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by Anonymous - October 28, 2009

Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

It’s 107 degrees and the sun’s hot rays are beating down on a family trekking through the busy streets of Dhaka. People, rickshaws, and goats alike are all rushing off to reach their respective destinations. As the parents of the family encourage their two daughters through the maze of bodies, the younger of the two whines for an ice cold mango…

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