This document provides biographical information about Phil Rich, a 17-year-old high school senior. It details his background, family, strengths, values, influences, goals and life philosophy. Phil sees himself as a leader who is driven, passionate and focused on attending the Air Force Academy to serve his country. His top values are integrity, service before self and excellence. He is influenced by his parents and teachers and hopes to have a career of service and leadership.
Yvanna is a 21-year-old Lebanese civil engineering student who volunteers with NGOs. She values loyalty, determination, kindness, love, and forgiveness. She enjoys dancing, photography, food blogging, reading, music, and sports. She believes in making others happy and sees the good in people. She is social and wants to attend IE to meet diverse people from around the world and further her potential through their prestigious education and opportunities.
This document contains 4 journal entries by a student named Cynthia about her experiences with social psychology concepts like social influence, interdependence, self-actualization, and ingratiation. In the first entry, Cynthia describes being bullied in high school due to jealousy over her friendship with a popular boy, which led her to develop bulimia. She has since gained confidence. The second entry discusses how she realized she has interdependent cultural influences as an Asian, after her father discouraged her dream of being a lifelong volunteer. The third entry explores how finding purpose in helping others has helped her progress towards self-actualization. The fourth entry describes techniques of ingratiation used by her landlord to control tenants' impressions of her thorough
The author describes surviving an extremely abusive five-year relationship. She felt scared, alone, and confused, and kept going back despite the cycle of blame, abuse, and forgiveness, hoping it would change. It affected her son, job, family, and personality. After a near-death experience from the abuse, she realized she deserved a better life. She sought therapy and support from her family to reconstruct her thinking and lifestyle. Now she has control over her life, can love and be loved, and looks forward to continuing personal growth.
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This document highlights what I find to be the most important qualities in a professional counselor. I describe what it is that a counselor should do professionally, so they are more effective in their overall practice.
Courtney Jones discusses how her Irish-Italian background and upbringing have influenced who she is. She was raised Catholic but no longer actively practices religion. Her family emphasized education and continuing her education, which she hopes to pass on to her future students to help them be confident and excited about learning. Her grandparents and parents were major influences in her life through their pride in their heritage and strong work ethic.
This self-assessment document contains personal information about Lavinia Abreu Cabrera, including her family background, education history, physical development, and analysis of her growth. It describes how she grew up helping her family and became independent at a young age. During adolescence, she worked as a dancer but maintained her faith. While she feels mature, she acknowledges she is still developing morally, socially, and cognitively and will continue to do so throughout her life.
The document is Melissa Thomas's undergraduate ePortfolio for her BA in Psychology from 2012. It includes her personal statement about wanting to help others through psychology and working in criminal justice settings, as well as her resume highlighting relevant experience in healthcare and social services.
Rose Barraza values her family greatly because they have always supported her and encouraged her to complete her education. She also highly values education and knowledge, having struggled through community college but applying to a four-year university. Additional values she discusses include happiness, ambition, independence, responsibility, honesty, love, and learning to make important decisions through reflecting on different perspectives. The document is a slideshow where she explains several values that are important to her and how they influence her decisions and life.
This document provides an introduction and overview of Artia Nelson's life, including her family, education, religious affiliations, and hobbies. She describes coming from a close-knit family who taught her important life lessons and values. Artia has two young daughters and is pursuing a Master's degree in Early Childhood Education. Religion also plays a large role in her life, though she now considers herself non-denominational. In her free time, Artia enjoys singing, reading, writing and spending time with family, especially during important holidays and an annual family vacation.
This document discusses the significance of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, a Muslim holiday celebrated at the end of Ramadan. It explains that Hari Raya Aidilfitri marks the end of the month of fasting, and is not the Muslim New Year. It also describes important traditions on Hari Raya Aidilfitri, including congregational prayers, visiting family and friends, and seeking forgiveness from others through gestures and words to strengthen relationships and renew ties. The document advocates that seeking forgiveness should be done sincerely to repair any past wrongs.
