Listening, to me, is both an art and a science that should claim the attention of everyone especially those who want to get the most out of life such as wisdom and understanding. The proverb goes that 'if you listen to the noise in the market, you will not buy anything;' and that through listening to others we get a clear understanding of what they mean in their communications to us either verbal or written. The meaning of market in this context simply means listening to a large audience at the same time. Some may directly be speaking to you while others may have their attention somewhere else. Indeed very often,sometimes if we listen to diverse opinions or voices, we get confused over what we really want to listen to. This means that we need to put our house in order by first of all targeting or listing our choices and options. For example, in the market we have decided to buy only pepper based on the funding available. But once we arrive there, we get calls and attractions from every angle and our initial focus on buying pepper alone is shifted to equally buying onions and pineapples, among others. Listening to music is an important past-time. But we need to do it one by one to avoid empty noise., by carefully choosing what we want to listen to, either reggae, or jazz or rock-and roll or else we can get confused over what to listen to as a source of entertainment. Therefore, listening can make us appear foolish or wise, or confused, depending on how we make sure that we are listening to something that we can gain from. The same goes with listening to pieces of advice from elders or experts, such as development, political ideas and philosophies.

The simple aspects of life that I take pleasure in include listening to the radio and watching the television especially football games from top European clubs such as Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, AS Roma, among others. I also take time off my busy schedule to browse the internet and the learn more about the wonders to learn from mobile phones. I can remember that recently this year's the African Cup of Nations event took place in Cameroon with several countries who qualified in the elimination series participating. I was appalled to learn that some of the big names such as Nigeria, Ghana and the Ivory Coast who were the favorites of the fans on the basis of past records were barely able to qualify. It was equally surprising that the cup holder from the last tournament, Algeria to whom all eyes were fixed did little to retain the title although they were also recent winners of the All Arab League that took place in the United Arab Emirates. Sierra Leone a new-comer probably playing in the tournament for the first time was able to draw with Algeria and the Ivory Coast, but beaten by another new-comer, the Equatorial Guinea. Every game throughout the tournament brought me tears of joy! Moreover, as a passionate and enthusiastic user of the internet, I always don not feel a sense of fulfillment if I fail to open the Microsoft Windows browser to engage in academic and other forms of research on the internet. In my research on the internet, I often treasure knowing new techniques of keeping my body healthy through taking exercise drills, such as YOGA and the swinging of the hands, head, feet and the stomach. This is why my passion include: the internet, sporting events and the media

Giving is very important to me because there is always blessing and honor in giving. Act 23:25 in the Bible clearly states that there is more blessing in giving than in receiving; and as an additional I feel that the ego of one is often highly raised than that of the receiver, as one may feel ashamed or with heads bowed low when receiving while one gives with head held high. What is equally worth noting about giving is that the giver may often have a superiority complex and a sense of fulfillment for the bold generosity of giving to ensure that there is some form of satisfaction to the receiver, although it is not possible to satisfy the demands of everyone who asks or simply receives from the giver without asking. Of course there are people who give mainly on the basis that they have seen or perceived that the person is in need and there empathetic, religious or philanthropic nature have urged them to give either for blessings from God or for reasons of possible reciprocal repayment in one way or the other. We must take as an example Jesus feeding the multitude of 5,000 with five loaves of bread and two fishes, out of his empathetic gesture for feeling that the people must be hungry after spending with him all those hours without food. The discussions with Martha after Lazarus was dead is another example. If you were here your friend Lazarus would not have died; as she perceived Jesus's power. This is why I am confident of giving back to the underprivileged members of my family, my community and my al-ma maters what ever dividends my education, employment and obtaining a scholarship I am able to receive from others in a gesture of reciprocity and empathy.

I am passionate about the discovery of the internet, as it is a perfect supplement for libraries which offer research opportunities and goes beyond that by helping to enhance communications around the world, and a useful working tool in many disciplines such as research, agriculture, medicine, judiciary, financial management, education and the health sector, job search, among many others. This is why I do not at all feel it a loss of time spending a large chunk of my time on browsing, or doing work on the internet. Indeed the internet is like a large ocean that may contain many hidden valuable treasures. Nowadays when one thinks about recent discoveries in the world that have made life very easy and comfortable, the internet, mobile phones and discoveries made in modern medicines are among what comes to our minds. What has also rekindled my passion for the internet is that it did not completely overtake the contributions of conventional libraries as sources of knowledge, information and research, but goes a mile ahead by throwing off the burdens of having to go to places where libraries are located; it s in our mobile phones and computers. Of course among the vast opportunities offered by the internet is that it serves as a platform to seek information on social, entertainment, geographic, scholarships and other opportunities that can often only be given by the media such as newspapers, the radio and television. The internet, like mobile phones, are to me one of the wonders of modern technological innovations that advances world civilization. This is why I am equally passionate about getting a fully funded scholarship to enable me travel abroad to advance my educational career, to enable me further explore some of the joys hidden in the internet, especially educational and job opportunities.

My career goals for the future include becoming a top-notch United Nations expert in whatever field of studies such as obtaining a doctorate degree in law, health, climate change and the environment; to enable me earn lucrative salaries, travel opportunities as well as other benefits such as insurance coverage, accommodation in top hotels and obtaining the respect of host governments of countries where I may be sent on assignment. What I have observed during my years as a practicing newspaper career-journalist is that although corruption seems to be the order of the day in the running of most public and private institutions, the United Nations is one organ that operates on the basis of well organized procedures and regulations, hence making it to some extent a zero tolerant to corruption institution. This makes the UN bureaucracy very attractive to people in need of career advancement, as the system mostly operates on the basis of what the experts know, the academic and professional qualifications as well as working experience; and not merely on the basis of patronage that is the short-fall of most public and governmental institutions in the world. This has made the world body a paradigm of professional perfection despite few shortcomings. I am of the opinion that because of my weaknesses in obtaining my university degrees up to the doctorate level as sooner as I may have expected due to the lack financial sponsorship to render continuity in my studies, the UN and its specialized agencies and other corruption immune institutions, will be a place for me to cover the gap of lost years, due to unemployment, years of being single; and so that I may be able to regard education as a tool for transforming one's life and improving one's destiny, by jumping from poverty to prosperity.

I feel the best way to live a long and healthier life is making sure that you do practical body exercises so that your blood will continue to flow normally, making sure that you undergo eye sight testing, and being abreast with latest techniques and products that keep the body healthy as well as examining and testing health products so as to determine which one is best for you. What I have noticed over the years is that because several medical products such as pills and tablets are doing the same work, it is often difficult to determine whether the medicine prescribed for you by the physician is the right fit for your body system. For example, there are wide varieties of pills meant to cure headache, such as Aspirin, paracetamol Diclofernac, among others that can be prescribed. Certainly it may be true that the pill suggested by one physician may not be quite suitable for your system for the healing of a particular sickness that one may be suffering from. Indeed it should be a limitless endeavor to keep researching on which drugs are better or best for you than the other; even though they may be performing the same task. I have moreover observed that the same thing goes with the kind of exercise that one may feel is best for keeping your body healthier. There are those who prefer YOGA exercises either on a daily or on periodic basis; while there are those who prefer the conventional western style exercises such as jogging, shaking the head, and feet around, among others in exercises. Therefore, I feel that keeping healthy and striving for longevity, depends on not listening to physician's advise alone, but what you think is the medicine or exercise that is a better fit for you.

One investment tip that I have taken to heart, which I think is profitable is launching a micro-credit company, so that members can be able to help themselves in times of dire need once they have not renege on paying their dues. I have come to realize that very often the money that many people work for on a monthly basis is not enough to enable them to meet obligations that are far below their monthly incomes that comes once in a while, such as the payment of tuition for their children in time at times schools re-open after holidays, when in financial trouble such as facing court cases or seeking medical treatment. What is also worthy of noting is that engaging in establishing micro-credit business is like sending one stone to kill two birds: as it is a lucrative business that easily yields profit-dividends for the proprietors and the members alike, as they help alleviate embarrassments such as when members or their siblings are sick, having court cases, among others. Indeed it can be painful seeing students from low income-earning families being asked out of classes, facing legal pursuits or sick, and the only option left is relying on such clubs for financial succor. Therefore it is for reasons of avoiding such embarrassments that access to such clubs are important nowadays especially in situations of rampant poverty and high cost of living to enable people to rush to such clubs for help, once they can can offer some guarantees for repayment without problems. Moreover, it is important to note that such clubs are by categories and obtaining credit from them is based on certain guidelines and procedures such as the payment of interests which can be at very low interest rates, for members and high interest rates for non-members.

I would like to leave the impact of an empathetic humanitarian and philanthropist, a man with passion for development and the passion to help others to enable them succeed in life. Surely making impact on others and the community including the nation, in fact means that I also would have to do everything logically possible be a success story and not a failure story in life, given that to help others one needs to have the money and the requisite experience and credentials to manage the resources that you possess. In this regards having the basic education and/or training and politeness is equally very important. Of course possessing money in any community gives to anyone the key to leave an impact on the society to the extent that one may be noticed by both friends and foes. Some people may even try by all means to ensure that you do not only notice them but also hear their plight and if possible to make useful suggestions to them as a food for thought. I would also like to leave impact on always taking sides with justice, development, fundamental and basic human rights and decency in the society in any society where I leave. I am equally sure that to be able to leave an impact, one must be influential and known for matching promises with deeds, so that one is viewed as a man of his words and deeds. In conclusion, because of my concern to leave an impact on world peace, development and justice for all, I have recently been joining public opinion in western nations to condemn and denounce allegations that Russia is amassing troops on its borders with Ukraine, an action that do not go down well with enhancing peace, harmony and development efforts across the world.

I feel that getting trauma counseling from qualified experts and taking physical exercises and engaging in favorite hobbles and pastimes; as well as having enough sleep especially at night is the best way to relax the mind. This is because mental disorders often occur due to abject poverty and too much worries, and thinking over what to eat the next day. Some psychiatrist studies about how accidents occur have revealing stunning revelations of driving vehicles why the driver's attention is focused on how to solve one problems or the others. Of course there is also a studies which reveals that instances of post war or post conflict traumas and mental disorders, abound more among fighters who partake in wars than those who never. This is because some of them can be reflecting in minds ghastly and horrible replays of what they saw on the battle field, such as the dismembered parts of human flesh. Moreover, I have been fortunate to have not taken any part in any war or heart throbbing events especially the inhumane killings that went on during the 14 years Liberian civil war. Furthermore I always take my hobbies very seriously for reasons of refreshing my mental health such as watching videos of football games, watching love movies and drama, and taking lessons in trauma counseling, having enough sleep at night to balance and relax the mind after a whole days' work and activities. ' In conclusion, I have been making sure that my body's blood system do not lack, the necessary carbohydrates and vital proteins that increase my immune system, so that I am able to keep intact the natural tendency to fight diseases. Indeed reading books and magazines, engaging in daily physical exercises are among ingredients that booster my mental health's capacity to stay focused.

Encouraging others to succeed in life is an integral part of my life. I always feel that apart from giving money to someone to help them succeed, giving them religious instructions can also yield fruitful dividends. As an avid student of the Holy Bible I often have the impression that one of the best methods of encouraging others by giving them biblical quotations especially giving them direct quotations and inspirations from what our Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ said and did during his short stay on earth. Certainly Biblical words of inspiration remain sources of direction, healing and hope to many despaired and despondent peoples of the world. I can begin by quoting from the Book of Mathew in the Bible to show that temptations can often confront us; when Jesus was tempted by the devil on the high mountain overlooking Jerusalem. Jesus said 'man does not live by bread alone, but on every word from the mouth of God'. This is an affirmation of what Jesus repeated in many parts of the Bible that we must be persistent in prayers; and that we must flee from the devil and the devil will flee from us. We need to be in prayers all the times to overcome the devil's many forms of temptations. Prayers make us to become more than conquerors in God through through Christ. I often encourage others that with prayers, we can remove mountains of problems that may come on our way. Prayers can make the Lord put upon us the whole armor of God; so that we may be able to stand against the evils of the devil, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities, others in high places. Therefore, constant prayers and frequently reading the Bible helps improve our spirituality.

Speaking my mind on issues of national and international concern especially on issues such as injustices that affect me either directly or indirectly is an integral part of my life; which was one of the reasons why I chose to be a career journalist. and a classroom teacher. What I have noticed over the years is that there are many people, some of whom we label them as the silent majority that have instances of injustices inflicted on them but do not dare to speak out of fears of rebuttals or reprisal actions, especially from the powers that be. Sometimes such people keep their mouths shut or take low profiles as a result of fears of losing their jobs or a privileged position that they can be enjoying. Surely it is an act of bravery and courage to remain vocal and critical even if such is at the expense of someone losing his job, the source of his or her livelihood. But I can say for free that I can always remain daunting to speak my mind, and I gain even a greater sense of satisfaction when my advocacy yield fruitful results. I can remember once reporting in a radio talk show that the community in which I reside need a community hall and an effective elected leadership structure so that we can be heard by others and so that we can speak with one voice on issues of common concern. Indeed it gave a rare sense of satisfaction when my pleas did not fall on deaf ears. Active members of my community saw the logic in what I was saying, and within a matter of days we elected our leadership, after which we were able to make many important accomplishments; as it became a genuine platform for community development.

Service to others is something that I consider as an integral part of my day to day life, as helping others to succeed is something that I consider as a christian religious obligation, as recommended by Jesus. The most important of the services I render to others are giving them physical cash to help them solve their problems, giving them encouragement to remain determined and focused, to persevere as these are the keys to success, to trust in God in all that they do, and never to loose hope as very often success only comes when people are despaired and despondent and have lost all hopes of achieving their goals. As a classroom teacher I have always admonished my students to remain focused and hardworking as even the greatest men and women in history were those who never gave up easily especially out of frustration irrespective of obstacles that may come on their way. I have also been advising that the best way to render a service to others is giving ] them money to start whatever they want to do as nowadays everything hinges on money and there is nothing for nothing in having things accomplished. I have furthermore been vocal in exalting others to try as much as possible to become self reliant, as one can not continue to depend on others to provide their needs at all the times. Moreover I consider it a disservice to others to link doing good to others only by provoking them. I have also done tutoring and humanitarian services to the less privileged, such as the blind and crippled. In conclusion, I have been teaching people to be tolerant, love one another and be peaceful in approaches to one another; as harmony and politeness are important pathways to progress and development.

To me community means a group of people staying or working in a locality where certain values are shared, such as taking up residence there, having common concerns such as security, hygiene, policing, social welfare, education and health needs. Nowadays communities are becoming a vibrant force in local government of cities and towns as within communities electoral districts and constituencies emerge. In a well behaved communities there are often little need for community policing, but in situations where urban influences such as the narcotic trade, terrorist activities, cannibalism or ritualistic killings and other unwholesome practices are the other of the day, it will be important to have Police stations or depots, so that residents can easily access justice. In my community, one of our main concerns have been to have a platform where the voices of the people can be heard and addressed. In this regards we have been able to have a community leadership structure which includes a chairman, Vice chairman, treasurer, secretary general, financial secretary and a chaplain. This has been followed by the establishment of a health task-force that is concerned with ensuring a clean and safe environment as well as establishing a conference center and a debate forum to ensure that the rights of the people before the law are sacrosanct. One of our principal achievements have been the organizing of a community policing forum, and a telephone hotline to report unusual or criminal activities. Also through our debate forums we have attracted several guest speakers. I am John L. Momoh, about 60 years old, who attended the university of Liberia, in Monrovia, Liberia, mainly studying African literature, history, public administration and journalism. I often feel shy to write about myself because I have for a long time being a practicing journalist with little chances of career advancement due to several years of unemployment, and the tragedy of having lost my parents at a very young age and have had to battle on my own to climb through the educational ladder. This has been one reason why I am resilient in my applications for a fully funded scholarship to enable me continue my education up to a doctorate degree level once the opportunity avails itself to me. Surely, I am highly disappointed about the wave of dishonesty parading in my society, especially when it comes to rewarding where reward is due. For example despite that I am a prolific writer and a seasoned journalist that have met the criteria to serve as editor in chief or publisher of a newspaper or magazine, that privilege has never be extended to me, as a result of the culture of patronage, dishonesty and the culture of impunity planted deeply in my society. As a classic example, I was the winner of the gmail active users promotional raffle draw prize, done on the basis of my email address and those of others, taken into a raffle draw, and the communication to that effect was really sent to me several times.

Being a parent and concomitantly trudging my way towards educational achievement has never been an easy task for me, which is why I will use every means rationally possible to ensure a better and happier future for my family. I am totally convinced that it is hard to determine whether there is a justification for being a parent at a young age or postponing the status until after going through a major part of the educational ladder. I am saying this because the satisfaction of nature, by failing to control whether it is time to have a child or not, equally matters, and an acceptable aspect of many cultural values. Often now and then there are parents who insist on seeing there grand child at an early before they die, while there are those who nurture the opinion that since education is the key to a better living, it would be important for their children to stay put, by ensuring family planning to enable them do a major part of their educational journey before having children. Indeed it is a traditionalist and religious view in many cultures especially in developing countries that the girl-child for example is expected to be a property of her husband and to the biological parents, and hence should bear children at whatever age she is ready to have them as they do not bear the surname of their parents. On the other hand however, due to values imposed by the fast changing world of new economic realities and hardships, it is the modern opinion that since education is the key to better living, it would be of immense economic dividends for a boy or girl child to wait until after completing the High school and college education or obtaining a professional/ vocational trade school diploma before becoming a parent, as going through such strain will yield into working for higher salaries to support one's own family. Furthermore, my parents who hold the conservative views encouraged me as they view that my having a child at an early age would enable them to see their grand- child before they pass off; hence they continued to be the driving force behind my education and continued to support my educational goals as much as they can. Being a parent while at the same time having to care for my own child has therefore never deterred my parents in dishing out their financial support to me. Moreover I have been able to have an easy ride by the fact that I got my first child while in the last year of my high school education, and soon after graduation I was able to obtain a government fully funded scholarship to enroll at a college. In my college I was able to use part of my stipends to support my child and fiancee, although there was little guarantee that we may ever marry. Therefore my advise to others is, never to fear of having a child as nobody knows tomorrow.

