What would you say to a younger, less world-weary version of you? When the question was posed to 36-year-old refugee Kholoud, she answered without thinking.

In 2011, Kholoud started a Syrian newspaper, reporting news in her hometown. State-owned media meant citizens had little idea of what was happening, making her work valuable.

"I was a member of a peaceful activist group," she says. "But the soldiers responded with force. It only took two weeks for the real bullets to come."

Soon the arrests began, Kholoud's brother was taken at 12. 30 pm one evening when the family were all home. "The soldiers threatened to kill us all, threatened my mum they would chop her son into pieces." It wasn't until a year later that Kholoud would be forced to leave herself, "We were supposed to meet friends that evening, but two of them arrived early. We phoned to say we were coming, but they told us they had been arrested, because the meeting was a hook. We had to flee the country in less than two weeks."

First moving to Turkey, Kholoud gained a scholarship at a university in 2017. But when her Syrian passport expired while studying, she was forced to claim asylum（政治庇护）. "While I was waiting for my asylum proposal to be accepted, I could not work or even live, feeling deprived of my humanity, and at that moment realised there's no hope for going back to Syria. I became a refugee."

Despite the hardships, I have no regrets. I would tell my younger self to keep fighting. I keep a motto close to me, written in the Kite Runner, which says' For you, a thousand times over.' For this cause and the freedoms of millions of other Syrians? Yeah, a thousand times over."

Daniel Boone was born in the United States in 1734. He didn’t go to school and couldn’t read, although he learned all about the forests, streams and hunting. He could move silently like an Indian leaving no marks. He loved to live alone in the woods where nothing frightened him.

When he grew up, he married and tried to settle down on a farm. A year later, however, he wasn’t satisfied and decided to go into the unknown western lands, crossing the Appalachian Mountains. When he returned after two years, he became famous for his long journey. He brought valuable animal skins and told stories about the Indians.

After this, he chose to keep travelling to unknown places. Once he lost to the Indians in battle and was taken away. The Indians liked him and became his friends.

Daniel Boone died at the age of 86. He is remembered as an explorer(探险者)and a pioneer who lived an exciting life in the early years of American nation.

Dr. Esther Ngumbi, now a professor of Entomology (昆虫学) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was born in a rural farming community along the Kenyan Coast. 【小题1】 There were no societal role models to inspire girls to reach for the stars. Luckily, her parents were teachers and struggled to raise enough money to pay for their children’s school fees.

Her parents would go to town to get their pay checks, but eat nothing before coming back in the evening, hungry and tired. She knew that they were able to buy food in town, but they chose not to spend money on themselves so that Esther and her brothers and sisters could go to school. 【小题2】 It inspired her to pursue her academic career goals and fight against challenges however tough they seemed.

【小题3】 She went through high school and eventually college and attained a Bachelor and Master of Science at Kenyatta University. On a beautiful summer day of August 6, 2011, she attained what at times seemed to be an unrealistic dream: a PhD in Entomology from Auburn University. 【小题4】

She cried on her graduation day as she thought of her community in Kenya and many girls in her community. 【小题5】 It was during that day that she told herself she would do everything she needed to do, and give the girls more opportunities to break down the poverty barrier, be educated, and achieve great things.

She has devoted all of her passion, efforts, heart and resources to bringing sustainable change in her community and she has become a role model for girls in her community.