This document discusses the challenges faced by young single mothers. It notes that being a teenage single mother is extremely difficult, as they have to deal with societal stigma and lack of support. Unwed mothers are often branded as "whores" by society and forced to leave school. In many African countries, the girl child is solely blamed and faces being shunned or forced into unwanted marriages. The document shares the author's own experience of becoming unexpectedly pregnant as a university student and pastor's daughter, and having to make the difficult choice to keep the baby despite social shame. It concludes by praising young single mothers for their strength and dignity in raising children alone, often without judgmental men's support.
This document contains a student's submission for their Social Psychology course. It discusses several cognitive biases through examples from the student's life experiences, including:
1) Perseverance effect - how the student's parents continued believing negative stereotypes about Nigerians despite evidence to the contrary.
2) Confirmation bias - how the student's mother only acknowledged information confirming her view that her niece was perfect.
3) False consensus effect - how the student assumed other university students would be open-minded about discussing sex but found some were not.
4) Observational learning - how the student began smoking after dating a boyfriend who smoked frequently.
5) Halo effect - how the student's positive view
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The document expresses deep appreciation to the Islamic Studies lecturer Puan Mashitah binti Sabdin for her guidance and help in making the dissertation possible. It also thanks the group members for their teamwork and commitment in completing the project on time. Additionally, it expresses gratitude to the author's parents for their endless support, both financially and otherwise. Lastly, it thanks classmates for providing feedback that helped improve the work.
Baroness Thompson is applying to Argosy University's Masters program. She has overcome a difficult childhood and adolescence in Oakland, California, where she faced robbery, kidnapping and assault before age 20. She has worked hard to support herself and her family, obtaining her high school diploma at 17 and attending community college. Her goal is to become a counselor in corrections to help reduce recidivism among juveniles. She believes Argosy's program will help her achieve her career goals and provide financial stability for her family.
K.B. Pranav is a 21-year-old third year electronics and communications engineering student who is sociable, outspoken, and values building relationships. He enjoys traveling and adventure sports. His hobbies include football and athletics. Pranav's biggest dream is to open a charity that provides food and education to underprivileged children. He is religious, spiritual, and aims to protect temple assets and lands through legal means. Pranav believes in serving society through volunteer work during disasters.
Misti Reynolds wrote a multigenre essay documenting her search for the right college. Section one describes her final year of high school and factors that led her to consider college. Section two details her struggles in the college search process, including visiting schools, applying to multiple options, and determining what programs fit her goals of becoming an elementary/special education teacher. Section three explains that after being accepted to several colleges, Misti decided to attend Ball State University because their dual teaching program was the best fit to help her achieve her dream career.
Rachel Warner grew up in a middle-class Christian family in Jenison, MI where attending church twice on Sundays was an important cultural practice. She was socialized by her parents and siblings to believe Sundays were for attending services. While she participated in this cultural norm, she notes some disadvantages to her social locations including being Asian in a predominantly white community and facing bullying for her appearance. However, she recognizes advantages to being a heterosexual, Protestant, able-bodied female in her 20s. Overall, she has a high probability of professional success due to her social locations, though acknowledges facing oppression as a minority in her hometown.
This document contains a social psychology journal assignment submitted by a student named Chia Ly Vier. It discusses several concepts in social psychology through examples from the student's own experiences, including social loafing, social identity, self-efficacy, attribution biases, attitudes, learning theories, and balance theory. The assignment provides insight into how social psychology concepts can be applied to understand one's own behaviors and perspectives. It was submitted on April 27th, 2015 for a social psychology course at a university in Malaysia.
This personal mission statement outlines the individual's goals to live with integrity, passion, and unconditional love in their relationships, freely give of themselves and resources to others, pursue excellence and high moral standards, build opportunities for people, be grateful and learn from life's lessons, follow their instincts to do right, work for financial freedom while maintaining balance and values, not take themselves too seriously, and have a fun, loving, and adventurous journey through life.
