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So...What is a President? (Part 1)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:23:32 -0500

I admit, I should know better than to become, or to have remained, ignorant of my states senators and the presidential candidates. Perhaps starting when I reached the legal voting age I should have been more aware of the United States' politics in general. Until recently, I did not really know too much about them.

Americans should become aware of and at least get to know the corner of planet earth in which their country resides. This awareness begins with each person’s immediate world: their home, community, state or province, region, country, etcetera.

And, th...

Woman: The Living Picture

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:50:16 -0400

Mulvey states that there are two reasons for which people enjoy movies and films: People get pleasure from looking at another person as an object, and through the development of love for ourselves and instinctual drive, our ego thrives off of the images of cinema. Most films are created in America, in a society in which males are dominant, assertive and many times in charge of what is produced for our society.

As a result, women become passive, though perhaps not as much today as maybe fifty years ago.  Women, as Mulvey puts it, â€œIn their exhibitionist role, are sim...



Technology vs. Humanity
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:41:10 -0400
Is technology working for us, or are we working for technology?  Now that much of our lives depends upon computerized devices, audimated voice systems, and the reason for gasoline, its hard to know what we would do without it.
	Technology vs. Humanity


	Most people believe that as human beings, we can control the use of technology around us. Technology cannot make decisions on its own. It is as inanimate as a table or a chair, both objects of purpose and function. When a friend calls me to tell me of her late arrival to our meeting, the phone does ...