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• Assignment 5: Inner Journey [Writing Travel]
  It was the first time I boarded a plane, the first time I traveled alone, and the first time I ventured outside of Vietnam. It was THE first time I flew halfway around the world to the U.S., and I was 16. To be honest, I was not nervous or scare, yet. The excitement and curiosity overwhelmed me.
• Wabi Sabi [Happily Ever After]
  “Wabi sabi. It had found it during those bad times when Rea had been only getting worse, and it had come to mean a lot [to] me. The thought that everything that we were going through, the things that time was doing to her and she was doing to me, that they weren't bad, but that they were beauti
• Vintage Advertising from a Gender Analysis Perspective [Happily Ever After]
  "Having wonderful time with new Chrysler!", 1930s © The Advertising Archives. This 1930s Chrysler ad is the perfect example of reinforcing gender roles through media, and advertising. The ad uses highly gendered language for advertising the car to both "she" and "he". Beginning with the woman-ce
• Exercise 5: Inner Journey [Writing Travel]
  The rocket blasts off, and I blast off after it. My dad and I have spend the last day building it (ok, mostly my dad), and now we finally launch. We couldn't have picked a better place to launch: Fern Hollow Nature Preserve in the fall, with a blowing gale crossing the field, tall grass bobbing