Jacob took the StrengthsQuest assessment and learned his top strengths are responsibility, positivity, achiever, learner, and woo. He agreed with parts of positivity and achiever that fit his personality of being optimistic and driven to accomplish tasks. However, he disagreed with aspects of learner because he only enjoys learning about subjects that interest him, and woo because he is hesitant around strangers. In school, he struggles with responsibility by procrastinating but ensures he learns material. His strengths help his relationships by being reliable and cheering others up, though positivity could be seen as nosiness. He takes charge in groups for class and prioritizes attendance and work completion with responsibility and being an achiever. Overall,
The document discusses several important values for the author:
1) Family is the most important value because morals and values are learned from family.
2) True friendships are also highly valued since good friends are rare and should be cherished.
3) Having a comfortable living through financial stability is important for providing for one's family without worries.
4) Other values discussed include accomplishment, trustworthiness, respect, loyalty, honesty, and freedom.
This document provides information about the 401 Challenge, which aims to raise money and awareness for anti-bullying charities Stonewall and Kidscape. The 401 Challenge will see Ben run 401 marathons in 401 consecutive days in 309 UK locations. It introduces the team supporting Ben, including his mother Beverley who is the health manager, his friend Tolu who is the project manager, and his trainer Andy. The document discusses Ben's personal experience with bullying in school and how running has helped him. It aims to raise £250,000 for Stonewall and Kidscape through donations to support their work combating bullying.
Ellie Schafer took the StrengthsQuest assessment and discovered her top five strengths are Communication, Includer, Woo, Belief, and Connectedness. These strengths describe her personality well and are also very similar to her mother's strengths. Ellie discusses how her strengths help and sometimes hurt her relationships with others as well as her academic performance. She realizes her strengths of talking, socializing, and including others can negatively impact her schoolwork if not managed properly. Ellie hopes to continue using her strengths in positive ways and recognizing how each one influences her life.
Briana Simmons is a 16-year-old junior at Hatboro-Horsham High School who also attends Eastern Tech for Cosmetology where she is the secretary for Skills USA. She is a cheerleader for her high school and enjoys hanging out with friends. In 5 years, a search of her name will show that she graduated from college with a degree in Physical Therapy and is working on her masters while interning with sports teams as their main Physical Therapist. She also owns her own high-end salon.
Presentation on divorce and separation aimed toward school aged children. Includes a simple breakdown of feelings and questions as well as links to helpful websites.
Sang Nguyen's top five strengths according to their Strengths Quest report are restorative, relator, responsibility, competition, and significance. They agreed that these strengths accurately represent them overall but had some disagreements with parts of the descriptions. They believe they are responsible and competitive but managers said they tend to complain more than solve problems. They enjoyed applying their strengths at their job and in relationships but struggled to use them effectively as manager of their high school store. While their strengths help them succeed, they can also be weaknesses when taken to an extreme, like forcing a friend into unnecessary competition. Going forward, they aim to better utilize their strengths and improve areas of weakness.
Olivia decided to focus on herself by taking up photography, reading books, and strengthening relationships. This helped boost her confidence and self-esteem. She noticed positive changes like feeling happier, gaining new friends, and improving old relationships. The 10-hour project of focusing on personal growth helped Olivia better understand herself and learn how to build strong relationships with others.
The document discusses three topics related to racial inequities: white privilege and the advantages certain races receive over others; differences in how crimes are punished depending on skin color; and minorities being treated differently, such as in school environments where tax money is used to teach about white privilege and black stereotypes.
Rose Barraza values her family greatly because they have always supported her and encouraged her to complete her education. She also highly values education and knowledge, having struggled through community college but applying to a four-year university. Additional values she discusses include happiness, ambition, independence, responsibility, honesty, love, and learning to make important decisions through reflecting on different perspectives. The document is a slideshow where she explains several values that are important to her and how they influence her decisions and life.