There is a popular saying that a friend in need is a friend indeed, and a friend in deed is a friend indeed. This phrase means the best of friend is a friend in deed and not a friend in need, as a frond in deed is worthy and can stand by you in any adversity, but a friend in need only comes around when he or she is in need, to get from you and disappear! This is why I am often very careful to distinguish the difference between the friendship that is forged for materialistic gains and not from the feeling of caring and sharing with one another. I prefer the latter, that is the friendship that grows from the bottom of the heart and that can stand by you no matter in what adversity that a person is enduring. My definition of friendship is that the person that I call my friend should equally be my helper in times of my needs. For example if I am driven out of class for default in the payment of my tuition and a friend who can afford rushes up to to pay the arrears owed. I can also consider it a true friendship when my friend takes me out for lunch or dinner at a time I don't have a cent and volunteer to pay the bill. Moreover in my definition of friendship I view that doing good to one another should be reciprocal and not a one-sided affair. That is to say, I view it shameful when only my friend is providing, sharing and caring for me, or only me is caring and sharing for my friend. In conclusion, I feel that friendship should be reciprocal with each supporting the other when in dire need and not one-sided.

I am convinced that to keep a growth mindset, one has to learn to forgive and adapt to existing unfolding situations while not necessarily forgeting negative actions against you. Growth mindset is essential, because the world is noty static but ever changing and there is no acquaintance with tomorrow. So one has to be conscious that it will not be to his or her advantage to keep old grudge in mind, because such will be to one's own detriment or restrictions in interacting with others. Moreover, to enhance one's growth mindset, one has to be equally security minded, bearing in mind that in case of where there had been a conflict with someone, it is possible for you to forgive, but you forgiving does not mean that the person concerned in the interaction has forgotten. Hence the need to also have a security mindset in all that we do. Furthermore to keep a growth mindset means to be up to date with the realities of the changing times, especially in our behaviors. We need to take into account that the way we do things are changing al most on a daily basis due to innovations in the technological world. For example, long ago parents with conservative attitudes were fond of restricting their daughters from dating with love ones that were unacceptable to them. But today with trending technological innovations and the growth mindset, people are no longer thinking about such kinds of restricting of their daughters so as to oblige them to love to people of their own choice. Surely the mobile phones, the internet and other forms of communications have introduced new dimensions in our mindset to war against the conservative behaviors of past years! In conclusion, this is why adapting to growth mindset is very important nowadays.

Being patience is very important to me for many reasons, as due to the increase in population and competitions to obtain our wishes it is not so easy to get our needs at only one trial, which is why in many cases patience is tied wo perseverance as key elements to apply to be successful in whatever that we embark on doing. Certainly being patient is essential for the population of the world is growing at an exponential rate. This has necessitated that things we use to obtain such as visiting the bank to receive or deposit money would take sometimes compared to 5 or 10 years ago. Nowdays one is apt to find a longer queue waiting to deposit or take money from their bank accounts at the bank. Of course new innovations in technology such as the use of credit cards have made banking transactions very easy, but one still need to deposit physical cash or salary checks at the bank and sometimes a major obstacle to this is the degree of literacy of the population in a country. Moreover one can also not be surprised about the need to exercise patience in obtaining drugs and treatment in the hospitals. Nowadays one is apt to see long queues in the hospitals and health centers in many countries due to the rapid population growth, necessitated by improvements in healthcare delivery and innovations as well as easy access to medicines and drugs. About 2 decades ago prior to the outbreak of the Ebola and the COVID-19 global pandemics, one can easily get treatment in hospitals. Nowdays however patience is required especially in situations where the ratio of trained medical personnel cannot match the increase in patients for treatment. Therefore exercising patience and perseverance are key elements in realizing our objectives.

Self-care or self-relainece is an important aspect of my life, given that my parents predeceased me at a very early age and I had to be bold and prudent to fend for my self; which is why I don't make too much reliance on others to accompish my goals towards success in life. Indeed over the years I have learnt through experience that success in life comes mainly through hard work, determination, perseverance and resilience. This is so because many times people tend to give up when in fact achieving success in their endeavors would be just about to happen. Furthermore I view that as a complement to self-care is the trust and reliance on God to supply our needs, which comes only according to the will of God. I have also learnt in holding on to self-care I must always nurture the conviction that to God the source of all good things nothing that promotes love is impossible, and that God worksa in a mysterious ways his wonders that he perform, hence the need for pacience, perseverance and consistency in prayers for our needs. Self care has impacted my life in many ways. I am sure that by bringing the above beliefs into practical realities I have been able obtain my high school and college education, and over time I have the firm conviction that with dermination and the strength from the Lord our God, I will be able to obtain a fully funded scholarship to enable me complete my educational career as far up as the Masters and doctorate degree levels. What has stultified the progress of many people, I am convinced, is the notion of relying on others including the government to obtain our needs. Surely such reliance can sometimes turn out to be counter-productive and deceitful.

One of my favorite hobbies is browsing through the internet almost everyday, as it enables me to explore and navigate through a goldmine of reservoir of knowledge and information as well as a source of accessing school anywhere and at anytime. What I like most about the advantage of the internet passion is that it can give ideas about any other hobby that one may think about such as listening to the radio and the television or video, witnessing different events, engaging in debates, making new friends and concertizing old ones. It is also a powerful substitute for anything that conventional libraries and academic resource centers can offer, and is another source of earning money such as through games and betting. To digress on the above point by point to show how the internet hobby can yield into something profitable to a person's future, I can remember a friend of mine who was in a desperate need of being connected to a girl in the United States, to enable him get married to an American citizen. This friend was advised that the much more easier method was to browse through dating companies through the internet. He short-listed reputable dating companies such as Milan. com, X-Hamster.com and Playboy. He went through the requisite formalities including the payment of the required subscription fees, and today he is happily married to a New Yorker and their wedding has been blessed with two children. Moreover I can remember a friend who was being marginalized at the working place for being lack of the requisite qualifications. He was admonished to take recourse to navigating across the internet to find out about which colleges that can offer online degree programs. He took the bold step of submitting his academic credentials to one of the best universities in the United States. After going through the formalities such as paying the registration fees and sending the documents that meets the eligibility criteria, today that particular friend is Masters degree holder. He has also been instrumental in guiding us on where and how to navigate the internet for scholarships including fully funded scholarships that can even take someone abroad to the campus of a university with all expenses fully paid in addition to being granted monthly stipends during the duration of the studies. Indeed through the internet, sending and receiving or transferring money is quite easy. Also videos, photos, films and large file attachments and banking services can be rendered. One can also share ideas on diverse ways such as watching games including football, and sharing ides on diverse issues and things such as on medicine, and agriculture. The diversity of services rendered by the internet are are indispensable to the hobbies of many include news dissemination and online virtual campuses. This is why if one asks me what favorite hobby that I passion most, I am always proud to say it is navigating through the internet, as this type of hobby is daily gaining popularity around the world.

We need to work hand in hand to advance justice and human progress. This is the one sentence that I would like to use with the world. It is a sentence that means that most of the problems and challenges we face in the world today is due to the lack of understanding of the motives of one another; and the unjust notion conveyed by many people that they are better than others. I am of the opinion that the national constitution of many countries, that is the organic law of the state in many nations, is very clear on the point that 'all men are created equal and as such ought to treat each other on equal terms before the law. Unfortunate however due to differences some of which are man-made or inherited have made many people in the world today to circumvent laws, principles and procedures to gain personal advantages. This is very often done in many countries with impunity. Indeed working together hand in hand to enhance the climate of justice and progress should be a major logic in the advancement of peace, diversity and harmony in any country in the world irrespective of national political ideologies such as capitalist, socialist and communist states. It is a concept that can serve as an important weapon against corruption, nepotism, every form of injustices and the flagrant violations of the rights of individuals. Therefore, working hand in hand to advance the climate of justice, the rule of law and human progress, to me, is indispensable condition for promoting peace, development and democracy in any society. If one looks at it critically collaboration and coordination of efforts, that is networking is equally applicable to Non-governmental organizations, promoting cultural values, public and private sectors as well as attracting investments in states.

I am John L. Momoh, 61 years old, a newspaper journalist by profession with decades of practical experience in Liberia and Sierra Leone. I am married with two children and a product of Fourah Bay college, university of Sierra Leone and the university of Liberia. I mainly studied Public administration, history classics and English, Social science courses such as world history, geography and political science as well as French and general communications. Certainly I plan to make a positive impact on the world through advocacy for social justice, transparency, integrity, accountability and the rule of law. I see it as a morale, religious and humanitarian responsibility to care for the concerns of people who find themselves in precarious situations that may after all not be their fault. I am often angered at the rate of the basic and human rights violations that I observe in the world today, as I can feel the instinct and empathy to do something about it, by having the requisite qualifications and experience so as to place me in a position to be a respectable poor-man's lawyer in my society serving as a lawyer or an editor of a newspaper, or being a radio station talk-show host to enable me to voice out concerns of situations where the fundamental rights of people are abused with impunity. If one is to look through newspaper headlines in many capital cities across the African continent, it may not be a surprise to anyone that African governments are not living up to the expectations of their own citizens who elected them. There are of course numerous shortcomings such as the misappropriation of public funds, lack of financial accountability, and press freedom as well as reports of extra-judicial killings and also instances of loopholes in the rule of law. I am of the opinion that it is high time to change the paradigm so that development and democracy can be given a chance, for after all the people elected their leaders so that they can represent their wishes and aspirations to live in a better society, that is in societies where opportunities for progress and national development abound. This is why I am highly excited to obtain university degrees in disciplines that can better position me to execute my desired goal of being a mouth-piece for the concerns of the poor and vulnerable people;e. In this regards I am contemplating on the study of the below listed courses, which include: Public Health, law, psychology, social work and sustainable development. Surely I feel that making a positive impact on the world and the society in which I live is very important to me, which is why I am making every effort to ensure that first of all I need to stay in school for a longer time to enable me obtain the requisite academic qualifications even if it means striving towards getting a doctorate degree qualification. The fact remains that the more a person is educated and advanced as a technocrat or expert, the more that person is positioned not only in the summit of the policy making seat. The higher also the opportunities that are opened, such as higher salaries and requisite fringe benefits: such as insurance coverage, traveling facilities, provision of accommodation, cars, and the like. Therefore many of us are fascinated over the world leaders initiative of introducing the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations since the year 2000, which have now metamorphosed into the sustainable development goals, meant to reduce poverty and increase global equality and more access to opportunities by half by the years 2030.

I have been engaged in a certain number of actions to support and give a boost to equality and diversity in my community and country, including establishing my own micro-credit group, doing literacy awareness campaigns and educating and informing the public on the values of a clean and hygienic environment and the necessity for them to be active voices and defenders of democracy and fundamental human rights. Initially I had misconceptions of what it takes to be an active human rights campaigner, but when a passenger car hit a kid in front of me and the driver attempted to run away, I felt it a morale obligation to alert the Police about the horrible incident as I felt the life of a human being was involved, and life is always important. Certainly t violating the rights of others and going with impunity, ought to be halted. I feel nobody is above the law, which should be respected without compromise so as to enhance the climate of equality and diversity. This also ought to be the real driving force for the enhancement of equality and diversity in any society; as people are governed by laws and not by strength or by their economic and social status. During my campaigns to enhance the climate of equality and diversity in my community and country especially while exercising my professional duties as a journalist, I have found out that in most communities and societies there are people who always nurture the attitude of being above the law and so can infringe on the rights of others and go scotch-free. Therefor it had been my duty to sow the seeds of equality and diversity by advocating equality before the law, organizing humanitarian activities, and by forging dialogue, peace, harmony through sports and other social events.

What animates my life include working on the internet behind my laptop, making reliable friends especially with girls, visiting the library, watching football games on the television or on football fields, engaging in essay competitions and engaging in intellectual pursuits such as searching for scholarships. Moreover, I find it a passion to spend time on mobile phones to exchange communications with friends, relatives and loved ones. It is equally a fascinating hobby for me to travel and see new places and gain new experiences of people and natures as well as spend times at beaches and in night clubs with friends. What life has taught me over the years is making sure that I move only around sincere friends that have integrity; that is friends that can be labelled as friends indeed and not friends in need. This is because some friends are only there in times of plenty, that is to say when you have money something that they are in need of and once such is exhausted they back off. This is why I can make careful distinction between whom to trust as a friend and who to regard as only a friend in need. Indeed the world wide web the internet has over the past few decades since it become viral as important sources of information and research, to complement what most traditional or conventional libraries can do or unable to do. Of course through the internet people can easily search for jobs, navigate for schools, do shopping for almost any goods and services as well as make new friends and even arrange for love or marriage despite distances that may separate them from each other. Furthermore, I consider mobile phones a fascination because of its popularity, being cheap, and made by several companies, and its accessibility.

Legacy to me means what a person leaves behind at the time of his death to be inherited by posterity who may not necessarily e one's own relatives. My upbringing has been such that I am quite aware of the essence of leaving behind a legacy because only through that one's image, works and times on earth can be remembered by people that one leaves behind. Children and property are important legacies to leave behind. This is why I can always pay reverence to my late Father and late mother as they were in the first place the one's who brought me into the world through the grace and mercy of God, our maker. This is why almost on a daily basis I always take time to give thanks and praise to the Almighty God for what He has done for me and for what he continues to do for us given that He is the source of our sustenance and the provider of our needs. Legacy can also find expression in the acquisition of education including a profession, which can serve as a means to obtain material wealth. Education can also be construed from the advise of the South African post apartheid President, Nelson Mandela, when he admonished his compatriots to rather focus their attention on acquiring education to get a better future. Indeed education provides that pathways to the acquisition of material wealth and the goal of leaving behind a legacy can be seen all around us. Today one finds out that the more one is educated and professionally competent the more the doors of opportunities are open to the person. The person who is a college graduate with for example a Bachelor's degree or a professional qualification in disciplines such as accounting, engineering, medicine, architecture, teaching, among others can be more susceptible to easily find employment with lucrative salaries and benefits. Such person can easily own their own houses and cars or vehicles and hence leave behind better legacies for his posterity than someone who is only a high school drop-out. Moreover access to legacy can be realized by hereditary means. A person that is born in a well to do family, such as an elitist or middle class family in which the parents have already constructed or bought their family homes or left behind a vehicle is more likely to inherit a legacy than someone who is born in a poor family who are barely able to provide for themselves a meal for the day, that is to say those who can hardly spend a dollar a day for food money. Surely one of the greatest enemies for the acquisition of a legacy is poverty. Poverty is a disease that is affecting a large number of the population in most countries of the world especially in Africa. Indeed what appears to be aggravating Africa's poverty situation include some traditions and religious beliefs that war against modernization such as the belief of some people to give their young girls in early marriage instead of bearing the patience to empower them through education and training, constraining their children or wards to do menial works such as children street-selling or farming instead of going to school. In conclusion, Certainly I have been a victim of several of the above mentioned impediments to the acquisition of legacy, as I have endured many years of poverty and unemployment, and lack of access to scholarships, during which my education was suppressed, during which it was difficult to access any scholarship to advance my education abroad to a Masters or doctorate degree level.

My life so far has been full of challenges and ups and downs, but thanks be to the merciful God, that I am alive and on the right track to shape for myself and family a brighter future for the remaining years ahead of me. I was born into a very poor family and getting an education have been a rare privilege in the views of my parents and not a right. I was accidentally sent to My father now deceased was an ambulance driver working for a company and was a womanizer. Certainly while on leave, relatives asked him to go along with me to send me to school. That was how I went with my father to Yengema, where he was employed and I enrolled at the Catholic Primary school, where I successfully passed the Entrance Exams to enter Yengema Secondary school to pursue my High school education. My first attempt at the West African Exams Council General Certificate of Education exams to get qualified to enter tertiary institutions was a failure, so I crossed the border to Liberia where I was able to obtain my High school diploma through the National Exams, a body administered by the Liberian Ministry of Education. Today what has rekindled my hopes for a brighter future is that unlike about 3 or four decades ago, nowadays new technological innovations, new trends in global development such as the United Nations imposition of the Millennium Development Goals, the digitization and globalization have all added momentum to making things easier for a brighter future. In conclusion, today the United Nations and other world bodies and governments are keen to ensure easy access to jobs, scholarships and educational opportunities including salary scales and structures across the world, thereby rekindling more hopes to the hopeless like myself.

I am John Lusayni Momoh, a single parent of a girl child when I was only 15 years old and have just passed my Selective Entrance Exam to enter High school. In the first place my parents have to drive me out of their home as they felt I have put on them an extra burden of financially supporting my education and that of my girl-friend and child. What remains glued in my mind is the fact that the entire family was divided into two camps- those who out of traditional, religious and humanitarian concerns led by my mother, supported my action of giving pregnancy to the girl out of marriage and the hardliners led by my father whose concern was the financial burden having a bastard child, as such children are labelled, may cause him who is the bread-winner of the home. As part of my ordeal I learnt that my school fees or tuition were no longer paid on time and what added salt to injury was that the girl herself was from a low income economic background. Moreover in this poverty stricken slum community where I dwell I learnt that I was to endure every form of stigma especially the notion conveyed by some elders of my community that the girl was a prostitute. I therefore concentrated my efforts on doing every form of menial work that may avail itself to me. Some friends advise me to be polishing shoes of clients as a shoe-shine boy, or work in a funeral home. But given my level of education, I taught to myself that such ways of finding a living to sustain a family is very degrading to me whose ambition is to become a lawyer. I therefore fixed my my mind on traveling in the surrounding towns and villages to sell petty goods such as mosquito coils and repellents, sandals and used clothing. This was why I started selling assorted food items in trays from place to place and at street corners and market places to earn money to sustain myself and my girl friend and child. This lasted for up to 3 months before I put my skills into typing letters of customers on a lap-top on the side of the road in the city, something that also only lasted for few months. But when I applied for government assistance, I was able to obtain a loan of $200 which was to be repaid with interest, and at that time my daughter had reached school going age. The profits accrued from my business ventures enabled me to persevere in providing for myself and my family as I relied less on parental support, and this made me educate my child through Elementary and Junior High school. The impression I gathered from my ordeal is that being a single parent is sometimes advisable by a cross-section of the population who always advise that the necessity to have a child especially at an early age cannot be overemphasized. They normally say that having a child is all that matters in life, as it assures for someone a legacy to whom to bequeath one's property upon his death. In conclusion, , I plan to me a positive impact on my community by engaging in awareness campaigns to enlighten the community on the essence of being adequately prepared before having a child out of marriage wedlock. Before having a child, one must first of all, think about the sources of child support, how to provide for yourself and the child, your educational and profession to earn money such as driving vehicles.

