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A Beleza Que Existe: Framing Your Stories
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A Beleza Que Existe. Thursday, March 26, 2015. From "Deadliest Country for Kids". Photo credit Nicholas Kristof. Please look closely at the picture above. It comes from a New York Times piece by Nicholas Kristof titled, "Deadliest Country for Kids." The caption in the original piece reads, " Yalua Ndama with her son, Namana Chanhamba, suffering from malaria and malnutrition, in a Lubango health clinic. What do you see in the image above? No, this image was quite explicitly composed to emphasize the "othe...
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A Beleza Que Existe: August 2014
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A Beleza Que Existe. Friday, August 22, 2014. You gotta know when to fold 'em, and when to stick around for another hand. Wow So. it's been a while. I feel like during my time here in Mozambique I am constantly explaining lapses in communication with, "I have been sooo busy lately! To give a quick update: things here are good! This past semester was full of activities at the Cantinho Americano. Esta and the prizes for the Sarau Cultural. A year and a half into my service in Chimoio, I feel pretty settled...
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A Beleza Que Existe: March 2015
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A Beleza Que Existe. Thursday, March 26, 2015. From "Deadliest Country for Kids". Photo credit Nicholas Kristof. Please look closely at the picture above. It comes from a New York Times piece by Nicholas Kristof titled, "Deadliest Country for Kids." The caption in the original piece reads, " Yalua Ndama with her son, Namana Chanhamba, suffering from malaria and malnutrition, in a Lubango health clinic. What do you see in the image above? No, this image was quite explicitly composed to emphasize the "othe...
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A Beleza Que Existe: April 2015
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A Beleza Que Existe. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Police Violence and How to Lie with Statistics (or just ignore the whole point that people are trying to make). While this is happening here, I start reading about the riots happening in Baltimore and the inevitable reactions of people that fall along the lines of, "Stealing big-screen TVs isn't the right way to express your outrage. [Stupid, poor, black people.]" I feel like that misses the bigger picture in a big way. To me, condemning the rioters without ...
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Oh, Mozambique...: May 2014
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Daily happenings throughout my Peace Corps journey. The contents of this website are my personal views and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps. May 24, 2014. Traveling in Mozambique is no easy feat, especially going long distances. Because of a JUNTOS conference held in northern Mozambique earlier this month, I had a great excuse (and a plane ticket! To go up and explore a few places I thought I'd never make it to. The rest of the trip to Beira was uneventful (luckily!
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Oh, Mozambique...: November 2013
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Daily happenings throughout my Peace Corps journey. The contents of this website are my personal views and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps. November 24, 2013. The Spirit of Giving. 8221; (They are so beautiful! And she said that she wanted a pair. It was then that I got a business proposition. 8220;You have to make me more of these so I can sell them! People will want to buy them! They are so beautiful! 8220;But I can’t make money off of these, sir. “. 8220;Bernadett...
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A Beleza Que Existe: November 2013
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A Beleza Que Existe. Friday, November 22, 2013. A quick post on unrest, elections and press freedom. In Portuguese, I will keep looking for a good English version). People I talk to in my city do not support RENAMO, in fact they don’t support anyone who resorts to violence as a means to express their dissatisfaction. Many have come to support a newer opposition party that started off as a splinter from RENAMO, but that has so far kept its opposition in the political ring: o. This brings me to the second ...
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A Beleza Que Existe: August 2013
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A Beleza Que Existe. Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Fugiring the Present: Visiting the Chinhamapere Rock Paintings. Soooo Since my last post, I have been pretty busy. I am torn between wanting to write the second half of my travel blog. Stairs to the church flanked by stations of the cross; Jorge, Anna, Sarah and Will; the church. From there, we went to find the paintings. We started by getting to the general vicinity, leaning out the window and stopping passers-by with a ". This is the preferred method of fi...
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A Beleza Que Existe: The social and economic costs of fear
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A Beleza Que Existe. Friday, October 17, 2014. The social and economic costs of fear. I wrote a post a few days ago. In reaction to a line in a New York Times. But in response to my blog post, a friend sent along an article about Nigeria's successful containment of Ebola. In "a way that ensured ruthless efficiency.". Nigeria is wealthier than other West African countries and ranked higher on the UN's Human Development Index. So it may have been better positioned to respond to Ebola. But even so, they...
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A Beleza Que Existe: Quick Election Update #2
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A Beleza Que Existe. Sunday, October 26, 2014. Quick Election Update #2. Here is another very quick update on how the elections seem to have gone. In the days immediately following the election, many observing bodies reported a free and fair process. Including the African Union, European Union, and the Southern African Development Community. Or reports of unusually (nearly impossibly) high turnout in some areas that point to a high likelihood of ballot-box stuffing. 92% These results are especially suspe...
