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¶ … beauty pageant is accompanied by a public outcry: "How dare you objectify women." For me however, participation in a recent Asian-American beauty contest was life-affirming. The social-awareness programs that the contestants contributed towards cemented my career goals. I feel today, that I am on the cusp of making significant contributions to a failing and defeatist health care industry. And, I bring to the table educational and work experience, industriousness, motivation and talent. Graduate work leading to a Master's degree in Public Health (MPH) will help fulfill my avocation of making a difference.
I have a Bachelor's degree in legal studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and work experience as a regional account manager at a health-care management institution. I also have experience in dispute resolution, financial and budget management, and marketing, all in health-care and biotechnology. I am very proud of my work with senior citizens for whom I organized typing classes and other social service activities. My sense of community-service was strengthened when...
I recently participated in a Jade-ribbon campaign where I discovered first hand the higher incidence of Hepatitis B and other liver diseases among Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders -- especially recent immigrants. I firmly believe that multicultural health must be included in the larger system of reforms by addressing the linguistic and cultural needs of diverse communities.
America may be the only superpower today. But many millions of its citizens are unable to access even basic health-care. This political football is kicked around between special interests; and as a result, ordinary people are victimized. Working as a health-care auditor and analyst, I learned firsthand of the waste of money due to mismanagement, mishandling and misappropriation. Sometimes hospitals are overpaid; sometimes underpaid. Most often patient- reimbursement (or billing) is delayed (sometimes by years) causing untold hardship. My extensive experience in this field allowed me to work…
They are there to play and not to show off their bodies. Female athletes with larger body size will find discomforts in the tightly fitted uniforms. This then presents problem to safety. The female athletes who will not be at ease to the required uniform could not focus on the game she is playing. She will, from time to time, try to rearrange, pull or push some parts o the
Figure 1. Demographic composition of the United States (2003 estimate). Source: Based on tabular data in World Factbook, 2007 (no separate listing is maintained for Hispanics). From a strictly percentage perspective, it would seem that Asian-Americans do not represent much of a threat at all to mainstream American society, but these mere numbers do not tell the whole story of course. For one thing, Asian-Americans are one of the most diverse and
During this penultimate period of violence under Rojas, the violence that wracked Colombia assumed a number of different characteristics that included an economic quality as well as a political one with numerous assassinations taking place. These were literally contract killings there were sponsored by opposition forms. There were also horrendous genocidal acts that were carried out by gangs combined with authentic revolutionary fighting in some regions of the country. The fourth