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A story of self-made determined Syrian scientist lost his family and home during the war and found himself a homeless refugee in turkey in a camp near a collage taught with the books he has written. He couldn't work because he doesn't have official papers required to work in turkey but he never stopped his research he created a machine that can generate electricity from the movement of the train. this machine is used right now in Istanbul metro but the credit for this invention was stolen from him as turkish people were buying his inventions. he was interviewed by the Facebook page humans of new York. Edward norton the famous actor read the post and he was inspired to create a website page called the scientist, were people can donate for his travelling expenses to the state, fund his research, and his cancer treatment expenses.

I read the story on the Facebook page humans of New York. I was inspired and shocked because despite the fact that he was left with nothing but a stomach cancer, his only demand is to keep inventing and make the world a better place. It is appealing to me as I found myself motivated. I don't consider myself a refugee in Lebanon as I am seeking my education there but what I know for sure is that I am privileged and blessed for being able to study what I am passionate about without struggling. if a psychologically traumatized person like the scientist with everything he went through can fine hope and persist on making the best of his time inventing, I can achieve and be whoever I want to be, nothing is impossible. The problem posed here is the huge potentials lost. And the problem is not the war or being a refugee. The problem is the mistreatment and the inhuman predisposed thoughts about refugees. Making up a solution is not that hard. Through our voices and communion we can help Edward Norton did!

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The Big Map: an Overview of the Civic Imagination Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
Contents of this tag:
1. Sandokan
2. Dune
3. A Superhero
4. Sisyphus
5. Kevin F
6. Yeti: The Abominable Snowman Lives On
7. Maus: A Survivor's Tale
8. Lakpa Sherpa
9. Felicitas C
10. Tuesdays with Morrie
11. Cinderella
12. The Lion King
13. Sailor Moon Sailor Moon is a young teenage girl that learns that she has magical powers that allows her to fight against the evils of the extraterrestrial world. She finds the Sailor Scouts, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter. Each of them have powers that relate to the symbolism of their planet and a specific superhero outfit that they wear. Based in Neo-futuristic Tokyo the story was released in the 1990’s as a manga and then a television anime came out. It became very popular among teens especially young Asian-American girls because of where it was based although the characters were many depicted as white skin tone.
14. The Story of Isaac Davis
15. Chef "Chef is a film released in 2014 that was written and directed by Jon Favreau who was inspired by his own career in film and love of the culinary arts to create a movie about a popular chef who needs to find his creative spark and fall in love with cooking once more. The film begins in California where Chef Carl Casper lives and works. After receiving a brutally negative review from a well regarded food critic, Carl reevaluates his job at a fancy restaurant in California. He realized that sticking to a strict menu has taken away a lot of joy from the profession he used to love. After he quits his job, Carl heads to Miami, Florida with his family because his ex-wife, Inez, needs him to watch their son, Percy, while she works.
16. Muriel: Love in abundance for Bournemouth's homeless people
17. How the tortoise got cracks in his shell
18. Freedom Writers: Bridging Racial Divides Through Writing Freedom Writers (the movie) is based on a true story of a school in Long Beach, California. The main character, Erin Gruwell, is a new teacher at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and placed with the students who are considered at-risk and unteachable. These students were almost entirely comprised of minorities, with the exception of one student. With such a diverse class and a group of students who had no apparent desire to learn, the film explores the real-world challenges that Gruwell faced trying to get her students to come to class wanting to learn, if they would even want to come to their classes at all. The class divides itself based on race, and fights and arguments breakout regularly. The class later finds common ground on their feelings and discussions around The Holocaust. Her students become inspired to break free from the things that originally divided them, most notably with one character speaking out against someone who she was being forced to lie for during a trial. She tasked her students with writing in a diary and then compiled those journals and writings into a collection of them all in “The Freedom Writers Diary.”
19. Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
21. The continuous struggle of the Enlightenment
22. The forgiveness in a mexican family
23. The colonial city
24. My Dad
25. Knowledge is Change
26. The Simulators
27. The Little Prince
28. The Big Bang
29. "The American Dream"
30. Sanjay's Super Team This is an animated short film from Pixar directed and written by Sanjay Patel who based it off his experiences as a child. The story revolves around a young boy, Sanjay, and his father, an Indian-American migrant. Sanjay is watching his favourite superheroes on TV while his father is praying by the shrine in the same room. His father urges him to join in the ritual but Sanjay refuses so he switches off the TV and takes his toy in order to force him into it.
