My autoimmune disease first affected my life negatively, impacting not only my feelings, but my mental and physical well being as well. Moreso, I my social life suffered, too. The complications of an autoimmune disease is-so-overbearing it changes the way you think, feel, how you look at yourself, at others, the world, and the way you live. The impact of being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease was such a huge life changing event; it is the direct reason I am trying to obtain an education. Feeling the extreme importance of getting things done, to prepare for life to end. Is what made me realize that I never got to accomplish all the things I needed to, in order to die a happy person, or at least be at peace with myself. If I was to go today, with the amount of things I never got to do because of struggling with a past of hardships such as; child abuse, homelessness, a parental suicide, and being raped. I realized there's been more turmoil than any good and I need to change that before I leave this world. That's why I am dedicating all my energy to my pursuit in education. I've always dreamt of being able to graduate with a degree in Medical Administration Management, or Psychology and I believe doing so would further help me not only become a better person, but also allow me the credentials to offer a top notch employer the highly skilled and experienced employee that they deserve. It let me stand out further than other applicants in my chosen field and give me a chance to be at the top of my competition. Life is such a short time here on earth and you don't really notice how fast the time really goes until you are confronted with an event; such as having an autoimmune disease. It is an eye opener to so many things. Like what's on your bucket list. How I can leave a positive example on the word after dealing with so many setbacks. Also, how I can leave a lasting impression on my children to ensure they are going to be strong enough to hold on without me or see that they can reach for the stars and accomplish big things too. I also need to make my family proud and that is a very big deal to me and my life is affected very much by feeling the pressure of not being able to. That is why this scholarship is so important to me and my life. To be successful in graduating I will need to afford the costs and I am living at below poverty as is. I am in my fourth quarter and already have had a set back from having to withdraw; l due to covid half way through my winter quarter. However, I am remaining positive as I apply for scholarships. In conclusion, I want to die feeling accomplished in life. I have enough time left to follow my heart and finish my dream of being a graduate and to start my career in the Medical Industry. I know the importance my role as a leader will have on patients and I have a lot of compassion to professionally offer to people who are suffering from disease and/or illnesses, much as I am. I don't know how long I have, but I know I can give my all to my education and my dream career for the remaining time I do and that in itself is enough to make my end, a peacefull one!

I inspire yo make an impact on the world by spreading love and not hate. There is not one person on earth that is better than the next, nor is there anyone color, race, creed, religion, educated, uneducated, high society, or lower class individual that is better than the next. We all breathe to live, eat to not starve, and bleed when we are cut the same color. Therefore I am happy to inspire and promote wellness for all. I am always trying to spread happiness, and when I see someone in need, they do not have to ask me. I see there need and will offer my best assistance in whatever I can manage to give selflessly everytime. I know first hand how it feels to be in need and feeling so low about yourself is the very reason I would refuse to express how badly I was in need. That's why I will always offer to be there when someone is in need. It may not matter to most, but I can not walk past someone that is in obvious distress or crisis and feel good about myself. I will give my last dollar to the pan handler no matter what because we truly do not know if they are an angle sent to test our humanitarian worth. I would not be ok with not at least trying to be the fellow sister to a human. I don't know when the world became so cold and introverted, but I refuse to let a judgment stand in the way if being a good person. All people deserve respect and compassion, even the ones who judge. My mother always told me to lead by example and though I may not be able to change the world, I surely do try one person at a time! That's just who I am.

