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    In chess, the grand plan is checkmate. You plan several steps ahead and each move brings you that much closer to checkmating your opponent. For me, my checkmate is being able to give back to my family and community through becoming a doctor. The documentary “13th” by Ava DuVernay inspired me to want to break the limits that have been set for black people in America. The documentary motivated me to think how I can impact and help my community grow and flourish. Every piece in chess has its own individual

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    Pediatrician A pediatrician is a doctor who works with children from ages ranging from infancy to young adulthood to assess their medical needs. These doctors help children in ways from having frequent health checkups to ensure their development is on track to diagnosing illnesses and tending to their injuries. Helping people and caring for them makes me feel useful and compassionate, which is why I being a pediatrician intrigued me so much. It makes me feel satisfied when I am making someone healthy

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    of the trademarks of pediatric practice and contains such various actions as newborn screenings, vaccinations, and advertising of car seat safety and bicycle helmets. Renowned developments in growing occurrence of obesity and dormancy mean that pediatricians need to concentrate on defensive efforts on childhood

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    Pediatrician Elle McCormick November 9, 2014 A pediatrician is a doctor who specializes in treating children. They help with treating children’s mental, physical, and emotional problems. Pediatrician’s help with the overall well-being of the children they care for. They get health histories, do physical examinations, order and interpret diagnostic test, diagnose conditions, prescribe medications, give health instructions, give referrals, and help ill and injured children. They take preventative

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    After high school, I am planning to transfer to a four-year university. I would like to get the necessary degree to become a pediatrician. Sometimes thing do not always go as planned and you must have a backup plan. If I do not end up going to four-year university, I plan on going to a community college to a get a job where a major degree is not needed. I would probably go to a community college to become a certified nursing assistant. I would want to become a CNA because my dream would be to work

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    gender perceives the world differently. This diversity can be seen in countless ways including choosing a career path. My female mindset changes how I think about what I job I want to pursue and how I want to live. Aside from becoming a mother, I want to become a pediatrician, which is a job stereotypically

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    giving beautiful smiles, is to provide patients with straight and properly aligned teeth that are easier to clean and ultimately, easier to maintain oral health (Daniels). The education required to become an orthodontist is much similar to that of becoming a dentist. Students much receive a bachelor’s degree, most likely in the field of biological sciences, and pass the Dental Admission Test (DAT) in order to be admitted into dental school. After graduating dental school and passing the National Board

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    In Jeannette Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle she recounts her dream of build a glass castle for himself and his family to live in. Throughout the story her father goes as far as making blue prints and marking where it will the castle will be built, but he never actually gets around to doing it. The father is easily distracted by other things and never admits to it, he always has an excuse. This is exactly why the glass castle never came to be. Jeannette as a naive and hopeful child describes her

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    Program “I have a dream that one day I will overcome the struggles that I have faced living in a poverty-stricken community.” While growing up in Mobile, Alabama, I have always dreamed of becoming a medical doctor. My mother has been very supportive of my aspirations to attend college and become a pediatrician. She was the first in her family to graduate from high school and the first to attend college, which she never completed. Before graduating from high school, I knew that I wanted to obtain

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    The biggest challenge that I have encountered thus far in my life is the process of acquiring funds needed to fulfill my lifetime dream of becoming a pediatrician. I recently read an article on cnnmoney.com which was entitled " Too poor to pay for college, too rich for financial aid". I am in the same situation in that according to the financial aid guidelines my estimated family contribution automatically places me in the category of students believed to not have a need for financial aid. On

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