31. Coming Together in a Time of Common Need
32. Fox's Creek On a hot summer night a community of animals were chased out of their home by a growing wildfire which started to burn down their forest. Mother Deer grabbed her young ones while the other animals rushed to cross the great river. Everyone showed their human instincts, pushing, kicking, and growling desperately on their way to safety. Mother Deer made it to the other side with Fawn but Mother Rabbit forgot one of her many young ones so she asked her for he
33. Juggling against all odds
34. John S
35. Train of Hope
36. Planet El Dorado
37. Kaylee L
38. Simba and the Maasai Warriors
39. Sofie E.
40. Roaring Lion
41. The Beauty in Breaking
42. Who will comfort Toffle? by Tove Jansson (1960)
43. Emmeline the Suffragist
44. Michelle S
45. El Dorado
46. The cyclist, Sarah Lee
47. Paige VS
48. Inner peace
49. Rafael DCB
50. Sarah P.
51. A different kind of princess
52. A Leader
53. Diego O.
54. Lezem
55. Hopping for Hope
56. The Myth of the Mansfield Hanging Tree
57. Gabe PL
58. Juan Carlos C
59. Paula V
60. Shawnie W.
61. Mirva V.
62. Writing Your Own Deliverance
63. Emily M.
64. Practice what you preach
65. The Mud People
66. Braveheart
67. Guitar: The Instrument of Peace
68. Documenting an Ever-changing Humanity
69. Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451"
70. Tomas DLR
71. Tanis Ca.
72. Jessica L
73. Dana G.
74. Josefina D
75. The Story of Iris
76. Pedro M.
77. Lilly S
78. potentials lost
79. Nick C
80. Frankie Wong
81. De'Graft M
82. Iyad T
83. Jodie B
84. New Feet
85. We are all Martín Fierro
86. How I "Eat, Pray, and Love"
87. The Beauty of Mending
88. Sandra Z
89. Nicole L.
90. Daniela A
91. Watership Down
92. Jay B
93. Nour H
94. Out of Balance
95. Sophocles G
96. Nora S
97. Joy L
98. The doctors' team of the Aegean sea
99. Devin VH
100. Taylor G
101. Catherine G
102. Yara A.
103. Ghada G.
104. Remember the Titans
105. Hakuna Matata, Simba!
106. A Story of Persistence
107. Miracle
108. Kristi K
109. Stephanie Q
110. Nina N.
111. Street Art Movement in Miami
112. Sandokan: A Post-Colonial Coldwar Hero The plot of the novel revolves around the adventures of Sandokan - a Bornean man who lost his status, home and family to British colonialists. Embittered by his experience, Sandokan sets up camp at the island of Mompracem. From there he leads a gang of pirates under the flag of the Tiger. Together they destabilize the colonialists’ authority through robbery and violence. Steeped in the colonial period in which it was written, Salgari’s novel pitted indigenous populations against the colonial powers in ways that highlighted the evils of imperialism and celebrated resistance. As Maria Bianca Gerlich (1998, 34) observes, “Sandokan, Mompracem, and the flag of the tiger are allegories in the fight for freedom.”
113. Gradual Granules | The Gradual Reform Sweeping through the Sands of the Gulf.
114. Jeremiah Kipainoi
115. Kristina S
116. Equilibrium Equilibrium is set in 2072 in Libria, a city state established by the survivors of World War III. “Equilibrium” is an action/thriller movie following John Preston (Bale), an enforcement officer in a futuristic world where a regime has decided to eliminate war by suppressing emotions using a certain type of drug. Books, art and music are strictly forbidden and "feeling" is a crime punishable by death.
117. Alexander Q
118. Hannah G
119. EMPOWERING THE MAASAI COMMUNITY TO BRING CHANGE FROM WITHIN
120. The Help
121. Laura C
122. Martin D.
123. Madison G.
124. Zoe C.
125. Miguel Luigi Enriquez
126. Nouna K
127. Aceel K.
128. Linda G
129. The Inner City Youth
130. Tamara G
131. Sangita S
132. Mohamed Y. Saad
133. Who will comfort the monster?
134. Tiajna A
135. Simulators in Syria
136. Connie
137. Caroline Long
138. The Outlet It is the civil war in Venezuela. Xena and her little brother, Gabriel, live in the city where Gabriel practices his art. Xena, wants to see her brothers art and asks him to go to his studio and bring it back. Just as he reaches the car, a bomb hits the car, killing Gabriel. Xena, being extremely close to her brother, blames herself for sending him to get his art. She later finds out that the bomb was planted by the Latin Kings gang. Out of revenge, she then joins the rival gang with her friend, Shepard. In an act of revenge, her gang plants a bomb. She later learns, that the bomb she planted blew up Shepard's parents house. Feeling guilty, and knowing that Gabriel would be disappointed in these actions, she decided to make a change. In honor of Gabriel, she picks up his art, and paints the entire country of Venezuela with beautiful street art. Through this art she finds peace. The art was so beautiful and happy, that it ended the civil war, and transformed into a happy, peaceful place to live.
139. Anika T.
140. Marìa la Altruista
141. Julia B. I am a third year student at the University of Maryland in the U.S. studying Journalism with a minor in French. Writing is a passion of mine, and journalism is one of the many real world applications of writing. I hope to be able to use writing to make an impact on the world through the news and help others get the information that they need in order to be informed citizens. In my free time I like to do triathlons and write poetry.
