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When Hurricane Katrina smashed ashore in
2005, Louisiana teen Samantha Perez started writing about the
storm that washed away much of her old life. Her journal,
chronicled in the pages of The Tattoo, is all online at
Hurricane Journal.
Read it for an eye-opening and intensely personal look into the
eye of the worst storm in recent history. |
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Minha Lee (USA):
When the survivors of a tragedy are unwilling to
share their experiences, the tragedy gets erased as the
generations go by. This happens to every war and every genocide,
events that get remembered by dates and important figures, maybe
some gruesome pictures, but as the survivors leave
this Earth one by one, their stories, the real human history,
gets forgotten by most people. .
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Minha Lee (USA):
I
never understood the touching relationship between Korean people and their soju. Its
presence is ubiquitous, from billboards and night clubs to funerals. Soju
is an alcoholic beverage that looks like vodka, but tastes a little sweeter. If
every nation could be identified by an alcoholic beverage, soju would be
synonymous to what it means to be a Korean.
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Minha Lee (USA):
The Korean language pretty much has all the sounds English has, but in Korean,
there are no sounds for Z, V, R, and F. There are few sounds that the Korean
language has that English doesnt. Those sounds are
ㅃ(bb)
, ㅉ
(jj) , ㄲ
(gg), ㅆ
(ss), and ㄸ
(dd). You will have to hit the roof of your mouth with your tongue while
pronouncing the regular consonant to make a harder consonant sound.
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More of Minha
Lee's pictures from Korea:
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Minha Lee (USA):
The constant
hustle and bustle of this society never seems to fade. On every
street are numerous original stores and specialty shops. Though
Korea has its fair share of globalization McDonalds and
Starbucks are well established the real spirit of the Korean
economy lies in small, independent restaurants, shops and
vendors.
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Minha Lee (USA):
Do you often find
yourself too sad to tie your shoelaces? Do you ever slave over your hair to flip
exactly the right way to hide your sorrow stricken eyes? Have you ever written a
tear stained break-up song, somehow sounding a lot like My Chemical Romance? If you answered "yes"
to any of these questions, you might be stranded in Emoland, U.S.A.
Teens such as yourself
make this place a home and are often reluctant to leave. But before you drown
yourself in tears, there is a road to your salvation, if you have about $1,500
and a month or more to spare.
What you need to do is fly to a country called Korea.
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Born in Seoul, Korea, Minha Lee lived in Korea,
Romania, and Ukraine as a young girl. She moved from Korea to
Minnesota with her family at age 11. On a high school visit to
Korea, she began to see her home country from a different
perspective. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York and attends
Pratt Institute. Photo
above shows Minha Lee in Seoul, Korea.
Below Is Minha Lee And Her Younger Sister.
See The Tattoo's pre-election package of
stories here:
And watch for a special edition soon featuring the
reaction of more than two dozen teens from all over the world to
the election of President-elect Barack Obama.
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