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Relating to the Other

We...

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Discovering the Roots of My Personality

In Memoriam On August 19, 1692, Martha Carrier of Andover was hung as witch in Salem, Massachusetts. She is one of the witches about whom many people know nothing. To me, she is the most interesting...

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An Unexpected Opportunity

Nigel no Monogatari (The Story of Nigel) On the humid evening of August...

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N.O.L.A. and Me

The last week of August 2005, a natural disaster struck the southern United States and impacted millions of lives. Hurricane Katrina caused grief, tragedy, and despair. But for...

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Author and Villagers in Turkey
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The Experiment In International Living: Turkey 2007

I pushed a seed between...

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7,000 Miles Away But Right Next Door: My Trip to Beijing

Orange, blue, red, yellow signs touting the taxi cabs, the restaurants, the money changing stations lined the airport terminal. The air, an acrid, foreign aroma filling my lungs, left me with an indecipherable...

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A Climb Up Mount Tai During Our Summer Vacation in China

The eighteen flights of precipitous, stone steps soar upwards, a 5000-foot ladder into the clouds. On overcast days the effect is eerie: just yards ahead, the path is hidden in swirling mist. There is...

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A Bunch of Really Old and Really Tall Trees: Sequoia National Park

When my parents first informed my brothers and me that our summer vacation was going to be spent at Sequoia National Park in southern California, I was disappointed. We were going...

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Amazon

Yeah, sure I'm in IB Biology and my mom is a conservation biologist, but I'm not quite the rainforest type. As a seventeen year old, I prefer our nocturnal sleeping schedules as opposed to the early jungle...

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