Supporting statement to study Law at Boston University.

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A great man, the father of the American Civil Rights Movement, an alumnus of Boston University and my personal hero once said “A civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own death on the installment plan.” I believe that the Boston University’s High-School Honors program would do unto me the opposite of what Dr. King stated.

        First off, I would like to attend BU’s program because I believe it would give me a “head-start” in making my decision for college. After placing first on the island for the last 3 years and top ten in the National Mock-Trial Competition in my freshmen year, I decided that someday I would pursue a career in field of Law, something that BU is reputed for. I believe that this program would help me distinguish myself academically amongst my peers. In addition to that, here on the island of Guam, I am a member of the Public Policy Institute. At the institute, students serve as interns under the auspice of Speaker Judith Won-Pat, Ed.D of the 31st Guam Legislature. As a requirement to graduate the internship program, we are required to do case-studies with the University of Guam and policy briefings to the leaders of the island on whatever topic that we feel is of significant importance to our island. As I complete my second year in the program, I proud to say that I did the policy briefing on the Guam-CNMI visa waiver for Russian and Chinese citizens, a few months after our briefing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano signed off a special waiver exclusive to Guam and CNMI only. In addition to that, another project that I took upon myself was The Effect of Colonization on Guam, where I compared Guam’s three colonizers and how they affected the local culture; currently I am also working on a joint white paper with Dr. Hughes of the Harvard Kennedy School on the Jones Act.

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        It was during the course of my research on one of my projects, The Effect of Colonization on Guam where I learned of a man, a martyr for the liberation of Guam, the late Senator Angel L.G. Santos. Senator Santos was an activist, similar to Dr. King who used words instead of violence to achieve justice and equality for the people of Guam. As Senator Santos served his sentence in the Metropolitan Detention Center, a Federal Prison in Los Angeles, California, he wrote a book titled Death in a Promised Land. This book compares the “segregation” that the people of ...

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