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Adversity & Diversity, 2 very different topics
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It always depends on how well you write. What makes the death of the patient an adversity? If not written well, it can go south really really fast. Same for moving to France. There might have been adversity if you were migrating from North Africa, for example. The language and cultural differences. The poverty. The bullying. If you wrote that your dad was the US ambassador to France, that probably won't be a compelling diversity essay about moving to France, having to decide which wine to go with brie.
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It really depends what you say about the death of your patient in the adversity essay. since you were a hospice volunteer, you clearly had to deal with end-of-life. And that is challenging.
I can also see living abroad and learning a new language and culture to be a challenge, but it can also, as was pointed out, be a sign of privilege.
It depends on the specifics.
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