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  • Intro to Peace & Conflict Studies
  • Third World Feminisms
  • Anthropology of China
  • Biological Oceanography
  • The Quran
  • Human Rights in China
  • Sex & Gender in Japanese Buddhism
  • Ethics
  • Gender in the Middle East
  • Human Rights & Global Politics
  • War & Morality
  • Women & The Law
  • Drama & Socieded en España
  • Perspectives in Biology: AIDS
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"When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?" - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel...

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  • 1.5 million letters: online and hand written letters delivered to governments worldwide and Congress here at home.
  • 116 people protected from persecution and danger: from China to Turkey to Myanmar (Burma) to the United States, your letters worked! And helped free innocent human rights activists and political prisoners.
  • Death penalty executions averted: 18 stays or commutations worldwide (8 in the U.S., 2 in Texas). And tens of thousands of letters and numerous vigils for Troy Davis mean he’s still alive today, fighting for justice in the state of Georgia.
  • 500+ groups or individuals met face to face with lawmakers: Amnesty International supporters met with their Members of Congress on Darfur, Guantánamo and violence against women.
  • Guantánamo Bay replica cell tours the U....
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  • om namah shivaya tattoo?
  • hibernation?
  • the necessity of britney spears tickets?
  • purchase black patent heels?- zoe says they are necessary...
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  • Peru
  • Cambodia
  • Vietnam
  • Russia
  • Croatia
  • South Africa
  • Ghana
  • Italy
  • Greece
  • Thailand (14,256 times more)
  • Cuba
  • Turkey
  • Phillipines
  • North Korea when I get my invisibility cloak lmao...
  • Nepal
  • Tibet
  • Sweden
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  • cupcakes
  • politics
  • the economist
  • dresses
  • smarts
  • college
  • human rights
  • SE Asia
  • my sista
  • shih tzus
  • Sarah Elayna Fletcher
  • pillows
  • cute japanese stationary
  • office supplies
  • mini vacuums
  • books
  • markets in foreign countries
  • living on rice
  • rings
  • male forearms
  • academic planners
dec 18 2008 ∞
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  • Adopt two baby girls from Thailand.
  • Intern at Amnesty International NY this summer.
  • Write books about: depression, activism, & being relinquished.
  • Become the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  • Learn French, Chinese, & Arabic.
  • Own an adorable boutique with attached cupcake store. :)
  • Have a library in my house.
  • Have a miniature bunny as a pet. (TOP PRIORITY,YO)
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