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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By maddrabbitt | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
The city of Shaoyang, just an hour east of Mao Zedong's hometown and on the border of the Hunan countryside, was no provincial metropolis. The air smelled of burning trash and fermented eggs, children squatted bare-assed on the sidewalks to defecate, ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By ozloz | Views [138] | Scholarship Entry
I am sitting on a train headed through downtown LA trying to avoid eye contact with the men selling water and candy. They are determined, and rightly so, as they try to scrounge some form of income for the day. Fear instilled in me by stereotyping prompts ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By kaleidoscopia | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
“Come see the freak show, see some wonders of the world!” The voice caught my attention through the noise of rollerblades and bicycles, the excited squeals of children, an out of tune guitar being enthusiastically strummed and hippies on Venice beach ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By vintagex118 | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry
I lifted my freckled face toward a grey sky. Soft rain droplets eased down my bronzed skin, and my fatigued body melted into ancient, exposed bedrock. Moments ago, I found myself racing down unknown streets, past faceless strangers, and trudging deeper ... Read more >
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By km122803 | Views [158] | Scholarship Entry
Pablo and I rounded a street corner. He casually kicked a soggy condom with one end tied like a neat little package into the gutters as he continued his lecture on why the prostitutes throw out female condoms and only use male condoms. “They don’t understand,” ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By thisgirltuesday | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
According to my phone, it was 62 degrees Fahrenheit in Paradise. I’d thought it was some sort of glitch, but when I encountered Paradise Road on my way to the Fox car rental centre, it all made sense. Fifteen minutes out from the neon lights of The Strip, ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By thesadieflower | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
The colour splashed across the street ahead looks like the result of someone dropping hundreds of cans of paint from a very great height. Shrill shouts and loud costumes demand my attention; the smoky smell of celebration mingles with restaurant aromas, ... Read more >
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By mackenzerie | Views [146]
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By thesadieflower | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By thesadieflower | Views [143]
The colour splashed across the street ahead looks like the result of someone dropping hundreds of cans of paint from a very great height. Shrill shouts and loud costumes demand my attention; the smoky smell of celebration mingles with restaurant aromas, ... Read more >
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By bbunce | Views [193] | Scholarship Entry
March 2012 I arrive in NewOrleans Louisianna,looking for work onehundred and fifty dollars to my name; not my best trip preperation in life. Yet it was a choice made of neccesity; no work no money where i was at i had to make a move.... Read more >
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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 | By joeldean | Views [228] | Scholarship Entry
“I’m a Reiki Master, and animal communicator. I cured my dog from cancer.” I heard this description in Portland, Oregon while my twin friends and their birth mother met for the first time over brunch. I had been in Portland for a few days so this did ... Read more >
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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 | By ourselves | Views [161] | Scholarship Entry
Canvas Of Life As a Palestinian living in the besieged Gaza, I’ve grown up with my people, sharing the same bitterness of the persistence to live a normal life . Deeply, I wanted to draw a canvas of life, yet there were certain missing ... Read more >
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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 | By reem | Views [191] | Scholarship Entry
When I was 10 years old I started watching American movies. As a young girl in Bahrain, I felt very excited about all the things I saw. It is a big country with nice weather, buildings and language. A few years later some American teachers taught me ... Read more >
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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 | By jimandmary | Photo Gallery
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