The study strategies I use to achieve academic success thus far has been that I live, eat, and barely sleep during each quarter. I continuously stay focused on my college success while staying busy with my required coursework. More importantly, I remain aware of my grades because my GPA will show my efforts and is highly noted. I spend all day and sometimes night too; on my education. I prioritize my attention on what assignments are to be done first by the due dates of each class and pay close attention to each assignments requirements. It's important to keep a schedule of my time. So, I mark the times I study on the calendar each day and label due dates with bright colors. Next, I always start each assignment by reading my instructors expectations of me thoroughly. This is to be sure of myself. Sometimes, I have to re-read the requirements and/or the class syllabus twice to be positive I have understood what's expected of me. Before I drive into my assignments. Another important strategy is I do not let anything distract me in my home environment, while I am working on my homework. I find by putting good use to the tools my school has provided students with to be successful with is effective in keeping better grades. Such as meeting with a tutor when I'm struggling. This can be done online or in person. Plus, visiting the Library to research the many academic papers, professional journals, and databases online is also a very efficient way to become successfully educated; and a brilliant strategy. I can only achieve my academic goals successfully by giving it my all when studying. Afterwards I always follow up with any feedback from my instructor.

It's always been my dream to become a college graduate. It really 8s the foundation to build a secure and healthy lifestyle. I never really seemed to be in a hurry to do so thought. It was y until I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that I felt the crunch in time. Learning to live with an autoimmune disease has not only been a physically challenging, but mentally challenging as well. Since, I first found out I had Hyperthyroidism and Graves disease I have been in and out of the hospital. There's a part of Hyperthyroidism that is life threatening, it's called a Thyroid storm, it wasn't until I ended up I'm the hospital during an episode that almost took my life that I found out I had this condition. This condition has made my hair fall out, my tempature core raise and my heart beat rate higher than usual. If I don't stay on top of my blood results monitoring my T-4 and Tsh then it can be life threatening. Graves Disease can cause my eyes to bulge out of my head, and create intense and painful migraines that are totally life disabling and there's not much I can do to decrease the symptoms. It's shaped me into the person I am today, because life's short and I had never accomplished much before this, so I decided to get myself in gear and reach for my dreams of becoming a college graduate. It's made me feel like I am running out of time, because I may not have many years left if I did not change my diet, and rest more. My aunt died of this same condition when she was 33, so being 41 I take it very seriously, just like I do my education. I am now in my second quarter to become an Administration Manager with a Medical Billing Minor and my GPA is 3.0, I haven't been in school since I was 14. I ran away from home due to abuse and neglect and been on my own ever since. Life's definitely been a hard road for me to travel. But I believe an education is needed to build a healthy and positive lifestyle from is so important. In conclusion, sometimes we have to deal with an illness that makes everything in life seem that much more important and that's why I am in school today, I have to complete my dreams and become a graduate of college because I only have one life to live and mines about half over, so the time is now to complete my dreams!

Society can best suit women by allowing them the dignity and respect they deserve, to hold doors open and say good day. To not allow there children to grow up hating and by giving more opportunities open for them professionally. If women were protected and valued we would have so much of an easier time becoming an important part of our community. Women are the back born of humanity, we bare the child and gravely suffer for doing so. With discrimination, sexual battery and more there's a huge price a lot of women have to pay, because of their beauty, who have brains that aren't allowed to use it, due t Po the insecurity of a man they doing even know.

Art is beauty, a physical theory that you can visually or physically see it hear, it's a needed escape from the reality we live within and stem is an advantaged technology that is forever reinventing it's self into something more new age appropriate, like everything else it evolves with the sands of time. Stem is where science starts and research begins, it's a new medical break through that cures cancer, or a embryonic stem cell therapy being investigated for the much needed medical treatments for such things as, HIV, Heart Transplant Patients or Hemophilia disorder that will heal the person suffering completely after the medical benefits are approved by the FDA. Together we have a beautiful existence to life, and ever loving passion growing with knowledge and the beauty to rejuvenate our selves with little medical assistance. It's the new gateway formulas to end diseases and create harmony throughout our society! Both are equally as important as the other!

