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GHung
- Location
- Lombard, Illinois, United States of America
- Birthday
- December 27
- Title
- Consulting Media Arts Communications
- Company
- Communications, Languages & Culture, Inc.
- Bio
- Creative spirit for a ready writer...
Gardenia C. Hung has been writing prose, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction topics for the last forty-two (42) years in English, Spanish, French, and sometimes into Portuguese translation. She has written poetry for Scholastic Magazine in Spanish encouraged by her lyrical expression and descriptive style. Ms. Hung completed Elementary and Middle School in Santiago de Cuba with a diploma and certification in Spanish. Then, Gardenia C. Hung continued studies in the United States of America for Middle School, grades 6th with Miss Honeywood, 7th, and 8th at Avondale Elementary School where she graduated with High Honors in Mr. Herbert Hebel's 8th grade homeroom, in Chicago, Illinois. For Middle School English. Ms. Hung wrote original stories which received praise for writing style and authentic narrative topics, encouraged to continue studying English by Miss Kardos, her ESL teacher at Avondale Grammar School and other mentors, family, and friends. Later at Madonna High School received, Ms. Hung received a High School Diploma with High Honors for graduation in the top ten percent of the Class of 1977 with majors in English, French, Art, History, and the Humanities in Chicago, Illinois. Gardenia C. Hung was admitted at Northeastern Illinois University with Advanced Placement in English, French, and Spanish where she majored in Education, English, French, Spanish, Linguistics and minors in Music, Dance, and Physical Education to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree for the Class of 1982. At NEIU, she received a summer scholarship from Laval University in Ville de Québec, Canada to major in French Linguistics, Syntax, and Phonetics. The following year, in 1983, Ms. Hung continued graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago for a Master of Arts in Communications & Theatre, which included majors in Rhetoric, Ethnography, and Theatre. Gardenia C. Hung has written publications for professional associations and community groups. In addition, Ms. Hung writes for online media CNN iReport, Triblocal, Blogger, Facebook, WordPress, Typepad, and other social media groups on the world wide web.
MY RECENT POSTS
- A Mother's Day Story: Alias
Unknown Senior Citizen
May 06, 2012 01:34PM - A Traumatic Brain Injury
Experience as a Lombard
Resident
March 26, 2012 03:53PM - American Red Cross Training is
A Lifetime Experience
February 25, 2012 11:03AM - A Lilac Town Homeowner's View
January 12, 2012 12:59PM - My Personal Hopes For 2012
January 01, 2012 04:42PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “A Taiwanese
Cross-Cultural Experience is
Always Fun in the
Year of the
Dragon 201…”
May 06, 2012 02:15PM - “San Francisco is a real
Chinese town in the Year of
the
Dragon 2012.”
May 06, 2012 02:11PM - “Are Immigrants Human
Beings?”
May 06, 2012 02:06PM - “Turkish Souvenirs are
always indelible memories
from
time-travelling
experiences…”
May 06, 2012 02:01PM - “Kodachrome and
Kaleidescope Eyes Do Make You
A Simple
Shutterbug!”
May 06, 2012 01:56PM
GHung's Links
- New list
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- Mixx Classic
- Gravatar
- Writer's Digest Community
- Flickr
- Constitutional Reconsideration
- Damages and Losses Caused by the Village of Lombard
- Walking With Nature
- 2010 Good News, Challenges & Constraints
- TypePad
- WordPress
- Amigos Son Amigos En Cualquier Idioma
- Amitié Francophone
- Create-a-recipe
- Plaxo
- Langmates
- TwtBizCard
- Bebo
- You Tube
- Coroflot Creative Portfolio
- Excursion Travels
A Mother's Day Story: Alias Unknown Senior Citizen
A Stolen Identity in Du Page County, Illinois USA
I have not seen My Mother since January 12, 2006 when I found her injured at our Lombard Brick Bungalow, 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, across Mrs. Shimek’s green home and Robyn’s brick brownstone. Six/… Read full post »
A Traumatic Brain Injury Experience as a Lombard Resident
The Brain Injury Association of Illinois is celebrating Brain Injury Awareness during the month of March 2012. I can personally support traumatic brain injury awareness in March 2012 because I have been a Victim of Traumatic Brain Injury after I was struck with a blunt… Read full post »
American Red Cross Training is A Lifetime Experience
Greetings during Red Cross Month in 2012! My name is Gardenia C. Hung-Wittler. I have been interested in the Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED training since I was in fifth grade in Santiago de Cuba, when the elementary teacher Emma trained us in basic First Aid, Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation,/… Read full post »
A Lilac Town Homeowner's View
Nineteen years ago, since September 2, 1993, I moved to Lilac Town after purchasing a Lombard home from Debra Seckreki in District 5 because she could not afford to pay the homeowner's real estate tax bill of $2,800US. My father, Mr. Roberto Hung who signed the real estate contract purchase pai… Read full post »
My Personal Hopes For 2012
“Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”--von Goethe
At Midnight, I remembered to observe and follow the old tradition of the Twelve Grapes which are to be eaten one at a time marking the hours leading to… Read full post »
A Winter Solstice Story
On a Winter Solstice evening, during the longest night in December 21, 1996, I had already returned to my Lombard family home from Berlin, Germany after attending an international conference for Language and the Media at the InterContinental Hotel on Alexanderplatz. My Father had arrived home fr… Read full post »
Lilac Town is A Real Estate Heaven in The Western Suburbs
Gardenia's First Aid To Father and Mother in Lombard
Lombard resident homeowner Gardenia C. Hung helped her Father Roberto Hung, victim of a traumatic brain injury at home which caused permanent disability, left him bedridden, unable to walk, and Mother who suffered from a stroke, with first aid medical assistance when they both became injured at 502 S… Read full post »
Mr. Roberto Hung, J.D. & Family, Lombard Victims of Hate
Mr. Roberto Hung, J.D. and Family, Lombard Resident Homeowners Victims of Heinous Hate Crimes in Illinois
The Village of Lombard, Police and Fire Department have not
compensated the Family of Mr. Roberto Hung, his Daughter, Lombard
Resident Homeowner as Victims of Crimes, Structural Disaster
Lilac Town Owes Compensation to Victims of Crimes

