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Since around the age of 11, my entire life has revolved around a solitary incident. Most of my life was spent growing up in Corpus Christi, Texas, which had an extremely large gang population. My first few years of living there went by great; I barely even noticed the gangs.

One day my friend, Byron, and I were walking down the sidewalk of a fairly busy road when we heard some people arguing around the corner. We stopped walking for a moment so as not to become involved in the progressing danger. A couple of minutes, which seemed li

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This, much more than anything else is why I want to attend Baylor University. I know that I would not be able to stand a regular nine to five job sitting behind a desk, where I never even see people le alone help them. We were both in shock by the whole situation. It is my dream to get a degree in medicine so I can feel I actually make some kind of difference in this world. At this point, with us both being completely terrified, we proceeded around the dreadful corner to see what awaited us.

Ever since that happened I have always yearned to be able to help the person if I was ever put in that position again. Later that evening I found out that the boy died on the way to the hospital due to lack of blood, and I cannot help but to think that I could have done something more that would have changed the outcome of the entire situation. ke hours, subsided, and then all of the arguing stopped with the sound of an earsplitting bang. To our surprise, there was a little Mexican boy not much older than us, and whom we both knew from school. Not knowing what to do, we ran as fast as we could to the nearest phone to call for help. A car speeding around the corner, coming up onto the curb and almost hitting us followed this. He was lying on the ground in a puddle of blood with his eyes closed and without any movement at all.

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