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April 26, 2013

Give More Than Expected

Growing up, the only thing taught in our home was to study, work hard, and make your efforts known. Best the sibling before you and hope that the sibling after gives more effort than you did. That’s how you succeed...
March 26, 2013

Enjoy your crisis

Enjoying your crisis gives you a power to change your situation. I have had many experiences about crisis. When I thought about coming to America, I was a junior in high school in Korea. At that time it was obviously...
February 19, 2013

The beauty of diversity

I am very indecisive. I cannot choose Jazz over Rock, if I would rather live in Venice or Geneva or if bratwurst is better than lasagna. From the outside looking in, one can think that my indecisiveness shows that I...
February 19, 2013

Love

Love, that simple four-letter word. It might be as simple as a four-letter word to most people but to me it’s so much more than that. It has a deep meaning and has no distance limits. I came to the...
February 19, 2013

Not Just A Document

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by...
February 18, 2013

I believe in the American Dreams

Many immigrants move to the Unities States in order to live a new life with great opportunities. My family and I also moved to here from South Korea 3 years ago. Before coming here, we had to consider everything carefully...
February 10, 2013

All Ears

I believe in the power of listening. Human beings are born with two ears and only one mouth as if Mother Nature was trying to pass a hint along. Humans also often forget that we are born with two eyes...
February 4, 2013

The Power of Samba

The power of Samba - a sultry dance that lives in the soil of my birthplace, the rhythmic melody of footsteps can be heard throughout the street of Brazil. Samba is not learned but common knowledge to the Brazilian people....
November 20, 2012

Survival from Fatal Dangers Has a Purpose

Thirteen years old, I survived a rebel ambush and realized how precious and short our lives are. My uncle and my cousin sister brutally passed away in that attack. My life got spared that night so that I may show...