College Application Essay

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Providing Solutions through Social Ecology

I am used to tough times and even tougher neighborhoods . Growing up in , it was a rather common sight to see street thugs bullying helpless passers-by without any apparent reason and logic . Once when I was eleven , I even witnessed an old woman courageously fighting for her hand bag against three well-bodied men perhaps twice her weight , in plain view and in broad daylight . This incident resulted , as I had later seen in the evening news , in

the old lady 's hospitalization due to two life-threatening chest stab wounds

This incident , rather , this injustice that befell that old woman had lingered long in my young mind then . Universal truths about ideologies dealing with life 's beauty , equality for all , and respect among fellowmen started to be questioned in my eleven-year old mind triggering an endless tumbling of dominoes that I had once believed to be essential truths like the loss of innocence , or the unfolding of the harsh realities of life . Things that are real , things that just has to be accepted

After finishing high school , and perhaps because of the fact that the injustice done to the old woman in my childhood had still been constantly troubling my measure on the concepts of equality , I decided to join the United States Army . I personally had two purposes for this undertaking : firstly , to serve the interest of my country and fellow Americans in security matters and second...