This document provides an introduction and overview of Artia Nelson's life, including her family, education, religious affiliations, and hobbies. She describes coming from a close-knit family who taught her important life lessons and values. Artia has two young daughters and is pursuing a Master's degree in Early Childhood Education. Religion also plays a large role in her life, though she now considers herself non-denominational. In her free time, Artia enjoys singing, reading, writing and spending time with family, especially during important holidays and an annual family vacation.
This document discusses the significance of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, a Muslim holiday celebrated at the end of Ramadan. It explains that Hari Raya Aidilfitri marks the end of the month of fasting, and is not the Muslim New Year. It also describes important traditions on Hari Raya Aidilfitri, including congregational prayers, visiting family and friends, and seeking forgiveness from others through gestures and words to strengthen relationships and renew ties. The document advocates that seeking forgiveness should be done sincerely to repair any past wrongs.
This document discusses the challenges faced by young single mothers. It notes that being a teenage single mother is extremely difficult, as they have to deal with societal stigma and lack of support. Unwed mothers are often branded as "whores" by society and forced to leave school. In many African countries, the girl child is solely blamed and faces being shunned or forced into unwanted marriages. The document shares the author's own experience of becoming unexpectedly pregnant as a university student and pastor's daughter, and having to make the difficult choice to keep the baby despite social shame. It concludes by praising young single mothers for their strength and dignity in raising children alone, often without judgmental men's support.
This document contains a student's submission for their Social Psychology course. It discusses several cognitive biases through examples from the student's life experiences, including:
1) Perseverance effect - how the student's parents continued believing negative stereotypes about Nigerians despite evidence to the contrary.
2) Confirmation bias - how the student's mother only acknowledged information confirming her view that her niece was perfect.
3) False consensus effect - how the student assumed other university students would be open-minded about discussing sex but found some were not.
4) Observational learning - how the student began smoking after dating a boyfriend who smoked frequently.
5) Halo effect - how the student's positive view
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The document expresses deep appreciation to the Islamic Studies lecturer Puan Mashitah binti Sabdin for her guidance and help in making the dissertation possible. It also thanks the group members for their teamwork and commitment in completing the project on time. Additionally, it expresses gratitude to the author's parents for their endless support, both financially and otherwise. Lastly, it thanks classmates for providing feedback that helped improve the work.
Baroness Thompson is applying to Argosy University's Masters program. She has overcome a difficult childhood and adolescence in Oakland, California, where she faced robbery, kidnapping and assault before age 20. She has worked hard to support herself and her family, obtaining her high school diploma at 17 and attending community college. Her goal is to become a counselor in corrections to help reduce recidivism among juveniles. She believes Argosy's program will help her achieve her career goals and provide financial stability for her family.
K.B. Pranav is a 21-year-old third year electronics and communications engineering student who is sociable, outspoken, and values building relationships. He enjoys traveling and adventure sports. His hobbies include football and athletics. Pranav's biggest dream is to open a charity that provides food and education to underprivileged children. He is religious, spiritual, and aims to protect temple assets and lands through legal means. Pranav believes in serving society through volunteer work during disasters.
Misti Reynolds wrote a multigenre essay documenting her search for the right college. Section one describes her final year of high school and factors that led her to consider college. Section two details her struggles in the college search process, including visiting schools, applying to multiple options, and determining what programs fit her goals of becoming an elementary/special education teacher. Section three explains that after being accepted to several colleges, Misti decided to attend Ball State University because their dual teaching program was the best fit to help her achieve her dream career.
Rachel Warner grew up in a middle-class Christian family in Jenison, MI where attending church twice on Sundays was an important cultural practice. She was socialized by her parents and siblings to believe Sundays were for attending services. While she participated in this cultural norm, she notes some disadvantages to her social locations including being Asian in a predominantly white community and facing bullying for her appearance. However, she recognizes advantages to being a heterosexual, Protestant, able-bodied female in her 20s. Overall, she has a high probability of professional success due to her social locations, though acknowledges facing oppression as a minority in her hometown.
