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Discuss your reasons for choosing to seek a BSW degree. During my teens as a young Hispanic male, I found myself accepting the negative stereotypes of Hispanics, and began associating with other Hispanic youth who had also accepted the negative stereotypes of Hispanics, and were involved in gangs, drugs, and criminal activity. As time went on several of these individuals including my closest childhood friend had passed away due to gang violence, and many more wound up incarcerated. I too had found myself in a juvenile detention center. In this painful time in my life while sitting in a center block cell with a steel door, I knew that it would later try and help youth to find alternative routes in life. In trying to make sense of these issues, I continued to wonder why nobody had ever attempted to reach out to my friends, or me but felt it was their place to tell us how bad we were. These thought followed me through my teens while living with my father, an immigrant from Honduras, who sold cocaine for a living. As the trials of life continued to play out, not only did I continue to question why nobody ever asked me how I was doing, or attempted to reach out to me, but I was also able to see the affects of drugs first …show more content…

This is where we fall short. There are external factors in our lives that determine our outcomes before we are able to choose. These factors are the context of our personal realities. These realities include: mental health, marginalization, substance use, and abuse. Though I am no one to say the lives of those who have lived these lives or are currently living these lives are any better or worse than mine, I can see that at times it is a painful and difficult reality for them and their loved ones. If we as people were to get what we deserve in life, these realities would exist to extent that they

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