Ever since I was young I have wanted to be a doctor. Yes, I know high-expectations. I guess I’m that optimistic Asian oblivious to how difficult it really is to get into medicine. I just find science so fascinating. From the atoms that make up these cue cards those walls, your pen to the idea that one tiny strand of DNA can create another one of us. I envisioned a future dedicated to philanthropy. I wanted to put the sick onto a road to recovery. See the look on a patient’s face when I tell them they are cancer free. But, alas, Tony Abbott may just have torn this dream away from me when he decided to slash millions of dollars’ worth of funds from Australia’s science research, the climate change move and tertiary education. If Mr Abbott continues …show more content…
They took out money from universities, TAFE and secular schools and put it into religious training institutes. According to Matthew Knott from The Sydney Morning Herald, the government controversially announced that will be providing $244 million for a new school chaplaincy scheme. While uni students are forced to pay more and more for their courses, students from Sydney College of Divinity and Perth Bible College are receiving around $4000 of yearly fee money from the government. On top of this, Chris Pynes is advocating that schools hire only religious welfare workers. Do you see the pattern here? The government is putting religion before science; the Church before State: conservative thinking over progressive thinking. i doubt even Christian tax payers would condone this. How did a modern western country come to elect the religious zealot we call Prime Minister in hopes that he would lead us to progression? He is inhibiting progression because he turns a blind eye to science, couldn’t care less about your children’s education and calls climate change “absolute crap”. I bet a $100 Tony Abbott is actually the Inquisition disguised in a suit and tie and our fellow Australian scientists are the Galileos of the 21st century. Mr Abbott talks all about building ‘a strong, prosperous economy and a safe, secure Australia. Ok so what… are the combined prayers of all these new priests going to ensure us a strong economy and secure Australia? I don’t know about you but to me this whole thing seems like a massive joke. Countries with economies in much worse shape than ours are investing more heavily in science than we are, because they recognise that research leads to a vigorous population, healthy environment and strong economy. But Tony Abbott’s diabolical scheme is to sweep Australia with his conventional way of thinking. Next thing you know he will be declaring that the sun goes
According to The Chicago Tribune “Close to 3,000 people have been shot in Chicago so far this year.”In 2016 chicago homicide rate was at an all time high,last year there have been reported 762 people died from gun violence,”3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims.”Hundreds of people have died from gun violence every year and also a portion of the murder rate is made up of innocent people that have also died from a firearm violence.Also in the united states the number of fatalities from a firearm were “33,594” according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention.I believe we should ban the use of firearms because the number of people that die or get injured from a firearm keeps dangerously increasing each year.
Born and raised by parents working in the medical field, I have always had the urge to follow up on on a health related career. Despite never being pressured into choosing scientific subjects as my academic studies, I deeply admired what a long way science has come and longed to give my contribution to this fascinating world. I am presently studying for my A-levels at St.Aloysius Sixth form in Malta, a college for high achievers.
My affinity for biology comes from my childhood days that I spent watching dissection of rats and looking at the cellular structure under microscope. My mother, being a professor of biology regularly used to take me with her to a Biology lab and that is where my journey towards medical career began. Early on in my life, my family went through a long agony of my father's illness and death. This became a solitary stimulus for me to take up this profession and a driving force to strive for excellence. Going through that turmoil of recurrent hospital visits gave me a firsthand experience of an anguishing family.
Australia’s education system functions in a highly political context, as does the education systems of most other developed or developing nations throughout the world (Meadmore, 1999). Education is therefore a complex process that is both intertwined with and influenced by the society, culture and community in which it exists (Meadmore, 1999). As a result, it is expected to operate within certain perimeters and deliver specific outcomes (Meadmore, 1999). Consequently, over the last several decades, significant changes have occurred in education, “sometimes by forces well outside education, and all too often, it seems, according to principles that have little to do with education” (Welch, 2010, p.235) itself. The structure and
Richards is more effective in persuading the audience to consider the health risks of sugar. Richards provides facts and analytical statistics from multiple sources about the dangers of an excess amount of sugar. These risks range from a simple fix to something as serious as increased risk for cancer, obesity, diabetes, as well as an increased risk of an early death. According to the “Journal of the American Heart Association Internal Medicine, concluded that people who consumed more than a quarter of their daily calories as sugar were more than twice as likely to die than those who restricted their intake to less than 10 percent of total calories.” This quote is effective because it first tells of the Ethos of the speaker and instills a foreboding fear in the reader. However, for others this quote is not as effective as a story because it does not provide any personal experiences and instead relies on third party sources that does not give any indication of individuality.