I always feel that treating people with empathy and a sympathetic mind is both a 'religious obligation on my part and an inborn tendency that is part of my character; for as long as I may have the economic and other means at my disposal I feel that to be empathetic is part of doing God's work. Indeed I can remember sometimes ago when a long time friend cried to me for financial assistance to enable him pay his tuition. It happened that I was working as a teacher and I have just received my salary at the end of the month. All of what I required from him was genuine proof that he was actually in need of the amount, through documentary evidence, and he showed me his tuition bill, signed and stamped by the school's authorities. And despite the hard economic realities of the time confronting all of us, I imagined how I could have felt if it had been me in a similar situation, so I paid. Moreover as a religious minded person, I always feel that it would be better to treat the next person as you would like others to treat as the biblical command states that one must love the neighbor as oneself even though this phenomenon cannot be applied in all cases. Furthermore, once it happened that a certain man stole my wrist-watch and was detained in a police cell until investigations to force him to confess. I became sympathetic and went and released him. In conclusion, I am urging all Christians and others to be mindful of the advise given in the book of James in the Bible by being mindful to blend their faith with the love of their neighbors as themselves. For empathy is an essential aspect of faith .

My bucket list, that is the things that I would like to accomplish before dying, include: building or owning for myself and family a house or a residence, to get married and raise a family and earning a respectable university degree that can help me become an expert in a chosen field, such as education, health-care delivery or sustainable development and providing leadership and humanitarian endeavors in my community. I made no mistake when I chose education, as cornerstone of my bucket list for a prosperous and secured future. This view was also shared by the late legendary President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, when he advised his compatriots that the future holds good for those who pursue education as the key for a brighter future and not a continued armed insurrection to revenge for past racist misfortunes. This is why I will never rest satisfied until I am able to achieve my Bachelor's, Masters and doctorate degrees in a chosen discipline before I set myself to working life. I will continue striving until I obtain a doctorate degree, so that I can be recognized in my society and be marketable overseas. Indeed with adequate education and expertise in a particular field doors are open for immense opportunities such as high salaries and benefits, and traveling to various parts of the world is often reserved for experts. Certainly my bucket list also include getting married to a very beautiful and virtuous wife, especially woman that shares my views and concerns. your views and concerns. It will be an added advantage, such a wife is educated and have bore children especially boy-children for you who are clever in their school lessons. In this way you are sure of leaving behind a sustainable legacy once you passed off this earth.

Confident to me means having trust or faith in someone or something. I am striving by all means to ensure that I do all of what I want to do with confidence and the certainty that what I am embarking on will yield fruitful results and not a failure story. In this regards I am working towards achieving my university degrees or qualifications so that I may have the financial muscles to accomplish my wishes with certainty and confidence, considering that money is not only the roots of evil but the key to open doors and windows of opportunities. Indeed some people may wonder why I should not only concentrate on going into business directly to make money, as money is the main key that open all doors, including getting married, owning valuable and indispensable properties like cars and houses, among others? I think I prefer that education is the most preferable achievements as a priority among priorities because it is connected to giving people more guarantees for facing the future with confidence. Of course with education the chances of individuals to obtain jobs to provide for one's living and the sustenance of one's family is highly secured. Nowadays the moment you tell a girls I love you or I want us to extend our love to marriage, the first answer to that is 'where are you working' or are you working'? This means with education through which one can easily get qualification for a job the gates are equally open for one to fall in love with the confidence that the means would be provided for the marriage to sustain and be a happy one! Moreover, to me having money and property although good, can sometimes fail in generating the confidence needed to have a guaranteed and happy future.

My most positive talents and strengths that I rely on to make a brighter future include being a good or prolific writer and for practice sake I do a lots of reading of books and newspapers, as well as listen to the radio and the television, so that I can discover new words and expressions in both the English and the French languages. I also possess the talent of making love jokes to girls and women, to demonstrate this I crack lots of jokes with them with a view to attract love. What I have discovered about myself over the years as a school pupil and student is that I am very good at memorizing my lessons, which made it possible for me to have an edge over my classmates in the correct use of grammar and tenses in English. This passion for the reading subjects became a major reason why after leaving Secondary or High school, I was attracted to teaching and the practice of professional journalism. As a journalist, I gained the admiration of my professional peers and bosses for the accurate use of words befitting whatever context in which I am using them. I was particularly admired for ensuring that everyone in my story is treated with respect, as I do not use foul languages that may lead to libel suits for defamation of character. In this regards, I try to propagate that patriotism, integrity, transparency and accountability are essential hallmarks of good citizenship. Indeed they are the fulcrum on which the development of a country and democracy ought to be the foundation. Similarly, I have also been advocating against the use of any form of junk journalism as such sow the seeds of division and disharmony in any society and hence ought to be prudently avoided.

I love nature because it is part of God's divine plan and creation and a way of seeing and appreciating the wonders and works of the Lord who made us. Nature has an inclination for self perpetuation and reproduction. It is a natural instinct in us, for example to have a feeling of sleeping, dancing, walking, eating, and a feeling to have sexual intercourse to satisfy the demands of nature. However I do not feel it would be part of nature to commit sin or evil, which is why I feel every violation of the love need not to be construed as an aspect of nature. Revenge is also a natural tendency and hence an aspect of nature, but such can be pacified by the show of mercy and the belief that the revenge of God, the All-mighty and the all-powerful can yield better results than an individual or a group's revenge. The inspired word of God, the Holy Bible states that God is the judge. Moreover I can appreciate nature through sex, as a way of satisfying nature, once such is done taken into consideration moral and decent values acceptable to the society in which one lives. That is to say within the context of God-given laws prescribed in the divine scriptures, such as love your neighbor as yourself, and a man can leave his father and mother and cling to his wife and the two can become one. In conclusion I can also appreciate nature through the practice of polygamy, a an aspect of obeying certain religious or customary commands. It is part of nature when species such as animals reproduce themselves, rivers evaporate into thin air, and pouring down as rainfall.Furthermore I believe that gender based violence, sex by force and destroying species are but gross abominations.

To be persistence means to persevere in getting what one wants. This was my situation when I first failed the school leaving senior high school exam administered by the West African Exams Council, and my failure signals that all my hopes to enroll at a university to get my tertiary education seemed dashed. But because I was persistent in ensuring that I enroll at a university, which was based upon the advice of one of our teachers, I tried by every means to re-take the exam, and I passed with flying colors. It required hard work, considering that in the first place I was going to school staying with my Father, a womanizer, whose wife was a barren and my own mother had separated from him. She treated me in an unfriendly manner obliging me to do all sorts of menial works such getting up early to sweep and clean the house and pans, and going about selling asserted food items in a tray on my head its such as candies, and biscuits after school. Yet I was persistent towards achieving my goals, which is obtaining education; I was aware that she was not my biological mother; interesting Each time I go on holidays to my biological mother, she will advise me to remain persistent in bearing with her misdemeanors, as my staying there will not be forever. and that all end after my high school. In conclusion, I will never forget those awful moments of the Liberian civil war, when I made the bold decision to get out the country by any means possible, I made several attempts to quit and each time I was turned back by wicked rebel fighters but through persistence and perseverance, I made it into the Ivory Coast, a country that was relatively peaceful.

My conviction is that to be brave means to be bold in accomplishing one's objectives and ambitions in life; which is why what I have been doing as a journalist has been to be brave enough to speak the truth where it belongs without fear or favor. Certainly I feel it was an act of boldness and bravery when I took the bold step to pursue studies that can lead me into obtaining a Bachelors’ degree, even though I had no parental support. I felt that a person’s worth can equally be measured in his or her level of determination and perseverance to accomplish desires in life despite the odds and challenges that he or she may face. Moreover, I continue to practice perseverance and boldness in whatever I set out to do, as perseverance is an essential element in the exercise of bravery and boldness. I can remember that my first time I attempted the West Africa School leaving certificate exams at the Yengema secondary school in Sierra Leone, I did not obtain the requisite grades to make a pass to enable me to attend college. I therefore had to travel to relatives in Liberia, where again despite the support of any of my siblings, I was brave and bold enough to persevered. I got a teaching job, and after working for few months, I enrolled in a 12th grader night school, where I retook the 12th grade exams. This time, I passed with flying colors. This is why I view it an instance of bravery and boldness to continue to fight for justice in my society, especially when I am convinced beyond all reasonable doubts that my fundamental human rights and the rights of people are being violated with impunity. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

True to the biblical command that we must appreciate and be grateful to God for everything that we have in life, I continue to thank God for keeping me alive, and for all that He has done for me; and also to thank and appreciate everyone for whatever they have done and continue to do for me, to make my life what it is today. Surely I cannot boast that everything is going down well with me, as I am aware that one cannot get everything on a silver platter and that one has to toil and labor for almost everything that one wants. However the gift of life, especially long life and health can be considered as the most precious that anyone may have. I appreciate and thank God for enabling me to witness my 50th birth anniversary and beyond. I am also grateful and appreciate my parents for their parental role in bringing me into this world and for rearing me and making sure that I get some formal education before they predeceased me. Moreover, I am grateful to the Principal of my High School who out of his own religious sympathy for my father’s delays in paying my school fees, paved the way for me to obtain a government scholarship which greatly nourished my desire to complete High school with a diploma. Today I am very grateful that through the grace of God and my own ingenuity and stamina to succeed in life have over the years been able to go through college education and now pushing towards obtaining a Masters' degree once I am able to obtain a fully funded scholarship to do as I have no other helper but God. I feel shy in telling other people that they must always be grateful to God.

Life to me means being able to accomplish one’s goals while still living in this world and it may mean becoming as wealthy as a millionaire or just having enough to live a decent middle-class life, rather than being a beggar or being shunned by others in the society. Moreover life means getting the respect and recognition of the society in which one lives. Life equally means to me worshiping God in the way that I want and to maintain a decent family life, living happily with wife and children I can be a happy man also if I am able to help the unfortunate members of my society as I can I feel a sense of fulfillment in life when I am overwhelmed with pity for the poverty conditions of people. Certainly having empathy for the unfortunate situation of a person is one way I enjoy living my life. I admire teaching a student to know something so that he or she may become a useful member of the society. One other quality of life that I strongly admire apart from being compassionate is having the stamina to persevere. I therefore try to achieve what I want in life by pursuing adequate education and my religious conviction of faithfulness to God through Jesus, as pathways to success and decent living. that education an important pathways to achieving one’s aims in life. A lot of people have been able to call themselves as fulfilled person in life as they have been able to obtain what they need including long life. In other words via education I will be able to achieve loving to my dream girl friends own my dream house and dream car; obtain a lucrative job with satisfactory benefits such as travel opportunities,, medical and entertainment allowances, etc.

My goals for the future is to help people that are desperately in need, but can not achieve their ambitions due to abject poverty other circumstances in which they find themselves that are not their own creation. This is why I have been toying around the idea of whether to study law and eventually become a poor-man's law or lawyer for the poor; or consider pursuing studies in medicine, so that I can be able to help sick people that are often neglected to death because they can not afford the means to pay for medical treatment. Certain my goals in life are fashioned after my overall ambition to see that justice and equal rights is extended to everyone without fear or favor irrespective of ethnic and tribal origin, region of origin, race and creed. By and large, I have found out that many people who claim to be fair and transparent in their dealings with others are hypocritical and often deceiving themselves; as for the most part, they are often carried away by either one sentiment or the other in their judgment such as ethnic, social and economic background considerations or racial and creed considerations. That is to say they favor people from wealthy economic backgrounds or people of their ethnic and regional origin. My primary goal in life thus is to see that justice is served to all, and that medical treatments and educational opportunities that are extended to all. These two professions are chosen in view of higher salaries they offer. Therefore to achieve these goal, I plan to study and become an expert in any of these two fields or disciplines, for example to a doctorate degree level with a view to enhance my earning power, as the more one learns the more the financial benefits.

Creativity to me means to be innovative, positive imagination, to eschew dullness and put momentum and dynamism and life into something] in a positive manner, so as to attract the attention of others, given that society itself is ever changing. Surely creative writing is one of the ways I demonstrative my creative talent. I can remember long ago when I was a student at Fourah Bay college in Freetown, Sierra Leone and I went to an English literature professor to teach me creative writing. He introduced me to the novels of several of Africa's best novelists at the time, such as Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, James Ngugi of Kenya, Chinua Achebe of Nigeria and William Shakepeare. I learnt from the works of each of these writers the inspirations that are the sources of their imaginations, including the social problems that confronted society that propelled them to realize their works. As creativity equally entails the hustling that we do, and the use of common sense to enable us earn our living, or make ends meet. I left High school with barely no trade or profession , but due to the reawakening of the creative spirit in me, I used my talents to become a barber. I was at the same time teaching beginners French to primary school pupils. I once used my creative imagination to transfer to another school when I realized that there was a shortage of instructional materials in the school that I was attending. In conclusion, I will continue to always use my creative imagination and innovation to make my life better rather than always depending on others.

The study strategies I used to achieve academic success is based on persistence, hard work, planning of time and stamina, which are legacies derived from two of my secondary school teachers: my English teacher Mr. Edward Finnegan from Europe, and my history teacher - Mr. Geoffrey Holman, a Peace corps volunteer from the United States. Indeed my teachers found in me the zeal, ambition and the boldness to learn so as to succeed in life; and they also inculcated in me the feeling that learning and academic pursuit are better than silver and gold, and that they open the doors of opportunities for people who want to succeed in life. Certainly it was based on the simple instruction that successful people are the ones who work hard for it, as opposed to people who loiter around and encourage friends without any ambition, as 'birds of the same feathers flock together'. The strategy I got from my English teacher was that since English is the gateway to learning, his advice was that we must read as many academic books as possible, including books on English grammar, English literature from the best authors we are familiar with. Students were also advised to read good newspapers such as the Washington Post, New York Times and to listen to world class radio stations such as the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, the Voice of America among others. I also adopted the summarizing of works strategy taught by Mr. Holman. He was very good at making summaries of the causes and effects of the 1st and 2nd world wars for example. By itemizing them into numbers, and alphabetical capital letters and small letters headlines event after events. Moreover I used the strategy of using my limited times wisely, either studying my lessons or practicing mock-exam questions.

The dreams for my future is to be an international expert working for the United Nations or other multi-national corporations that can enable me to earn lucrative salary and benefits, and to accomplish this goal, I plan to obtain any scholarship opportunity that I can lay my hand on to pursue professional studies up to the Masters or Phd or doctorate degree level. Several reasons account for why I have a passion to attain to that level. I have lagged behind in professional development for quite too long, as I have been absent minded over what to do to ensure that job opportunities open to me. Moreover I have been suffering from migraine headache, the type of one-sided headache for which it is hard to find a medicine to cure completely. In the past I have been trying the wrong types of medicinal herbs from traditional healers or treating myself with sub-standard drugs recommended half-trained pharmacists. At the end of the day I realized that the treatments I have been receiving did not go deep enough to cure once and for all the migraine headache that I am suffering from, and which has been giving me sleeping disorder. I am sure keeping myself long in school and bagging home the right professional degrees will give me the weapon to travel abroad where I can be better treated to obtain full healing. I can also see some of my friends coming home on holidays from posts abroad as United Nations experts, highly qualified in their chosen careers and earning very often as much as over USD$30,000 a month apart from several fringe benefits and opportunities such as free travelings and hotel accommodations in many parts of the world. My future career goal is to become a World Health Organization health expert.

Among the many acts of service that I have done to others and would others to emulate my examples is helping them write their English assignments and helping a client in need who needs my services to publish his or her story in the newspaper that I was working for, even if the person do not have anything to compensate me. I always feel elated in spirit when I help someone to succeed in whatever he or she is doing. I can remember meeting one of my past students when I was teaching French in a Junior High school, and was told that he has earned his Phd or doctorate degree in Britain few years, at a time that the civil war was raging in Liberia and many of us were clutching at straws for survival. Moreover I can remember meeting a young man who met me and requested to have his grievances of salary arrears being seized by one of his bosses published in the newspaper so that the abuse of power can be brought to public attention. At that time I only asked him to present to me documentary evidences and her did. I found out that every indication point to the abuse of the young man's rights just because he is from a poor family. Furthermore like my past student, now a doctorate degree holder that I met, the victim of injustice and flagrant violation of rights tried to offer me money for services rendered, but I refused on the grounds that I was only doing my job of caring for the unfortunate members of my society, and that as a teacher I was only doing my job. In conclusion I may like to add that rendering services to some of us, a religious and humanitarian obligation.

I can actively listen to those around me by being quiet myself, and by listening to the radio, television and other means of communication. Listening means to me getting an understanding of what people around me are saying, one at a time. What many people do not understand is that listening is synonymous to understanding. A person who did not understand is considered the one who did not listen, and the best way to listen is to concentrate on what one speaker is saying at a given time. I can remember at one time when someone was passing a message to me to be delivered to another person and I had the radio on tuned to a favorite program. The best way I resolved the confusion is to close the radio altogether knowing that listening to the person and the radio will not make me an effective listener. This idea is also shared by radio journalists who often instruct listeners calling on them to be heard on the radio to tune off their apparels or radio sets near them, so that they can better be heard by the entire radio listening audience. In conclusion, this is why I indicate from the onset that to listen well means to pay attention to one thing over others, as listening to more than one thing is not palatable to good listening habits. The enemy to listening is noise!

