Category: education
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WORD: A Night to Unite Artists (open mic)
In Parentheses will be hosting a poetry reading in Allston, MA this weekend. Tweet us for any and all information.
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The Web as Ideology by G. Sistare
Gabriel Sistare is a writer and thinker most comfortable steaming vegetables or sitting in the public library. He prefers to sit next to the oversized Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture and write about his philosophical opposition to the automobile. **** On August 26, 2010, the MetaFilter user, blue_beetle offered an argument aimed for the heart…
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Alleen Maar Nette Mensen: The Netherlands and the continued dehumanization of black people – a Film Review by Q. Gario
Quinsy Gario is a film and television scholar, focusing on gender, race and culture. He’s also a poet, award winning theater-maker and the performance artist behind the Zwarte Piet Is Racism art project for which he was arrested in November 2011. You can find more of his work on www.nonemployees.com or look him up on…
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On Style and American Ethos in a Presidential Debate by M. Pitter
After the first debate, media sources slammed President Obama for “not being there”, for not being “stronger”, for being “unprepared”, “uncomfortable” and “aloof” in comparison to Governor Romney’s more hardline and aggressive temperament. So what, if the Republican candidate lied to save his appeal, saying that his prescribed plan to lower American tax rates by…
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Voices to the Voiceless: Confronting Sex-Trafficking and Other Gender-based Issues Worldwide by M. Pitter
We are living in an age still plagued by slavery and direct violations on human rights, a modern age in which there are people brutalized out of whim or exploited as chattel for red light pleasures. Millions of young girls worldwide, born into destitution often find themselves as the products of the sex traffic industry…
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Autobio of Ben Franklin – Thematic Analysis by P Chatelain
Upon reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and further discussing it in class there were a few tidbits of information that truly resonated with me. It gave me some deeper insight as to why we write, why it’s important to write, and how printing begins to change the whole playing field for written word. Literacy is in…
