PERSONAL STATEMENT

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

Background

My name is Tamara Pogosian; I am a 24 year old female currently residing in New England, CT. From 2008-2010, I did my Business Management Degree (bachelors) from Union Institute & University. I'm currently working as a junior accountant and worked full time since 2008, while attending university full time. I belong to an Armenian family. I am a Russian born US citizen. By nature, I have olive skin and dark hair and eyes.

Personal background

My family members include my father Edward; who migrated from Baku, Azerbaijan to Moscow, Russia in early 1974's; my mother Angela; who migrated from Erevan, Armenia in 1976 to Kislovodsk, Russia and then moved to Moscow in 1984; and my younger sister. My parents come from a region with olive skin, and dark brown hair and dark eyes and both have very dark features, whereas, in Russia people had fair skin color, blonde hair and light-colored eyes. We were quite different from them on the basis of ethnicity as we have olive skin and dark hair. Russians used to discriminate us on these factors and, there were no laws which could protect immigrants like us against discrimination. Due to the ethnic discrimination faced by me and my family in Russia we decided to move to US, and in July 1997 we migrated to United States.

Throughout my life, this discriminatory factor has affected me also my family's life the most. As I was not able to attain every school because of my ethnicity and skin color, and even my dad had limited jobs that he could hold on to. These hardships played a vital role in making us leave Russia to a country like US where we could be treated like everyone else whether immigrant or US born person. As I am very much concerned about equality and justice, especially on the basis of ethnicity and color of skin; therefore I have decided to become a lawyer. As it is a noble profession as the lawyers fight for the rights of people arising out of the very definition of Equity and Justice. I discovered quite early in my life that I wanted to be a lawyer and protect the rights of other immigrants, like me, against discrimination. The thing that excites me the most is the feeling of freedom in US that is the right of every US citizen even if that ...