I am sitting in my office and have a beautiful view outside. I can see a park where children are playing. The phone rings and it's an employee she's going to be late for work. I tell her it's ok, I will cover for her until she gets there. She's never late, and she is a great employee. So I go to her desk and log on with my info, I love being a manager for the medical clinic I work for. My employees are great, my bosses are even better and together we make one great team. She's working on the open collection accounts I asked her too, so I continue to help her. We've gotten almost 45 thousand paid in the past few months and the books are looking great. She's arrived so I log out and tell her what I done. She thanks me and I head back to my office. I look out the window and see all the children have left the park, but there's a couple in love walking a dog. I smile for a moment, then my phone rings there is a need for my advise from a new employee, she's stuck in the middle of entering a new patient and has a difficult caller on the phone. I take the call and calm the patient down, looks like a mistake with the billing. So I go through the patients account and fix the error, resubmit it and let them know if they have anymore issues to let me know. I call for a meeting from all the billing department to let them know the importance of correctly entering data, especially if the patient is male or female, over 99% of the errors are from incorrect data.

I've over came incest as a child, which I had self image issues my whole life because if this, then when I was 18 years old I had to turn my father in to stop the abuse. He than got out on bail and committed suicide, that has to be about the hardest thing to deal with in my life I thought, until I was raped in 2011. Now it's a lot different when you turn in a family member and then you turn in a stranger, because you know your family isn't going to kill you for doing what's right, at least you would think. So I turned in my rapist and he got ten years to life, that was ultimately the hardest thing I've ever done. It has changed who I am completely, reshaped my whole life, the way I think, the way I live. He was just released on August 14 , 2021 and now I am living in fear that he will one day find me and hurt me. There's a life long restraining order but really what's a piece of paper going to do if he was to come find me. I refuse to let these horrible incidences get in my way of who I am meant to be, I have had the hardest time adjusting my thinking and my life in order to work together through all the mental and emotional problems, being a victim creates and I am so excited be here to today. I want to better understand my next chapter, to be in school and live like I deserve and to be educated and wise beyond my years. Thank you.

If you do not like what you see in the world, do something to initiate the change you need, so get up and do something about it! Our minds are so influential in our well being & when you believe in yourself genuinely & you believe in what you are fighting for; it is the best way to make a difference in the world. When you are afraid to stand out & be different to teach others how to stand up for what they believe in makes the world a better place. There is so much need for help for the homeless, who are mostly mentally ill, displaced from their families, or been lost to their addiction. It is a sad world to think of all the judgment & persecution those individuals go through daily Most of the problem is society & bot these people, they were born into an abusive family, and that is what leaves them to end up in these situations, not the lack of drive, the lack of better options. If more than half of the people who do judge would never make it in the shoes they wear, If we make it possible for all to survive and achieve great things, we have to start by allowing the homeless to feel human again and give them a place in the world to exist. We will slowly see the quality of life in our communities improve. Moreso, the seed of change we will plant in the world, requiring them to tend a garden enough to feed our homeless in return for housing. That will hold them accountable and leave them feeling accomplished at the end of the day, which day by day will increase success in their own lives as well.?

My goal is to obtain an associate degree in Medical Administration, where I can make a difference in others lives, by creating an efficient and harmonious environment with in a workplace. The reason being is I have had many set back in life and negative experiences in the medical clinics around my community and I was to insured that patients who are counting on these clinics are properly served and feel relieved of stress and negativity after receiving medical care. Their main focus should be to concentrate on their health. This is very important to me, because I've witnessed discrimination due to my insurance type and disability. It doesn't make a person want to reach out for the care they need when experiencing these situations. There fore I would like to be a part of the world who is responsible for changing this. If I am able to become educated and have the knowledge and wisdom to take forth the effort of reviewing policies of a clinic, I can then put together a new more effective way of dealing with discrimination from within the medical community. All individuals should receive the same quality care, no matter their background or underlying issues. I can't stand to see the unjust judgments come from those that we are suppose to trust with our most valuable possession, our lives. I believe making a difference for everyone who has struggled with this and it would greatly benefit my life and the lives of the world around me. Health care is important to our existence and no one should feel like they are unable to get proper care. I want to make people feel appreciative and excepted for who they are not what I think they should be, it's so important to me. It would be a very worthy and positive change to witness and to be a part of something so important is exactly why I am taking Medical Administration Management and will do anything I can to help shape a healthy America for tomorrow one clinic at a time. Allowing all Americans the opportunity to feel equal to the other and discontinue old practices that have left the stigma behind which hinders proper healthcare to certain types of patients. Everyone alive has the right to be free from discrimination and I believe it takes a special understanding and experience to be able to get that across to employees, may it be a health care provider or a office support role, they need to be taught to have a more sophisticated and professional view point when dealing with those whom are of diversity. So I will put forth my best knowledge to change policies and how we deal with this situation from a legal aspect down to the consequences of our actions to rewrite the foundation of what healthcare is all about, Care!

