Statement Of Purpose: Joining The Peace Corps

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Joining the Peace Corps is something that I have contemplated on doing since my freshmen of Year College. As a child growing up in a developing country Cameroon, I have experience to some degree what it means to be unnoticed and uncared for. so when came to the united states in 2004 with my siblings, one of my high school teachers asked the class to write on a piece of paper what each of us would like to be when we grow up. As I remember vividly, I wrote “I want to become a political diplomat or a lawyer.” The reasons I choose these career paths were unknown to me at the time. However as I continue to grow up, the reason why I picked these career paths became clearer. It began to make sense of what a lawyer and a political diplomat share in

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