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The Danger of a Single Story

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Here are student responses to the prompt: Our group dynamic has helped me understand the meaning of “the danger of a single story” by … Our group dynamic has helped me understand “the danger of a single story” by sharing unique opinions and experiences which illuminated concepts and ideas which were previously negligible or incomprehensible...

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From the Trek

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  The shaman spoke Quechua and called upon countless apus to protect us. He gave us each three coca leaves so that we could make the intentions of our journeys known to the apus. We then buried the leaves, giving them to Pachamama, or “Mother Earth.”

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Pushing Ourselves in Unexpected Ways

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text letter_spacing=””]This morning I eagerly volunteered to write today’s blog not knowing I would ultimately have something very embarrassing to write about, but we’ll get to that later.  We started the morning bright and early at 7 am with breakfast at 8. After breakfast, we traveled to an elephant sanctuary. There we heard the heartbreaking...

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