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		<title>The Myth of Gifted People</title>
		<link>http://openessays.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-myth-of-gifted-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Lim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[educational curricula]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://openessays.wordpress.com/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I excelled in school. I still do now in my final year of college. It is undeniable that my success in school is partially due to the fact that I am diligent at putting substance into my assignments and responsible with completing assignments on time. But, most of the time, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=openessays.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5542600&amp;post=79&amp;subd=openessays&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>110 PRIDE Statements</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Lim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ally]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[resident advisor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexual orientation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[straight]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://openessays.wordpress.com/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a Resident Advisor (RA) for a residence hall on campus two years ago, I initiated a campus-wide PRIDE Statements event during LGBTQA Month in April. My fellow RAs and I collected and came up ourselves with 110 statements of revelation, affirmation, introspection and statistics about issues that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=openessays.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5542600&amp;post=74&amp;subd=openessays&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wholeness, Personality and Theory of Change</title>
		<link>http://openessays.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/wholeness-personality-and-theory-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Lim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[logic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://openessays.wordpress.com/?p=18</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In all &#8220;civilized&#8221; cultures, especially in Western society, there is an unnecessary schism between logic and emotion, between empiricism and intuition, and between science and spirituality.               This separ     ation has no power in my being!                              [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=openessays.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5542600&amp;post=18&amp;subd=openessays&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Service: Junk Food of the Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Lim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Illich]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://openessays.wordpress.com/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love reading inflammatory, polemic pieces of writing because they often use ego-breaking, humorous and clever words to state the obvious that has become not so obvious. One of the obvious facts of life that the recent articles I have read expound on is that the U.S. government feeds us a lot of junk food. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=openessays.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5542600&amp;post=16&amp;subd=openessays&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equity and Justice in Sustainable Development</title>
		<link>http://openessays.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/equity-and-justice-in-sustainable-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Lim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable development includes not only environmental protection but also social justice, economic equity, and fair distribution of wealth and burden. In order to create ecologically sustainable societies, it is very important that mainstream environmentalists begin to incorporate social issues into discussions, for their current distinction between what is nature and must be protected and what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=openessays.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5542600&amp;post=14&amp;subd=openessays&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>White Guilt</title>
		<link>http://openessays.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/white-guilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Lim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white guilt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Thursday night. I’m in my common room watching a PBS documentary on the complex relationship that exists in disadvantaged, often minority neighborhoods between chronic health problems and environmental factors such as proximity to industrial pollution, lack of fresh food, little open space for play, and the list goes on. A close friend of mine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=openessays.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5542600&amp;post=9&amp;subd=openessays&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoning 3 Myths to Achieve a Land Ethic</title>
		<link>http://openessays.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/abandoning-3-myths-to-achieve-a-land-ethic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Lim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aldo leopold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land ethic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://openessays.wordpress.com/?p=7</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was most intrigued and impressed by the eloquence with which Aldo Leopold wrote the “Land Ethic” because he explained vividly what an ethic based on the human beings/biotic community relationship meant. The land ethic, according to Leopold, is an ethic in which people see themselves, not as superior conquerors of nature, but as members [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=openessays.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5542600&amp;post=7&amp;subd=openessays&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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