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3 Things You Can Do To Help On National Sex Trafficking Awareness Day

"What will you do with your freedom?"

Grand Canyon University

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3 Things You Can Do To Help On National Sex Trafficking Awareness Day

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January 11th is National Sex Trafficking Awareness Day in the United States. While people are aware of the issue, not everyone knows how to make a change. There are three ways to help end abolish human trafficking in our world and they are:

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Life Stages

9 Important Lifetime Milestones I've Reached By The End Of 2018

I got my first job, applied to college and survived the hell that is the ACTs, SATs, and PARCC. I went to prom and I went to two of our football state championship games.

Rutgers University

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9 Important Lifetime Milestones I've Reached By The End Of 2018

Oscar Masciandaro

In honor of the beginning of a new year and the closing of my first semester in college, for this week's article, I decided to reflect on important events in my life, whether they affected just me or the people around me. Here are 9 important events in my life so far.

1. Being adopted

Even though I don't remember anything about being adopted, it has to be the most important event in my life because it's what led to who I am today. If I wasn't adopted, I might still be in Cambodia or maybe living in a different part of the United States.

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Politics and Activism

Miss USA’s Racist Behavior Is Nothing More Than A Reflection Of Our Social & Political Climate

When she's tasked with representing the USA, what else do you expect?

The State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Nelson Mandela once said, "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

When she was a young adult, my high school English Honors teacher and her friend were traveling in Europe. They encountered a man who attempted to communicate with them. At first, he spoke one language, and they couldn't understand him. So he tried again with another language and then another. On his fourth try, in English, he asked them, "Are you American?"

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Student Life

Bilingualism Opens Up A World You Never Would Have Been Able To Access In Just English

Language is the way in which we experience other cultures.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Bilingualism Opens Up A World You Never Would Have Been Able To Access In Just English

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Thinking back all the way to when the world was first created, no matter how you believe we got here, someone created a language in order for humans to share their thoughts with each other. Eventually, with the creation of new cultures and the founding of new land, new languages were created in order for groups of people in certain areas to communicate with each other.

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Identities

I Identify As Multicultural, But Still Don't Seem To Truly 'Belong' To Any Culture

I was born Cambodian, raised Italian and lived in an American town. Each culture added something new to my life but they left me confused about who I am.

Rutgers University

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Oscar Masciandaro

"What defines someone's identity?" is something I've been asking myself for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I never fully knew who I was. I was born Cambodian, raised Italian and live in America. Each culture comes with different values that contradict each other. Despite being a part of all three cultures, sometimes I feel like I don't belong to any of them.

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You'll never regret expanding your horizon.

Meeting new people

Making new memories

Exploring new places

Having to leave your house

Missing work

Getting sick and tired of learning new things

Wanting to go to a whole new destination

Doing something that could change your life

Seeing the world, even though it's so boring

Looking back to the trip all the time

Ditching your boring town

"What will you do with your freedom?"

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I got my first job, applied to college and survived the hell that is the ACTs, SATs, and PARCC. I went to prom and I went to two of our football state championship games.

1. Being adopted

2. Getting a dog

3. Getting a hamster

4. Playing ultimate frisbee

5. Getting my license

6. Finishing my gold award

7. Graduating high school

8. Renting a house

9. Finishing my first semester of college

When she's tasked with representing the USA, what else do you expect?

Language is the way in which we experience other cultures.

I was born Cambodian, raised Italian and lived in an American town. Each culture added something new to my life but they left me confused about who I am.

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