My Experience as a Kiva Fellow Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva combines the poverty alleviating power of microfinance with the mass participation of the internet. It lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Since 2005‚ nearly 570‚000 people have used Kiva.org to fund +$200M in microloans through MFIs to more than 526‚000 working poor entrepreneurs around the world. Source: Kiva
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An Experience That Changed My Life Valen C. Hocog English 101-10 Dr. David Khorram February 09‚ 2011 Seven years ago I gave birth to a healthy boy who changed everything about me and my life. Before his birth I was an optimistic person who only thought of the fun things that would make my day. I was an immature girl without a care in the world. After his birth I grew up‚ stopped partying‚ and took on the responsibility that was gifted to me. It has not been a breezy walk
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My experience of Problem Posing Paulo Freire demonstrates two types of educational concepts in “The Banking Concept of Education”‚ which are banking concept and problem posing. My personal experience with education illustrates Freire’s “problem posing” concept mostly. The reason might be I went to high school in the U.S and most of the American teachers from high school are relaxed when they teach‚ because the education system is not that serious as in China. In my point of view‚ problem posing
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work I felt the need to get away from it all‚ to rest and relax‚ and to broaden my perspective of the world. I made reservations for six solo days of scuba diving in Croatia. I was excited‚ nervous‚ even a little scared of traveling alone. I told myself that I’m 36 years old‚ have two kids‚ and lived in another country‚ so I held my head high‚ bid my friends farewell and took off. Upon arrival in Croatia I picked up my rental car at the airport in Zagreb. I got on the A1 motorway and pointed the
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My First Military Experience The date was September 23rd 2003. I was leaving my home for the first time; I had been dreading the unknown of entering basic military training for months. I knew difficult challenges would lie ahead‚ but little did I know what changes were about to become of me in my first military experience. The trainees were stuffed into the bus like sardines; I was shoved to the very back on the floor by exit sign. The smell of fear and the odor of a gym locker room filled the
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Analysis of my cultural experience Arriving at a foreign country at the age of eleven years old was and exiting and yet intimidating experience. High buildings‚ wide roads‚ newer and nicer cars on the streets were some of the first things I noticed when I arrived to the city of Los Angeles CA. Living in a country where you were not born in could be difficult some times. Although Spanish is spoken at a grand scale in CA‚ it was difficult to communicate with and understand the teachers from my classes
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My experiences of playing a sport Two years ago‚ I went to visit my relatives in Nha Trang and I tried playing scuba-diving. It was my wonderful experiences. First day‚ my cousin – a diving instructor of VietNam Dive Center (VinaDive) – invited me to take part in a scuba-diving tour. I thought it was a great idea and I was very interested. This was a chance of overcoming my fear of water. Next day‚ my cousin taught me about dive equipment‚ how to breathe and move underwater‚ basic skills and safe
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While I was participating in the athletic training clinics‚ I had a very interesting‚ educative experience. There were many different parts that I enjoyed while engaging in the athletic training clinics. One of things I enjoyed about being in the clinics was being able to talk to the different athletic training students and preceptors; as well as‚ seeing them utilize their skills they had learned from their pervious classes and preceptors. It was also enriching to be able to watch a patient improve
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Andre Williams Jan. 8‚ 2013 Research Paper For American Literature The History of Gospel Music. Introduction The History of Gospel Music Gospel music is a Christian musical genre. Christian music in other forms is the creation‚ performance‚ significance and the significant thing about gospel
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MY PET DOG I have a pet dog named Angie. It is an Alsatian. It is of medium height and white in colour. Angie has a bushy tail and glistening eyes. Angie is one year old. She was given to me on my tenth birthday. Angie likes to wander about our house. She also like to chase our neighbours’ cats. She is docile in the presence of those she is familiar with‚ but strangers had better beware. As a matter of fact‚ nobody dares to enter our house without first having Angie tied up or put in her kennel
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