Justice for all irrespective of economic, social, religious, race o dialect facility background are factors that has motivated me to the study of law very seriously and am confident that my background as a journalist will give the requisite tool to venture into pursuing that noble course. Certainly during my day-to-day activities as a practising journalist I have found out that despite the existence of laws governing human behavior and as to serve as a yardstick for decent living, there are still certain loopholes that unscrupulous people can take advantage of to flout the law and go with impunity at the expense of society. It is not only the flouting of the law that matters but equally the fact that someone witnessed seeing you setting a bad precedent that may induce others to follow your bad examples just because they saw you doing it and nothing came out of it. It is also not only flouting the law and goind scot-free that matters but the fact that in doing so you sometimes harm the next person. Moreover, I may like to mention for example the injustices done in the allocation of jobs not mostly on the strength of what one knows but equally on the basis of who knows you. By so doing the person qualified by both educational and experience back ground to get the job is being denied the opportunity, simply because the person offering the job has hailed to follow the law of equal access to such opportunities but done so on the basis of personal sentiments. Furthermore, I have also chosen to study law because of the many human and individual rights violations done by people as a result of their privileged positions. I saw a government official arbitrarily dismissing someone from job just because he is interested in the victims girl friend or interested in depriving the victim of a piece of land he has only partly paid for, but not completed the payment due to the lack of money. Of course this is a flagrant violation of a person's right under the law, but in most cases due to the lack of money the victim can often do nothing to fight for his or rights. One other reason why I want to study law is that in most societies lawyers are far better paid than members of other professions. In this light I may have the financial muscles to better help clients who suffer injustices due to the shortsightedness of people bent on abusing their powers. I hope to go the extra- miles by serving as a 'poor-man's lawyer', that is charging very lesser fees for clients who are victims of high-handedness and miscarriage of justice by others due to one advantage or the other such as ethnic or religious differences. Indeed as a journalist I have seen lawyers with humanitarian feelings setting up micro-credit financing loans for clients who are unable to pay for their services so that after the case, payment can be done on installment basis. In conclusion, I have also found out that lawyers are not only considered noble but the cream of a just and wholesome society that keeps society decent and on course with observing the norms and values of everyday living. This is why in many countries across the globe when an important vacancy occurs lawyers are among the first batch of professionals that are really considered, because like the journalists and teachers are instrumental in quickly orienting societies to respect international norms and values. By their dress codes alone, lawyers are considered respectable members of society.

Giving is as important to me as receiving because the Bible says in the Acts of the Apostles, that 'Jesus use to say that there is more blessing in giving than in receiving.' This quotation reinforces the Christian belief making a charity or sacrifice is a means of getting closer to God. Indeed in the religious perspectives, especially from the viewpoints of Christians and Muslims, the more we give to God, the more there will be chances or opportunities for us to receive from God. And giving to God empowers us to obtain his love, his mercy his blessings, his grace and his eternal salvation. Moreover, to give to God equally means that we must strive to obey his commandments, especially the ten commandments that were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, which are also summarized by Jesus by obliging us to love God and to love our fellow human beings as ourselves. Certainly other means of giving to God is by giving to the least of our brethren and the vulnerable members of our communities and society. This means that we must extend hands of friendship and be caring and sharing for the less privileged and vulnerable members of our society. In this group are the blind, the lame, strangers and the unemployed. Furthermore a way of giving to the Lord is through fasting for God's divine intervention to obtain in return our needs. And obeying his commandments to receive his blessings in return as explained in Psalm one 1-4 may also include taking hands off wickedness. The rewards listed include a person being fruitful like a tree planted by the rivers of water that is always fruitful and productive and whatever he does shall prosper. So the more one gives, the more one is empowered to receive more.

The simple pleasures in my life include going to church regularly, meeting new friends, obtaining gifts especially valuable gifts such as a scholarship, going to bed with a new girl friend, listening to my best programs on the radio and television series, watching and hearing football news, and traveling to new or old places. I can remember few decades ago when I was struggling with paying my school fees on time, the principal of my high school told me that since you are one of the best students in this school I will recommend you for a government scholarship so that you will not be having hard-times in paying your tuition on time. It was a source of immense joy giving that although my father was an employee of a mining company he takes pleasure in spending the most part of his salary on going after women for love relationship. It can give me an enormous pleasure to own a new car. This is because contrary to the views of some people who view that to own a car is causing expenses on one's own income, giving the necessary tasks that a car can perform there will always be a need to think that its advantages outweigh the disadvantages. It make me happy to go to beaches in my own car with my wife and friends or with my family members, for there is always a feeling of prestige and respect for whoever owns a car. Finally it seems funny but true, that there is pleasure in making football hero arguments, especially heroes of world-class soccer such as Messi of Argentina and the PSG, Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United and Portugal. There is also pleasure and feelings of prestige, respect obtained from friends when one walks alongside new girls friend

Joy means to obtain satisfaction, trust, in whatever you set to do. I can find enormous joy when I can boast of satisfactory salary in my place of work, when I find myself in church or at home with my family, when my wife delivers a bouncing baby especially a baby boy, when I able to obtain a fully funded scholarship to travel out of the country and when I find myself working with people of integrity, honesty and fairness at my working place, in my community, at the leadership structure in my country. Indeed the concern of many people including myself, is to ensure that they are able to keep a family especially a family that is blessed with children before they passed off from this world. This is why it is of immense pleasure and blessing from God to have a beautiful wife, a virtuous and lovely wife with compatible tempers. I find joy in a wife that understands me and understands the situation at home for example when there is no food money for the day. Moreover joy to me is when the government and the leadership of the day in my country and community are God fearing and subscribes to the norms of good governance, so that public funds entrusted to them are wisely expended for their intended purposes. It can also give me immense joy when my family and country and friends excel in everything that they do such as succeeding in finding jobs and keeping out of troubles. It is equally a source of joy to me when my wife delivers a boy child. This is because in my culture as well as in the culture of many people the boy child is appreciated more than the girl-child as he carries the family name.

Perseverance means to be persistent in trying to achieve something that you need, sometimes very desperately, but being hindered in your efforts by one obstacle or the other. This was what I find myself doing to get out of Liberia when the rebel war was advancing some decades ago. In the first place transportation services out of Liberia had halted due to safety concerns and I hardly imagined where I may be heading to, either the neighboring state of Sierra Leone, or the French speaking state of the Ivory Coast. I can also remember that I lacked money to undertake the life-saving and risky journey. It was under such difficult circumstance that I took the risk, depending solely on the mercy and grace of God to undertake such a travel. What heightened my fear further was the assertion that the authorities in both countries were hostile in accepting any more refugees from Liberia into their country on the grounds that the limited social services in their respective countries were being exhausted and giving hospitality to new-comers may result into unbearable health challenges to their populations. I persevered in dodging the first check-pointed controlled by fierce and notorious rebel commanders, who showed no mercy in executing anyone they found considered a target. What made the journey risky was the notoriety of both the government and rebel forces. President Samuel Doe's government troops were settling scores with rebels led by Charles Taylor, an ex-prominent civil servant. Doe was from Gedeh county. After 3 unsuccessful attempts to cross into the Ivory Coast, many of my friends gave up and returned to Monrovia, but I continued to persevere. It was tall lanky man that I knew years back that saved my life, by accompanying us as far as into the safety of Ivory Coast.

As a journalist who is also interested in public health or health for all have decided to devote the rest of my professional life in helping victims of autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, through the dissemination of public information and engaging in fund raising activities to contribute to campaigns including raising public awareness meant to help such victims. Indeed I still have fresh memories of one of my uncles who was a diabetes patient and he lost the battle to cure himself. He was at the time the only college educated uncle in my family and to some extent considered a bread winner to many including some members of his extended family. This is why I want to do all in my power to help someone suffering from the diabetes illness. In this light I may like to share some good news and information that I recently got from the CNN American news network. I cannot exactly remember the name of the program but a senior official of the Astrazeneca COVID- 19 vaccine company made the startling revelation to the CNN reporter that after their success in ensuring the effectiveness and safety of their vaccine, their research focus is now directed towards manufacturing a booster version of the their astrazeneca drug, which will be available to the public for us very soon. This executive of the company's pharmaceutical branch elaborated on the point that among several health challenges that they have observed in their drug is providing cure to victims of diabetes and other chronic sicknesses such as cancer, typhoid, among others. Certainly this discovery cannot be taken lightly. If his assertion is a fact then it would be a big breakthrough in the medical research world, as finding cure for sicknesses like diabetes, cancer, parkinson disease remain a formidable task to reckon with. I am interested in such a discovery because an enthusiast of anything relating to a cure to this illness as to COVID-19, cancer and other autoimmune conditions. I was very happy when I met an ex-journalist who is now in the health-care delivery profession, in a diabetes testing clinic that he founded few months ago. it gave rays of hope when he explained to me the advantages of anyone making an early testing to know his diabetes immune conditions. He added that it is a license to warding off and distancing oneself from death by diabetes diseases as one gets information on what drugs to use to limits one's cholesterol or sugar and salt consumption levels. Of course as a journalist I plan to propagate the notion that it is usually assumed that high blood pressure is the principal cause of diabetes. Hence regular testing of one's high or low blood pressure levels help immensely in the prevention of autoimmune diseases like diabetes. Moreover it is equally very important for me unveil to the public whatever cure and benefits that may be trending for victims of autoimmune diseases, from other companies that have also been in the forefront in the fight against the Corona virus global pandemic such as Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson apart from what has been revealed by the authorities at Astrazeneca pharmaceuticals. In conclusion, it is my intention that once resources can permit, it will be my fervent hope to establish an early warning treatment clinic for victims of diabetes. This is indeed necessary after taking into considerations the many people who lost their precious lives due to the lack of information on how to do early prevention and treatment of the pandemic. I also plan engaging in raising funds for victims.

Recovery to me means to retrieve what has been lost, so that one may be able to catch up with plans on course. Recovery is often used with an economic connotations but it may for example mean getting back what has been lost such as setbacks in ambitions and lost phone cards for example. As an economic term, it often refers to nations in their efforts to catch up. Hence we may have an economic recovery plans envisaged by governments, companies and other institutions. It can be recalled that after the first world war and even after the second world war, the United States government drew up an economic recovery plan to retrieve some of the war expenses incurred such as the purchase of arms and ammunition, the payment of financial benefits to soldiers, among others. The Marshall Plan was crafted after the second world war to ensure some form of economic recovery after the second world war that lasted From 1939-1945. The post war German government in West German engaged a similar recovery plan to ensure post war economic greatness after the war-time economic depressions and recessions, like the Marshall plan in the United States. What I should also emphasize in this essay is that nowadays because of the trending generational technologies such as the use of the mobile phone, it is often possible to lose a sim-card issued to users by the various mobile operating companies and the user may be obliged to seek a lost sim-card recovery!

I am John L. Momoh, a product of the university of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia and Fourah Bay college Freetown Sierra Leone. I have spent a large part of my adult life in the field of newspaper journalism where I rose up the ladder from a reporter to a News and later Features Editor. I have also been privileged to serve as a Public Affairs specialist and an acting editor-in chief before I established my own newspaper, but forced into closure due to the lack of money to fund printing costs. What I have learnt in life while serving as freelance writer and even a full time employees in government service and at private newspapers is the low salary paid to journalists without a university degree or those without the support of patrons. I also noticed that even if such a victim of circumstances happen to know the work more than college graduates they are always regarded as nonentities in terms of salary and employment benefits.benefits. This was one major reason why I made every effort to obtain a bachelor's degree, to brighten my chances for a brighter future, although my parents, Father and Mother are dead. I have had to battle on my own to obtain the little education that I acquired over the years. It was mainly through being afforded the opportunity to secure scholarships, especially fully funded scholarships that meant that I left with no financial burden or liability to be paid from my own resources. During my High school days because my father found it difficult to pay my tuition and other expenses to finance my education, I was blessed with the privilege of being awarded a government scholarship. This scholarship accompanied me on my educational journey until I completed High school. I failed the admission exam administered by the West African Examinations Council during my first attempt at the Yengema Secondary school at Yengema, Sierra Leone. Because of my insatiable desire to enter college, I traveled back to Liberia and stayed with an uncle at Kakata, Margibi county in Liberia and prepared for and passed the Liberian National Exams which granted me the opportunity to get enrollment at the Business college of the University of Liberia. I gained admission into the university of Liberia after passing their entrance exams with flying colors. My high grades helped me to obtain another government scholarship which helped me to gain accommodation in the dormitory with the rest of the students. This was the beginning of another problems, as the scholarship allowances were never paid on time and I lacked any other source of financial support. I decided to search for a teaching job frantically around Monrovia but in vain. I was only chanced to get a home tutor for high school students teaching job for 3 students from a friend who was working as a clerk in the scholarship division of the Liberian Ministry of education by the name of Richards. It was Richards who helped me to get the fully funded Mano River Union student Exchange scholarship that empowered me to study in the liberal arts college of Fourah Bay college in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In conclusion, my next challenge now is how to get the best out of my education already acquired, so that I can make a positive impact to the development of my country? Indeed what experience has thought me over the years, is that those who are at the central stage in making positive decisions and in leadership that impact in the development of their respective countries are those who have adequately prepared themselves.

Education has indeed tremendously increased my understanding of the world, which could never have been had I remained in the village as an ordinary kid reared by mother, a single mother. What happened was that my biological father, a professional driver took the responsibility to send me to school to obtain my education as much as I may desire. Indeed this was the beginning of my educational journey, a path I am following up to now, and a path that has broaden the scope of my knowledge about the world in which we live. Through my educational landscape I have come to appreciate the general knowledge or the arts subjects subjects such as history, geography, civics and government, Public administration, Public health, English and other subjects that mostly require reading or/and memorizing important facts. It was through my educational journey that I came to realize that people who observe the laws of hygiene and environmental health have better chances to live longer lives than the average villagers or the illiterate people who know little about hygiene and well-being living. This knowledge thought me about taking regular bathing at least once or twice a day; brushing the teeth with tooth-paste, developing skills about how to approach women and ask them to fall in love with you as love is the essence of life, considering that without having a child all of what one has worked for through out life will be inherited by other people. Moreover, it was through education that I came to know about the relevance of culture and how one culture can be compered and contrasted with other cultural values and norms. It was through education that I came to understand that the world is a global village, meaning we are all interdependent of each other as what affects one individual may affect others. This concept also mingles with the fact that countries in one way or the other rely on each other to meet some of their pressing needs. Globalization is today a very important concept in education as it strives to ensure standardization of educational values such as qualifications, salary structures and classifications and the award of scholarships and fellowships. Furthermore, it was through education I realized the essence of the need to stay in the classroom and climb up the educational ladder as high as one may have the capacity to excel him or herself. This is because a person with a PHd degree or a doctorate degree, a Masters degree or a trained professional may have the advantage of benefitting from a much higher salary and other benefits than a drop-out from school or a college. By and large I may also mention that my education and practice of journalism have tremendously broaden my horizon and knowledge about the world, as they gave me the stamina to take an added interest of happenings in not only my country, but in the world as a whole. It was through my history class that I came to realize that some of the development pitfalls and inequalities are not only unique to Africans and other developing countries alone. Europe went through the experiences of wars after wars prior to the industrial revolution that replaced work by hands to work by machines. Certainly over times, because I have found out that through traveling transformations can occur significantly that can increase the progress of an individual's access to job and educational opportunities, I have decided to focus attention on seizing every opportunity to travel out of my country to seek greener pastures, where educational and job opportunities are greater.

My personal career exploration journey has been very fantastic and rewarding, as it is coming at a time when new technological innovations and initiatives in communications, especially the internet, social media and mobile phones are making things a little easier to handle than it were about a decade or two ago. Few years ago one would have hardly thought about opportunities to further one's education and training as well as job and recruitment opportunities as diverse as it is today. Of course in the absence of technological advancements mentioned above, the chances of access to educational and career opportunities were extremely very slim. Access to mobile phones and the internet were very difficult. Such access were rigidly controlled or either they never existed, or where they existed, they were controlled and often monopolized by few elite or criminal interest groups. Indeed very often those who have the means to further their careers were obliged to become members of social cohesion societies to tap such opportunities and privileges at the expense of non-members of the entire society. My career objective from the onset had included accumulating the most maximum education, so as to become a top-notch journalist in the print or electronic media, to be empowered to serve society and myself better. I had figured out while attending high school, that to be able to come to the top in the field of journalism, one has to have the means to be educated in some of the best schools. It thought it will pay no dividend if one is labelled as a drop-out from High school or college. However the stigma that haunted my society was the suspicion in which people without a college degree were held. They were categorized as drop-outs and as such they were victims of low salary earnings and relegation to a low class in the society. This meant that drop-outs hardly receive a monthly salary of about US$200 and were hardly given any benefits even at the moments of their retirements from active public service. A friend narrated to me a story that because of the infiltration of corruption and nepotism into public services of many countries, it was difficult to find people educated and trained in their chosen careers to be inserted or employed in the fields of their careers, that is the fields for which they have been educated or trained. ' This is why it is my candid opinion that governments, international and local ' institutions should do more investments to improve the climate of transparency and accountability in work-places of their their respective countries. They should also undertake reform measures to re-adjust workers in the private and the public services to modern techniques, with a view to improve the careers of their personnel. I am of the view that there are today more opportunities for self improvements on the job than ever before, through long or short term seminars, workshops and training programs, the provision of scholarship opportunities as well as the introduction of modern communication technologies to empower workers to improve their careers on the job. Certainly few decades ago one could hardly think of communication techniques to improve one's careers and performance on the job like the mobile phone and the internet, as a modern library and tools for fast and speedy exchange of communications, that surpassed previous methods of communications such as telegraphs. Due to increased technology, there are more chances for us to imp[rove our career goals, more than ever before. Access to scholarships and fellowships, or training facilities were only channeled through government sources by donors unlike.

