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  • Foreign Language: GPS for My Journey to Global Citizenship

    By Pei He, Monterey Institute of International Studies

    (This is one of the winning essays of the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest. The purpose of the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum is to highlight the importance of multilingualism as it relates to global citizenship. Students from all over the world submitted thoughtful, insightful essays on the subject, and we appreciate and applaud the efforts of all the students who took the time to share their views on multilingualism.)

    Global citizenship is not born, but acquired. It is the willingness to understand the real world, the determination to be part of it and the responsibility to make the world a better place. Different people have their own ways of becoming global citizens. Here is my version of story.
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  • Sample Personal Statements for Applying Graduate Programs

    Personal Statement for Applying Graduate Program in bio-statistics

    I will never forget my experience of working alongside doctors to fight against the horrible disease, SARS, in China in 2003. This work taught me the great impact of disease control and prevention and motivated me to apply for the biostatistics program at Yale University, with the ultimate career goal of becoming an influential professional or_ researcher in the field. I firmly believe that my constant thirst for knowledge, high regard for the work in the biomedical and public health fields, and my courageousness will drive my graduate studies and help me achieve personal and professional success.
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    Stature of John Harvard in Harvard Yard, photo by Bo Yang.
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  • The Beauty of Potala Palace

    Photos by Bin Zhu

    The Potala Palace, winter palace of the Dalai Lama since the 7th century, symbolizes Tibetan Buddhism and its central role in the traditional administration of Tibet. The complex, comprising the White and Red Palaces with their ancillary buildings, is built on Red Mountain in the center of Lhasa Valley, at an altitude of 3,700m. Also founded in the 7th century, the Jokhang Temple Monastery is an exceptional Buddhist religious complex. Norbulingka, the Dalai Lama’s former summer palace, constructed in the 18th century, is a masterpiece of Tibetan art. The beauty and originality of the architecture of these three sites, their rich ornamentation and harmonious integration in a striking landscape, add to their historic and religious interest.
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  • Boston Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Meets Father’s Day

    By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist

    Medford, Mass., June 16, 2014, –I went by public transportation at noon time yesterday, taking bus and subway to Harvard Square. And then I walked to the bank of Charles River to join the festivity.
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  • Brief History Chinese Americans in World War II

    From chineseamericanheroes.org

    World War II didn’t start on December 7, 1941, the “Day of Infamy” with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It didn’t even start on September 1, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland. The seeds of World War II started in the immediate aftermath of World War I, both in Europe and in Asia. China had entered that war on the side of the Allies, fully expecting that the Allied Powers would support the return of Germany’s Chinese colonies to the Chinese people after the war. President Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” declaration that national self- determination should decide the future fate of colonized peoples gave hope to many around the world but the final terms of the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I betrayed all of them. British and French colonies simply expanded around the world while giving the Allied blessing to Japanese colonial expansion in China.
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    Arthur Wong joined US Army in 1943 in Boston (file photo).
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  • Wu Dengming, A Green Fighter/ “绿林好汉”吴登明

    Wu Dengming, environmental activist, died on July 19, 2013 at age 73.
    吴登明，环保运动者，7月19日逝世，享年73岁。

    IN THE main room of the small, old-fashioned house, stacked full of books, an old fan scarcely moved the stuffy air around. Wu Dengming’s daughter kept pleading for air-conditioning. Elsewhere in Chongqing, China’s fastest-growing inland city, where 10m people lived in a battery of skyscrapers, almost everyone had it. Mr Wu would not hear of it. It was expensive, and was not green. He had a dream of making everyone in the city turn their coolers to 26ºC, and no lower. Why not? He had managed to organise Chongqing’s first no-car day, in 2006, and as a result—perhaps—you could sometimes glimpse blue sky through the smog that blanketed the place.
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  • A Hockey Relationship between Father and Son

    By Christopher Kerrigan, Boston College

    Some people believe that a father and his children can strengthen their relationship by participating in sporting activities together. Based on my experiences while growing up, this theory is precisely accurate. Of course the love my father has for my older sister, my older brother, and me is equally deep; however, I feel as though the relationship I have with my father is very special. We not only love each other, but we also share a love for ice hockey.
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  • Vote #1- Barry Chang, the Imperfect Idealist on June 3

    By Ignatius Yuan Ding

    It’s really comical! I couldn’t stop laughing when I read the news story in which Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong claims that he and other three council members were brazenly “bullied” by one colleague. A picture instantly ballooned in my mind – a giant, like the one in the story of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” had taken on the foursome in one tackle and reduced them into dust! Really?
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    Barry Chang (left) and a volunteer campaigned on Memorial Day 2014 (file photo).
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  • Invitation Letter to UV 2014 @MIT

    By UV2014 Organization Committee

    I am writing to invite you to attend International Conference on Universal Village (UV2014) which will be held at MIT on June 16-17, 2014.
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  • The Last Week of Mao Zedong

    At five o’clock in the afternoon of September 2, 1976, Mao suffered a heart attack, far more severe than his previous two and affecting a much larger area of his heart. X rays indicated that his lung infection had worsened, and his urine output dropped to less than 300 cc a day. Mao was awake and alert throughout the crisis and asked several times whether he was in danger. His condition continued to fluctuate and his life hung in the balance.
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    Meng Jingyun from Wuhan, China, was nurse for Mao during the last 489 days of his life.
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