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Tag Archives: culture
The Beauty Monster
The cult of personal appearance – like a creature from a horror movie – is eating away at our brains and hearts.
A Southern Autumn
I’ve lived in Georgia and Alabama since 1974. I was nine when we moved here during Christmas break. I want to describe life here, so people who don’t live here won’t think we’re all uneducated hicks…then again maybe you will, but if you do, I can tell you with certainty that we don’t care.
Straw Dogs [...]
Only. Skin. Deep.
A few years ago, I boarded a plane heading to a small American college-town. It was my first time in the United States, and I was starting my freshman year at a prominent institution of higher learning I will call Undisclosed University. I had traveled from my country of birth to Chicago, where I spent [...]
Resisting Expectations: An American in Accra
I can’t count the number of times I was asked the question, usually from locals whom I had met only moments earlier: “So, is it what you expected? Is Africa what you thought it would be like?”
Despite the (ironic) expectations that also come with such a question, I almost always disappointed my questioners with the [...]
Marie Antoinette
Every single person I come across seems to hate this movie. It’s “silly.” It’s “weird.” It’s “NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!”
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download Towelhead aka Nothing Is Private dvd Silent Trigger film
While I don’t think the film is a stunner like “Lost in Translation,” it did rock my world on several levels.
First of all, I wish [...]
The American Ways
The twisted interpretation of the “American Way” and the imposition of this concept on other nations
Burkhas, Bikinis, and Other Lies
Today’s ineffective, shallow discourse on women’s rights
It’s the Movies, Stupid!
Do you think you have heard every possible analysis of the reasons for John Kerry’s defeat? Think again …
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
A reaction to the Iraqi prisoner scandal, and a scathing attack on all those who try to belittle it.
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