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Vo Thi Sau was born in Ba Ria Vung Tau province in 1933. She a was just a schoolgirl (18) in revolutionary activities. When Ho Chi Minh declared independence against the French in 1945, she was only 12 years old. A few years later, she joined the Viet Minh and became a guerrilla fighter.

At the age of 14 while in a busy market, she threw a grenade at a group of French soldiers. She managed to kill one officer and (19). She was able to escape unnoticed. At 16, she planned another grenade attack, however, the grenade failed to explode and (20). She was then shipped off to three different prisons, the final being Con Son prison on the Con Dao archipelago. She was executed by firing squad in 1952 when she was only 19-year-old. It's said she refused to be blindfolded and stared into the eyes of the soldiers while singing (21).

Today, Vietnamese people consider Vo Thi Sau to be a symbol of the revolutionary spirit. (22). Her grave is frequently visited by Vietnamese citizens, especially at night, to honor her memory. (23).

(Adapted from https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-vo-thi-sau)

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One of the most cornmon ways to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival is by eating moontakes - a dense, sweet pastry (24) is baked, steamed and normally enjoyed with tea. Most are filled with lotus paste and salted egg yolk while (25) contain red bean or date paste as well as fruits, nuts and seeds. You can also (26) mooncakes in flavors like green tea or chocolate. Mooncakes nowadays are wrapped in beautiful paper boxes (27) put inside highly decorated tins, which can make a meaningful (28) for members in the family in the celebration of Mid-Autumn.

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Edward Patrick Eagan was born on April 26th 1897 in Denver, Colorado, and his father died in railroad accident when Eagan was only one year old. He and his four brothers were raised by his mother, who earned a small income from teaching foreign languages.

Inspired by Frank Marriwell, the hero of a series of popular novels for boys, Eagan pursued an education for himself and an interest in boxing. He attended the University of Denver for a year before serving in the U.S. army as an artillery lieutenant during World War I. After the war, he entered Yale University and while studying there, won the US national amateur heavyweight boxing title. He graduated from Yale in 1921, attended Harvard Law School, and received Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford where he received his A.M. in 1928.

While studying at Oxford, Eagan became the first American to win the British amateur boxing championship. Eagan won his first gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Eagan also fought at the 1924 Olympics in Paris as a heavyweight but failed to get a medal. Though he had taken up the sport just three weeks before the competition, he managed to win a second gold medal as a member of four-man bobsled team at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Thus, he became the only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

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Fortunately, we live in a city in which our waste management system includes a kerbside recycling program. But only certain types of plastic (numbered 1, 2 or 5) can be recycled. Globally, only 9% of the 15% of plastic waste collected for recycling is actually recycled. We should be encouraging children to discuss the ways in which recycling is a complicated and, at best, partial solution to plastic pollution.

Litterless lunchbox efforts are increasingly common in schools. Such initiatives can help raise children’s awareness of plastic waste. However, they can easily become a top-down school policy rather than an opportunity for children to deliberate about the ethical and political complexities of plastic waste. They can also create conditions through which children may be shamed or singled out for bringing plastic wrapping to school, including disabled children, or children with disabled caregivers, whose well-being depends on their use of some single-use plastics. While social shaming has been used in environmental behavior modification, it’s not great as an educational tool. Children and youth can feel disempowered when solutions to environmental problems are just outside their reach, or just don’t add up. Many people believe that children are able to grasp the importance of prevention of plastic waste over trying to find solutions after it has been produced and used.

Packaging accounts for 46% of the world’s plastic waste. Currently, some of the world’s top single-use plastic polluters are the same corporations who led the “people as polluters” deflection campaign decades ago. Under public pressure, one of the worst producers of single-use plastic, Coca-Cola, recently pledged to transition 25% of its packaging to reusable packaging by 2030. This is a beginning, but rather than wait for corporations to do the right thing, we can work to build reusable and refillable packaging infrastructure and demand that polluters pay.

Children can learn that holding corporations responsible and demanding regulatory change can have an impact. Let’s commit to helping children collaborate with communities and organizations working to make a difference to reduce plastic pollution at the source.

In the end, children and educators feel empowered when they are active participants within intergenerational communities organizing for change - rather than being made to feel they are the problem.

Adapted from https://theconversation.com/plastic-free-july-recycling-is-the-ambulance-at-the-bottom-of- the-cliff-its-time-to-teach-kids-to-demand-real-change-from-the-worst-plastic-producers-185573