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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By suzyq | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
St. Nick’s Pub sits buried steps below the bustling sidewalks of Harlem. It wears a red awning, and a single light illuminates the entire block of warm brick facades. I'd never been inside but I heard the saxophone that night, and welcomed the invitation.... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By coffeeroaming | Views [135] | Scholarship Entry
"You have a habit of vanishing," says my friend and philosophy tutor as we sip our coffee, his only response to my summary of my semester spent abroad. Ashland, Virginia - hailed by locals as "the centre of the universe", was nothing more than a small ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By seesomething | Views [222] | Scholarship Entry
I examined the bus schedule—just enough time for a chai, I thought. I crossed the street between two auto rickshaws. Just after the sun rises in Pune, the whole city maintains its brief excursion into stillness. Stray dogs begin to do their morning ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By seekingalifelessordinary | Views [113] | Scholarship Entry
Feeling small I gazed upon the immense figure that loomed above me like a towering giant sitting in judgement of this small English girl who had found herself in his presence that sultry Thursday evening in late July. Around me, tourists pushed and craned ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By anaonyx90 | Views [281] | Scholarship Entry
Without any doubt, California must have been dreaming on that cold May night. Seven years ago, somewhere deep in the forests of North California, I was woken up by the sounds of shifting trees. My eyes took to adjusting to the pulsing light of our campfire.... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By katystubbs | Views [433] | Scholarship Entry
Driving through the wilds of the empty New Mexico desert early in the morning it was obvious why the aliens chose to land here. Back in 1947 Roswell hit the headlines the world over when an apparent alien spaceship crashed on a ranch nearby and set everyone's ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By spremnazaput | Views [203] | Scholarship Entry
“She's an artist she don't look back…” with Bob Dylan on the radio, we drove around a maze of wide roads, trying to find the right exit. All blocks looked copy-pasted, flat and square with some scattered greens. They felt somewhat surreal, seemingly ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By rachelnoelle | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
As I slide onto the motorbike’s seat, I officially disobey all the commands of my parents. First, I had indulged in street food. I suppose the bhajis qualify; peppers encased in a deep-fried shell of dough and sold by a boy at a makeshift kiosk on the ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jessevoice | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
I take a moment to catch my breath, overlooking the camp where forest and mountains stretch on for miles in the clear afternoon skies. In the background the song leaders begin to play. Traditional Hebrew song spills out of guitars and into the chapel, ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By marid | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
"I'm lost." The GPS lay yanked out on the dash after lecturing me to turn around when possible and drive into a quarry it insisted was a road. "Doubt it." Pam's son interrupted his twang with a cigarette drag. "Yuh see the Purina Factory?" I did not.... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By cooklet | Views [154] | Scholarship Entry
It sounded like something out of a summer camp scene in The Parent Trap. My hosts had been filling me in on what would happen the next day, but coming from the everyday realities of Africa, the concept seemed as foreign to me as the streets of San Francisco ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By gowestonlywest | Views [191] | Scholarship Entry
I always thougt that rednecks are some kind of indian tribe's name before I visited U.S. Though there are still rather big indian population in Idaho state, but quickly I found out rednecks as white as myself. Brandon was on of them and the black sheep ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By maurafiloromo | Views [112] | Scholarship Entry
It’s like San Francisco is Instagram. Or at least it seemed that way to me and my friend Dawn. We were standing on Baker Beach with our eyes fixed on the Golden Gate Bridge. It was the golden hour, that time of twilight when everything glows in a soft ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By trinidadianlove | Views [124] | Scholarship Entry
Growing up in Knightdale, North Carolina was a challenge for me. My parents are both from Trinidad and the kids at school would constantly question my ethnicity, race and religion. There was a point where I was even ashamed of my culture and who I was.... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By onestepmore | Views [135] | Scholarship Entry
My boyfriend and I had been planing our road trip through the route 66 that goes from Chicago to LA for months. He had just graduated and we had free time on our own. We had everything prepared to start the morning after. Our tent, slipping bags lots ... Read more >
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