Many people have role models in life, just like them I also have a role model. Thomas Edison is my role model because he exemplified that through persistence, anybody can achieve anything. America gave me another chance at pursuing my dreams and I am very thankful for that. I promised myself and my family to become a physician not for the money, nor for the good life, but to assist people in need of my service. Like Thomas Edison, I did not give up on my dream just because I encountered obstacles. In America, I strived and still strive to do my absolute best in school because although I will come across failure once or twice, it does not mean that I should give up on my dreams. Thomas Edison invented the light-bulb after 10,000 “failures,”
