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http://stampmcgill.wordpress.com/ongoing-campaigns/we-are-peace/

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PHOTO COMPETITION!!!STAMP has launched its photo competition “Picturing Peace”. Check out the contest rules here:Picturing Peace – EnglishLa Paix en Images – FrançaisSend your photos to medicine.peace@gmail.com. Twelve winning photographs will be made into a 2010 peace calendar, with first and second place winning a cash prize! The calendar will be available for purchase at the McGill Bookstore at the end of November and in December 2009. More details to come!
6 C4 t2 O6 z; [7 c, N October 7th, 2009: Our Evening for Peace was a big success! Students from across campus joined us for an evening of Middle Eastern snacks, music, and an art project. We created doves with images and messages of peace, to be hung on our mural of an olive tree, which will be displayed in the McGill McLennan-Redpath library exhibition space during the week of January 24th, 2010. Blank doves will be available at the exhibit, so that you can contribute your own message of peace to our project! Click on the gallery below for more photos from this event and previous events:
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What is We are Peace?We are Peace is STAMP’s campaign for a peaceful campus. STAMP members identified the need for a space to engage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a peaceful, inclusive, and humanistic way. By transcending the political dimensions of the issue which are so often a source of great tension, we instead focus on relationship building, finding common ground, and fostering mutual understanding in order to strengthen the fabric of our community. Read our Statement of Intent.
Our launch event in April 2009 involved an evening of Middle Eastern food such as falafel and hummus, Israeli and Arabic music, and painting a with images and messages of peace. Participants of diverse religious, ethnic, and political backgrounds attended, and our peace mural was later displayed in McGill’s McLennan-Redpath library in May 2009.
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5 m8 G; \* _1 `8 O- C! UProceeds for this campaign will benefit PeacePlayers in the Israel and Palestine: http://www.peaceplayersintl.org/dsp_middleeast_background.aspx
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        中国话的口音变化很大，为了统一全国人民的语音，以方便交流，因此在中国目前正努力推行着普通话，可能是上了年龄的人能够讲普通话的不多，但是能够听懂普通话的还是比较多的。不过现在年轻人当中普通话已经相当普级，虽然各地的普通话也都是千差万别，但是从总体上来讲，沟通的问题基本不大了。
; K+ B! G: t6 K0 U& {% C        那么在英美国家有没有这样的普通话呢？这样我们在学习英语的时候就可以直接学习这样标准的语音，从而省去了学习中麻烦，从而达到事半功倍的效果。但是很遗憾，这个美好的愿望是无法实现的。
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" i! K4 ~) N! _        当然这里还有另外一个原因，在英语上目前虽然没有一个统一的口音，但是各地的口音之间的区别却是相当小的。比如英国音与美国音之间的区别，还赶不上普通话与天津话的区别（离北京才120公里）。所以在中国推进普通话的必要性也比这些英语国家标准语音的要求要强烈的多。
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