My happiest day was when I was awarded a fully funded scholarship to complete my High school studies. On that day, I invited some of my friends to a party at a local restaurant and night club, where Delicious local food stuff and drinks, were served and we ate and drank to our satisfaction. Finally, it was time for me to express my skills in dancing, as the rock and roll and other forms of dancing were the order of the day. It was time that I put on my best dressing, a brown coat and neck-tie for a bluff!

Friendship means a whole lots to me as in many cases 'a friend in need is a friend in deed' and friendship sometimes goes beyond family relationship ties although 'blood is thicker than water'. It gives me immense pleasure to comment on this sensitive topic which brings me to defining what is friendship? It is being comfortable with a person as a source of help, as a source for keeping good company and intimate relationship. Such a person very often can be a family member or a relative with whom you are more intimate and closer than the other members of the family and with whom you share many memories and many experiences in common. It is however possible for me to fall in friendship or a to have a more intimate relationship with a person outside my family circle, probably someone I have encountered during one of life's many journeys, such as being a classmate, a school or college mate, or probably a work mate. What is important is that you grow to like each other for one thing or the other; such as the person being financially generous to me, polite and kind or very humorous, knows how to speak to other people, respectfully and has a very pleasing personality. Certainly these are the yardsticks on which I determine that a person is a friend to me. That is to say I have met you before and you have a friendly disposition towards me, especially being a person who immediately comes to fulfill my needs by providing what I desperately need. From which is derived the phrase, 'a friend in need is a friend in deed. Finally, I do not consider it friendship. when a friend who possesses the means, is non-caring and sharing towards me his friend.

My favorite way to help others is advising them that when a man ask for a fish, it would be better to teach him how to fish and to become self-sufficient and sustainable rather than him always knocking at your door for another fish. In other words my favorite way to help a friend is helping him to stand on him or her feet by becoming sustainable. Indeed there are varying ways to help a person to become sustainable, such as through teaching, or offering funding to the person. My most favored way include investing in the future of the person by enabling him to access education, to prepare him or her to have a brighter future. Moreover, I also prefer the technique of granting money to individuals or groups in dire need, but with strings attached such as providing them the techniques to involve in micro-credit activities, or to engage in small scale business activities. What is important to me or to the person would be to ensure that the help that I have given would be profitable. For example if I help the person to engage in micro-financing I will keep paying the monthly or quarterly dues required from him until it will be his turn to collect dues from the entire members of the club that he is a member. This would enable him to be independent to be paying dues for himself without receiving help from anybody. Obviously if it requires teaching or educating a person, the person would be told then education is a time consuming process,as it very often takes a longer time or investment, for example purchasing the materials to learn how to do fishing, or to learn how to operate a profitable mobile telephone charging booth, which may also require purchasing power-generator.

My best skill is creative writing, which I have been improving on by reading academic, history and literary books, and by imitating others. It was at the high school that I discovered my writing skills, after frequent reading and writing practices on a wide range of subjects such as literature, English language, social studies subjects such as geography, civics, and religious knowledge. Moreover. it was also at the high school that I came to find out while I was an A student in the social sciences including English, was always difficult for me to pass mathematics and science subjects, including physics, chemistry, algebra and trigonometry. I can remember my English teacher telling me that I have found out that you are very good in expressing yourself in the English language which is a way forward in becoming a creative writer, and a fiction and non-fiction writer. 'This can be improved by regularly reading the literary works of prominent writers, by reading good newspapers ,and by listening to reputable radio stations such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Voice of America (VOA). Furthermore what I came to find out in my efforts to develop my creative writing skills is that becoming a creative writer is like embarking on a long journey during which you encounter lots of adventures. I was soon to know history alone constitutes several branches, such as European history, African history, American history, Canadian history, Asian history, world history. Indeed it is important to note that like the Literature components of the history of every country or continent, they are written by various authors with diverse skills in expressing themselves with clarity for the reader to understand. Therefore, my best skills as a creative writer were developed through constant reading and practice and imitating established writers.

The passion to acquire tertiary education is one thing that inspires me on a daily, as I have lived through the experience of only having partial education or a drop out from school is an unbearable stigma worth washing off. As I look around me I can see people who have been my classmates holding top jobs, simply on the strength of their academic qualifications and years of experience on the job. This makes me to wonder that had I known I would have stayed put as a student so that I may pursue my studies up to the doctorate degree level to enable me benefit from huge salaries and fringe benefits like them. Certainly lagging behind the ladder of competition was not totally my fault. I can attribute the mishap to becoming a father of a child at a very early age which makes me obliged to spend the little that I earn as a monthly salary from the place I worked. I can also blame my misfortune on the bad-luck of having lost my job because of the arrogance of the boss under whom I served as news editor of an up and coming newspaper. I can most point accusing fingers at him because he wanted the job for one of his friends, but the publisher of the media preferred my competence on the job Moreover my motivation stems from being out of job for a long time and everywhere I applied, the stigma of being a drop out haunted me, as the salary scale classified me as a college drop-out. Therefore, because I was a victim of low salary payment for a long time, I was imbued with the motivation to continue my education up to doctorate level, and to seize every opportunity to further my knowledge.

The changes I need in my community, country and the world to impact positively on the quality of life, that I would be proud to get involved in include designing strategies to reinforce peace, advocating for an increase in electricity supplies at the community, country and global level, to ensure that paved roads connectivity become a reality especially at the community and the national level, to ensure food security and improvements in the quality and quantity of education. As a journalist I have been an advocate of my country's realization of the 8 millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations which started in the year 2,000 elapsed, and were replaced by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). I have observed that developing access to electricity is like sending one stone to kill many birds, because business enterprises with little capital investments such as carpenter workshops, mobile phone and computers charging booths, tailor shops who are among those in dire need of the usage of electricity would make progress. I am in favor of the implementation of these development goals recommended by the United Nations General Assembly in my community and, because I consider them as important passports to change and progress in any society be they industrialized or developing. I am of the view that in addition to the initiatives set on course by the United Nations mentioned above, it will equally be important to fast-track development programs around the world, not only electricity but paved roads connectivity; often considered as robust ways of inciting development in communities, regions and countries. Moreover they help in the flourishing of businesses, get people connected and as such encourage the free flow of peoples, goods and services from rural to urban areas and from urban to rural areas, which in turn add to job creation and raising the standards of living of peoples in any society. These UN development initiatives are being taken seriously, and are being recommended to many governments in developing countries. Of course there is a need to harness more electricity at the local and community levels, and to encourage government and NGO investments in roads connectivity, as electricity and paved road connecting communities, villages and towns and regions and countries are the bedrock of economic growth, improving trade and the transport sector in the private sector. I have been involved in ensuring that the people in my community and my country are adequately informed about the benefits of these prioritized projects so that governments, the international donor community such as the European Union and local and international Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as Oxfam, Save the Children-UK, and UN agencies such as UNICEF may get actively involved in providing funding and accepting them, as sure ways of bringing a boost to national development. Furthermore I consider it another step in the right direction that about 3 decades donor partners such as the European Union, envisaged a plan to fund the implementation of an ambitious plan to construct paved roads to connect major West African coastal capital cities such Dakar, Senegal to Lagos, Nigeria known s the trans-west African highway road pavement project, which when completed, would connect several capital cities in West African coastal cities by paved roads such as Conakry to Freetown, Monrovia, Liberia, to Abidjan, then to Accra, Ghana, Lome, Togo, and from Benin to Lagos, Nigeria. It is now in its advanced stage. It is also a giant development stride that the United States is funding a trans-border electricity supply project emanating from Ghana, through the Ivory Coast, to supply electricity in towns and villages on its routes in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. under the Millennium Compact Account. Certainly it is a pleasure for me to mention that changes that ensures the holding of in the democracy and transparent elections, are important ingredient in ensuring peaceful coexistence, good governance, transparency and national development initiatives. It would also be essential to ensure the existence of freedom of expression such as the state operating free media environment to allow people to express themselves on critical national issues. Indeed a free press and the holding of transparent elections are indispensable to national development. I have also participated in voter education and training programs and hope that governments across the world should implement the United Nations mandate to extend voting rights to more youth groups and the physically challenge as well as ensure access to health and education for all through increasing budgetary allotments to improve health and education with a view to level the income generating capacity of poor peoples of the world and with a view to obtain a middle income earning groups in every country in the world. Equally so in the sanitation and climate change and environmental sector, we hope that more investments can be do by governments to the extent that there will be public toilets in every town, village and cities in the world.

I found my addiction to the internet very valuable and essential in the fulfillment of my ambitions in life, to get up the educational ladder up to the PhD level and to get married and have children. Surely the internet is like a big ocean in which can be found hidden treasure such as making new friends, searching for job opportunities and vacancies, scholarship opportunities, improving the standard of a person;s grammar, learning new languages or a language and of course general knowledge on every field of human endeavor such as law, management, administration and leadership techniques. Moreover, I like the internet as a valuable life-long tool, because unlike the library, it only takes developing the skills of its usage to get to where one wants. It can for example easily tell you the richest individuals in the world and the extent of their fortunes and how they manage to amass such fortunes. Furthermore among other problems solved by the internet is mathematical calculations, the geographical elements of every country, their histories: and the regions of the of the world as well as their political inclinations. Take for example China, one is apt to learn that it is a country that constitutes a large parcel of land in South East Asia that has today become a formidable flesh in the thorn of western nations. It was the epicenter of the communist revolution led by chairman Mao Tse-tung, something that spitted the country into small fragments that remained loyal to western cultural values, such as Taiwan and Hog-Kong. Finally my admiration for the values of the internet is buried in the fact that in the world today it is indispensable to developments in every other profession, such as banking, transportation, communications, medicine, agriculture, education, among others and its role would increase.

I want to leave behind as a legacy after I pass off children bearing my surname, an identified home and the resources that may be enough to educate my children so that my image will always remain in the minds of my friends and others who knew me. Certainly there are many great people that have come and played their parts in the nation building process or on the political stage, but very often once they have passed off there can be little known about them quite simply because they lacked children bearing your surname or they lack a permanent home address known to everyone as where the family can be found. Of course examples of people whose legacies can hardly be traced abound. Often this can be due to living through economic hard-times, lack of organization on the part of the person or the ambition to ensure that before passing through this planet a legacy is left behind that can remind others about what you have left behind. I can remember a friend of mine who was a womanizer, loving from place to place and it happened that he was a renter in even the residence in which he was staying. He had a girl friend to care for in several of the large communities of the city without daring to pick up one to marry to. He gave pregnancy to four of his girl friends and they all born for him, although he had no family house to take the children to, as they were all staying with their respective mothers. This why I choose a child and a house as important legacies to leave behind before passing through this world. It is possible for some people to die without the legacy of a child or a home

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My greatest sources of happiness in life include easy access to money, higher education, travel opportunities, having a peace of mind and to live with my wife, children and friends and having a happy sex life with women. Indeed it is often controversial to think that the greatest legacies that one can live behind after this life are children, education and ensuring education, leaving behind enough property for your family before passing off. I once exchanged ideas with a wealthy man who told me that it is wrong to think that leaving behind for your children an abundant money and property are a sure way of ensuring their happiness after you have expired. He said this is because there is little guarantee that the children will properly manage the money, as the possibility exists that they may lavish it or for one reason or another get broke. I told him right away that the best way to be happy is to have enough money as in the world today the next precious thing to God is money, which is the key that opens all doors, including even the acquisition of property or getting education and property or marrying out your children. By and large what makes me happy apart from acquisition of money I should have the level of education and property that I desire. This includes having a decent house and a car to facilitate my traveling and the traveling of my family. What makes me happy also is enjoying a family leisure life around my wife, children and friends, while ensuring that I die a holy and pious life as a believer in God through Jesus Christ. What makes me happy also is watching international matches including the European or African Cup of Nations and the world cup.

The most inspiring book I have read and continue to read on a daily basis is the Holy Bible of the Christian faith. It is a book that is full of hope for a better living and protection in this world and in the world to come, as God made us to love Him to serve Him and to be happy with Him in Heaven forever. The Bible begins with the Book of Genesis and ends with the Revelation book, and it is probably the only book that essentially revealed the mysteries of the Almighty God to serve as a guidance and inspiration to us. It is through the pages of the Bible that we encounter God in His true form of the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from God the Father and the son, and Jesus born before all ages. The Bible is divided into the old and the new testaments, and the entire new testament is replete with the story of the birth Crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, and the grace, power, love and mercy of God through Jesus Christ the Lord and savior of believers. It is worth noting that every book and chapter of the Bible is inspiring and full of messages of hope. In this light Jesus being aware of the social, economic, security and other inequalities of his times, spoke to us in many parables to give us the hope that if we have faith, believe in him and keep his commandments, we will be saved not probably by our own good works alone but through his mercy. Despite our being estranged from God by the sins of Adam and Eve, hope is revived by the blood of Jesus. Therefore it is no gainsaying that the Bible is full of inspirations and hope for all.

The best way to live a long and healthy life is engaging in some form of sporting activities or physical exercises. My experiences however shows that in addition to the physical exercise activities it may also be prudent to follow the foot-steps of people who have lived longer lives such as my own great grand mother whom I saw before she died when I was at a very young age. Actually I noticed that one of the medicines she relied on for her strength was the regular rubbing of limes, after burning it in the fire and then later on sucking some of it. She said lime have some positive effects of the curing of several inborn diseases in the stomach such as ulcer, stomach complain and diarrhea. And as far as she was concerned she was no longer able to engage in physical exercises but her method is working positively. Nowadays few people pay attention to the sucking or rubbing of limes as a panacea for regaining health as more attention is being paid modern medicines in drug stores for prolonging their lives. In biblical days fasting was not only meant for drawing closer to God, but equally for burning extra fat within the body. According to a Muslim elder, the one month fasting is like going through a workshop, after which one graduates into a more spiritual level than prior to the fast month as diseases are wiped away and newness of the self sets in. Whatever justifications that may be advanced however, I am of the opinion like many others, that regular physical exercises, eating fruits and good foods regularly, abstaining from foul languages and deeds, are among significant remedies for prolonging lives and attaining good health. By taking exercises regularly one burns fats that encourages diseases.

My obnoxious experience as an immigrant and a first generation college graduate is worth celebrating and writing about, as people who often say that racism and class struggles can only be attributed to complex societies like South Africa during the 'apartheid 'era, or the United States especially during the 1960s or during the President John F. Kennedy years in office are wrong. By and large, the pre and post colonial African societies, where income disparities have been imposed most often as a result of colonial rule and heritage, present a classic case of marginalization, discriminations as a result of class biases. I experienced such forms of discrimination intensely when I was a High school student in Sierra Leone a college student at Fourah Bay college and at the university of Liberia. And also as an adult employee or job seeker in Liberia. Certainly when I reflect over what I have I read in my English literature classes in my high school and college days, especially the books written by Kenya's foremost prolific literature writer, Prof. Ngugi Wa-Th'iongo 'aka' James Ngugi, I can always remind myself that the themes that he was always writing about are true and real in the real world. They are not only an illusion or fictional figments of imagination but what is unfolding in real life in many African and post colonial countries. My experiences are shared in the stories portrayed in the book 'Weep Not' Child, when it comes to a boy by the name of N'joronje trying to forge a love to a girl from a relatively well to do family the boss of his peasant father. The stigma encountered by N'joronje is equally shared by the hero of the book 'The River Between' which displays the same clear message of a boy on one side of the economic river and a girl in the traditional side of the River divided by a valley the presence of missionaries and a school. At the Yengema Secondary school in Kono, Sierra Leone where I obtained my secondary education, some of us from poor families were hardly given a breathing space to love to a girl whose guardians or parents work at a junior or senior class level in the National Diamond Mining company, due to the stigma that the boy may not be able to furnish or purchase what the girl may want to make life comfortable for herself. In fact I can remember that people were spying or monitoring us in case we harbor such ambitions. Furthermore I can also remember that at one instant, I asked one of my teachers, a Canadian Mathematics and French teacher to find me a pen-pal from his native Edmonton, Canada. He gave me the addresses of his sister by the name of Allison Gue. As we were corresponding and we exchanged photos letters from either her or from me were stocked up in the post offices and that was the end of it. Indeed the same scenario was repeated at Fourah Bay college in Freetown Sierra Leone where I was studying as an exchange student from Liberia on a scholarship provided by the Mano River Union. Students from poor backgrounds were never given the chance to love to girls on campus. I was a victim when a girl from the Kalamazoo college student exchange program chose me for dating. I fell sick and had to flee the campus for my life as a lawyer's son interrupted our budding love relations. I may thus conclude that African societies often detest immigrants like poor people as outcasts of the society.

Indeed being patient in all that we do is very important, hence there is an African proverb that states that patient dog eats the fattest bones although not in all cases. Certainly a clear understanding of the dogs' situation explains it all. A dog is meant to be one of the pets that is very friendly with human beings. This is why people are divided with some in favor of petting dogs and others being usually very hostile to any form of animals including dogs and cats. Many dogs are trained to avoid eating food at the time their masters or owners are eating, but would rather wait around as their owners or people eat their meals, raising up their heads each time the master sends the spoon full of food into their mouths. As in most cases, after the master or owner had eaten remnants or crumbs of the food are pushed aside in a separate dish for the waiting or patient dog. But had there been an aggressiveness on the part of the dog, of course it would have been very likely that the inpatient dog would have received any. By an large this phrase is also often applied to those waiting or expecting something such as job promises or money. It may be a salary or other things that are legitimately meant for them. Inpatient would sometimes lead to anger or violence. In conclusion, I may say with certainly that surely the educational journey is one thing in life that requires the patience of students and pupils. Students who are patient to swallow whatever bitter pills to persevere in their lessons to patiently go through the educational journey up to Phd or medical doctorate level end up being in top jobs than others who never exercised patient.

