Archive for the ‘Megan’ Category
Ok, I’m going to hijack the blog. If anyone has an issue with this, I suggest posting. Yet another personal story intro: Last week, a friend came to visit and had in tow a friend she had made while working at a summer camp these past few months. For days we talked about […]
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ACTIVITY! (sort of.)
one of the first foundations taught in anthropology is that culture is not fixed, that it is as transient as the people who possess it and is freely manipulated to the extent that collective consciousness will allow. but what is often skimmed over and tossed around with cultural relativism is people’s desire to be fixed. […]
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tis a shame here. our blood and sweat is dead. perhaps it’s only our brains, that’s my secret wish. i want to rant, but for the first time in a long while, i gots nothing. minorly depressing but mighty freeing…do you ever get motivation back? or is life just a long slide to total apathetical […]
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comment, please. part of our goal with this project is engagement with what is being posted about online and thought about offline. visitors or writers, both are on a level playing field on our site. we have heard the line “only undergrads” enough to disbelieve it, so don’t be shy: none of us really knows […]
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The Gun Game
I am so pained to feel inspired to write another post about death, but after Monday’s events…I feel resigned to do so. Thoughts and prayers to VA Tech’s campus will not heal the wounds, but there is little else we, collectively as a populace, can immediately do. Stunned, shocked, lost, scared, worried, troubled…enraged. You name […]
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A Crack in the Cage
“Being so pitilessly prone toward the absolute, the ideal and knowing that lawyers and law courts are witnesses to the imperfect state of our civilization, temporizing adjusters of society’s ill-adjustment and yet whose occupation, largely viewed, though transient, tentative, unbeautiful, amid trouble and contention, is still noble in good offices and lavish of sacrifice in […]
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Forgotten Faces
A full day of classes in your last semester can leave anyone a bit worn and emotionally edgy. ‘Twas my state as I exited the newest addition to campus, Katzen Arts Center. I was immediately struck by the exhibit on display in the foyer; the multimedias screamed with intriguing pain, the unnecessary title hidden from […]
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typically off topic
Well now this isn’t a real post in the sense of the project, but the spread o’ info is always important and relevant so…. Karl Rove at American University Our campus newspaper may not be the best thing in written form, but check it out. Is it a sign of the times when our ruling […]
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Fairly Just
I apologize for my first post straying significantly from my self-introduction. Since our project is somewhat of an experiment, it is necessary for each of us to address our feelings towards moving ideas into an online format. Just to be repetitive, I’ll push (and thank!) for responses. But now I will move into my area […]
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Well it’s taken quite a bit to get our little blogworld going. Part of the problem has been the classic infectious disease known as senioritis. The other part has been what some would call the “ethics” of our project. It is all too common to think oneself into a cyclical dark hole, one with […]
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Another Project Posted
Hi. My name is Megan. I suffer from what has been called “the plight of the white southerner.” This is not a modern-day white man’s burden but a fascination with inequalities and race. Not to mention, I’m a woman, not a man. It is safe to say that of the many urban issues raised in […]
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A World Among Worlds 