This document contains a social psychology journal assignment submitted by a student named Chia Ly Vier. It discusses several concepts in social psychology through examples from the student's own experiences, including social loafing, social identity, self-efficacy, attribution biases, attitudes, learning theories, and balance theory. The assignment provides insight into how social psychology concepts can be applied to understand one's own behaviors and perspectives. It was submitted on April 27th, 2015 for a social psychology course at a university in Malaysia.
This personal mission statement outlines the individual's goals to live with integrity, passion, and unconditional love in their relationships, freely give of themselves and resources to others, pursue excellence and high moral standards, build opportunities for people, be grateful and learn from life's lessons, follow their instincts to do right, work for financial freedom while maintaining balance and values, not take themselves too seriously, and have a fun, loving, and adventurous journey through life.
Jacob took the StrengthsQuest assessment and learned his top strengths are responsibility, positivity, achiever, learner, and woo. He agreed with parts of positivity and achiever that fit his personality of being optimistic and driven to accomplish tasks. However, he disagreed with aspects of learner because he only enjoys learning about subjects that interest him, and woo because he is hesitant around strangers. In school, he struggles with responsibility by procrastinating but ensures he learns material. His strengths help his relationships by being reliable and cheering others up, though positivity could be seen as nosiness. He takes charge in groups for class and prioritizes attendance and work completion with responsibility and being an achiever. Overall,
The document discusses several important values for the author:
1) Family is the most important value because morals and values are learned from family.
2) True friendships are also highly valued since good friends are rare and should be cherished.
3) Having a comfortable living through financial stability is important for providing for one's family without worries.
4) Other values discussed include accomplishment, trustworthiness, respect, loyalty, honesty, and freedom.
This document provides information about the 401 Challenge, which aims to raise money and awareness for anti-bullying charities Stonewall and Kidscape. The 401 Challenge will see Ben run 401 marathons in 401 consecutive days in 309 UK locations. It introduces the team supporting Ben, including his mother Beverley who is the health manager, his friend Tolu who is the project manager, and his trainer Andy. The document discusses Ben's personal experience with bullying in school and how running has helped him. It aims to raise £250,000 for Stonewall and Kidscape through donations to support their work combating bullying.
Ellie Schafer took the StrengthsQuest assessment and discovered her top five strengths are Communication, Includer, Woo, Belief, and Connectedness. These strengths describe her personality well and are also very similar to her mother's strengths. Ellie discusses how her strengths help and sometimes hurt her relationships with others as well as her academic performance. She realizes her strengths of talking, socializing, and including others can negatively impact her schoolwork if not managed properly. Ellie hopes to continue using her strengths in positive ways and recognizing how each one influences her life.
Briana Simmons is a 16-year-old junior at Hatboro-Horsham High School who also attends Eastern Tech for Cosmetology where she is the secretary for Skills USA. She is a cheerleader for her high school and enjoys hanging out with friends. In 5 years, a search of her name will show that she graduated from college with a degree in Physical Therapy and is working on her masters while interning with sports teams as their main Physical Therapist. She also owns her own high-end salon.
Presentation on divorce and separation aimed toward school aged children. Includes a simple breakdown of feelings and questions as well as links to helpful websites.
Sang Nguyen's top five strengths according to their Strengths Quest report are restorative, relator, responsibility, competition, and significance. They agreed that these strengths accurately represent them overall but had some disagreements with parts of the descriptions. They believe they are responsible and competitive but managers said they tend to complain more than solve problems. They enjoyed applying their strengths at their job and in relationships but struggled to use them effectively as manager of their high school store. While their strengths help them succeed, they can also be weaknesses when taken to an extreme, like forcing a friend into unnecessary competition. Going forward, they aim to better utilize their strengths and improve areas of weakness.
