Criminal Justice Goals

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The fact is that Gibbs-slap to the back of the head, played by Mark Harmon, in almost every episode of NCIS is truly exhilarating that you cannot want to join the field—the field as in the criminal justice field. I can’t deny the facts that I structured my ambitions and goals in the criminal justice field because of a television show, but it’s true.
Although, it’s true, I can’t also deny that my ambitions and goals in the criminal justice field is genially becoming someone that, I swear, I thought I would never become. Additionally, representing my heritage was also a bonus, in every aspect, because it’s something personally that I felt was needed and wanted in a field that is underrepresented by Asians, specifically Hmong individuals. In which, my greatest ambition and goal is to become a secret service agent—more specifically one that stands next to the President of the United States of America. Thus, I could’ve chosen other fields that demonstrated such philosophies, but I choose the criminal justice field because it’s a field that has always kept me dreaming and hoping.
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Hence, it’s a long-term goal to be able to become someone so unimaginable because of my personality; but, to become a secret service agent is to become someone that I know I can become and represent. In spite of this, before achieving such greatness, another form of a long-term goal is to complete and further my education. As quoted from Nelson Mandela, “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” it is this education that I want to achieve in this long term goal to obtain the most powerful weapon because I want to change the

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