Family Honor Research Paper

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Since the summer of 8th grade I've been helping him support my family and keep our way of life the way it is know. My dad works a full time job for com-ed, working outside cutting trees. Often times he works over time, and during times of major storms he might work 16 hour shifts. After work he goes to his ranch and maintains animals everyday even if he is totally exhausted. My dad maintains about 25 horses and feeds them twice a day, cleans them and gives them fresh water. I have been helping him do this since about 8th grade everyday to help take a load of his back. My dad began to do this when he lost his job about 5 to 6 years ago. He needed a way to support his family and the economy was failing, so there was no jobs. He decided to make horse stalls to maintain the horses for other people who didn't have the time or land. Maintaining the horses takes about 3-4 hours a day to …show more content…

The cat had troubles breathing and had a high fever constantly, but after a couple of weeks he was much better and began to eat with the other cats away; the joy I felt from nursing the cat to good health was in-explainable, it just made me extremely satisfied and overjoyed. What I really took from this is that I want to do that for a living, taking care of all animals and bringing them to good health to bring joy to the animal and the owner. That caused me to pursue a dream in veterinary medicine, in order to care for my dog, my horse, and anyone else's animal because I know the joy an animal brings to someone, and the distress it brings someone when they find out their pet is in poor health. I wanna be the one to help the owner, to stop their distress and make them joyful

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