I am a black and currently building an SMS companies phone-charging shop and hope that this fund will help my business to grow, so that I may jump into the sale of phones especially Android smartphones not only at one but several locations in my town and if possible extend the business to other towns in my district. Surely I took the inspiration from a friend who started his business as a simple phone charger at a time when even smart-phones have not bee discovered. In about two years time he was strong enough to purchase a vehicle that was plying the route from our community to the center of town. The last time that I met the drover of his pick-up vehicle he told me that his boss is getting set to building his own house so that he may relocate from the makeshift zinc structure where he is presently charging phones. Of course the greatest of challenges facing many emerging businesses today in several countries is the lack of access to credit or loan facilities. I started my business with a mere USD$150, an amount I got as a commission for soliciting advertisement and doing write up for companies in a local newspaper. I had to go used phone charging cables cheaply sold in one of my tons' slum areas. It was then that I got used to chords or cables or chargers of various types. We have the popular flat pin charging butts, the I-phone chargers, and the chargers for cables that are a little bumpy. When I met my frond himself and conversed with him about his business plans while congratulating him for his remarkable success especially within a short span of period, he told me he would also like to venture into the sale of used computers and laptops, adding that these are areas where the attention of consumers are focused, and areas which are making fast profit. He also observed that there is now little need to apply for loan from a bank as the profits he is making from his business are enough. According to him, although the phone charging and computer industry can build a business fast, as access to funding is hard to come by, he has since two years ago began investing his profit into micro-credit financing by small business entrepreneurs with ta view to ensure financial stability. He added: 'Mobilizing of micro-credit funds on a weekly basis from members, to be given to one member that is regular in paying his/or her payment obligations, and who does not owe the SUSU CLUB or organization on a rotational basis, is very reliable in guaranteeing that once it is one's turn to harvest the funds from the contributions of all the other members are often done without much headache; as the money is always safely available in the accounts of the club deposited in the banks". He concluded on the note this' phenomenon is gradually becoming popular in many communities, and is the driving force behind his own relative success in business and hence would advise an aspiring entrepreneur like me to follow his foot-steps. He added that this will help me to easily graduate from the level of a mere phone charging business to a higher heights and prosperity. Indeed classroom experiences show that to get a business to start or grow needs the availability of sufficient funding, a skeleton staff and payroll, as one e has to pay the salaries or remunerations of employee. One may also have to secure a conducive place or location to attract all customers.

My plan to leverage technology or entrepreneurship to improve the world would mainly rely on importing the technological know-how from the industrialized nations to developing countries through active campaigning platforms, as there is no joke to the fact that there is a gross imbalance in the distribution of industrial innovations between the industrialized and developing countries. This in balance is also reflected in the high access to opportunities in the two kinds of countries to the extent that people normally prefer to live and work in industrialized countries than in underdeveloped or developing countries. The opportunities include access to quality and quantity educational facilities, medical and health facilities, better quality of social life and longevity, transparency and fairness, good governance, less inflation and economic recession, economic growth, and infrastructural development such as access to paved roads means of communications, basic freedoms, poverty reduction and the right to food and freedom of expression and the rule of law. Furthermore, what one should also not forget is that over the last three decades two of the most influential discoveries that is changing life for the better all over the world include the internet and mobile phones. Certainly the world have been a better place to live if such discoveries were made for example in the 1950's or the 1960's. The internet of Microsoft as well as communication by mobile phones instead of the fixed phones have also tremendously improved technology and the entrepreneurial spirit. The internet of Microsoft is a brilliant discovery that today influences almost every aspect of our lifestyles. Its influence extends from agriculture to mining, journalism to banking and the medical profession and it lives a lasting impact on education. It should therefore be incumbent on decision makers to increase the use of the internet and the mobile phone especially in schools and the medical and health professions. Moreover it is equally important to hail the evolution of the world into a global village through the ideas of globalization. It is a phenomenon that every country use to embrace to serve as a fulcrum for improvements in technology, livelihood and of course entrepreneurship. It is no gainsaying the fact that through globalization, the world is getting closer together to improve for example educational standards across the world as well as improve the quality of health and the rule of law and the justice systems. Certainly it would also not be a mistake if I leverage technology and the entrepreneurial spirit among nations through international world bodies such as the United Nations and its various branches as well as regional organizations such as the European Union, Asia-Pacific countries, African Union, Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS). Of course there are two schools of thought in this regards. International involvement to settle disputes among nations is not a sham, as they serve as useless bulldogs or white elephants. I am however of the view that they are a way-forward in forging peace and international understand as well as tolerance among nations. As an example one may cite how the civil wars that engulfed Liberia and Sierra Leone were resolved through the involvement of the West African peace keeping force, the United Nations Peace-keeping force and the African union peace- keeping force considering that no development or democratic values can evolve in a situation of war or rebel movements. This is why there should be global awareness and cooperation as well as the need for countries of the world to work together to improve on existing technological innovations and entrepreneurship for the overall benefit of all the peoples of the world.

The quote that I admire the most comes from the famous English poet William Shakespeare when he wrote that: 'Times fly and there is no acquaintance with tomorrow’. I feel that in all that we do or say, we must always remember the time factor, or the fact that time waits for nobody. Hence we should be ever mindful that budgeting our times appropriately to do exactly what we have to do or say at a given time should mean quite a lot in shaping our respective future destinies. We must always try to avoid the ‘if I had Known feeling. Indeed time is an important factor in changing things. Take for example the student and teacher Relationship,, after the teacher has taught some students in a particular class and sometimes after some time had elapsed, it would become evident that some of the students may be doing their Masters or doctorate degree classes, or have finished their doctorate degrees and are now in very hefty or lucrative jobs far above the qualification- reach of many of their classmates and colleagues or even their teachers that had tutored them. Certainly the notion that times fly and there is no acquaintance with tomorrow as William Shakespeare, one of the Greatest writers of English literature and drama had said was not an error did not in the book 'Julius Caesar. This quotation which is highly admired, generates hope and the need for people to be resilience and be on alert and not despair in whatsoever situation in which they may find themselves. Let us take for example ,political situations especially in evolving democracy situations where hopes for changes appear downplayed. But over time with the right kind of political leaders and the evolving transparent democracy hope may be kept alive for the hopeless and the despaired . I can remember that sometimes ago during the last Presidential elections in the United States that brought the democrat contender, President Joseph Biden to power many American voters were not thinking of voting for a democrat But who knows as times fly and there is no acquaintance with tomorrow. Of course the emphasis was placed on the need for democrats to rally together to deprive the Incumbent, President Donald Trump, of a second term of office. Little did many Americans knew that the plan hatched by democrats would work successfully. But it did in fact worked as there is no acquaintance with tomorrow. Due to the changing times, American Voters were now in favor of candidate Joe Biden to the disadvantage of the incumbent President Trump. Indeed I would also like to make allusion to the rapid developmental and democracy transformation now going on In many African countries. Barely half a century ago at the time of independence, many countries were virtually underdeveloped; with few fitting or paved roads. After the acquisition of independence, many countries in Africa can now boast of rapid development in the areas of education, health. The provision of electricity, gender balance, information delivery, transparency and civil service and local government reforms. Today over time, the story has changed drastically as modernity is the order of the day in many African countries especially those countries that can boast of abundant mineral wealth. In conclusion I would mention a soldier who remembered a good deed done by a minister by the mother of a minister after the overthrow of a government. He said we will not kill you because when I was posted as a guard in your compound your mother offered me food and was kind to me. Indeed Times fly!

If I were a highly influential person I would stand for the predominance of the rule of law over every form of lawlessness. This is a phenomenon that is sometimes overlooked by decision makers and people in positions of trust, but looking at it critically it ought not to be taken for granted. What many people fail to realize is that little drops of water makes a mighty river. Often it can all begin with the issue of parents or guardians petting their children and caring little for offences that they can commit with the notion that they are yet mere children. As they grow into adulthood, sometimes some of these childhood petting encouraged by their parents remain as habits with them. For example when they enter schools especially boarding schools and asked to stand in long queues to get their meals, children or students who are not habitual to childhood disciplines from their parents or guardians can hardly abide by such rules but would prefer to jump the lines in front of others who stand orderly in lines to get to the front where meals are served. In other situations adults with such attitudes can surface in banks where or at polling stations during elections, where some of them have to be told to stand in line by security personnel all because they did not grow up observing such protocols due to the fault of their parents or guardians who who reared them up. This of course means that there is a need for people in influential positions to go the extra miles as they can leave their marks on discipline and justice in society especially respect for the rule of law. Certainly societies that respect the rule of law and the justice system have the can develop faster.

I can stay to myself in my daily life by making and independent judgment on everything that requires such and by ensuring that I do not pretend to be what I am not. This is because I have noticed that falsehood and bigotry is the character of many people that I sometimes encounter. It is an important phenomenon in Greek philosophy that we must be the 'self' that is part of our own ego rather than assuming what we are not. A friend once asked me whether I am a Masters' degree holder, and my reply was that I am aspiring to study for the Master's degree, hence if someone writes my name as a Masters degree holder probably due to my advanced age, then that person must have made an error which needs to be corrected. But I found it difficult to meet with the person that has committed such error, to get it rectified. I guessed that the person may have done it to seek financial advantage, as any possibility cannot be ruled out. One other reason why I prefer to always be myself is that the destiny that the Lord Almighty has programmed for you will always be yours and unchangeable. I am saying this because a friend once told me to change my surname to a name that is popular in my society to make me appear that I am from the ruling elites or class of my country. I simply told him that I am far from doing that because even if you change your name, region of origin, creed and any aspect of your identity you may sometimes be doing more harm to yourself that good, as what God has programmed for you will never change whether you change your name, identity or not.

The one most important thing that I do in my community to help elderly people in my community is bringing them to Christ before they depart from this world. I always tell them it is not possible for anyone to get all their desires furnished by the Almighty God, our creator while on earth and the best way to obtain all needs is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord and Our God whom Apostle Peter hinted that you are the son of the living God. Faith in Jesus is an essential way to obtain not only eternal life but equally to obtain the grace to obtain what one needs during the remaining years of the life of the elderly. Jesus himself said "I am the way, the truth and the light and nobody comes to the Father except through me". This may seem absurd to none believers, but it is in fact the seed on which the Bible is build. In the same vein many of us think that Psalm 1 is the pillar on which the entire word of God is build. Psalm one begins with Blessed is the man who sits not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners... but his delight is in the law of God upon which he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that gives out its fruits in its season, his leaves also do not wither and whatever he does shall be fruitful. But the wicked is like a chaff before the wind, the wicked shall perish. What also needs to be emphasized is that improving the lives of the elderly do not only come through materialism, but equally through spiritual and counseling gains.

I am 61 years old and holds a Bachelor's degree in Public Administration and Communications. I would however like to point out that I have spent most of my working days as a newspaper journalist in Liberia and in Sierra Leone in West Africa after a brief spell as a French teacher. An educator is someone who imparts knowledge or educates others mostly on what they do not previously know. This is why I am of the conviction that practising journalism is an essential aspect of making a positive contribution or impact on educating the world. If I am able to obtain a degree in education, it would be an added advantage for me to make a positive impact on education in the world. I would strive to teach others what are basic things needed that are lacking in education. The point to note is that as a discipline, many people are confused over the true meaning of education. They only think that education or pedagogy should only be limited to classroom teaching and learning. As a career educator, there is a need for me to teach that the impact of education goes beyond that definition; hence there is the popular phrase that 'education is not only book learning'. There is for example a need for people to learn the art of social mingling and consider it as a form of education that ought to be learned. In many situations there are people who are educated in the art of mingling or getting along well with others. For example how to approach women to love you more than your rivals for her, or the techniques of speaking to convince crowds about the points that you want to relay to them. I would also like to plant a lasting positive impact on the need to know and understand the art of decency in speaking, dressing and behavior as an educator. It is quite a pity that in many countries people do not approach each other in polite manners of speaking, dressing and behaving. It matters that that we must have respect for the human values of one another. For examples when I was a high school student we were taught about the need to have respect for elders and for those who know things more than us. It is to many a religious obligation to respect elders especially people in positions of authority, given that power comes from God, our creator through whom all power belongs. Unfortunately however many people in many cultures across the world lack courtesy or respect for people in authority or people older than them. I am equally of the conviction that we must have courtesy and respect for people with divergent opinions or views that vary with ours. It is in this regards freedom of information and the diversity in the dissemination of news and views is essential for global peace and harmony. In other words I think it is a positive impact on education in the world if people learn that other people should have a right to their individual or collective political opinions even if such is different from ours as a democratic duty. I believe education in the world should also lay emphasis on impacting democracy and national development across the world. Development comes into countries when programs to alleviate poverty and bring a semblance of equal distribution of wealth is carefully programmed and implemented. In other words everyone should have a right to health, education, basic social services, food, freedom of movement, to jobs, good governance, stress the need to reduce corruption.

I want to leave to others the impact of ensuring that they become useful and not a liability citizens to the society in which they live. In others words I would like to ensure that in any society or community that they dwell they should live their mark as having contributed in one way or the other to the development of other people such as in alleviating their sufferings and poverty through education and even financial donations. This may seemed difficult to imagine how it would happen, but to mean it is not hard to get adjusted to doing what is good over what is bad. What is good in that I am impacting their livelihood in a positive way and what is bad in that in cases where I can not be a help to contributing to good deeds I may leave the person alone. There is a proverb that says that if you do not want to help a person, do not harm him or her. I have observed that one useful way to impact a person's life, is making sure that there is access to money, and access to sharing of knowledge, and there is a careful observation of the positive progress that are being made. I like taking it also from the religious perspectives. Sometimes the prayers or prayer points of the person is not working, so I make sure that they conform to the norms of their respective religions that solves problems. Indeed there are such secrets within each religions denomination. Make sure that they develop entrepreneurial mindset of at least buying and selling some sort of commodities so that they may profit, and not having to always spend money, with hardly no income coming in. Finally by positively impacting the education levels of others.

I am John Lusayni Momoh, a print media journalist with long years of experience, rising from being a reporter to a news and features writer and editor. I also made an attempt to own a newspaper and become a publisher but due to financial mishaps the newspaper which I named 'PEPPERBIRD' was short lived. I am a baptized and confirmed Christian of the Catholic and Apostolic church denomination. My goals are to make meaningful contributions to the socio- economic development of myself, family and my country and to humanity in general, which I think can best be realized by pursuing my educational career up to the doctorate degree level so that my expertise can be marketable globally. My biography cannot be told without mentioning the political environment of my times during the various stages of my educational ladder. I can consider myself as a child of two world, namely the Liberian and the Sierra Leone environment. I was born in the Lofa county of Northern Liberia at a place called Varhun, in the Varhun district but started elementary school at the Kolahun Public School at Kolahun before migrating to Sierra Leone to attend the Christ the King Primary school and later the Yengema Secondary school at Yengema, Kono district, a town that also served as the headquarters of the National Mining company. Yengema secondary school in the Kono district of Sierra Leone left an indelible impact on me. It was there I realized the values of education as a major key to success in life. I was a very good student in the English language and the study of arts and reading subjects such as History, geography, civics, english literature, French language, biology, and religious studies. The school was a major center of secondary school education and many graduates of that school were successful entering universities especially Fourah Bay college and Njala university college in Sierra Leone after passing their General Certificate of Education (GCE) Exams to pursue higher education. The Principal of the school deserves our appreciation for always making sure that there are qualified teachers on the teaching staff that ensures quality pedagogy. The Principal went the extra-miles to ensure that the school gets its fair share of U.S. Peace Corps volunteer sent to Sierra Leone. He was a very influential Irish Priest who goes to his home, Ireland and Britain on every summer or long vacation to scout for competent teachers to render volunteer services as teachers at Yengema, and very often he was able to achieve his objective of bringing in competent teachers to the school. He also furnished the library with sufficient books to serve as reading and research materials. He equally made sure that the departments for the various subjects such as the biology and religious knowledge departs are strengthened by regularly furnishing them with various text books, equipping the science laboratory, and the mathematics and english departments. At that secondary school I made sure I study hard not only to pass my exams and tests but to focus attention on the GCE exams. Unfortunately I failed in the mathematics and science subjects in the West African Exams Council (WAEC) sponsored exams. This devastating blow made me to again cross over to Liberia, where I enrolled at the Kakata Rural Teachers Training Institute (KRTTI) Extension High school mainly to take the Liberian Senior High school certificate Exams administered by the Liberian educational authorities to get qualified for university education. ,Of course I made a brilliant pass to enable me enroll at the university of Liberia. After high school I taught Elementary school French at the Barnes Foundation school for a short time, before taking the University of Liberia Entrance Exams in 1975. But although I entered the university of Liberia on a full fledged scholarship, but it was difficult to get the stipend on time and after searching for per-time job to no avail, I had to lobby for another scholarship, which helped me to travel to Fourah Bay college in Freetown, Sierra Leone to study for the Bachelor's degree for five years but without success; as I only attained in the third year of college studies. I returned to Liberia after the military coup that toppled the True Whig Party Government. Disappointed, I began to work as a journalist on the staff of various newspapers. I was later alerted about the need to persevere and obtain a genuine university degree, the key to success which prompted my re-enrollment st the university of Liberia.

