Warrior
Food strengthens us, without it we are weak. Eating has always been an important factor with families living in poor conditions. Often, those who could not help to produce more food are considered inferior or unworthy to eat. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman...
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It was easy to empathize with Andy Dufresne and the other prisoners in The Shawshank Redemption as they suffered in their prison cells, I suffered while watching the movie. It was not because I disliked the film far...
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The black pirate hat danced around in the air, weaving and bobbing to some Disneyland music. Attached to it was my head and the rest of me, being dragged along on this wild ride. The only sounds I heard were ones of trumpets soaring higher and...
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I shudder at the sight of it. I?d rather see them steal that salad than throw it away,? my father bellows in consternation after witnessing the closing rituals at Wendy's.
?Pa, they do it so they can serve fresh food tomorrow,?...
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University of Washington Admissions Essay
The challenging family situation I would like to share with you is our move from Korea to the United States. In 1989, my life was changed when my family immigrated to a new country, hoping for a better...
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I think I?d want someone who was really intelligent and was after the meaning of life. Someone who?d had insights that I hadn't who could really bounce ideas back at me in a conversation. Someone who wasn't afraid to break with the norm and who didn't care if he...
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In response to the question ?what has been your biggest mistake??
My biggest mistake is everyone's biggest mistake, that no one can help. We all take on assumptions throughout our lives, and when we finally come to understand this, we spend our lives undoing...
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Everyone is affected by certain events or individuals that greatly change their life. Many people have influenced me during my life. Three wonderful friends that have had a special effect on me are Robert, Tiffany and Ashley. In the four...
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By unlocking the door to (name) past, one
sees his thoughts and actions when they first
took hold of his persona. This essay serves
as a key to that door and to my current
personality.
The first beloved books in my life were the
Sesame Street Encyclopedia volumes....
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?Observe, Watson.?
An unfamiliar voice caused me to stop dead in my tracks as I was coming back to my table. Surreptitiously glancing through the foliage, I noticed two men pointing at something. Hesitant to announce my...
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I was a little worried writing about my mother because I thought it would seem like I was looking for sympathy, but I figured it was a good topic to write about because it had the largest effect on me. My goal...
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High school is a strange time. After three years of trying to develop identity and friends in middle school, students are expected to mature immediately on the first day of ninth grade, but I never did this. I never fully realized in the...
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An automobile, a vibrant yellow sportscar, pulls up to the front of the school. Its mirrored windows reflect the faces of a large crowd, waiting breathlessly for the car door to open. A man steps out of the driver's side, dressed in...
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Some say that mankind is complex beyond comprehension. I cannot, of course, speak for every other individual on this earth, but I do not believe that I am a very difficult person to understand. My life is based upon two very simple, sweeping...
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What motivates me to seek a college education? In addition, why Berea College is a good choice for me.
December 16, 2000
The last couple of years have been a long bumpy ride for me, as they...
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There are three main categories of things that can be gained in a life experience. We can gain materially, gain in our personality, and gain knowledge. According to our goals we pick which we want more of. I want nothing of the first except to aid my...
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A few days ago, as I was eating lunch with friends, I entered a heated debate about the worth of education. ?I should not have to learn algebra and calculus because it will have no influence on my life,? my opponent angrily shouted as I tried to defend the...
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Scholarship Essay
A few days ago, as I was eating lunch with friends, I entered a heated debate a bout the worth of education. ?I should not have to learn algebra and calculus because it will have no influence on my life,? my opponent angrily shouted as I...
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The Panuluyan was a real eye-opener for me. It made me become aware of the things, which I have normally taken for granted. It was so surprising to see how much little they have, yet at the same time they cherish each little blessing they receive and they...
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In High School, college seemed to be the scariest thing that I could think of. Whenever I thought about it my stomach would immediately begin to spin in circles. Although I was ready to go off and be by myself and meet new people I was scared to death at the...
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Throughout high school and during my undergraduate studies, education was never a top priority for me. Only during the past two years, in the ?real world?, have I realized the importance of education. I look back at those years and wish I had...
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I remember the day as if it were yesterday. During my second year in college, I was attempting to transmit a group of characters comprising my name from one computer to another. I connected the computers using RS-232 cable, wrote the necessary programs and...
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It's unbelievable how each year, since the beginning of high school, my perfectly laid plans for myself have unavoidably deteriorated. When I entered my freshman year, I had aspirations of being a doctor (something I had wanted to be since I was a child). Now, here I am...
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What do you believe best represents why you should be considered for this type of financial support? Limit your response to no more than 200 words per question.
I think I should point out that the Faculty of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University is the most...
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No greater contribution can be made to a specific field than research that leads to the development of a new and superior technology. Universities and businesses constantly attempt to remain on the cutting edge of new design, manufacturing, and application systems...
