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What makes you special? 

NBC News journalist Mariana Atencio has traveled the world from Haiti to Hong Kong. In her EDx talk, Mariana tells us how the people she's met along the way and her own immigrant experience have taught her that the only thing we all have in common is being human. Get ready to 'get human' and embrace what makes you different! Take a stand to defend your race: the human race!

Questions:

1. What is  Mariana's attitude as to being different based on her own life experience?

2. What makes you special/ different? how do you feel about it?

3. What things/ideas are you going to take with you from Mariana's talk? Explain.

4. write down 5 to 7 challenging words you have come across while watching.

5. From your challenging word list choose 2 words and write their dictionary definitions and POS. 

 

Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone

Leaping off buildings wasn’t exactly something graduate student Yubing Zhang ever thought she’d do. But pushing beyond her comfort zone and taking that bungee cord leap taught her more than she ever could have imagined.
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