Term Paper on "Master of Dispute Resolution"

Quoted Instructions for "Master of Dispute Resolution" Assignment:

The LL.M., Master*****'s Degree and Certificate Programs in Dispute Resolution are designed to combine a graduate level academic experience with a commitment to the development of professional skills, especially those related to dispute resolution.

Please include a three page personal statement indicating your reasons for wanting to study dispute resolution, why you chose to apply to Pepperdine University School of Law, what use you anticipate making of the education you receive, what contribution you will make to the program, and any further information that you feel should be considered by the Admissions Committee. Please include in your personal statement a discussion of any economic, educational, or social disadvantages that you have encountered, what you have done to overcome these disadvantages, community service endeavors that you may have participated in, and your plans as they now relate to future community service.

The Pepperdine University School of Law provides academic excellence in an environment that recognizes Christian values and encourages adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards. How would you expect to contribute to this environment?

Please combine my religious faith and my memoir about how I overcome the disadvantages in life with faith.

My Religious theory approach life

My faith is very important to me. Ever since I was a child, I have always wanted to serve God by tending to His flock. I grew up in a Catholic school where we were thought about God*****s love for humanity, the value of life and the joys of serving other people especially those who are in need. I grew up to be an active member of our church. My family encouraged me to participate in church activities and lead a life of service to my fellow human beings. The teachings of the Church have left a very positive impression in me and as I grew older, I find myself leaning towards the Church even closer.

I believe that I should be compassionate towards people of other faiths and recognize them as suffering beings first, before seeing them as people of other faiths. Second, I believe I should learn as much as possible from the doctrine and practice of other faiths as a cultivation of my own faith.

Please see my supported document and view the program

http://law.pepperdine.edu/straus/academics/joint-programs/mdr-jd.htm

documents for references: my memoir

My Religious theory approach life

My faith is very important to me. Ever since I was a child, I have always wanted to serve God by tending to His flock. I grew up in a Catholic school where we were thought about God*****s love for humanity, the value of life and the joys of serving other people especially those who are in need. I grew up to be an active member of our church. My family encouraged me to participate in church activities and lead a life of service to my fellow human beings. The teachings of the Church have left a very positive impression in me and as I grew older, I find myself leaning towards the Church even closer.

I believe that I should be compassionate towards people of other faiths and recognize them as suffering beings first, before seeing them as people of other faiths. Second, I believe I should learn as much as possible from the doctrine and practice of other faiths as a cultivation of my own faith.

About my memoir

I am working on a memoir called Life Soup: Memoirs of a Culinary School Dropout that is different that other because the happy ending is that the experience leads the Walter Mitty type of reader into the circuitous, yet familiar world of attempting to reinvent oneself and fulfill one*****'s dreams by being fired from the office cubicle and jetting off somewhere to make the dream happen because there is now nothing else to lose. Unlike many memoirs, it helps Walter live with and come to grip with failure in the real and less exciting world.

In the memoir, I have not just left my unfulfilling job in corporate America, but have been fired from it as well. This makes my dropping out from culinary school doubly crushing and disappointing. I was one of the more than 50 percent of culinary school students that end up dropping out of the course due to the demanding nature of the training. I just did not have the motivation to succeed after being balled out by the French instructor.

The book will begin with my getting fired from a well paid CPA position in a fortune 500 company in the recession in 2008. The second section will be the arrival at culinary boot camp and trying to fit in. The fourth will constitute my realization that disaster and failure was coming and the resulting crushing failure itself. The recovery and road to reinvention after reinvention is a cliffhanger and will keep the reader on the edge of their seat until the end of the last part of the book. *****