My biggest ambition is education, to become educated is my dreams, my passion, and my heart. This scholarship will help me become the best version of myself and allow me to further follow my dreams and become successful in obtaining an AAS degree. I In vision being a role model, someone to whom values people for who they are knowing that what they've been through is how they came to be, themselves. Someone who doesn't judge others for inadequacies but tries to inspire them to be the best they can be, no matter what color they are, what environment they come from or how old they are. To be there reason of effort and support when their weak, a mentor, a tutor, a person with common interests that cares about doing good in others lives, to better my own would to be to better thiers, whomever they are or will be, I know I have a special gift to give them and with the right degree in college, I will be able to better understand and help them. Someone who never gives up or in, that people admire for the accomplishments and drive they've seen from watching me throughout my years and be a reference for why they never give up in there life and continue to go for their life's passions, even when it seems the world's against them, a promoter of all good things. An influencer of motivation for my younger generation to keep going forward, to follow their dreams, no matter how hard life gets, or where they come from, each day they wake up putting each foot forward and never looking back. A voice to be heard, with a story of determination overcoming, trial and error, with a sad begining, but an even greater ending, full of happiness and success enough to share with the world. Someone who can see others needs and apply what knowledge obtain through education and uses it to do good and to advance further not only in my life, but mostly being able to have the ability to help others advance in there's too, that is most important to me. I want to gain what intelligence I can and help promote others who have had the struggles in life, somewhat like mine and collaborate our stories together. So that we maybe heard by those who need to hear of our experiences, from all of us, that came from broken homes, have been abused in anyway and a wide range of others problems and heal each other- together; as one from a past less fortunate. While sharing life's experiences with those whom are at just an age where it matters in hopes that they will hear our hardships and not have to learn the same kind of lessons. So that they may have a better chance at avoiding the mistakes and setbacks that I and many others have had to to with stand. I want to be the change in the world that others see and follow. There's so much change that's needs for the world to be a better place and In order to feel accomplished and be the best version of myself to do so, I need to follow my own dreams, so that I can be the one who helps make the world a better place for generations to come, and that all starts with an Education and I dedication to do so. Thank you for reading my essay and for the opportunity to be a part of this awesome scholarship. You are an amazing person, even if I am not chosen you are making someone's, dreams come true and that's admirable, so Thank You! Below you will find a link to a book I published in 2013, Thank you.

