AGYARAGU, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria – While nearly all his childhood friends had absorbing...
Archive - January 2015
This is an interactive map that shows you where YJI students have written stories over the years. You can zoom in or out of the world map to explore all of them in detail. [Note: If you’re seeing this on an author page, you will only see stories by a particular student.]
A Blizzard Begins And The Snow Drifts
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In Boston, The Great Snowpocalypse
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National Holocaust Memorial Museum Delivers Painfully Sad Lessons
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Though we learned about the Holocaust every year in English or history class, we...
Seventy Years After Its Liberation, Auschwitz Is Still Chilling To This Young Visitor
OSWIECIM, Poland – No words can truly describe what visiting Auschwitz is like. Even now, months...
Pope Francis Visits, Inspires Filipinos
BAGO CITY, The Philippines – The Philippines made worldwide news when Pope Francis arrived January...
Victims In Paris Attack Are Wrongly Being Used Worldwide As Political Pawns
COTLEIGH, Devon, England – Seventeen individuals died during Paris’s horrific three days of terror...
Selma Today: Still So Much Work Ahead
SELMA, Alabama, U.S.A. – I just returned from spending an incredible and enlightening week in...