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| Hahaha i hate writing about myself, but here was something i tried for my USC application(not entirely finished):
Denis Diderot believed that, “Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.” This adage symbiotically reflects my passion in life. My passion is one that is not complete, and has not yet been fulfilled, and is in fact being pursued as you read this essay.
It all began at the age of twelve, when my aspiration to be a doctor began. It was a field that I found interesting in that I could help people, and at the same time, learn more about the most complex structure on the planet: the human body. More recently, I have been extremely interested in becoming a surgeon. This field has held me entranced by its intricacy and complexity. My admiration and deep respect for the surgeons I know, increases the more I read about and explore the convolutions of the human body. Simultaneously, my passion to complete my life’s goal of becoming a surgeon is a dream that has elevated me and encouraged me to diligently work at my studies, and volunteer in places related to my interest such as a hospital and emergency room.
My current life is absorbed in keeping this goal at the top of my priorities, and working to achieve academic excellence in order to better my chances to pursue this passion in the finest locations with the best of instructors. I have accepted the truth that the journey is going to be long and difficult, but also that the end will be a reward when I become a surgeon and am able to help people in the way I have been taught.
I strongly know that a good college will aid this passion and that many teachers and professors will aid me in my quest. Beyond this, I believe that the real driver that will turn my dream into reality is my passion similar to the “great passions” that Denis Diderot was talking about. So while schooling will equip me with the tools and knowledge, passion is the only thing that will bring me through and persevere and attain my goal.
This passion that started early in my life has been a dream that I have followed and nurtured. It has driven me to excel in my studies, learn beyond the classroom, develop academic discipline through hard work and perseverance, and will ultimately end in resolution when I attain my life’s passion; that is to become a surgeon.
...to be finished...
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| Walden, a natural analysis
“A man is rich in proportion to the number or things which he can afford to let alone.” These words of wisdom come from a man who spent two years, two months, and two days of his life seeing how much he could get along without. Some people criticize Thoreau for his lack on inhibition, and laziness for not having a job during the two years, two months, and two days that he resided in a cabin beside the tranquil pond called Walden. But the critics who evolved this thought forget the basic concept behind Henry Thoreau’s reasons for retreating to this cabin. These detractors have error in three areas. First, while not holding a job, his industry on his property outside of concord was enormous. Secondly, he employed his spare time with observing nature as a true naturalist would. Finally, and probably most important, he wrote a book called “Walden” about his stay at his cabin.
When Henry David Thoreau began his life in the forest surrounding Walden Pond, there was nothing. No house was there for him to live in, no kitchen to cook in, no bed to sleep in. But with twenty-eight dollars and diligent, hard work Thoreau build a cabin, a kitchen to cook in, a bedroom to sleep in, and a living room to entertain guests.
His second feat that he accomplished while at Walden Pond was in-depth recordings and accounts of the nature around him. As written in his book “Walden”, Henry takes a new look at nature, a look that most others (with a few exceptions) in his day and age ignored. He took soundings of the pond, wandered through the forest recording different types of foliage, trudged through the fields hunting for unusual species of life, and wrote down in detail the weather patterns.
Finally, while at Walden Pond, he recorded all these things in a long and detailed book called Walden that told of all his finding and detailed how he build his house and scouted out the surrounding area. He dedicated chapters of this work to the different seasons. One chapter was dedicated to the pond that he loved. Another chapter dedicated to sounds that he heard from day to day. It was these simple impressions that dictated this literary work to the author.
To say that Henry David Thoreau was a lazy person could be no farther from the truth. To say he wasted his time roaming and rambling about would be an equal. Rarely did men in his day and age roam from the absorption of daily toil to truly appreciate nature’s beauty. More rare still was men’s interest in affairs outside those of village life; the interest in the nature that God had created which the author of ‘Walden’ so thoroughly enjoyed. Thoreau realized what a rich man he was, not because he had enormous material possessions, but because he could “afford” to leave nature to itself. And it was that luxury that gave him satisfaction, and lead him to say that, “A man is rich in proportion to the number or things which he can afford to let alone”.
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| Whaling History
Commercial shipping and whaling was a huge industry during Herman Melville’s time. That is, the early nineteenth century. The whaling history of the United States was widespread. Whaling was a tradition that reached back to the earliest settlers of North America, even before colonization by Europeans. The United States was at the center of the world whaling industry in the 19th century. Massachusetts was the primary whaling center during this time. By the mid-eighteen hundreds, the quantity of whaling ships in the Massachusetts area was astronomical. Numerous fishing ports were actually whaling ports that built whaling ships. Before the gradual decline of whaling at the end of the eighteen hundreds, the blubber or fat from whales was used extensively in many products. The principal focus of whaling in the United States was the lamp oil made from the phenomenal amount of fat found in whales. The whaling ships carried equipment that removed fat from the carcasses as soon as it was raised onto the ships. Aside from the fat, the large portion of the carcass was generally thrown back into the ocean, because there was no market for whale meat. Whale oil was, the highest quality oil for lamps. But when petroleum was discovered in the late eighteen hundreds, the gradual decline of commercial whaling in the United States began, as kerosene, distilled crude oil, replaced whale oil in lamps. Later, electricity gradually replaced oil lamps, and by the 1920's, the demand for whale oil had disappeared entirely.
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