I am quite confident that I am a fit for this important scholarship. Behaviorism either positive behavior or behavioral psychology is a theory that suggests that human behavior is to a large extent influenced by the environment in which he or she finds himself or herself. It is a field of psychology that influenced human thinking throughout the 20th century. Applied behavior on the other hand is the therapy that focuses on improving specific types of behavior. Being awarded this scholarship would enable me to study for a degree in mental and psychological health with a view to help change the lives of people with mental development disabilities. It is a sickness that is rampant in industrialized countries as in developing countries and is normally assumed to emanate from stress, influenced by the environment in which the person lives or brought up, or something that people are naturally born with. In many traditional societies it is normally assumed that people born with developmental disabilities are cursed, or regard it as a ‘kama’. It may be hereditary either from the parental father side, or the parental mother side. Some people also have the religious belief that it is someone that has done evil works meant to stall a person’s progress. This is quite frequent in polygamous societies where the wife or wives of a husband may take pleasure to ensure that the children of rival wives or wife do not make progress more than her own children. What is however quite evident in many societies is that due to limited resources, some people make rapid progress in liberating themselves from poverty to as more stable economic status than others. For example a child born in a family of a caring and sharing parenthood and parenthood with steady income is more likely to climb faster on the ladder of progress, than others. This is because they come home from school and meet food ready on their tables and sometimes ump right away to their studies as compared with students from underprivileged families. In so doing, the child grows up with social connections that inhibit developmental disabilities. It can also be influenced by the superiority and inferiority complex that can develop in children. Sometimes some children are quick to adapt to the norms of society than others. It is difficult to see a child from a poor or low income family background getting children out of early marriage compared to children whose come from high income parental background that can easily access money to finance whosoever girl that they are in love with. In this perspective the child is getting a regular source of income from either the father, the mother or from a relative. In a similar vein children born in slum and rural areas are less likely to dictate their times of marriage to bear children than those from decent and well-structured homes. I can remember seeing children from low income backgrounds often hardly having a place or room to sleep engaging themselves in prostitution to make ends meet. Some of them even take street corners in the open air to engage in sexual actions. This is a far cry from the behavior of people with relatively wealthy families with their own rooms to bring their boy-friends or girl friend to spend the night. In this light they face little or no developmental disabilities compared to the children of slum dwellers. One must also not forget the fact that when it comes to bearing children, the saying goes that it is a blessing from the All-mighty God, as people who sometimes aspire or pray to get children sometimes do not get them even if sponsorship or upbringing may no t be a challenge to them. Generally speaking however, children from underprivileged families especially those who dwell in slum areas are less likely to succeed in doing family planning than those from higher income families. The therapy for negative behavior in my candid opinion lies in policies that reduces poverty reduction such as access to quality education, improving housing for underprivileged and vulnerable groups, creating job opportunities for all especially people from low income families, increasing the number of scholarships for the under-privileged and increasing social mingling of children from the rich and poor backgrounds especially in schools or at social gatherings. It is very unfortunate that in many developing countries class structure in the society such as the caste system in India inhibits social mingling. This was for instance the situation in apartheid South Africa before the Pres. Nelson Mandela era.

What most inspired me to re-think a back to school bold move is the feeling of being left behind the ladder of progress while others especially contemporaries are climbing high to the extent that it would be hard to catch up with them. This, to me, is a bold moment that I will never forget. It was of little surprise that during one back to school episode, I tried to make a catalog of the whereabouts of some of my contemporaries or former High school classmate. I found out that because after High school I trailed behind them by taking a permanent job while most of them were still grappling with the realities staying patient to complete the college education to a masters' or doctorate degree level, many of my ex-classmates can now boast of being owners of two or three houses, married and have 2 or 3 children. and with two or three different brands of cars for them and their wives or salaries over USD$10,000 to USD$15,000 a month. I was keen to ask one of them who told me that he has traveled to about 5 different countries worldwide on project missions under the United Nations sponsorship.

The most precious of my characteristics is prudence to understand whether I am doing the right or the wrong thing in all that I do. That is to say I am always very careful in observing the pros and cons of anything that I decide to do, which I think is a quality that everyone must try to emulate. Certainly there are many people in the world today who do things without judging the negative consequences of their actions. This attitude is the source of setbacks not only to the individual but equally to others in society. This attitude may have been some of the remote causes of the first and second wars in which thousands of innocent lives were lost and a large number of property damage and setback to many. For example, the German Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler personally felt that it was a good idea to eliminate the Jewish people from the face of the earth without any second thought of the consequences of his plan. He thought his own race 'the Arian' people, are the best and therefore should have a superior place in the world. What Hitler should have also considered is that it can be difficult to get rid of an entire race or people, given other factors such as the extensive migration, trade culture, civilization and wealth of the Jewish people across the world. What also the German dictator failed to take into action was the immense pro- Jewish sentiments that his actions may provoke, given that human nature is usually more sympathetic to victims of injustices than to perpetrators of injustice. He equally never realized that in nourishing such an ambition the war that he had caused may extend to other parts of the world such as Britain, France, Poland, the United States and Poland. Of course there is the saying that 'one-man cannot fight a dozen'. He and his Nazi collaborators ended up being defeated by the allied forces, or a coalition of all the countries in which the war extended. I am proud of this value of weighing the positive effects of situations before taking actions on them was what initially made me decide to be a Christian. I concluded that one of the most positive impacts of Christianity on the world was the Lord Jesus Christ's admonition that we must always love God and strive to love our neighbors as ourselves, adding that all other laws including the Ten commandments that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai are buried in this commandment. Indeed not that other religious groups are not practicing the principles of love God and loving the neighbor as themselves, but the issue of misunderstanding what this love should entail. To me it means love in the sense of whether the person is from one's own ethnic group, speaking the same language or dialect or from the same region, religious affiliation or from the same country, but appreciating the person because of him or her being a human being with all the rights as a human being, created by the same one God. I am also mindful of my life, by taking security measures in what I do. . If one visits the law courts, one is apt to find that many criminal cases focus on the accused taking the law into their own hands due to the lack of judging what may turn out to be the negative consequences of their actions. In the final analysis they find themselves to prison for their failures to judge whether their actions may not lead them to jail.

One way in which I hope to impact the world is to be remembered as a man who loves justice for everyone. This, to me, is important because there are many people in the world today who do not believe in recognizing the rights of others as human beings. They nourish the view that 'all men are equal but some are more equal than the others.' Many philosophers in history have also hammered out the same view that everyone ought to be treated equally. If we can look at the religious and Biblical perspectives, Our Lord and savior Jesus Christ emphasized the need for love of God and for the love of other people, emphasizing that this is the greatest of all laws including the Ten commandments that God gave to Moses. The logic also extends to the notion that we must do to others what we may expect others to do to us. The English fiction writer George Orwell vividly portrayed this in his novel: 'Animal Farm', in an apparent portrayal of the Russian revolution during that era. The showed that as the revolution succeeded and the revolutionists were now at the helm of power, they began to delineate distinctions among themselves regarding who should get more preferential treatment and benefits to the detriment of others. In my own weak ways I feel that studying law and applying it to help victims of injustices should be a significant way that I may be able to leave a positive impact on the world. Some of the most common violations of people's rights concern people's rights to own property especially land, the right to freedom of expression, the right to education which is often limited by endemic poverty across the world. I would also like to impact accountability, good governance reforms.

My dream life appears to be on course, thanks to the bold.org essay innovation. I am now confident of a brighter future much more than when my life was without the hope injected by my essays submitted to bold.org. The organization has infused a new leash of life in the way I perceive my long nourished dream of traveling to either the United States or to Canada. Prior this encounter, I have always been dumbfounded every time I can see my dream career courses offered by colleges and universities in the United States and Canada to which are tagged tuition, accommodation, air-ticket prizes alone run up to over$10,000 or $20,000. What is even disheartening is that it is often difficult to access a loan granting institution that does not offer the precondition of collateral for obtaining the loan, especially student loans. What is interesting about bold.org innovation is that it tends to rectify the major mistake of colleges offering scholarships to students only after students present their academic credentials. The danger in this conventional method is that it stands to ensure that only students who meet admission requirements are given the right to education or admission to colleges without ever realizing whether they are fit to undertake the courses or disciplines that they have applied for. Bold.org is thus a way of the continuous assessment of the student to ensure that before a scholarship is granted that student meets the minimum requirement of the ability to express self in the English language, as the course will be lectured in English, the medium of communication. With some amount of confidence that my dream of getting funding tom pursue my educational ambitions would be realized, my major focus now is to ensure sending genuine academic documents for admission to the approved colleges.

What often makes me resilient is seeing the flagrant violations of the rights of other people particularly the underprivileged or the vulnerable and the disabled people, due to the wickedness of other people sometimes out of bigotry or for selfish reasons. This was why when I was doubting over what degree program I ought to study to fulfil this dream, My mind roamed over the need to obtain a degree in disciplines like education, health sciences, and the legal profession. To be able to help others, especially people from underrepresented communities or minorities, one must be equipped with knowledge enough to gain the confidence of clients or people, that one may want to help. One can for example not be able to cure a disease if one does not have knowledge of the medicine to use as a therapy for particular sicknesses. To be resilient means that one must be sure of him or herself in terms of knowledge, and be determined until you arrive at a solution to a problem that you have set to tackle, no matter what trials and errors that one has gone through. To be a classroom teacher means that one must have the requisite qualifications, experiences or/and degrees to help others especially the vulnerable groups from underrepresented communities. Towards achieving this objective therefore, my plan for the future is to target my educational goals towards the trajectory of obtaining professional degrees and qualifications in the areas of n education, public health and legal services. In this complex and ever-changing world, what I have noticed is that as the times roll out so too are the complexity of the problems and challenges that affect the vulnerable, the underrepresented and the underprivileged people in the communities. People must not forget to realize that the entire world is now like a global village in view of the closeness of people to one another resulting from recent technological advancement in communications. The internet, the Mobile phones, travelling innovations This is why it would not be wrong to consider the world as a global village where people can easily relate to one another. As we can notice in recent times what is now known as a global pandemic whose elimination remains a thorn in the flesh of many nations, the corona virus disease or simply COVID-19, was started in a science laboratory in Wuhan Province, China in 2019, following a military parade in which the army of many nations in the world were represented. I am of the opinion that with a degree in Public Health I will be able to raise the awareness of unrepresented communities to remain vigilant in adhering to health protocols recommended by professional health institutions, including the World Health Organization, the WHO, to curtail its rapid propagation. It is also essential to sensitize the public of the need to exercise patience while the world still focuses on finding solutions to cure the Covid-19 pandemic and to prevent the occurrence of such pandemic and others of its kind in the future once and for all. The good news is that the science community remains resilient, in their determination to ensure that humanity is saved from such catastrophe in the future, through a coordinated, diversified, and often collaborative research and application of technology. For example the Russian scientists have recently discovered another vaccine to curtail the propagation of the COVID-19 called MIR-19 that is still in the advanced stage of clinical trials for its effectiveness. I also plan to use my degree in Public health to ensure a zero tolerance to corruption in the health sector.

One personal finance lesson that I find important is that no matter how big or small the money that is in your possession, there should always be a need for financial planning, as money will never be sufficient no matter how much one may have it. Once spent, it goes off. One of such is using your meager amount to do gambling, satisfy addictions and desires such as running after women or drugs. I have seen an example of a Lebanese business man in my village who was one of the richest in the entire region and district. But his fault was that he was a gambler. And in the business of gambling and betting there is often no mercy to those who loose. It happened that he and three other gamblers made a bet on the mortgaging of their shops to the person who may win. When the dice was thrown he and a friend lost and their shops were claimed by the one winner. Because of the passion that they had for gambling, they also made a bet on their wives to be won by one of them when the dice is cast. It happened that he again lost, which means that not only his shop, which is the source of his income is lost but his wife will also go and stay with the winner of the bet. This, of course, means that he has lost his entire sources of finance to sustain himself and his wife. One lesson to be learnt from this experience is that one must always be conscious of the dangers in taking risks when it comes to financial matters, giving that once money leaves a person, it would be difficult to retrieve it again. In this perspectives making financial planning is important.

I think standing up against inequity in education, should be a responsibility of everyone interested in national and global development, mainly because nowadays we are living in what many people call a global village, which is to say what affects one individual in a particular country is likely to affect others in other countries. To be precise, inequity simply means the unequal distribution. It may mean wealth, access to opportunities such as jobs, social contacts, scholarships among others. Long ago an American educational philosopher, John C.H. Dewey outlined that education is the key to success. A Brazilian Educator called Paulo Freire however propounded the view that the first step towards social liberation should be oppressed peoples becoming critically conscious of the need for social change. He opined that issues of social justice and democracy are not to be distanced from the kind of educational system in any country. It seeks to advocate for social action to uproot racism, sexism with a view to achieve self-actualization. But later theories about inequality in education that affects racial discrimination, social injustices oppressed that critical pedagogy need to be taught by teachers with a depth of knowledge on the subject matter. Today all over the world there are traces of the existence of inequalities in access to education due to inbalances in income earning. This acn only be squarely levelled up by governments and philanthropic and humanitarian individuals offering more scholarships. This can be actually done through a careful statistics of really vulnerable groups.

Being unemployed, as a newspaper journalist in Liberia for several months, is an experience that I will never forget in my life. And worse still the Press Union of Liberia seemed incapable of handling the situation although their mission is to agitate for press freedom and the rights of journalists. I have been able to overcome it for now by undergoing a brief training as a catechist and evangelist so that I can do house-to-house preaching to make ends meet. I am quite confident that the decision was a right one and would prepare me to further my online distance learning educational career after which I plan to quit to another country to seek greener pastures. I also think to myself why publishers and owners of newspapers and magazines or radio stations can behave in that away, that is cheating on media employees by either giving blind eyes to their plight of non-payment of salary arrears or their contributions in the collection and the dissemination of information to the wider public. A friend told me that it is a pity that such should be the case, given that journalists are supposed to be role models in their respective societies for others emulate. The journalist is supposed to be the barometer for exposing the ills of the society, especially when in matters of advocating for social justice, equity, fairness and transparency in the society. The saying goes that before you criticize a friend for being dirty or for not cleaning his backyard, one must first and foremost ensure that his own backyard is clean, and if possible very clean and exemplary. This is because the press playing its important role of exposing crucial issues that are stultifying the development of the country the country such as corruption,, the embezzlement of public funds for personal gains and aggrandizement cannot be done in the absence of the media personnel themselves not setting brighter examples for the general public to see. By and large I am of the opinion that in many African countries journalists find themselves underpaid. One publisher told me that, sometimes this is the situation because of the cancer or the bad habit of some journalists and reporters accepting bribes or soliciting favors in exchange for publishing stories. Of course such a practice is anathema to fundamental principles of the practice of journalism. A journalist is expected to view the media as a public trust and the journalists themselves considering themselves as trustees of the public. That is to say by the journalist soliciting bribery before the publication of a story may have the inherent problem of discriminating people with in formation to deliver to the public but lack the financial means to do, as information delivery should be construed as as a free public service. As I began the training to be an evangelist, I realized that it is easy for me to get adjusted as after preaching to any congregation one is apt to receive some cash offering for the word of God preached. I also realized that it is better to be soliciting for offerings to the Pastor than to nakedly keep asking people to render you financial help. The Bible says that God loves the cheerful giver and that there are more blessings in giving than receiving. In a similar vein some journalists in developing countries aver that it is often not an obligation but if a client offers a stipend for transport cost to a reporter, such should not be refused given the realities in which the media is operating. Adverts are hard to be solicited.

Generosity to me means the act of kindness. It also means the act of giving out favors to people for example the action of giving out scholarships, and other services from which the receiver may benefit in one way or the other. I also means to be lenient or complacent to others. There are several examples I may like to cite in this short essay. Generosity often creeps its way into the religious arena because the idea of knowing God itself mainly dwells on loving God and to love your neighbor as oneself, and the issue of doing to others what one may like others to do unto you. The Beatitudes passage in the Bible is a fine example of how one can be generous to others; it equally entails forgiving others for wrongs that they have done to you. One other example of generosity that cannot be taken lightly is the story of the 'Good Samaritan' in the Bible. It was no secret that Samaritans had little dealing with the rest of the people of Israel such as the people of Judea and Galilee, as they were hostile to one another. We can also recount when Jesus asked a Samaritan woman to draw water from a well and the woman was surprised at the request, boldly stating that you, a Galilean and I a Samaritan what should I have to do with you? Humanitarian and philanthropist donations and giving out scholarships are acts of generosities. The Good Samaritan also shows how we ought to be generous to one another, there was a certain victim of vagabonds, as they beat him, wounded him and threw him on the side of the road. Several travelers came and passed by, assuming that it was not there business to take care of him.

One of the latest technologies that I am excited about is the internet. Even if I spend the whole day clicking or typing on the internet screen I would not regret that I am wasting time. This is because of the complexities of the advantages that the internet can offer. In the first place like the dictionary, it is an important source of knowledge, wisdom and understanding for everyone. The internet goes beyond what the dictionary and the library can offer to individuals. It gives the meanings of words, and it is a store-house for learning grammar and important languages such as English, French, Spanish-language, among others. The internet goes a further step by doing the works that a mobile phone can do such as sending voice calls and chats. Certainly in the past 3 decades so many discoveries have been made that one can boast of as making things much easier and comfortable for everyone such as the mobile phone. In my opinion the influence of the internet even pervades mobile phones, as one can access his or her internet account through smart-phones. In other words because of the complexities of the services that internet can render, even the mobile phone that possesses internet access can serve as a library. I can remember several decades when I entered a High school that was in the processes of being constructed. There was initially no library and science laboratory facilities. This was a colossal problem given the high amount of services that a library especially a good library with volumes of books available, can offer to students. Our school administration was mainly interested in ensuring that each of the departments that the school needs to produce excellent results in the General Certificate Exams such as science, English, Mathematics, arts and social studies courses departments. To achieve this objective, the Principal of the school began a mini-library in one of the just finished buildings of the school, by purchasing from Europe and the United States some of the books that were highly needed in each of the departments cited above. Luckily for our school we did not walk alone in solving the problem of book deficit in our new school library as not all of our appeals to humanitarian organizations and philanthropists interested in helping us fell on deaf ears. After about two semesters of waiting as the books had to be loaded and shipped to us. By and large despite the delays encountered, our school was later able to secure a sizeable amount of the text and reference books, and pamphlets of past exams review papers that wee needed. Not only were there enough science books but there were enough English and English literature text books to groom our memories and to spend time for all the grades in the school. Similarly there were enough science books for every category of the learning process such as religious studies, French and mathematics. These are indications of the immense powers of internet access.

