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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tpeproni | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
Light from the full moon litters the darkness created by the overhead crown of tropical trees. A dense thicket of branches and foliage sway in the wind forcing the moon's rays to dissipate and reappear like the strobe of a darkened dance club. This, along ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By joeyw | Views [184] | Scholarship Entry
Cochabamba, Bolivia - I sit in the sun speckled plaza on a warm afternoon, legs crossed, knotting string into colourful patterns. Next to me a girl lays out a dark cloth, smoothing it on the ground and arranging clusters of wire figurines on it. Another ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By marid | Views [129] | Scholarship Entry
"Of course, it's different when you're on a bike," Bo donned a pair of clear plastic gloves and laid slices of bread on the counter. "Really," I answered vaguely, opening the refrigerator. Donated jars of condiments, deli meat, and cheese were lazily ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By snapshotales | Views [262] | Scholarship Entry
Laughter, Love and 1pm Goodbyes Butterflies swarm in my stomach as the mini-van pulls around the corner, smoke the colour of charcoal bellowing from the back. Fellow nervous volunteers join me, waiting, waiting; in a bare concrete jungle, hotel car ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By trina | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
“Where you from, darlin’?” she drawls in her thick, Southern accent. Worn sandstone and balconies fenced with filigree iron fly past as the car swerves its way through the tiny streets. Mardi Gras beads, bars, antique stores. Troubadours, cafes, shouted ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By slreflections | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
The hacking cough pre-warned me, and I shortened my stride to avoid the phlegmy spit that arced past me to detonate on the footpath. The grin of the throat-clearing chef beside me reminded me that i wasn't strolling past an oncology ward, but a city street ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By aurah | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry
It’s August of 2009, I get off the bus in Mostar, Bosnia. As I walk I see the bomb shell markings left on many of the tall abandoned apartment buildings along the main street where war tanks plowed down not so long ago. After I get settled in my hostel ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By samantha-u | Views [306] | Scholarship Entry
Growing up on the Great Lakes, you'd think I'd know a thing or two about fish. I know the big ones, the little ones, the ones that slither past and make me jump out of my skin. Then there are the fun ones that put up a fight. But eating it? No thanks.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sarzha | Views [161] | Scholarship Entry
"Bank see. Bank see," repeated a Bethlehem taxi driver as he waved us over to his yellow car. "Tour. Five pictures on wall. Famous." He pulled out a binder with laminated photos of stencil graffiti: a dove wearing a bulletproof vest, a girl patting down ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By riverdiamonds | Views [171] | Scholarship Entry
A Honduran summer night is the soundtrack of childhood’s most imaginative dreams and nightmares. In the absence of strained and steady city sounds, everything in rural El Espinal makes noise: a grasshopper’s wings against the humid air, the neighbor’s ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tman | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry
I first met Khan, The Lion, when he yelled "Stop, you can't do that!" We were on the Sassoon Docks in southern Mumbai, India. In the early sunrise, the pastel pinks, blues and greens of the painted fishing boats deftly maneuvering for space ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By campfirevampire | Views [184] | Scholarship Entry
Thumb and index finger come together; the universal sign for money brings a smile to the gas station attendant’s face. The station is old, as worn and beaten as the landscape it colours momentarily with signs of life. We rolled in almost running on empty, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By saltcitygirl | Views [325] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
The smell of stews, meats and rice mingle with exhaust, sweat and ocean swirl around me at the Lovina street market. My guide and I stand next to a butcher whose hands expertly carve fat and flesh from a goat carcass strung on the rafters above. A woman ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By whalerider | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry
I wake up in the late afternoon and climb out of the window - to smoke a cigarette. It is still hot and kind August sunbeams tickle my sleepy skin. I stretch out my hands, smile vacantly and feel a sudden urge to saunter along narrow tortuous streets ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By sam_louiseb | Views [383] | Scholarship Entry
She sits cradling her dead husband’s body, gently stroking his forehead. "You were such a good husband," she says tenderly "why did you have to leave us?" The room they are sitting in is bare; a coloured hand spun rug on the floor the only decoration.... Read more >
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