Olivia decided to focus on herself by taking up photography, reading books, and strengthening relationships. This helped boost her confidence and self-esteem. She noticed positive changes like feeling happier, gaining new friends, and improving old relationships. The 10-hour project of focusing on personal growth helped Olivia better understand herself and learn how to build strong relationships with others.
The document discusses three topics related to racial inequities: white privilege and the advantages certain races receive over others; differences in how crimes are punished depending on skin color; and minorities being treated differently, such as in school environments where tax money is used to teach about white privilege and black stereotypes.
This document provides guidance on subject-verb agreement in English. It explains that the subject and verb of a sentence must be correctly paired based on whether the subject is singular or plural. Singular subjects take verbs with '-s', '-es' or '-ies' endings, while plural subjects take verbs in their base form. It lists many examples of different types of subjects and the verbs they can take, including collective nouns, phrases with "neither/nor" or "either/or", subjects preceded by numbers or percentages, and irregular structures. The document aims to help readers understand and properly apply subject-verb agreement rules in their writing.
This document contains research for potential book covers and sleeves for a book on computer graphics by Lawrence Salvo. It includes 4 pages of research labeled Book Cover Research 1 through 3 and one labeled Book Sleeve that explore design options for the book's cover and sleeve.
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Economic theory seeks to explain economic facts from the behavior of individuals. In this paper, it is argued that the type of individualism methodology (IM), the economic profession should consider, is an institutional IM which includes a structural one as a special case. It follows that the mechanism leading to individual behavior can be decomposed into a social mechanism and a decision mechanism. Moreover, economic theory and game theory have generally made too restrictive assumptions concerning interactions structures. It is argued that agent-based modeling may be a useful approach for understanding processes combining heterogeneous and situated decision rules, feed-back effects and non trivial interaction structures leading to complex systems and emergent properties.
This short document promotes the creation of presentations using Haiku Deck, a presentation platform. It encourages the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation by uploading it to ºÝºÝߣShare. A stock photo shows a woman looking thoughtful next to a laptop, implying creative thinking.
The document discusses a new digital education application called Edu that aims to solve communication issues between parents, teachers, and students. It allows scheduling, attendance tracking, assignment updates, exam announcements and results to be shared easily. The application seeks to make this communication smooth, convenient and user-friendly. It is part of an initiative to advance digital education in India by connecting these key stakeholders.
The document discusses the rising cost of college in the United States. It provides research showing that college tuition rises faster than inflation and that rising costs can be attributed to artificially inflated demand. Additionally, the average student loan debt in 2011 was nearly $30,000 according to one source cited. The document collects research on this topic and organizes relevant links.
The document is a report by Lawrence Salvo on Assignment 3 which involved editing foreground and texture images using various Photoshop techniques. It describes applying cropping, layers, contrast/density changes, color balance, rotation, burning/dodging, saturation, text tools, vignetting, gradients, combining images with pen tool, transposing with opacity, spot healing, lasso tools, magic wand, cloning, clipping masks, and creating a final connotative combined image.
Sodium is a specialist digital recruiter that represents everything that is innovative and emerging in the digital world. Be it eCommerce & customer insight, digital marketing, online advertising, web technologies or cloud, we truly understand the challenges and opportunities of digital. Sodium is the Australia division of Salt recruitment, based in the UK.
We build digital teams that enable clients to achieve their digital transformation or create cutting edge digital products & services – and we can help with everything from a single key hire to a global recruitment campaign.
