{"id":68,"date":"2011-03-21T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T04:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/?p=68"},"modified":"2011-04-06T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T04:47:17","slug":"inspirational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/2011\/03\/21\/inspirational\/","title":{"rendered":"Comm299: A person who inspires me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/files\/2011\/03\/unicef91.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87\" title=\"unicef9\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/files\/2011\/03\/unicef91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/files\/2011\/03\/unicef91.jpg 795w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/files\/2011\/03\/unicef91-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a>One of my favourite actresses is Audrey Hepburn. She&#8217;s graceful, smart and the epitome of a lady.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve always admired celebrities like Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie who work so extensively with charities . For Audrey, she was appointed goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund after her final movie role. As indicated by her quote above, she endured a similar experience under the German occupation and has since then vowed to help impoverished children for the remainder of her life. I think that in itself is a great achievement. From her numerous mission trips, such as Ethiopia, Turkey, South America, Vietnam and Somalia, just to name a few, it is clear that she hasn&#8217;t fallen back on that promise. She inspires me because I ultimately want to live my life and use my commerce degree to benefit the better good. Working for the United Nations, and more specifically following my dad&#8217;s footsteps by working for the IMF&#8211;that would be a life goal. My passion is in economics, and I would love nothing more than to dip my toes in this fairly new concept of international economic development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite actresses is Audrey Hepburn. She&#8217;s graceful, smart and the epitome of a lady. I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II. I&#8217;ve always admired celebrities like Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie who work so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ceciliawang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}