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		<title>Guarding Ataturk&#8217;s Memory- pt.1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of &#8220;Crescent and the Star: Turkey between two worlds&#8221; Stephen Kinzer tells the story of a young Turkish third grader who was asked to write an essay about love. He wrote, &#8220;Love means love for Ataturk. Love means love for Ataturk&#8217;s mother, Zubeyde Hanim. Love means love for Ataturk&#8217;s father Ali Riza [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=300&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let it be bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quickly inspired free flow poem: Let it be bad they say Let it be bad It maybe very grand and not a bit bland, but still let it be bad. If it’s shitty and crude and rude it still is ok they say its supposed to be that way. Go ahead and let it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=276&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuba Question</title>
		<link>http://himynameis.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/the-cuba-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninety miles south of Florida lies what most in America would agree is one of the greatest blunders in American Foreign Policy.  Over the last 48 years, Cuba has staved off a US sanctioned embargo intent at toppling the communist government of Fidel Castro. For the last 28, Cuba has done so despite the collapse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=281&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scholarship Essay~ Sample</title>
		<link>http://himynameis.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/scholarship-essay-sample/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRiO. I had never heard of it before an academic counsellor marched me down the corridor and into a crowded office area. “You need this and you qualify,” she said. I wasn’t so sure, but I desperately needed help.    Like many other students from South East Minnesota, I am a first generation University student. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=266&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>African Debt Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 23:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debt- It is a word that the average American fears today. Especially with jobs being outsourced overseas, jobs going out of business, and credit crisis in tow. People here are worried about what they will do to elevate all the debt they have without having to go into bankruptcy. But what happens when that debt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=243&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Democracy and Corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 23:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colonial Kenya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half way round the world in eastern Africa lies a nation state that the west once pointed to as an excellent example of democracy. Only after numerous reports of post election violence in Kenya did the west finally take a serious look at the inner workings of Kenyan democracy in an effort to figure out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=228&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Essay on Ibsen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 16:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the tell-it-all style of dirty realism, a young playwright by the name of Henrik Johan Ibsen decided to push societal bounds by examining conditions of life and morality. Unfortunately, Ibsen lived at the height of Victorian morality.  Any subject matter not bowing to Victorian era conformity (strong ethics, sexual repression/ morality, and a Puritanical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=225&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned from a semester of MicroEconomics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyond learning that all economics truely is about applying complex equations to the simple concept of supply and demand. My micro-economics textbook startled me by proclaiming:  &#8220;Rational self-interest IS NOT the same as selfishness. Self interested, but unselfish acts help maximize the givers&#8217; satisfaction as much as any personal purchase of goods or services. Self-interested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=208&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arab Food and Hospitality- (rough draft)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asli-elizabeth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think my Scandinavian culture was the epitome of hospitality. We would serve large plates of food at mealtime for our guests, sit and talk over coffee and cake when a stranger would come to call. We would put our lives on hold for a few moments to entertain a friend.  Then I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=204&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Buying It Any More</title>
		<link>http://himynameis.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/not-buying-it-any-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to share with you all a rediscovered note I got from a friend of mine. (I would also love to plug her blog, which i will do in a little while). She would be describe more so by her role as human guineau pig- which she is damn proud of. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=himynameis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1257229&amp;post=196&amp;subd=himynameis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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