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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By discovermeandyou | Views [160] | Scholarship Entry
Read the topic of this essay, I suddenly recognized that people always talk about the culture, but obviously, they don’t know clearly what culture is? What’s the shape of the culture and how can we touch it. Culture needs something to cover it. And what ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By tourdesegur | Views [122] | Scholarship Entry
It was one of those days when you need to break away. I had only had $6 and 4 days off, so the furthest destination I could afford was Belarus. Intuitively, I took a subway to the outskirts of Kiev, where a busy highway to the north started. I stood on ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ankitmagotra | Views [173] | Scholarship Entry
Appetite and appreciation is what one need when following a destination for food and culture. The scenic beauty on one side and on the other several booths having several items from Tibetan utensils, jewellery, art pieces, books on Buddhism and Tibet ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By indianajune | Views [106] | Scholarship Entry
You know you’re having a tough day when you decide crying isn’t an efficient use of your energy stocks. It was day two cycling in the Andes and the 76km climb from Cayambe to Cahuasqui felt quite frankly, impossible. Man walked on the moon but he had ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By suitcaseindian | Views [111] | Scholarship Entry
In its colossal depths are stories brought ashore by whispering conch shells and gentle waves of nostalgia. Or by Goliath swells that pounce upon coastlines, destroying and reshaping lives. Dad’s sea suddenly shimmered one night with neon green iridescence ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By devorahlt | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
“The only reason I’m so strong is because God made me a woman. No matter how physically strong a man is, he could never handle all the tension and suffering that I’ve gone through.” The woman who said this lives in a slum in Mumbai, India called Kaula ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By karina_rapp | Views [197] | Scholarship Entry
Enveloped by a world of green, the boat speeds through the Mora aquatic trail, diving through a patch of sunlight and then back into shadow. With the Cuatro Esquinas Center now far behind us, red iguanas dot the high treetops and the sweet fragrance of ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By crystal_legaspi | Views [388] | Scholarship Entry
I shudder as he maneuvers the reluctant goat into place. Curly wisps of hair fall into his face as he wipes accumulated blood from a machete. In a sawing motion, he severs the goat’s head. Thick blood, contrasting sharply with black fur, pulses out from ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By casadelalluvia | Views [121] | Scholarship Entry
If I had been blind, I would describe Taiwan for the way its clouds rained in the sky. They drew a smile on your face without worries about the time. The time has another meaning for someone who is in the middle of the vertigo called “Fast World ”.With ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By ironwench | Views [230] | Scholarship Entry
One Friday, while looking for a lunch place at the wet Quiapo market in Manila,I heard a wail.It sounded masculine,was terrifying in its undulations but mystifying,too,in its length and fullness.It came from somewhere beyond the carts of pirated DVDs,bottled ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By groovylocks | Views [193] | Scholarship Entry
We had landed in my nightmare. Yichuan was a perpetual public works project, as if people just kept breaking ground as needed until an uncommitted city appeared. It was the final stop on Mao's Long March and had the eerie sense of being the “Made in ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By nurulkasidi | Views [116] | Scholarship Entry
A hundred kilometers away from Jakarta my friends and i found a cultural treasure of Mount Halimun National Park, the village of Cipta Gelar. This place is the opposite of Jakarta. It’s very calm and well-arranged. Aki Aang, one of the citizens–yes, ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By skiz1 | Views [102] | Scholarship Entry
Sun and sand aside, January in Baghdad can get quite chilly. My breath hitting the frosty morning air is proof in point. Eyeing the swimming pool and neatly clipped lawn and bushes that surrounds the posh house where I work, I register another irony: ... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By worldismyoyster | Views [169] | Comments [5] | Scholarship Entry
I step out of the forest, my arm bleeding, my skin slick with sweat, blood, and fresh rainwater. My guidebook is a smeared heap of now-recyclable mush. I ascend up the street, water pouring over my toes as if they’re unyielding rocks in a thrashing river.... Read more >
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By k3doble | Views [244] | Scholarship Entry
I have travelled near and far but I must say that no other culture loves food like Filipinos. The Filipinos’ love for food and the variety of food they eat speak greatly of the kind of people that they are. Guests to a Filipino home are customarily welcomed ... Read more >
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