Тема следующего эссе достаточно простая «Почему я хочу стать юристом». Основная идея, заложенная эссе, это идея «лучше меньше, да лучше». Обратите внимание, как сжато автор раскрыл все основные моменты. Вместо того, чтобы описывать каждый аспект ее профессиональной деятельности, она сделал акцент на том, сколько всего хорошего она еще сделает.

Even though everyone warns me that it's not going to be like those lawyer shows on television, I want to go to law school. Despite the thirty-pound textbooks and the long hours, despite the strange vocabulary of torts, procedures, and Black's Legal Dictionary, despite the lines at the photocopy machine, I want to go to law school. I ignore the bumper-stickers that read "The last thing our country needs is another lawyer" and that quote from Henry VI.

I want to become a lawyer, even though a record number of peo­ple are trying: innumerable heads bent over countless test sheets, with candy, extra pencils, clocks resting nearby on empty seats. Those standardized questions wormed their way into the fabric of my thinking, so that I imagined daily disagreements in a "Facts and Issues" format or saw the difficulty of untangling our apartment's phone bill as a logic problem. (If each roommate called Boston, but only Gretchen called Kansas City, who called Detroit?) And gradu­ates confide that these changes intensify, your thinking becomes fundamentally altered, synapses fire in new and permanent direc­tions, and you become habituated to logic and argument. I met a young law-school couple at the beach. They stood waist-deep in the ocean, holding hands, pushed gently by the water as they discussed rights of privacy. But none of these projects dissuades me.

During my year away from school, I worked in Kit Bond's sen­ate campaign and Washington office. For that entire year, my atten­tion was focused on aspects of law; those who make the laws, the laws themselves, and the effects they have on the public. During the campaign, my position as deputy director of issues and policy development showed me the unexpected results laws can have, and how even the most well-intentioned decision can hurt a sector of constituents. Later as a legislative correspondent, I prepared texts which clarified issues to constituents and justified our office's posi­tion. Often, however, complaints about Senate actions were well founded. Missourians were hurt by a benignant law which had an unavoidable negative consequence, or by the scrupulous attention to the exact language of a law which worked to subvert, rather than promote, its intent.

But alongside the unfortunate results, I watched the struggle to create a reasonable and articulate code. I saw drafts of legislation change shape as Congress hammered out the final form of a new law; I studied elegant and cogent Supreme Court decisions which exemplify the beauty of a tightly worked argument, carefully expressed, from which the law derives its power.

So I still want to become a lawyer, despite those terrible, ubiq­uitous jokes, despite all the cliches. Have you read Oliver Wendell Holmes? "But remotely what the lawyer does is to establish, develop, or illuminate rules which are to govern the conduct of men for centuries; to set in motion principles and influences which shape the thought and action of generations which know not by whose command they move."

That's why I want to become a lawyer.

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