Student Success Statement 

Regarding Successful Living

"There is no giant step that 

does it. It's a lot of steps."

ANON

I really agree with this quote. Its true there is not such a thing as a big step towards something. It s a lot of steps that count to make you successful. The more stairs you encounter the most successful you are going to be. To be successful you have to challenge yourself to do whats best and complete it. For example if you want to become a professional basketball player you have to complete a lot of steps in order to get there. Its not just owe big step you take to get there but rather many steps. 

                      

Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based treatment programs for people with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Recreational therapists use a variety of methods, including arts and crafts, drama, music, and dance, sports, games, and community reintegration field trips to help maintain or improve a patient’s physical, social, and emotional well-being.

Salary: $42,280

Education: You must have a high school diploma or a GED certificate. You also need to have a bachelor’s degree to start.   

Reflection: I would not like to be a recreation therapist because it is a job that I am not interested in doing in the future.

                               

Student Success Statement

"Right is Right, even if everyone is

against it; and wrong is wrong, even

if everyone is for it." 

William Penn

I can really relate to this statement by William Penn. Personally i think this is a perfect example for teenagers living in this environment. It could also conclude the fact that it has to do with peer pressure. When you know something is right then you do it. Ignore everybody else because at he end your going to be the mature one doing the right thing. When you know something is bad and people want to do it or even want you to do it then you ignore them and don't do it. Only you can choose to say no. For example if they tell you to smoke then you say no even if all your friends are up for it. 

                               

Thoracic Surgeon

Duties and Responsibility: Thoracic surgeons treat Lung cancer, severe emphysema, Cancer of the esophagus, Gastro esophageal reflux disease, Hiatal hernias, Swallowing disorders such as achalasia, and excess sweating, usually of the upper extremity called hyperhidrosis. They preform surgeries and treatments as well as prescribe medicine.

Salary: $250,000 -$811,000

Education: You have to get a bachelor's degree in order to get into medical school. The most logical pre-med bachelor degrees include courses in chemistry, mathematics, engineering or psychology. Then one must gain a passing score on the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). They must have 10 years of medical school. Then pass an exam administered by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Reflection: I would like to be a Thoracic Surgeon because they pay really well and I would like to help out people the most I can. 

                       

Student Success Statement 

Cowardice asks the question "Is it safe?"

Expediency asks the question "Is it politic?"

Vanity asks the question "Is it popular?" 

But, conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" 

And there comes a time when one must take a 

position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,

but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

I really like this statement by Martin Luther king Jr because it is very realistic and may match up with people in society today.Your conscience knows what is good and what is bad for you. When your conscience says it is the right thing, then you must take a chance and do it. Cowards ask the question is it safe but that wont get you anywhere, Expediency asks it is politic? That wont get you anywhere or help you choose the right. When your conscience says its right then it is and you should just go for it. For example if i wanna make a choice i know i can listen to my conscience to do the right thing because it will warn me. 

                 

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Radiologic Technologists use x-ray machines, ultrasound machines, magnetic resonance scanners, positron emission scanners, and other machines to help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries. They are also responsible for explaining and getting patients ready for radiological tests and treatment that will be performed.  They place the equipment at the right distance and right angle from the patient to make the right images for the physician. 

Salary: $24,000-$36,000

Education: To become a radiologic technologist you need to complete a two year training program in a hospital or school. A high school diploma or GED certificate is required for entry to these programs.  

Reflection: I would like to be a Radiologic technologist because it sounds like an interesting career that I would like to work in one day. 

                               

Student Success Statement 

"Let us have faith that right makes right, and in 

that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty

as we understand it." 

Abraham Lincoln 

I Think the quote is trying to say that once we know we are doing right then we are doing the right and in the end we are going to be doing a nice duty. We need to have faith in order to know whats right and whats wrong. Led us to the end where we have done our duty of being a good person and doing right things. I really think this is what the statement means. For example in order to do good in our everyday lives then we need to have faith in what we do in order for it to be right.