Breaking rules
I will always have a burning torch inside my heart to light my way through darkness, to the bright side of life, to the light of a clearer self and world.
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Pandemic must-haves? How the pandemic has transformed the affordances of daily items
Strangely enough, it’s now part of my style to leave off the earrings. I decided that it’s time to learn to accept unfilled holes.
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The ending of ‘Burning’: A rebirth into nothing
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“Burning,” a 2018 South Korean thriller directed by Lee Chang-dong and based on Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning,” slowly unfolds into a story about the search for meaning in life.
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To be vulnerable is brave: A lesson from my 30 days in Alaskan wilderness
While carrying more than 50-pound backpacks, we chose a path that included four miles of walking either on a muddy all-terrain-vehicle trail or through shrubs, and then hiking upward for more than 1,600 feet in elevation on slopes covered with bushes.
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Empathy over fear: We must examine our reactions to the coronavirus outbreak in China
Amidst the threat of a global pandemic, instances of racial discrimination and abuse against Chinese citizens and immigrants are spreading around the world — much more rapidly than coronavirus.
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‘Crazy Rich’ students: Our own unacknowledged privileges
I took my family’s financial condition and my parents’ generosity toward me for granted and rarely recognized being given the money to do the things I want to as a privilege of mine.
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Lying in between: What the movie ‘The Farewell’ tells us about our own multicultural families
Lulu Wang’s new movie “The Farewell” revolves around the central conundrum of “What is the better way to say goodbye to someone you love?”
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The hidden liar inside us: embracing and growing from our inner conflict
I was reading in Cafe Think when one of my favorite professors sat down in front of me. We chatted for awhile and he suddenly asked, “So, Raina, was UC Berkeley your first choice?” I smiled and said no. But I quickly added that I really love my college life here and
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Reconciling with traumas in childhood: How do we transform negative family experiences?
During a late-night talk, one of my younger friends cried while talking about her family. She told us that her parents struggled with their marriage while she was little, causing her to first develop a strained relationship with her dad and later become estranged from her whole family. She felt
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The process of decision-making
Gene editing in China and Taiwan’s ban on same-sex marriage raise questions about how resolutions are reached
When Sartre spoke about his existentialist philosophy of life, he considered a human being free and therefore responsible for their own actions. We as humans mold ourselves by making decisions at every step.
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