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Effective leaders are believed to inspire followers by providing inclusive visions of the future that followers can identify with. In the present study, we examined the neural mechanisms underlying this process, testing key hypotheses derived from transformational and social identity approaches to leadership. While undergoing functional MRI, supporters from the two major Australian political parties (Liberal vs. Labor) were presented with inspirational collective-oriented and noninspirational personal-oriented statements made by in-group and out-group leaders. Imaging data revealed that inspirational (rather than noninspirational) statements from in-group leaders were associated with increased activation in the bilateral rostral inferior parietal lobule, pars opercularis, and posterior midcingulate cortex: brain areas that are typically implicated in controlling semantic information processing. In contrast, for out-group leaders, greater activation in these areas was associated with noninspirational statements. In addition, noninspirational statements by in-group (but not out-group) leaders resulted in increased activation in the medial prefrontal cortex, an area typically associated with reasoning
This document provides a summary of Vinod's career experience and qualifications. He has over 3 years of experience developing software applications using TIBCO technologies like Business Works and messaging services. Some of his projects involved designing interfaces between various systems to integrate product data for Walmart and Sam's Club. He has strong skills in TIBCO products, SQL, XML, and working in UNIX/Windows environments.
The document describes the process of creating a logo for a fictional organization called ForCollege. It lists various graphic design tools, potential organizational names generated from word combinations, reference images reviewed, initial logo sketches created, and iterations of logo designs including versions 1 and 2. It concludes with the selection of a final full-color logo and matching logotype font.
6. Family
ï‚— Mom: Sara Rich
ï‚— Dad: Philip Rich
ï‚— Sister: Allie Rich
ï‚— Mom and Dad are divorced
7. About Me
ï‚— My paternal grandparents hail from the Denton area
of Texas. My father was born nearby in Texas City.
ï‚— My maternal grandparents are from Pottsville,
Pennsylvania. They moved quite a bit for my
grandfather’s work, so my mother was born in
Delaware.
10. Who Am I?
ï‚— In one word, I am a leader. I live my life at the front
of everything I do. I love to lead people, especially in
difficult and challenging tasks.
ï‚— I have a very driven and focused personality. I see
goals and I go after them, no matter what.
ï‚— I am motivated by an intense desire to attend the
United States Air Force Academy and to serve my
country.
11. Who Am I?
ï‚— My boundless energy sets me apart from my peers. Even
when others are dragging, I still throw myself completely
into the task at hand.
ï‚— I see myself as unfinished because I can always improve
myself.
ï‚— I feel that others see me as both a useful teammate and
an annoyance because I am good at achieving success but
I sometimes am insensitive to the wants and needs of
others.
ï‚— Whereas I look at myself as what I will be in the future,
others only judge me on what they see then and there.
12. Strengths Weaknesses
ï‚— I am a hard worker.
ï‚— I am very analytical.
ï‚— I am very good at tasks
with clear instructions.
ï‚— I am insensitive to
others when focused.
 I don’t take people’s
emotions into account.
ï‚— When instructions are
vague, I struggle more.
Who Am I?
13. Who Am I?
ï‚— I would like to be more personable and empathetic in
my personality. It is a struggle right now for me to
connect to people emotionally.
ï‚— Physically, I would like to commit more fully to my
diet so I can fuel my body for my athletic endeavors.
ï‚— I would like to always remain passionate in
everything I do.
14. Who Am I?
ï‚— My favorite place in the world is Dublin, Ireland,
because the town is large, but still feels very personal
and every avenue is engaging.
15. Who Am I?
ï‚— My favorite food is sushi for two reasons. It is both
fun to eat and delicious.
16. Who Am I?
ï‚— My favorite class in physics, because when I practice
physics, I feel as though I’m discovering the
universe.
18. My Values
ï‚— My values can be distilled into three key facets:
ï‚¡ Integrity First
ï‚¡ Service Before Self
ï‚¡ Excellence in All I Do
 These values stem from the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Core Values.
 The values are important to me because the Academy is where I
want to go to school, and those Core Values are how I will live my
life at the Academy and in my career as an Air Force officer.
19. My Values
ï‚— My values serve as a compass by which I make my
decisions and how I choose my activities. Sometimes
my values d o require me to make sacrifices, such as
skipping social events to study or work on a service
project. However, this is more than acceptable
because it ensures that I am striving to be the best
that I can be.
ï‚— Most of my friends have similar values to me. We are
all passionate, driven individuals with very lofty
goals.
