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Ciarosalie Pierre-Kernizan Ms.O’Neill Period 3 10/07/2012 14  ** __Dream Essay__ ** Imagine yourself 10 years from now. After spending most of your young life cramped inside of an overpopulated school, you are anxious to begin your dream job, the job that you have been waiting for since grade school. Now, it’s finally yours and no one can take it away from you, no matter how hard they try. Everyone has a dream that they would like to have come true later in life, whether it’s to have their dream job, or to meet their favorite celebrity. My dream in life is to finish school and become a doctor. I want this dream to come true because ever since the doctors at Saint Barnabas hospital saved my mother from dying from birth, my brother from dying from multiple asthma attacks, and my grandma from breast cancer, I knew I wanted to be like them someday, helping to save the lives of young(and old)people.

There are multiple steps that I would have to take for me to fulfill my dream of becoming a doctor. The first step to accomplishing my goal is attending an Ivy League School. The best way to be able to attend an Ivy League School is getting admirable grades early. Ivy League Schools most likely won’t admit you to their school if you start doing well in school late in high school. You should also challenge yourself academically. This means taking advanced courses, especially ones that offer college credits. Ivy League Schools prefer students who do well in a challenging course than one that does exceptional in an average one. Although this may be a tedious task, I believe that it’s worth the wait.To accomplish my goal to become a doctor, I will have to be very studious and diligent for me to be able to finish school.

When I close my eyes, I can imagine myself 15, 20 years from now, accomplishing my dream of becoming a doctor. After a long day of working as a doctor in my office in California, I finally get to come home to my wonderful husband, 2 kids, 2 dogs, a turtle, a hamster, and a guinea pig. The scene when I get home is different everyday. Sometimes, I come home to the find everything serene and the kids doing homework or the kids watching television with the dogs at their feet. But other times, I come home to total chaos. The kids are fighting for no apparent reason and the house is flipped completely upside down. But, even with the chaos, I love my family and wouldn’t change anything, even if I could.

I can already imagine myself taking care of a patient. I’m working in my office when the doctors rush him in, telling me that he’s been in a horrible car accident and is unresponsive. They also tell me that a piece of the metal highway barrier has entered his body and when I look down, I can see it jutting out of the lower section of his thigh. We rush him into an operating room, give him the anesthesia, and start the procedure to remove the jutting highway barrier from the man’s body. After 6 hours, 3 cups of coffee, and a lot of skin and blood lost, we finally removed the piece of metal out of the man’s thigh. After the procedure, I got many accolades from my fellow doctors. Being a doctor demonstrates all of the capricious things that happen in life, but everyday, I revel the fact that I get to live out my dreams.

Now that my dream is a reality, I can say that after many years of working hard in school, have accomplished my goal of becoming a doctor. Now, I can probably better understand how tired my mom actually was taking care of two kids and working full time. Working full time and becoming a mother to two kids makes me appreciate my mother even more than I already do. I know how hard she works to take care of me and my little brother and also to be able to pay all bills. Becoming a doctor changed my family’s life because now, instead of them taking care of me, I am old enough to take care of myself, and my family members. I hope that instead of fantasizing about it, I will actually get to live out my dream 15, 20 years from now.

Ciarosalie Pierre-Kernizan Ms. O’Neill English Period 3 01/06/2013 **  __The Outsiders comparison__  ** The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a fourteen-year-old boy. The novel and the movie tell the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. The two rival social groups are the Socs, on the west side of town, and the Greasers, on the east side of town. The Outsiders has an interesting, moving plot, and the movie is faithful to the story in many ways. However, some of the director’s choices make the movie ultimately less emotionally satisfying than the story. Their are myriad reasons why I think that the book is better than the movie. One reason would be that the book gave much more detail than the movie. The author, S.E. Hinton, took time and effort to give background information and introduced all of the characters to the reader while the director of the movie just jumped into action right when the movie started. Another reason why I think that the book is better than the movie is because the director of The Outsiders  skipped many important parts in the film. For instance, the movie didn't show the part where Pony got jumped. The novel went into this in great detail. Besides this, the movie left out some characters, and gave other characters more minor roles. The movie didn’t mention Sandy, Soda’s boyfriend, and Sodapop had an extremely smaller role. Finally, the movie didn’t have Pony failing his English class, therefore, Pony writing the essay, which turned out to be  The Outsiders, made no sense. The last reason why I think that the book is better than the movie is because The Outsiders book had more emotion. When I saw the movie, I felt no emotion when Johnny and Dally died. But while reading the book, I was bawling. However, in one part, the movie had more emotion than the book did. After Johnny died and Dally ran of the hospital, the book only mentioned that Dally called the Curtis house for help, while in the movie, they actually showed Dally’s actions and why he needed help and the audience understood how Dally felt when he found out that Johnny was dead. In the end, like in most cases, I think that the book is better than the movie. The book went into greater detail, it had more emotion, and the movie skipped many important parts of the story.