<p>next year, as a transfer student, I will apply to some colleges, such as Boston College, Boston U. , and NYU. Do you think that this essay fine for them?</p>
<p>Topic: indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.</p>
<pre><code> You can accept this or not, but I believe that I made some important achievements during my life. What I expect you to do is to go one step beyond me. This was what my father, the one who has had the biggest influence on me, once told me. I have always considered him a successful man both in business and life .Being the child of a poor Anatolian family, he got his first job as a shepherd in a small village at the age of seven. After twenty years he was the owner of his business. What could I achieve that goes beyond this?
My fathers youth was not an easy one. When he first went to Istanbul, the biggest city of Turkey, he was twelve years old, just graduated from primary school, and was alone. In the 1960s Istanbul, industrializing and developing steadily, was like New York City of the early 1900s, and child labor was not illegal yet. He was now in a world that he had never seen before. What he was supposed to do was to find a job and send money to his family. He worked in factories and, lived in very small apartments which he would share with many other workers.
At the time he established his own small textile business, after working in so many different jobs, Turkey was in a chaos of political polarization between college students. No matter what political thoughts they believed in, their purpose was the same; the benefit of their country, and the whole humanity. After a few years, the student movement failed completely. My father was significantly influenced by the incidents because most of these students had sacrificed their lives for humanity. Though, he had not had a formal education he was a good observer, and what he analyzed about the student movements was fairly reasonable; the student movement failed because they were just college students who had not had financial independence.
That was what my father meant by going one step beyond; struggling not just for yourself but also for the humanity. According to my father, this was possible only after having a good education and gaining financial independence. After being a powerful person either in business, politics or arts you could use your own wealth for the benefit of humanity.
After thinking of what my father had told me, I decided to study in the US. to get a better education. Then in 2004, I came to XXXXXXX Academy in where I believe that I get a very decent education. Additionally, after four years of undergraduate college, I plan to do the rest of my education here including getting master and doctorate. After I succeed in business and become a powerful person I will go for my furthest goal, and get into an international association such as UNESCO or UN, where I can help with issues relating to the whole of humankind. I have already been a member of an association called TEMA which is concerned with natural destruction in Turkey, and I am sure that I can work on similar issues in these associations globally, in the future. My goal is not an easy one, but my destiny is to go one step beyond.
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