20. My Values
ï‚— When I encounter someone with different values, I
do my best to be tolerant and accepting because I
recognize that my values are very intense and not a
choice that everyone wants to make.
ï‚— I spend all my time trying to better myself and truly
exhibit service, integrity and excellence by studying,
volunteering, and training.
 I am smart with my money. I don’t buy anything
illegal, or that I can’t afford. I save the majority of my
money, and spend the rest on gas and other
necessities.
21. My Values
ï‚— My values ensure that I treat everyone equally and
with respect. That is exactly what I do through
volunteering and always engaging new people in
conversation.
24. Influencers
ï‚— My mom and my dad are huge influences in my life.
They constantly show me that doing things right is
better than trying to rush through them or cut
corners. They are absolutely positive influences in
my life.
ï‚— My parents are both very hardworking, which is a
trait I would like to have. However, they have short
tempers, which I don’t want.
25. Influencers
ï‚— Another person that influences me is my freshman
AP Human Geography teacher, Mr. Parsons. He has
pushed me to imagine new things and pursue far
flung goals. He is impressively passionate and I want
to find a job where I have that level of passion.
However, his passion sometimes is impeded by his
energy, which makes him a little spastic. I want to be
able to have passion, but be able to control my
emotions with it.
26. Respected Person
ï‚— One person I respect is George H.W. Bush. I respect
his transparency and honesty and I want to display
these traits in my own life.
28. ï‚— In the immediate future, I want to start a nonprofit
organization in this coming year of high school.
ï‚— Next year, I will ideally be enrolled in the U.S. Air
Force Academy as a cadet.
ï‚— 5 years from now, I hope to be a commissioned 2nd
lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and to be enrolled in
Undergraduate Pilot Training.
ï‚— 10 and 20 years from now, I hope to be a senior-
ranking officer in the Air Force and to go to a
graduate school for either business or law, and then
run for political office after I retire from active duty.
29. My Future
ï‚— My goals are intense. They will require nothing less
than superhuman efforts on my end, and more than
a fair share of luck. I am preparing now with intense
physical, academic, and leadership training.
ï‚— Secretly, I wish to be Governor of Texas. This would
be an amazing honor to serve my state.
ï‚— I want people to remember me as a servant and a
good man when I’m gone. I want to have
accomplished real good for my family and fellow
citizens.
30. My Future
 If I couldn’t fail, I would run for President of the
United States.
ï‚— I want to make a difference in the lives of Americans.
31. My Future
ï‚— I would like to get married to a woman who is strong
and supportive of me and can handle my intense
passions for service.
ï‚— I would like 2 kids, one boy and one girl. I believe
that is a good balance of being financially practical
and teaching my children that sharing is necessary in
life.
33. My Life Philosophy
If you serve the world with
passion and conviction,
the world will return the
favor.
34. My Life Philosophy
ï‚— I see life as not one single person trying to force their way
to happiness, but as everyone helping everyone else on
the way to it. I show this view in my multiple
volunteering commitments such as tutoring, writing
letters to soldiers, and cleaning up trash.
ï‚— I would advise later individuals in my shoes to stop and
have fun. Everyone dies eventually; don’t shorten your
time by overstressing.
ï‚— My words of wisdom are to be passionate in everything.
Passion makes everything worthwhile, and if you can’t
find passion in something, you probably shouldn’t be
doing it.
35. My Life Philosophy
ï‚— My actions generally match my philosophy, but not
always. I am a powerful force in my school’s service
community as a tutor, NHS President, and founding
member of the Litterbugs, a student organization
devoted to cleaning teacher’s trash cans to reduce
janitorial load, among other things. However,
sometimes I catch myself going alone, ignoring the
needs of others in order to meet my own personal
gain.
36. My Mission Statement
ï‚— I will give everyone respect because they are no
better than me.
ï‚— I will push myself to be a servant to those in need.
ï‚— I will protect and defend my community, state and
nation in whatever way I am called upon to do so.