Of all the grimly iconic images Stephen King can be credited with thinking up – those leering hotel guests in The Shining, the pig’s-blood rinse in Carrie – there’s one that stands out as so evilly nightmarish, so plain wrong, it’s actively hard to watch. It’s the sight of an innocent young boy, Georgie, being dragged into a storm drain by a child-eating clown – the name’s Pennywise – and never seen, or at least not in living form, again.
At the age of ten, I read a book, “Gifted Hands” by Dr. Ben Carson, which inspired and begin to motivate my interest in pursuing medicine as a career because I could identify with his discovery of the joy of reading and his fascination with science. When I was 14, I had an epiphany at the doctor’s office. This event occurred a little after I had finished my final exams in school and the next step was to go to senior high school. But, I thought the preliminary chemistry and physics classes of junior high school were daunting and went on to convince myself that a career in medicine might not be right for me.
GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump has reached the magic number of 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP presidential nomination according to AP delegate count released Thursday morning.
Possible intro P for subtopic 1: Now there is a lot of government and politics, way more than just Donald Trump and him being so great or so evil. I don’t want to talk about this matter because I feel it is not important to tell others. Saying that he’s good or bad would make this paragraph a persuasive one instead of an informative. Also, it just doesn’t matter, you won’t find me even mentioning the President’s name after this paragraph. So instead I’ll be talking about the president in general, like his or her jobs as president, and their rights and responsibilities. I should probably put a pun in here, eh… Quick! If Con is the opposite of pro, than does that mean Congress is the opposite of Progress? Oh, that wasn't very
And as I offer myself as a PhD candidate in your Medical Sciences Doctoral Training Centre, I bring to the table years of work experience which includes steady and continuous promotions, an unrelenting pursuit for knowledge, a compassion for children, and a belief that anything is possible if we can actively imagine it into existence. Throughout my adult life, I never lost my path and I hope that you will allow me to continue this path at the University of Oxford.
Close your eyes. Imagine that you are four years old again. You are chasing your dog through the house, smiling and giggling because joy is the one thing that every four year old knows. You hear something spill on the ground, so you run to where the noise came from, stumbling upon your mother on the ground with frozen peas all around her. Unaware of what happened and still smiling, you ask her, “What’s wrong, mommy?” She starts shouting at you. When she gets close to you, a sting comes to your cheek. “This was your fault,” she says. The cycle begins. Move ahead two years. You are six years old. You just moved to a new house where you have your own room with freshly painted white walls and brand new white carpet. Within a few months,
I am not afraid to take risks, and I am not afraid to fail and try again. Even though I’ve had my setbacks, I won’t stop because becoming a physician is not only about me. There are not many physicians who look like me in the United States and globally. I have a heightened responsibility to those who may not have access to adequate care or trust the field for reasons that expand historically and culturally among many other complexities. I am very blessed to have had the experiences I’ve gone through because they’ve provided me with the insight of why I want to be a physician. To the best of my ability, I will provide the best care I can and be a mentor to those who hope to craft their learning and creative capabilities. The medical process is a marathon, and not the sprint that I attempted to make of it early in my undergraduate career. The road to success is not neatly paved. I will make it to the finish line with the skills and mindset necessary to succeed in
I still remember the first medical kit my mom bought me, a small white plastic box that contained a medical chart, a stethoscope, and an abnormally large syringe. Ever since I was little I remember wanting to be a doctor. However, as I grew, it became so much more than just an intrigue for the human body and the mysterious ways it functions. In fact, I began to realize just how much good I could accomplish as a doctor. It is the desire to help people that motivates me to work hard to become a doctor; it is the one thing that keeps me moving forward. My biggest dream is to someday travel to third world countries with medical campaigns and help those who need it the most. Throughout my life, there have been many events that have incentivized
There's this famous quote that can spark an interest to challenge yourself within you: "If something that you're doing doesn't challenge you, then it doesn't change you." Of course, since everyone of us has rooms for improvement, this can also mean that if you don't change yourself, then you can't also be responsible for changing your situation in life.
People may have the desire to deliver effective presentations to their audience, whether it is for informative or persuasive reasons. However, speaking persuasively makes it more difficult to do so since the goal is to make others agree with a certain idea that can concern their beliefs and values. In order to attempt to make the audience listen attentively and sway towards the side being argued for, without being offensive, the speaker or student has several ethical obligations to be followed while making their persuasive speech.