142. The Man from Up
143. A Tale of Traveler's Past A 28-30 year-old man boards a train and sits in an empty compartment. He is a weary traveller who has spent countless days trying to find transportation to reach his destination. While en route, he falls asleep and is visited from travelers from past and present journeys of who had boarded this particular train. The first visitor is Alexander Hamilton; a migrant from the Caribbean who traveled to the United States in the 1800's. He recounts his experience of traveling to a new country and achieving his dream of creating something that would outlive him. The second visitors are Art and Vladek Spiegelman; a father and son who share their story of how they migrated to a new country after the Holocaust events of World War II and their struggles of adapting into the culture of a new nation. The last visitor is a woman who comes from the Middle East who arrived in Vienna a year ago. She tells her story about the journey she experienced to reach her new home as well as the issues she's experiences now as an outcast from a land that she's still not fully settled into yet.
144. An American Chef in the Aegean: Teaching solidarity through food
145. Em/Power Love As Liz finishes her spiritual trip around the world she heads to Brazil for her final stop. She stops into a local bar where this man Sebastiao spills a glass of wine on her. From there the love story began and the couple traveled around Brazil to take photos of social injustice. One night they were out in the middle of a field where they were taking photos of an approaching comet and Sebastiao noticed something strange in the image. They went to the comet collision and found an luminescent girl standing there. She introduces herself as Em, an inter-terrestrial who warns them about the consequences of gender inequality. She says there is an outer universal counsel that judges planets according to social understandings. Em tells them that she has magic powers to empower women and helps them reach self-discover. Liz and Sebastiao take on the mission to travel around the world with Em to show the strong women all over the world. Together they take photos of social injustices while illustrating stories of women struggling to find themselves within their societies. After taking the photos with Em using her magic power given by the moon they feel they can become their own hero. Em takes the photos back to the counsel to prove that Earth is becoming a more equal society. But Liz and Sebastiao’s work of empowering women and showing social injustices will still continue.
Non Fiction Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
Contents of this tag:
1. A Superhero
2. Maus: A Survivor's Tale
3. Lakpa Sherpa
4. Tuesdays with Morrie
5. How the tortoise got cracks in his shell
6. The Story of Isaac Davis
7. Muriel: Love in abundance for Bournemouth's homeless people
8. Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
9. "The American Dream"
10. The forgiveness in a mexican family
11. The continuous struggle of the Enlightenment
12. My Dad
13. Sanjay's Super Team This is an animated short film from Pixar directed and written by Sanjay Patel who based it off his experiences as a child. The story revolves around a young boy, Sanjay, and his father, an Indian-American migrant. Sanjay is watching his favourite superheroes on TV while his father is praying by the shrine in the same room. His father urges him to join in the ritual but Sanjay refuses so he switches off the TV and takes his toy in order to force him into it.
14. Freedom Writers: Bridging Racial Divides Through Writing Freedom Writers (the movie) is based on a true story of a school in Long Beach, California. The main character, Erin Gruwell, is a new teacher at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and placed with the students who are considered at-risk and unteachable. These students were almost entirely comprised of minorities, with the exception of one student. With such a diverse class and a group of students who had no apparent desire to learn, the film explores the real-world challenges that Gruwell faced trying to get her students to come to class wanting to learn, if they would even want to come to their classes at all. The class divides itself based on race, and fights and arguments breakout regularly. The class later finds common ground on their feelings and discussions around The Holocaust. Her students become inspired to break free from the things that originally divided them, most notably with one character speaking out against someone who she was being forced to lie for during a trial. She tasked her students with writing in a diary and then compiled those journals and writings into a collection of them all in “The Freedom Writers Diary.”
15. Arlen Siu
16. Hamilton's Rise to Success
17. Practice what you preach
18. The Light at the end of a Dark Tunnel
19. Inner peace
20. Train of Hope
21. My Own Revolution
22. Emmeline the Suffragist
23. The Diary of Anne Frank
24. The cyclist, Sarah Lee
25. The Beauty in Breaking
26. A Leader
27. Writing Your Own Deliverance
28. The Bosses
29. Juggling against all odds
30. Katur Kati
31. Street Art Movement in Miami
32. The Help
33. Braveheart
34. Documenting an Ever-changing Humanity
35. How I "Eat, Pray, and Love"
36. The doctors' team of the Aegean sea
37. Watership Down
38. Story of courage and survival
39. Remember the Titans
40. We are all Martín Fierro
41. Miracle
42. EMPOWERING THE MAASAI COMMUNITY TO BRING CHANGE FROM WITHIN
43. potentials lost
44. Hamilton: An American Musical
45. The Inner City Youth
The Big Bang Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
Contents of this tag:
sandra abdullatef Sangita Shresthova
Contents of this tag:
1. The Big Bang
2. potentials lost