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@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ title: "CNIB Scholarship Essay 2020"
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How will this scholarship change what it is to be blind for you as you pursue your post-secondary education?
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*Answer:*
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I have taken every opportunity of my short life refusing to be defined solely by any disability.
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This essay will focus more on my educational goals on their own merit.
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I have taken every opportunity of my short life to deny being defined solely by any disability.
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This essay will focus more on my educational goals and career aspirations on their own merit.
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I would love your support in accomplishing these goals!
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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Of course, it is a exaggeration to say that this is the reason people give up pr
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but consider the extreme case:
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You have your phone location on at all times;
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you have a Alexa listening to everything you say at home;
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you text other using a company of service that is *openly* collecting all your message contents.
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you text others using a company or service that is *openly* collecting all your message contents.
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Would you want every text you have ever sent to be on the front page of the newspaper?
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What about every thing you have said in the privacy of your own home?
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@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Do you want just anyone to know where you were today?
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If any one person had access to all this information about you, it would likely make you uneasy.
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I know it makes me a bit nervous at least.
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One of my goals of my career is to build tools that would empower the individual.
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One of the primary goals of my career is to build tools that empower the individual.
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Tools that make the individual *more* independent, not less.
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These tools must be for the average consumer.
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They must appeal to a mass market without compromising the secure, private foundations.
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