Oral+History

=**ORAL HISTORY**= The Peace Corps. was founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy and has sent over 200 thousand volunteers to developing countries since its founding. The Peace Corps. is a Government-run organization with three goals: assisting those in underdeveloped countries, generating a better knowledge and foreign understanding of Americans, and to give Americans better understanding of foreign cultures.

Volunteers work in a number of fields including, Education, Health and HIV/AIDS, Environment, Agriculture, and Business Development. Peace Corps. sends volunteers all over the world. Some notable returned volunteers are Jim Doyle, the former governor of Wisconsin, and Chris Matthews, host of the NBC news show, Hardball. Many cite the Peace Corps. as a defining time in their life, one such volunteer is Ephraim Frankel, a former Peace Corps. volunteer, neighbor, and friend.

Source: [|__http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/253563?terms=Peace+Corps.+__] Source: [|__http://www.peacecorps.gov/__]

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1) When did you decide that Peace Corps. was something you wanted to participate in?

3) Where did you serve and what did you do there?

4) What was hardest thing to adapt to in that culture?

5) What was the one thing you came to most appreciate about the different culture?

6) Coming back, what was one outlook on your own life in America that had changed?

7) What would you say is the most important thing the Peace Corps. does overseas?

8) What is the thing you try most to share with friends and family about your experience?

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