One thing that gives me hope the the future will be better is having easy access to money, although having the requisite education, faith in God as a guiding power in life, wealth and monetary inheritance also play significant roles. The saying goes that with money all things are possible. Education is considered by many as an important key to a brighter future as propounded by the American educational philosopher John Dewey. But education alone equally has its loopholes and drawbacks. In fact without money one can easily obtain education or access to healthcare delivery. It is also possible that with all the education one may be marginalized by society for one awkward reason or the other such as not being part of the establishment. Another hypothesis to support my emphasis on having money to guarantee future happiness is that some people are born into poor families while others are born into wealthy or well to do families. In this case now people who are born into poor families often find it difficult to access money, because their parents themselves did not have it or can hardly afford it. Even meeting social obligations such as loving to girls or the chances of an early marriage are bleak. This may be a far cry from the opportunities that avail to people born in wealthy families as access to social life and early marriage is often easily assured without any restrictions. By and large religion also play a significant role in enhancing hope for a brighter future. There is a school of thought in the religious arena that everything works according to the will of God. This means that having the hope for a brighter future will to a large extent depend on the strength of one's faith in God and His commandments. This was ably demonstrated in the Bible when the Jewish elders trying entrap Jesus asked him, Rabbi, whom are we to pay tax to. He told them to bring a piece of coin and asked them whose image is on that coin and the answer was Caesar, then he replied, give to Caesar what is Caesar and to God what is God. This is equally an indication that issues surrounding money are very delicate issues that ought to be treated with caution. This is why to me education, devotion to worship should be treated as means to attain the objective of getting easy access to money. However, having property or education can sometimes backfire if education is lacking to properly manage it.

My philosophy about the relationship between spirituality, science and math is that all three of them are centered around human beings, and how they are striving to improve themselves through spirituality, sconce and math. In other words they are interrelated in focusing on the same objective. By definition, spirituality is a state of being concerned with humans. The priorities that we choose enables us to enhance our spirituality in a more profound way. But how can we do this, is done by spiritual awareness of our spiritual nature and the notion that human beings have the potential to enhance their spiritual awareness; which can also be translated in the science and mathematics realm. This philosophy also find expression in the religious domain. In India and in many parts of the world especially in South Easter Asia Buddhism is a very dominant religion and a religion that focuses its ideology on the development of the human psyche or spirituality with a view to obtain a maximum spiritual benefit in life. Some of the various forms of exercises or yoga that Buddhists undertake including chanting, bodily excises such a swinging parts of the body, the head, the feet to permit an easy flow of blood. This concept is however opposed by some religious thoughts. For example some Muslims believe that through fasting one can develop his or her spirituality. To them this includes burning the fat within the body which can eventually lead to destroying whatever sickness that may be within the body. In other words fasting is a science that also improves the health, and according to this concept it is thus advisable for believers to persevere in fasting until the one month prescribed by religious doctrine is completed. The christian perspectives of developing spirituality has a little similarity to that of Buddhism and Islam, as Christians generally believe that reading the holy Bible and conforming to the laws of the Savior Jesus Christ, are the surest means of developing one's spirituality and that going through rigorous exercises only belongs to improving on one's health. Science on the other hand like spirituality also addresses the question of human health and well being. As far as science is concerned, it is a system of organized knowledge and principles of nature on a particular subject. For example we have the science of epidemiology which is a study of epidemics, the science of forensic examination, criminology, the science of mathematics and corruption to name a a few. The argument that often surfaces is whether mathematics can be considered as a science. It would be wrong to attest that mathematics which often include the knowledge and understanding of how to solve problems in algebra, calculus, trigonometry is not in the scientific realm. To me since science is based on accurate and careful observation to arrive at a logical conclusion and reasoning. Math is equally a form of sconce and psychology that ensures logical thinking and reflection with a view to solve human problems in a similar way that spirituality and science does. What is also significant to mention is that once there is a vast improvement in the human body, the chances of contracting diseases may have less chances. Our spirituality and body develops its immune system against sicknesses. Moreover t he health and wellness of people can improve provided efforts are made to clean and maintain healthy environments, and as such security also improves. The issue of the health protocols instituted to ward off the Ebola and COVID-19 pandemic or corona virus, across the world, came about a long ago as measure against disease.

One change that is lacking in most educational systems that I think would be done to ensure fairness and more transparency and access to educational opportunities is ensuring the that the method applied by Bold.org is used widely across the world. That is to say before a student should enter a secondary school or high school there should be an online submission of essays or other forms of testing to attest to or match his or her paper qualifications. I think this will save educators across the world from many embarrassing situations such as granting admission to the students without any evidence further that his abilities and competence match his credentials presented. In my experience as an educator I have seen instances where students bribe their ways though the Elementary level to Secondary school or high school, then into colleges through well organized clubs or cartels. In the final analysis after obtaining the college or university degree or diploma, one may be surprised to note that the holder of the credential can not even write a simple letter or express himself in a speech. In many African countries this is where the significance of the English language in the instance of students from English speaking countries, or the significance of working knowledge of the French language for students from French speaking countries' backgrounds cannot be underrated. But the puzzle now is that such students who cheated in the educational system find themselves in top positions in which they exercise control over students who were studious, intelligent and well behaved to study their lessons. According to a teacher that I interviewed, sometimes the teacher is not to be blamed for such anomalies in the educational system of many developing countries, as they are mostly grossly underpaid and the educational systems in many developing countries lack motivation and incentives for teachers. He added that in some situations it is the principals or headmasters that are telling the teachers that as a means of avoiding the bad behavior of trading sex for grades or soliciting money from students to buy grades, it would be better for them to engage in agriculture, such a engaging in communal farming to fetch additional incomes to augment their meagre salaries. This is why my advice to governments in many developing countries is that since the only way out to enter many prestigious tertiary institutions will be to ensure that teachers on payrolls in the public and private schools are well paid. Globalization is striving to bridge the gap by ensuring that the salary scales for teachers and nurses are increased to a significant level to ensure quality delivery of instruction to students. Globalization is also ensuring that there should be access to quality education by all through the delivery of instructional materials to all schools. What many governments in developing countries where the mismanagement of resources and corruption is rendering the delivery of quality education a problem is that it would require stamina to increase educational budgets.

My name is John L. Momoh, a career newspaper journalist spanning about 2 decades in Liberia and in Sierra Leone. I got my early education in both Liberia and Sierra leone and my tertiary education in both Liberia and Sierra Leone.. I have obtained my Bachelor's degree class of 2012, and a candidate in waiting for the Masters' degree in Public Administration and Communications from the university of Liberia. I consider myself as both fortunate and unfortunate in life. This is because I grew up with foster parents, as my father passed away when I was at an early age and my foster father took me to Sierra Leone where I completed my Elementary School and after a High school leaving scholarship disaster I enrolled at the Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute Extension High School Night School section at kakata in Liberia where I obtained my High school diploma that enabled me to enroll at the university of Liberia in 1975. I was lucky enough to have sailed on a Sierra Leone government scholarship at the Yengema Secondary school and after a semester at the University of Liberia I took advantage of a Mano River Union student exchange scholarship to study at Fourah Bay college, university of Sierra Leone where I studied for the BA general degree 1975-1980 but only attaining in the Junior class before leaving for Liberia due to ill-health. A significant high point of my educational journey is that I re-enrolled at the university of Liberia as far back as 1985 to complete my Bachelor's degree. It became a herculean task to got re-admitted because the Fourah Bay college grading system is modelled after the British Durham university style while the university of Liberia operates on the American educational system modelled after Cornell university. Eventually the hurdles were cleared and after two semesters I got my Bachelors degree f or class of 2012.. I have also done some courses leading towards the masters degree in Public Administration and have been cleared for graduation once some financial arrears are paid. It is also very unfortunate that my first 2 novels I wrote as far back in 1992 and sent to Heinemmena Educational Books were stolen in the post. The latest calamities in my life was that Microsoft sent me several notifications that I have won the 2015 Raffle draw prize for best Gmail active users, but have never received the prize of half a million dollars and the Nokia smart phone. Moreover about 20 years ago I bought a piece of land, about 2 lots in Bo, Sierra Leone right in front of the J&J Resort of 145 Koribundo Highway and managed to build a 3-room house on it, but its ownership have been challenged by a rival claimant who in fact possess no title deed for it, and have been dismissed from job and my salary arrears seized while finding it hard to find another job to help pursue my educational goals and to get married. The latest of such abuse of public office was when the Minister of Information at the time, Lenn Eugene Nagbe arbitrarily terminated my services by deleting my name on the payroll of the Ministry of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism where I was serving as Features Editor of the state-owned NEW LIBERIA newspaper.me almost 2 years ago. My salary arrears of over 2 years were also confiscated by Minister Nagbe and every effort to meet him for explanation has been to no avail, and this has been compounded by his transfer to serve as the Commissioner of the Liberia maritime Commissioner.

The death of my eldest son, Mr. Joe Momoh, delved an excruciating blow on my nerves to the extent that I had felt that life was not worth living without him. He was almost everything to me besides my wife and my other two children Siafa and Andrew. Indeed a friend told me in a rather conciliatory and comforting tone that death was a part of life, adding that once a person is born that person is subject to die someday either sooner or later. He cited as an example the solemn and expected death on the cross of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ through whose death we have the chance for a renewal into a now life as we are saved from the original sin committed by Adam and Eve through the humiliating death and rising into heaven of Jesus Christ. He added that in one of his parables, the Lord Jesus said except a flower dies it will not grow and blossom into a new life. Certain taking a clue from these comforting words, I decided to always focus on what is the truth and what leads towards advancing me in life. I now have the conviction that it is not how long you live in the world, but what important contributions you have made towards the progress of yourself and towards the progress of others such as making someone happy. In other words we must strive to contribute towards the success of others once we ourselves succeed. To me what should equally matter in life should constitute how much one has prepared him or herself to face the rigors of our fast moving and changing world through the acquisition of training or higher education. It is in this perspectives that I have been toying with the idea of pursuing graduate studies in either Public Health or the legal profession as the desire to help someone else is an inborn tendency. What I have been speculating in mind also is that as times progresses and changes so are habits and evil trends. In other words in the instant of an ever increasing population in the world are the balances between the forces of evil and that of good. I figure that as more good people appear in the world so also are the evil or bad ones. It is therefore incumbent on everyone to be conscious of this progressive trend. It is this trend in mind that I would like to make a modest contribution to what we consider the good things of life such as the contributions of a trained medical personnel and that of a trained and sympathetic lawyer we a burning passion to see that justice for the less fortunate and the underprivileged is always served without delay. To digress further on this theme, one finds out despite advances in science and the medical profession such as new medicinal and health products discoveries the right to health is often tampered with, with the emergence of new unknown pandemics. We all are aware of the devastations that the world is now going through as a result of the out break of the Corona Virus disease in December 2019 (COVID-19) that has immensely led to news health challenges and how it became a united global fight for the development of an effective vaccine to counter-acts spread. The covid-19 infarct came at a time when the world had just contended with another disastrous global pandemic known as the Ebola virus and the Acquired immune Deficiency syndrome HIV which is spread through sexual contacts. These three global pandemics that became burden on the back of the global medical community can give us the ample alert that are still threats hovering over the global medical community. As one medical professor recently warned, what the world must not forget is that more has been done to make new discovery break-trough's in the world of medical science, but much more remains to be done. For example there are many medicines on the market to cure headaches such as penicillin and aspirin, but as some capsules are working for some people, others are finding it difficult to get healed by the same capsules hence can remain in perpetual sickness throughout their lives. On the legal front equally it is no secret that a lot have been done to close the gaps in injustices and ensure fundamental human rights, peace and tranquility for all. For example, the United Nations organization is striving to ensure justice for all across the globe, so that no one group of people or persons must have the feeling of being above the law. It is however sad that injustices, wicked and indecent behaviors continue to increase at an astronomical level in both developing and advanced or industrialized countries.

My Favorite Book is 'Weep Not Child' By Prof. Ngugi Wa-thiongo alias James Ngugi of Kenya. This book is centered around the anti-colonial struggle for independent in Kenya, widely published by the UK based Heinnemann Educational Books Ltd. In this book the author sees hope for the struggling people of Kenya under white colonial rule through not only the intensification of the armed struggle but through the acquisition of education as well. Some scholars are quick to compare the writings of Professor Ngugi to that of a well known English writer Conrad Mark Twain who wrote the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. His real name was Tom Clemens, with Huckleberry Finn as the most notable character. Ngugi started his book with a poem quoted from Tom Sawyer in which the book derived its name from. He wrote; 'Weep Not Child Weep Not my darling, the ravening cloud shall not be long ...' Prof. Ngugi meant to depict that despite the hard times victory is certain and the rebel movement notably called as the 'Mau-Mau' led by Jomo Kenyatta would claim victory. The plot is woven around prominent characters such as Mr. Howlands white farmer colonial loyalist who wants to protect his land and the colonial interest and Jacobo who was a loyalist of black laborer of Howland. Now true to the saying that love has no boundary, Njor'onge the hero of the novel fell in love with Mwihaki the daughter Jacobo a classmate. The plot is also interwoven around the murder of Jacobo and Mr. Howland removed Njor'onge from school a former colonial fighter the Mau Mau struggle intensified and more of the rebels and Njor'onge were tortured and imprisoned. But Njor'onge's success at school continued to grow despite the chaotic situation set in by the war.

I am John Lusayni Momoh who hails from Liberia in West Africa. I am a foster child with my Father neglecting my mother at an early age, and was later adopted a foster Father who happens to be a womanizer. By a stroke of luck he sent me to Primary school in Kolahun, the district capital of the Gbandi section of Lofa county in Liberia and then left to wok for a diamond mining company at Yengema in the Kono district of Sierra Leone. One year my foster father made a brief visit and some elders of my mother's family impressed on him to ensure that I go along with him and he agreed. I completed 6th grade education at the Catholic Christ the King School in Yengema and was successful in passing my selective Entrance Examinations to enter Secondary School choosing the Yengema Secondary School as my first choice high school in case I pass and the Christ the King college (CKC) high school in Bo, Sierra Leone. It was a moment of excitement when after months of preparation I heard that I was accepted to do my secondary or high school education at the Catholic Yengema secondary school, the only high school in the town at that time. However because of the popularity of the Christ the King College as an important center of learning to prepare students for the General Certification of Education Exams (GCE) at the time I decided to make use of my prowess in English, social studies especially geography and history to attempt the Christ the King Entrance Exams, and luckily for me I passed with flying colors. The Principal of the YSS heard about it and wrote that he was not in favor of me attending the CKC as I am a bright student that can be groomed to ensure a good pass in the GCE to enhance the reputation of the YSS. It was at the YSS that I really experienced how children can feel under the guardianship of foster parents. My mother had left at Kolahun and my Foster father never cared to ensure that his wives dish out a better treatment for me. The first one by the name of KUMBA obliged me to go and sell market in trays every time I come from school after 2:00 pm which left me no time for studies. I was only able to do my home works under stress. Academic excellence at the school was however resounding and the talk of many in the whole district and this made the school to attract the attention of not only the general public but also the central government. Because I was always among the first 3 on the passing list in the arts subjects the Principal of the school nominated me for a government scholarship award. Obtaining such an award brought to me financial stability and helped me to concentrate more on my studies as I did not have the money needed to engage in womanizing. It was not because I was sick but because girls were only going out with boys from much well to do families that have the financial elbows. Each time I can return to Liberia and explain the predicament to my real mother, she can tell me to persevere and advice that one day once I finish my studies the rewards would be doubled, such as loving to as many girls of my choice as I may want to. Indeed the second wife of my Foster father, MUSU, was even worse than the first one, but my scholarship indeed.

I admire Nelson Mandela, the late first Black African President in post-apartheid South Africa as a great leader whose contributions to justice, human rights, fairness and the development of the masses and every race in South Africa as a titanic and an admirable legacy. In the first place Mandela or the Madhiba as he is affectionately called can be considered a formidably reconciling and advocating for peace and tranquility although he himself has been a victim of the horrible system, thus indicating that he bears no revenge and grudge in his mind. Up to now some radical politicians in South Africa are of the view that Mandela gave away too much to the former white rulers of South Africa, noting that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) which he established to probe the excesses of the apartheid era did little to infringe heavy revengeful penalties on white South Africans such as the seizure of lands and other properties as was the case in President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Another important legacy of President Mandela was his advocacy for education as the key for the development of black South Africans most of whom remain impoverished as a result of the long years of apartheid rule. Today it appears that every black South African is conscious of the need to improve their educational standards. It is thus an irrefutable fact that maintaining quality education remains a crucial on the agenda of every President that succeeded Mandela, thus making the system one of the best in Africa South of the Sahara. The Mandela sentiments across the world is rampant in terms of streets, to mark his legacy during the short period that he ruled remains admired across racial and ethnic feelings across the world. There is a statue of Mandela even in London, UK.

The most helpful piece of advice that I have ever had came from the Pastor of My church, the Apostle St. Thomas church. He gave me a $400 assistance when I appealed to him for financial help to take care of some pressing and urgently needed expenses. He added after giving me the money. "What I will advice you is that money is a suspended evil as it works also with the devil and God, which is why when you get it you must first put yourself in a mood of prayer to the Almighty God to help you to use it wisely and not to let it lead you into temptation and sin". I never grasped the full meaning of what he was saying until I got a report that some of my colleagues who were scouting around for money to enable them attend a wedding program were involved in a tragic car accident in which there was no survival. I also got a report that two bike riders took a bet to ride on a newly paved road, on the bet of the first to arrive at the destination will receive the sum of $400 on which each bet with $200. During their bike ride journey the bike of one of them somersaulted and crashed into a valley and it took some time before searchers were able to find his lifeless body. The moment I heard about that I remembered and reflected on the advice my Pastor gave me about why before having anything to do with money should always be accompanied by prayers to the Lord, our creator to direct our minds and to lead us when we are confused of where to go and what to do. God should always be put first in our life.