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    Anthony Martial a French soccer player who plays for my favorite team Manchester United. He is my role model because I admire where he came from and where he is today. He was once grown in the slums, without a father to help him become a man or a good person in life. He grew up being the oldest in his family having to take care of his three younger brothers. Even though life had its difficult moments he would not allow it distract him from school or soccer. Now he is one of the top five best young

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    Tattoos on the heart

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    “Father Greg Boyle, Endless Fogiveness” In “Tattoos on the Heart,” by Gregory Boyle, Boyle experiences how to deal with gangs. The novel, a compelling story about gang violence and one man’s response towards giving those buried within it, tells a story of gang members working for a chance of redemption and solace. Can others be seen as fathers or even as a role models when gang life is such a large force in their lives? Through the story gangbangers that try to change themselves for the pursuit

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    Underserved Goals

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    low-income patients with no health insurance and do not have the privilege of Medicare or Medical benefits. It came to my attention the lack of leaders within health care in underserved communities. There is a need of removal of barriers created by language and lack of knowledge of cultures and heritages that address the specific needs of the underserved. Since then, it has become my ultimate goal to become a leader in health care in underserved communities I plan to become an Orthopedic Surgeon and

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    biological father had doubled from 17% to 36%. At the turn of the century nearly 50% of children were living without their father in the household. Few researchers predicted this trend it is not widely talked about, but this simple fact has led to some of the biggest social problems that plague America today; crime and delinquency, teenage pregnancy, deteriorated educational achievement, depression, substance abuse, and children and women living in poverty. Even as calamity unfolds our views

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    books allowed him to escape the societal expectations for Native Americans. Alexie was raised on a Spokane tribe reservation in Washington state. He portrays his childhood at the reservation as revolving around literature. He then describes how his father piled literature in every room of his house, from Western action novels to comics to books about the Vietnam War. Alexie claims that a Superman comic allowed him to teach himself how to read, by looking at the drawings, dialogue, and the script and

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    My Freshmen year did not begin like most college students’ because I am an “Opportunity kid”, or as some of us in the program often joke, SVC’s finest. My peers and I undertook a grueling academic boot camp that laid my foundation here at Saint Vincent. This foundation allowed me to successfully transition to college life, and I hope to help other students just as individuals in the Opportunity Program have helped to mentor and inspire me. In the past year I have known and befriended several people

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    personal experiences, some role models, and some things in his education, that would shape his actions and beliefs as an adult, and when he became an adult, he made the world a better place. He helped stop discrimination and change the world, but why would he want to do this? First and foremost, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was young, he had some personal experiences that made him weary about the way things in the world run. For example, when he was younger, him and his father was at a show store and

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    Guatemala Mission Trip

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    an experience that forever changed me. This was the first time I had stepped outside the boundaries of the American culture into a world where nothing is taken for granted. Each day spent on my mission trip brought a fresh awareness of gratefulness. Any pre-trip reluctance quickly became a vague memory as my emotions welled within bring a fresh change to

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    Gender roles are known as the social and behavioral actions that are considered to be acceptable for individuals of a specific sex. Gender roles have been around for as long as human existence first appeared on earth, but then eventually started to affect future generations. The 1950’s were known as a pretty strict decade when it came to enforcing masculine and feminine roles. The gender roles were so strict during the 50’s that a man named Talcott Parson had developed a model. The model involved

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    dedication, it can happen. In the book called “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore, he explains why The Other Wes More was not successful. The book is about two children named Wes Moore. They both grew up with similar backgrounds with both of their fathers never around. However, one became successful because he had a supportive family who pushed him through his limits to succeed; while the other spent the rest of his life in prison because of not having good family examples and support. One reason

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