Lilac Town in York Township, DuPage County, Illinois has not compensated the Hung-Wittler Family for All the Criminal Disaster Damages and Losses to the Estate of the Hung-Wittler Family, to include personal injury, abuse, harassment, kidnappings, tortures by inj… Read full post »
A President's Memorial Library
U.S. Presidential libraries became all the more familiar to me
when my late father donated funds to the Richard Nixon Library and
the Ronald Reagan Library. Dr. Roberto Hung, J.D. has been
acknowledged for helping and contributing to preserve U.S.
Presidential history in the making.
While reading an a… Read full post »
High Tides for Springtime
Lake Michigan by the Wind… Read full post »
A Diamond Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace and the BBC’s Blue Peter programme today announced details of the official emblem chosen for Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 to celebrate HRH Elizabeth II's 60th Anniversary.
The emblem is the winning design following a national competition for chi… Read full post »
2011 World Youth Day Tuned into Madrid
2011 World Youth Day in Madrid, August 16-21

During August 16-21, this year, the city of Madrid, in Spain will
host the 2011 World Youth Day promoting the faith "Planted and
Built Up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith" (St.
Paul)
Pope Benedict XVI will be hosting
Pope Benedict XVI for the 45th World Communications Day
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE BENEDICT XVI
FOR THE 45th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age
June 5, 2011
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On the occasion of the 45th World Day of Social Communications, I would like to share some reflections/… Read full post »
A Medical Claims Examiner's Twenty Years: as Victim of Crime

During the 25th Anniversary of the National Center for Victims of Crime in the U.S.A. and the upcoming events planned for the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 10-16, 2011 and those to follow, I remember how I have become a Victim of/… Read full post »
2011 National Crime Victims' Rights Week: April 10-16th
This year the Office for Victims of Crime and the National Center for Victims of Crimes is planning for National Crime Victims' Rights Week during April 10-16th nationwide, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.
In order to remember millions of crime victims over time, the theme for this… Read full post »
A New Year's Resolutions for 2011...2012

New Year's resolutions started with another anniversary celebration and new plans and projects for 2011 to connect to world expression as Facebook networks people online through "friends are friends in any languages".
Healthy organic fruit and grains to keep up with a hectic li
… Read full post »A Fresh Fruit Birthday Anniversary Tarte Aux Fruits

Early, early Monday morning, I woke up on my birthday anniversary, remembering all my high school friends of yesteryear...thirty-three (33) years ago who have found Facebook as way to communicate over distances, online, instead of in person or by phone. Everyone star… Read full post »
2011 Lilac International Society Convention at Yorktown

The International Lilac Society will hold the 2011 ILS Convention at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center during the centennial anniversary of Colonel Wm. R. Plum and Mrs. Helen M. Plum’s historical return from travels in Nancy, France to the Village of Lombard, in the U.S.A.,/… Read full post »
A Winterscape: Zoolights at Lincoln Park

All the wildlife was sleeping, all through the Zoo. Not a creature was stirring, not even the Polar Bears... When about 1.5 million colored points of lights with music for ZooLights came to Lincoln Park to brighten the holidays, glistening and twinkling, all through th… Read full post »
A Winter Solstice Celebration: Total Lunar Eclipse

A Very Merry Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Christkindlemarket

A Free Thanksgiving Community Luncheon Dinner
During Thanksgiving, in November 2008 and 2009, I have volunteered for the Free Community Thanksgiving Dinner at the Parkview Community Church with Henry W. Hochstatter, located at 764 St. Charles Road, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137, Email: info@pccmail.org, Telephone: 630.469.4306. The first year, Scott, the… Read full post »
A Carving of Ivory at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art
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