<p>Oh and I’m a McKenna Scholarship Finalist as well!</p>
<p>I wrote about an Italian CEO who fights corruption in Indonesia through the arts of Auditing. I learned a lot from that guy when I was an intern at his firm. A very charismatic person…no one can deny that he is a leader when you meet him</p>
<p>hey, i am an international student. so do u think it will be a wise decision to write about someone from my own country who is not very famous worldwide but highly respected in my country…??</p>
<p>The man in front of the tanks, Tiananmen Square protests, 1989. Is this too…overworked? Common?</p>
<p>I wrote about Jack Kelso, who lived in my area of the state in the 1830s and befriended Abraham Lincoln. Kelso was a leader in that he was very “ahead of his time” in a sense – he was surrounded by people who were overly concerned with money, but he spent his time reading Shakespeare and the classics. He introduced Abe Lincoln to one of his favorite poets, Robert Burns, and basically put him on the path to becoming a lawyer by getting him interested in literature.
Maybe that’s a weird choice, but I’ve been involved in an intensive research project this year on writing historical fiction and I’ve been studying Kelso, the “Henry David Thoreau” of 1830s-era central IL.</p>
<p>God, how the stars answer our prayers and my judgement regarding a previous engagement with CMC.</p>
<p>The politicization of this campus and its selection process overwhelms reasoning individuals Their political obsessions are beyond comparison. Rather than analytically examining ideas, events and persons of note, they take on airs of exclusivity denying opposing interest.</p>
<p>Needless to say, in having met a gentleman of worth at an airport on my way to Williams College, I deferred to his alma mater, with courtesy and decorum for this man wore his suit well.</p>
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<p>I’m sure this has been asked before but does anyone know whether this should be about how the figure has affected us? I mean I’m thinking of writing about my favorite writer but I’m not sure how to approach this…</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I wrote about a tribal council woman in my area. I got wait listed, but I thought it was one of my better essays.</p>
<p>I think, like many others have said, it’s all about your presentation more than the actual person.</p>
<p>I wrote about the Taiwanese leader, but I didn’t write about any of his official policies. I mainly wrote about his public behavior, his relationship with the media, basically all the intimate details you can’t really find from Google.</p>
<p>It seemed to work out well. :)</p>
<p>At World Model UN this year in Taiwan, Ma Ying Jiu spoke at opening ceremonies. Really cool guy for a leader!</p>
<p>The people I know in my class wrote about all kinds of people. Mine was on Shakespeare, I know someone who wrote about Stalin and someone else who wrote about their high school physics teacher. If you get in who you wrote about is an easy conversation topic in the first week or so.</p>
<p>I talked about John Maynard Keynes and John Rawls, and how together their ideas in the mid-20th century have shaped the modern economic and political (respectively) climate of the Western civilized world, the United States in particular.</p>
<p>my S, a current CMC student, says the admissions department is looking at changing this essay topic for next year since the current one analyzing a leader has been used for a few years. Admissions is asking students for new topic suggestions.</p>
<p>My D said that at admitted students day & overnight she was asked about her essay topic and that the CMCers wanted to talk about who they wrote about as well. Kind of a bonding experience, I guess. Looks like that is not going to continue. I suppose they must get a lot of duplicate essays and might be anxious to read something different in the admissions office.</p>