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When senses are inundated by a deluge of information, what happens to the mind’s ability to be aware of its inner workings, as well as the external, physical surroundings?
I prefer films or literature I can glean answers to real life circumstances, especially ones that offer a spiritual perspective. It is for this reason why I paid to view A Serious Man.
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The Power of Belief
courtesy:Steve Sammartino of rentoid.com
It's one thing to have a firmly rooted belief system in your personal life and to see its effects. It's quite another, however, to see it in action when a large group of people combine this in a shared belief. Such was the case in February 2010 during the Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Canada. At a time when Canada, like other developed nations, was still reeling from the global economic crisis, we were asked to believe in our ability to shine in a world arena previously dominated by formidable opponents like the United States, Russia and Germany.
Debbie Ouellet | 18.MAR.2010
For someone outside of Canada to understand what was being asked, it's important to know that Canada had never won an Olympic gold on home soil in the past. Never.... Read More
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Slaves in the UAE
Courtesy : humangoods.net
Work takes me many places, most recently to the United Arab Emirates, a small country on the Arabian Peninsula tucked just down the road from the intersection of oil and war. With the country's new wealth, most nationals enjoy the luxuries of the standard five and six-bedroom sprawling walled-off villas attended by a staff of help including a driver, nanny and housekeepers. These compounds become buzzing, isolated hubs for independently operating families, leaving little reason to reach out to foreigners, except to employ them. Our company-provided villa was no exception. We were surprised with en suite rooms and two full-time house attendants caring for the oversized mass of marble, stucco and ever-present sand.
C. M. Reinhardt | 11.MAR.2010
One of our house attendants came to the UAE from Bangladesh in search of better-paying work. Despite our language barrier, as we became friendly, quick, private conversations revealed that he borrowed money to come to the UAE for a job that promised to pay four times what he might make in Bangladesh. When he arrived, he was put in a post that paid him a quarter of that; his wages if he had stayed in his home country. His passport was taken away, and he was told if he had a problem with the situation, it was just that, his problem. My new friend, Prodip, is a modern-day slave, trapped in the UAE.... Read More
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Annie Brown is currently completing her senior year of undergraduate study at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Annie is an American, activist and aspiring journalist, double majoring in history and women's studies. Her activism and academics focus on sex education, women's health, and sexual minority rights. At her core, Annie is a media activist. She believes that education, expression and the free sharing of ideas is crucial to making positive change in our world. After college, she will go where ever the wind takes her. She hopes the wind will help her start a career in public health journalism and independent publishing.
For twenty years Erica Briggs was a traveling gypsy in America, moving from coast-to-coast and back again, including trips both north and south of the borders as well as a brief stay in Florencia, Cuba. She studied people of color in film at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her master's thesis from Cornell University explored the social construction of race in America. She taught creative writing at a correctional facility for girls in Lansing, New York and general education at a program for adjudicated youth in Micanopy, Florida. She had an extended tenure in the Black Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach where she taught creative writing and Black Theater.
Erica writes regularly on www.tothemthatlovegod.blogspot.com. Her favorite ministry is that of motherhood; her daughters, a four-year-old and an 18 year-old now in college, are a source of both pride and humility. The latter is how she seeks to live, a simple, highly spiritual life committed to learning through cultural exchange and healing through the power of the word. www.ericaabriggs.blogspot.com
I was born in Italy, where I am currently living. Since I was a little girl, I have been fond of reading and writing and have chosen cultural studies in high school. Growing older, I have become passionate of traveling and discovering different countries and cultures. South Asia and India in particular are my greatest interests, and this is the reason why I have chosen to study South Asian Languages and Anthropology at university, in Venice and Paris. While attending my B.A. and M.A. courses, I have traveled often to Nepal and India, spending several months in the Subcontinent and keeping falling in love with those places and their people. At present, I am working on a book about the life and teachings of Vivekananda, which combines my passion for writing with the one for India and her history. I write literary and film reviews about Gypsy culture on www.sucardrom.blogspot.com, the blog of Sucar Drom Association, which I have been collaborating with for several years. And I have a new born blog too, which deals with women issues: www.robadadonne.blogspot.com
Sarah Evershed began her career as a filmmaker while studying in India where she made a short documentary about globalization’s effects on sacred sites in Sikkim. After getting her degree in English and Anthropology from Pitzer College Sarah became a production coordinator for World of Wonder productions. She worked on shows for major networks including HBO, Bravo, Discovery, Oxygen and VH1. In her spare time she produced 6 short documentaries for Current TV. For two years she worked full time at Current TV in San Francisco in their Viewer Created Content and Collective Journalism departments. She has been published in Anthropology Today, The Royal Anthropology Institute and Tricycle Magazine. Sarah currently lives in Los Angeles where she is the Director of Distribution for a new media company and is working on her own feature length documentary. Her interests include new media, old films, global networks and local food.
Sangeeta Marwah is a writer, researcher and producer with a penchant for storytelling in its various facets and a keen inclination towards global film theory. She has over 5 years of work experience in the advertising industry, following which she pursued a second Masters degree in Media Arts from the US and worked for a year in Boston’s public access television network. She is currently residing in New Delhi but at various points of time has been fortunate enough to call Mumbai, Boston and Los Angeles as home. She is freelancing as a writer on various projects and contemplating a foray into doctoral studies, apart from working on her first screenplay.
Leanne Goebel is an award-winning arts journalist from the Southwest United States. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the Society of Professional Journalists. She writes for major magazines, newspapers, and online media while blogging about art and culture at http://leannegoebel.blogspot.com.
Jennifer Van Bergen was a legal/political commentator and reporter for TruthOut, Raw Story, Counterpunch, and others, and is the author of "Archetypes for Writers: Using the Power of Your Subconscious." She has a law degree and a Masters in International Education, and is working on her first screenplay.
Nidhi Zakaria is a flâneuse, artist and dreamer, given to occasional insurrection. Born in India, she spent her childhood in the Middle East, and later roamed through Europe and the Americas in search of the sun. She works for a number of international humanitarian organizations with a special emphasis on child protection, spiritual development and youth empowerment. Currently, she is focusing her efforts on creating a cross-cultural collective of young artists while pursuing graduate studies and making up wor(l)ds.
Viola Lasmana is currently completing her M.A in English (Literature) at San Francisco State University. She is interested in the textual,social, and cultural implications of new technologies, especially in how new media affects subject/identity formation and public-private intersections in Internet communities, and in the need for a multi-literacies approach to learning. Follow Viola on Twitter: http://twitter.com/viola_lasmana
C. M. Reinhardt left school halfway through a master's degree in political science to pursue a career in television production. More than a decade later, with stops in New York, Los Angeles and the Middle East, she has written, produced and directed content for print and air in Canada, Great Britain and the United States. Passionate about international relations, human rights, foodways and historic building preservation, she writes both from Los Angeles and a 1914 Carnegie library she bought and renovated into a writer's sanctuary on the Great Plains of the United States. With her husband and George the German Shepherd in tow, the three of them eat, play and produce the lives they imagine. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CMRInLA
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