Word: shipped
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Semester at Sea has become a synonym for challenge. Every second was part of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. As a result, I got no more than four hours of sleep a night on the ship and no more than a total of six hours of sleep per port. When I did sleep in port, it was usually during airplane, train or, in certain instances, rickshaw rides--and this time was often used to complete course readings, which averaged over 85 pages...
...courses on the ship complimented my experiences in the countries. I read books by Ngugi, Rushdi, Malan and Gordimer, among other authors from the countries we visited for my "Ethnic Literature" course. I learned of England's agreement with Hong Kong, problems of international commercial arbitration between multinational corporations and international human rights enforcement against Chinese labor in my "International Law and Problems of World Order" course...
...learned of the inhumane disparities of world development and standards of living, the problems of World Bank and IMF programs in Africa and the Green Revolution in India in my "Development Economics" course. I also listened to and learned from professors teaching other courses on the ship, ranging from "Saints East and West," "The Columbus Voyage," "International Marketing," "Women's Rights Around the World," and many others in the required course on comparative international studies. Not only did I read about the above topics in books or see them on a screen, I was there. I saw the statistics...
...participation in the European Community. More than 150,000 people paraded through London in the pelting rain last week to demand his resignation. The din of discontent has forced the Prime Minister to ) make so many embarrassing U-turns on policy that he seems to be steering the ship of state in circles...
...addition, Jones said that in France she was "shackle-free;" during her time there, she "forgot that she was Black" because the French people were so warm and accepting. She remembers a time in the United States when she had to ship her works to galleries instead of bringing them in person--she said her pieces would not have been hung if gallery staffs had been aware of her race...