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Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested with aircraft. I
was so curious of how airplane's fly. I remember taking my toys apart to see
how it works. As a kid I wanted to go to the airport to watch the airplanes
land and fly and...
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My past projects centered around analyzing, formulating and delivering solutions in every stage of providing Microsoft-format software for major Fortune500 companies. I have also designed a database system (implemented in SQL Server) and...
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Good morning. I don't think I can even begin to relate just how terrifying this is, so here's what I?m gonna do instead; I'll mumble, speak much too quickly, avoid all eye contact, and use overly-dramatic hand gestures. And since it's too early in the morning and school...
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Challenges are when one tries to attain a certain goal(s), when one commits to a quality and aim and strives to achieve that goal. My biggest challenge in life was coming to America and adjusting to this strange land. Coming here to...
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This quotation is from a rather outspoken mathematician named Scott Buchanan, who has studied the style of human thought right along with its mathematical accomplishments. It is...
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As the world grows so do our challenges. Not only are our problems growing in number
but they are also growing in complexity. There is scarcely a day that goes by when I don't
hear about some new problem that will soon threaten us all. While...
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Question: Write and answer the question of your choice.
I decided to write my essay about art because I knew I could write sincerely about the subject, rather than something which I had no true emotions about.
is an important facet of the American culture. Discuss an...
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THE MATCH
One day that I will probably never forget is the day that I had to play Jonathan Walker. He was easily the best table tennis player in our school and he had even been offered to play on...
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for the National Merit Competition. This was written by the BigNerd himself.
?Would you please get the mail,? my mother implored as I entered the door. Heading towards the mailbox, I wondered if I would find daily assortment of bills and...
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8:02 a.m. Saturday. It's still dark, as usual, on these cold, winter days. Everybody else is still sleeping and enjoying the comfprting heat of their beds. I crack open the locked window by my bed, an act some deemed downright idiotic. I strip off my pj's, throw...
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To whom that cares!!!
At this moment when i am sitting down here writting this, I suddenly think of this time last year when I was fresh out of highschool, hearing about Berea for the first time. I sent my application to Berea with lots of confidence and hope, and I...
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My inspiration to succeed has always come from within. As a child, I had the vision of becoming a star and a role model for the next generation. I applied to Emerson College because I believe it will help me fulfill those dreams.
I am a person who...
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Lead and Manage People
Leadership is the key dynamic force that motivates and co ordinates an organization to accomplish its objectives. A leader creates a vision for the others and then directs them towards achieving that vision. To be a leader you must have...
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- Multifaceted Background' University of Illinois
Writing a self-reflective tirade is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks to perform. I have found myself pondering this topic for an unusually long time; no one has ever asked me to write about my culture' the one thing about myself...
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26 th of january. Republic Day of India.
Bhuj, home to my aunt and the place where i have been spending my holidays for the past 10 years or so.
It was 8:55 in the morning. Everyone was ready for breakfast except me. I was always late on the...
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In approaching the meaning of life we have to examine the nature of meaning itself. Meaning is by definition the point, or the intended goal. Consider the point of humans and the universe as seen from monotheistic religion. If life and the universe is some sort of...
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I may seem to be someone with many unconnected facets and talents once you have read all the other essays on this application. This essay is intended to slap together a few of the pieces of myself that I have displayed here.
The human race is immortal ( that was a doozy...
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The team filed into the locker room at halftime. Everyone was discouraged, upset because we were losing by thirty points.
?Hey boys, we?ve gotta step it up and we gotta step it up right now. No more messin? around. Let's put forty points on the board and...
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Among the defining affairs in my life, the most poignant is an ill history that has taken place overseas, boldly prompted to my eyes and beginning prior to my birth. It is this dire event, replete with poverty and ignorance, that fuels my ambitions for justice and equity....
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In approaching the meaning of life we have to examine the nature of meaning itself. Meaning is by definition the point, or the intended goal. Consider the point of humans and the universe as seen from monotheistic religion. If life and the universe is...
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Be Proud Of Who You Are
My grandmother was born at a time when the Japanese had invaded Korea. At those
times girls were not considered to be very important and guys were valued. That hasn?'t changed
a whole lot even today. Yet my grandma was an extrodinary...
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It was just the second week of school, and I had mustered up all my courage to venture to the nether regions of our school known as the basement to attend the first meeting of the newly forming FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and...
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A significant part of effective leadership is the close connection between the leader and the follower, which often determines the success of the leader's mission. Unfortunately, this leader-follower relationship cannot be created...
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How did you first become interested in Reed and why do you think Reed might be an appropriate place, both socially and academically, to continue your education?
I could tell you a heartfelt, sentimental, poignant story about first seeing...
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I have always lacked perseverance, a lack of drive, and a general lack of self
pride. Never in my life have I felt that that the work I did would mean anything different completed or left half-done. This has been a characteristic of my life for many, many years. Well, this...
