Scholarship / Odenza Marketing Scholarship: choose a city that is ideal for your prospective career [NEW]

Can anyone help me with this essay, it must be under 500 words, have proper citations (endnote, footnote, or parenthetical form), and have proper format?

Choose a city located anywhere in the world that you believe would, from a future employment prospective, benefit your career. Explain in under 500 words how spending time in this city would help you become more marketable to a potential employer(s). Clearly identify how it will benefit you. For example, going to Paris may help you if you are interested in Fashion Design. Note that this should not just be stated. You must provide an argument supporting this statement.

With the healthcare on the rise, a demanding career known as Occupational Therapy is beginning to become more popular. Occupational therapy (OT) basically helps people of all ages with their lives by helping them perform daily tasks such cooking, cleaning, or even something simple like buttoning a shirt. Even though the demand for OTs is increasing all over the United States, Orlando, FL is the ideal place for me to practice this field of medicine in order to serve any kind of person, whether they are young or old.

With the elderly population increasing (bls.gov) and the state of Florida having approximately 4% more senior citizens than the rest of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau), many of them are continuing a tradition to retire in Orlando. Even though technology has led to the elderly living longer lives, they are still capable of being unable to perform daily tasks they previously able to do. Since Occupational Therapy will be primarily needed for the elderly, Orlando is the ideal place to have a career that is needed, keeping me actively involved with my community.

While Occupational Therapy usually is needed for the elderly, there are young people who are unable to perform daily tasks and need it as well. According to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 52,000 people under the age of 18 reside in Orlando, FL. With accidents that can occur at attractions such as Disney World and Universal Studios, being an OT can help young people by letting them be able to perform tasks while their lives continue.

From retirement homes for the elderly to fun attractions for kids, being in a demanding field specifically in Orlando, will give me the opportunity to be there for anyone, whethere young or old.

Scholarship / "Washington, DC experience" - future goals, involvement in activities and deserving [2]

Okay, this is a scholarship i have to turn in in a couple of days, they want candidates who want to have a career in the health field as their goals, but they also want people to talk about their involvement in extracurriculars, why i deserve the scholarship, and other things that they should know.

Chicago has always been a part of my life and the passion to help reduce the violence in my hometown is an essential goal of mine. In order to achieve this goal, I intend to become a licensed Occupational Therapist (OT) in the city of Chicago where I will help patients improve, or regain, their abilities to perform tasks in living and working environments.

Before I am able to help others, I am going to help myself by attending Knox College. While there, I plan to enroll in a dual-degree program to receive a Bachelor's and Master's degree in five years. Spending three years at Knox, then two years at Rush University Chicago, I expect to earn both degrees when I am 23 years old. The sooner I am able to achieve my goals, the sooner I can help fellow Chicagoans reach their goals as well.

Recently, I have been involved in community service and extracurricular activities that have required me to help others by giving them information. For example, one of the activities I have done with 100 Black Men of Chicago (100 BMC) is giving a presentation on the negative effects of steroids, specifically on how it affects the black male community due to the lack of father figures in many African American males' lives. The surprised faces of the audience after presenting such a taboo topic has created a self-motivation to actively participate in community service while in college. Concurrently, I plan to become a volunteer of 100 BMC and eventually overcome a rigorous process to become a 100 BMC mentor.

Another activity I take deep commitment in is Peer Mediation. This requires me to profoundly listen to fellow students who have minor disputes, repeat what they have told me, and let them hear one another perspectives of a situation, helping them construct their own solution to their problem. Along with helping students solve their problems, I strongly advise them to take advantage of Peer Mediation before they have to possibly face punishment that can affect them in high school and in the future.

Finally, Tuesdays and Thursdays are my favorite days to stay after school and tutor for an hour. During this short amount of time, I am helping needy freshmen primarily with their Algebra I homework, discussing the process of each problem. As I am teaching students, I discover that I have patience. Even though a student may not immediately understand a problem, I make sure they understand by continually searching for their ideal process or tactic. I am confident the value of patience will stay with me as I finish my senior year of high school and even as an Occupational Therapist, where I will help people as a living.

Since I expect to attend Knox College, a prestigious institution, I want to make sure excelling in my academics and community service are my top priorities. By attaining the Louis Stokes Health Scholarship, I will have the privilege to mainly focus on earning the necessary education and experience for my desired career in health care. My parents have worked hard to make sure I have a quality education, and I want to continue to make them proud with a relief from a financial burden.

January of 2009 in Washington, DC was an experience I will never forget; it was the time when Barack Obama was inaugurated and the first I have ever visited the nation's capital.

In my Advanced Placement (AP) United States Government class, I have learned about President Obama's health care reform law and the impact it has on every U.S. citizen, varying from job placement to health care options citizens will have. Visiting Washington, DC, especially to see the first African American president becoming inaugurated was a very appreciative moment to view. Since I plan to go back to Washington, DC during my spring break with the "CloseUp" program to learn more about how politics affects health care as well as an everyday person's life.