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| Alex Daraseng |
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I live in six metaphors and I am constantly searching for truth and good fruit.
My Activities are:
love, life, laughter, literature, Students Against Global Apathy (SAGA)
My Interests are:
books, global citizenship, wonderful people, incorrigible optimism, foods that start with the letter c, random acts of joy, provocative art, agents of action, unbirthday parties, international development, dramatic irony, rock-climbing, originality, bright colours, philosophy, the gap between expectation and actuality, conciseness, beauty in the beholder, ordinary people who want to create connections that result in extraordinary outcomes, education outside the classroom, bad dancing, life on other planets, similes and metaphors and personification, absurdism, the scientific method, bad pickup lines, united nations declaration of human rights, sunrises, old men who give their granddaughters a flower to give to their grandmother, smiling friends, new ideas, the science of language, the art of medicine, inspiration, social innovation, anthropology, books again, the pursuit of happiness, english poets, kubla khan, traveling so far east that you begin to travel west, tolerance, sincerity, running through the valley, non-profit organizations, women's rights, good design, story-telling, garlic, ethical consumerism, the meaning of life, orgasms, history, indonesian rainforests, self-determination, the moment between yesterday and tomorrow, empathy, random strangers who become new friends, healthy living, intellectual debate, people before profit, the bottom billion, imagination, our fragile world, architechiture, biomimicry, bad puns, traveling to 30 countries before I am 30, overcoming fear, you, symmetry, books
My Favourite Quotation:
On your gravestone there will be two dates and all that matters will be that little dash in between.
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Valantina , ErynFitzgerald , Thandeka , MandyJHC , chiaramente , melaniachwyl , kenzieg , clemy21 , Jesser , cwolinsk , Daniella1131 , drthomps , jctruong , RussellC , shobana , niwadwitama , alexmistula , KrisWells , mistersub , kushkalra
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- A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
- A Fair Country by John Saul
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century by James Orbinski
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
- Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Pau Sartre
- Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet by Carol Off
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories by Vincent Lam
- Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley
- Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
- Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William Mcdonough, Michael Braungart
- Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller
- Design for the Other 90% by Cynthia E. Smith
- Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises by Architecture for Humanity
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- Dracula (Enriched Classics Series) by Bram Stoker
- Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Extraordinary Evil: A Short Walk to Genocide by Barbara Coloroso
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart
- Franny and Zooey by J.d. Salinger
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- From condoms to cabbages: An authorized biography of Mechai Viravaidya by Thomas D'Agnes
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
- Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition by Jared Diamond
- Hamlet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders by Dan Bortolotti
- How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
- How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition by David Bornstein
- Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Allen Ginsberg
- Ignorance: A Novel by Milan Kundera
- Importance Of Being Ernest (Oxford Pocket Classics) by Rh Value Publishing
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lysistrata (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aristophanes
- Macbeth (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
- Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS by Anne-christine d'Adesky
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
- No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomi Klein
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
- Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
- On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Othello (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare
- Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson
- Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (BK Currents (Paperback)) by Paul Polak
- Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy) by Naguib Mahfouz
- Pride and Prejudice (Arcturus Classics) by Jane Austen
- Race Against Time (CBC Massey Lectures Series) (Cbc Massey Lecture Series) by Stephen Lewis
- Saturday by Ian Mcewan
- Shake Hands with the Devil : The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Rom
- Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
- Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk
- That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity by James Dawes
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Antoine De Saint-Exupery Collection (The Little Prince / Airman's Odyssey) by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, Lionel Giles
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage) by Barack Obama
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes) (v. 1, 2, 3) by Bill Watterson
- The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Haddon
- The End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
- The Ethical Imagination by Margaret Somerville
- The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need by Chris Turner
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Lord of the Flies (Penguin) by William Golding
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Master and Margarita (Vintage International) by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays by Albert Camus
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
- The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus
- The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
- The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins
- The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- The Stranger (Everyman's Library) by Albert Camus
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
- The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
- The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
- The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
- Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions) by Chinua Achebe
- This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian
- White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith
- Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida
- Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
- Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen, Al Gore, Bruce Sterling
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