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Personal Statement : A Personal Reflection Of My Life In The University

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Although I have not spent every day of my life in school, I perceive my whole life as an educational experience, probably due to my innate curiosity. My decision to pursue a political science specialist and a criminology major at the University of Toronto are reflections of my experience as a child of immigrant refugee parents and as a relative of inmates, respectively. My decision to base my interests more generally in the social-sphere of the world reflects my detached perspective. I have chosen to appeal to you by virtue of the perspectives that I have gained as an individual which led me to place pen on paper and address to the “University of Ottawa”. I expect that you will understand this not as an appeal to any sort of pity or sympathy, but as it is -my story.
Overlooking the clouds from the airplane window, the sense of excitement overwhelmed me. My family and I were going on a ‘vacation’, to a refugee camp in Lebanon to meet my extended family. During that 3-month trip, war broke out, and consequently, I experienced a personal paradigm shift which broadened my world perspective for the rest of my life. As I ran through the dark alleyways with my mother and siblings looking for cover from the falling debris, I yearned for protection. We were left to fend for ourselves as we sat and prayed that we were not in the crosshairs of the incoming missiles. A week into the war, the Canadian government began evacuations of its trapped citizens.
3 years later, after returning

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