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Aug 15, 2011
Undergraduate / Question about how Star Wars influences me Essay [5]
The prompt is: Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you
Throughout my life, I have been exposed to a large variety of characters, whether it was through movies, books, or other forms of entertainment. Out of all these characters, Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi , a Jedi from "Star Wars", is the one that sticks out of the crowd as a literary figure that has influenced me the most. He is a man who spent most of his adult life helping others, and I aspire to do the same by pursuing my dream of becoming an Orthopedic Surgeon. Helping those less fortunate with the skills he has accumulated is the greatest achievement of Obi-Wan, and I intend to emulate him.
Obi-Wan represents the things that I find to be most important, such as kindness, compassion, patience, and wisdom. These are all traits that I aim to one day consist of. If the life of Obi-Wan is anything to go by, these qualities will bring me far. That is why I try to employ them in my day to day life, whether it is through community service or tutoring my fellow students.
The most important lesson taught by Obi-Wan throughout the entirety of "Star Wars" is for his students to "use the force." I know that it is physically impossible for me to use the "Force" in a literal sense, but that is not the lesson I think he was trying to convey. What Obi-Wan did was teach me that there is a hero inside everyone. Whenever something daunting needs to be accomplished, I realized that I just needed to look deep within myself and (yeah, this is a weak ending)
I am applying with the CommonApp for Northwestern and wanted to know if this Essay was able to be fixed, if its too weak, and if I should start a new one. Even if you do not know much about star wars, any thoughts on this would be extremely helpful, as I start school tomorrow and want to get this finished by tonight.
Please do not hold back any comments or suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
The prompt is: Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you
Throughout my life, I have been exposed to a large variety of characters, whether it was through movies, books, or other forms of entertainment. Out of all these characters, Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi , a Jedi from "Star Wars", is the one that sticks out of the crowd as a literary figure that has influenced me the most. He is a man who spent most of his adult life helping others, and I aspire to do the same by pursuing my dream of becoming an Orthopedic Surgeon. Helping those less fortunate with the skills he has accumulated is the greatest achievement of Obi-Wan, and I intend to emulate him.
Obi-Wan represents the things that I find to be most important, such as kindness, compassion, patience, and wisdom. These are all traits that I aim to one day consist of. If the life of Obi-Wan is anything to go by, these qualities will bring me far. That is why I try to employ them in my day to day life, whether it is through community service or tutoring my fellow students.
The most important lesson taught by Obi-Wan throughout the entirety of "Star Wars" is for his students to "use the force." I know that it is physically impossible for me to use the "Force" in a literal sense, but that is not the lesson I think he was trying to convey. What Obi-Wan did was teach me that there is a hero inside everyone. Whenever something daunting needs to be accomplished, I realized that I just needed to look deep within myself and (yeah, this is a weak ending)
I am applying with the CommonApp for Northwestern and wanted to know if this Essay was able to be fixed, if its too weak, and if I should start a new one. Even if you do not know much about star wars, any thoughts on this would be extremely helpful, as I start school tomorrow and want to get this finished by tonight.
Please do not hold back any comments or suggestions.
Thanks in advance!