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Angelina Jolie is an extremely exceptional role model to me! I choose to believe that because she does everything she can to help the community out. I also have another reason behind that because she isn’t the one on TMZ being talked about for the whole entire world to know that she has done something immature and just pure ridiculous. Not only does she help out with the world and its people she is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and an author.
Yet beneath the glitz and glamour, Angelina represents the image of celebrity at its most humanizing and aware. When she was in her mid-20s and on the set of her 2000 film Tomb Raider, she was filming in Cambodia, one of the poorer countries in Asia where one in eight children dies over the age of five and over 50% of its youth suffer malnutrition. It was here that she developed an understanding of the extreme poverty present in a war torn country, where both genocide and hunger are rampant. It is these concerns that Angelina has tried to translate to western cultures. Indeed she herself gave a third of her income to refugees and charities. Later that year she contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees. Additionally she began visiting refugee camps all across the word in the form of field missions with UNHCR.
Notes from My Travels is a collection of journal excerpts kept by actress Angelina Jolie in 2001-2002 detailing her experiences travelling to troubled Third World regions in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The book was published in 2003, concurrent with the release of Beyond Borders, a film in which she plays a character who eventually works for UNHCR. It was also during the timeframe of writing these journals that Jolie adopted her Cambodian-born son, Maddox. Notes from My Travels details Jolie's visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Ecuador. The genre of this book is a memoir.
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