Jamie Johnson 4th period NPR: "This I believe..." Essay This I believe...I believe in tomorrow. As long as I am living there will always be another tomorrow. No matter how I spend today, the dawn will bring with it a...
When I was nine years old my parents took my brother and I on a trip to New York. My father was a furniture retailer and as part of this family trip to see the sites of New York we...
I am getting along toward three score years and ten. I look about me and see many fine contemporaries, and I wonder if it is true that only the good die young. And if it is, what then must the...
I am a geographer, which means that I am concerned with observing, recording, and mapping the differences between one part of the world and another, and with probing their causes and consequences. In the course of my job I’ve had...
Personal experience and environment have had much to do with the shaping of my philosophy of life. It has been my rare privilege to have lived through some of the empire building days of the great West, and I have...
I would like to speak both as an individual and as a diplomat. I am a Chinese living in a period unprecedented in my country’s long history, perhaps even the world’s history. It is a period of violent change. I...
People who have lived in a democracy like ours all their lives often fail to appreciate all the advantages they have acquired by their heritage, and often become complacent of their responsibilities as free citizens. I have had a unique...