Legacy to me means a life that was lived exceptionally well. The past that you leave behind you for others to remember when you're gone. For generations to come your memory will be imprinted on the minds of many. Legacy a prodigy or example of all examples, something to live by or to continue to live for, a heritage or heirloom to pass on to your younger peers. Legacy is a extraordinary person who does right by his or her society, who leaves a trail of positive reinforcements and uses his or her mind to change the world around them for the better of all. A highlighted existence far from the forgotten minds of the surrounding community. Someone who makes a path for others to follow, with good intentions and a righteous mind. A legacy is the people we remember that moved us to be better people, who had the light of god in their eyes when they lived their life as it was, never knowing that their actions or choices would someday be of such an importance to the views of others. A role model to look up to or a hero that saves you, a legacy is the name you leave behind , something for others to live up to and want to become one day their-selves. Someone who had many trials and errors and never faltered or gave up, that no matter the setbacks they continued to rise above it, fought with both fists in the air to accomplish their vision. A person that even through the sands of time they're character or perseverance and determination, was so admirable that it was recognized and passed on to remember for the quality of life a person lead, and not for self, but for good of all kinds. Someone who has seen many places and done great things and has a vision of past present and future knowledge to share with those that they love or those that love them, a brand ambassador. Someone who promotes destiny as it should be and not as they tell us it is. A trend setter, a legacy is someone that amazed enough people that they're almost idolized and followed. A rock star in many different aspects, a prodigy of great and prosperous things. A natural born leader, a wise man or woman educated far beyond the limits of humanity, someone who has a dream and follows it until their last breath. A legacy to me is Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, Trump, Obama, JFK, Queen Dianna, WWII. As well as, all the Veterans, the fallen soldier on both sides. A legacy is a legend of all sorts,shapes and kinds, an inventor of changes that we don't know or see until we evolve, like Harriet Tubman, Anne Frank, Susan B Anthony or your Parents and Mine. A legacy to me is an educated future with a life left behind to pass down to your kids, and their kids - kids for generations. A legend is a a legacy and a legacy is a positive influential personality that even through times our history is never forgotten, a person and an event, a theory or time. It's Einstein or Apollo 11 the things that will forever exist in this day and age and beyond. My upbringing was nothing I would like to speak about, it's not the legacy I'm leaving behind and that why an education is so important to me. I'm breaking a cycle of incest, abuse and a life not of the proper kind. Thank you for reading my essay.

I Invision being a role model, someone to whom values people for who they are knowing that what they've been through is how they came to be, themselves. Someone who doesn't judge others for inadequacies but tries to inspire them to be the best they can be, no matter what color they are, what environment they come from or how old they are. To be there reason of effort and support when their weak, a mentor, a tutor, a person with common interests that cares about doing good in others lives, to better my own would to be to better thiers, whomever they are or will be, I know I have a special gift to give them and with the right degree in college, I will be able to better understand and help them. Someone who never gives up or in, that people admire for the accomplishments and drive they've seen from watching me throughout my years and be a reference for why they never give up in there life and continue to go for their life's passions, even when it seems the world's against them, a promotor of all good things. An influencer of motivation for my younger generation to keep going forward, to follow there dreams, no matter how hard life gets, or where they come from, each day they wake up putting each foot forward and never looking back. A voice to be heard, with a story of determination and trail and error, with a sad begining but an even greater ending, full of happiness and success enough to share with the world. Someone who can see others needs and apply what knowledge obtain through education and uses it to do good and to advance further not only in my life, but mostly being able to have the ability to help others advance in there's too, that is most important to me. I want to gain what intelligence I can and help promote others who have had the struggles in life, somewhat like mine and collaborate our stories together. So that we maybe heard by those who need to hear of our experiences, from all of us, that came from broken homes, have been abused in anyway and a wide range of others problems and heal each other- together; as one from a past less fortunate. While sharing life's experiences with those whom are at just an age where it matters in hopes that they will hear our hardships and not have to learn the same kind of lessons. So that they may have a better chance at avoiding the mistakes and set backs that I and many others have had to to with stand. I want to be the change in the world that others see and follow. There's so much change that's needs for the world to be a better place and In order to feel accomplished and be the best version of myself to do so, I need to follow my own dreams, so that I can be the one who helps make the world a better place for generations to come, and that all starts with an Education and I dedication to do so. Thank you for reading my essay and for the opportunity to be a part of this awesome scholarship. You are an amazing person, even if I am not chosen you are making someones dreams come true and that's admirable, so Thank You!