By Michael Ormsby
In America, 39 million adults have no high school diploma. Passing the GED® Test to get a GED diploma offers a second chance to high school drop-outs. The GED diploma is the accepted alternative to a high school diploma. But how far can you go in life with a GED diploma? Take a look at Paul Salopek, a journalist who has won two Pulitzer Prizes as a foreign correspondent.
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Paul Salopek was born in Barstow, California in 1962. He dropped out of high school, and he took the GED Test to earn his high school equivalency. He didn’t stop there. While working as a fisherman and farm worker, Salopek earned a degree in environmental biology from UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 1984. When his motorcycle broke down in New Mexico a year later, he took a job at a local newspaper to earn money to repair his bike. It was the beginning of a career.
Salopek has worked for National Geographic and Texas’s El Paso Times. Currently he is a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, writing about Africa, Central Asia, and the Balkans. In 1998, he won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about the Human Genome Diversity Project, and in 2001, he won another for his writing about Africa, including the civil war in Congo. He has written about over 50 countries throughout the world. In 2006, Salopek was held in prison for five weeks in Darfur, one of the many conflict zones he’s travelled to as a writer.
Salopek is the recipient of the 2009 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism. As part of the award, he received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. How far can passing the GED Test take you? As far as you can imagine!
Paul Salopek made the effort to get a GED diploma and went to the ends of the earth with it. That’s what the GED diploma is for. It opens doors for adults who need more opportunity, for better jobs, higher education, and personal fulfillment. Each GED diploma earned represents the potential for achieving a dream.
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Michael Ormsby is the president of the GED Academy and oversees software and curriculum for adult learners and people with educational challenges. For more information, visit passGED.com. Michael can be contacted by telephone at 800-460-8150.
