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Mary Tyler gave television Moore
Mary Tyler Moore is a dearly remembered actress, who embodied style, charm, grace, independence and confidence. Moore challenged social norms of what a woman should be and how she should act. She inspired women to shape their identities that didn’t rely on being a Mother or Wife (Feldman). As a millennial, I missed many of Ms. Moore’s original…
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Include Yourself
We often exclude ourselves. One of my professors, a Brooklyn Native, told my class how she befriends and interacts with members of her Puerto Rican culture who weren’t born in the continental US. She spoke about how much fun they have together. As the only American, she is often asked about cultural norms and policies, but…
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Give Me Gemeinschaft, or Give Me Greatness
gemeinschaft [German guh–mahyn-shahf-tuh n] Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by a strong sense of common identity, close personal relationships, and an attachment to traditional and sentimental concerns. We know the dangers of groupthink, the atrocities that occur, the prejudices it produces, the wars it wages and the inclusion it inhibits. Groupthink can be comfortable, it’s familiar and builds a sense of community at the expense of the exclusion of diversity. “Diversity, the act of thinking independently together.” …
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I’m my brother’s keeper, and my brother keeps me
After murdering his brother, God asks Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” Cain responds, “I don’t know.” Cain then turns his feigned oblivion into a universal question; a question asked by families, generations and nations of people throughout the course of history. In Genesis 4:9, Cain asks God, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Perhaps both Cain’s and…
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Purpose and Passion
Social Scientist: Kalen Russell Theme: Purpose and Passion Life and Chemistry are full of experiments, different elements, positive and negative bonds, and change. As an atom is the foundation for all physical mass, purpose is the foundation for one’s life. There are 118 elements known to man, each equipped with a unique set…
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………………….. The Moment of Youth
Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things. 10 So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put…
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Is Assimilation Always Bad?
Assimilate: to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; to adapt or adjust dictionary.com In my Afro-Caribbean Literature class, we have studied the themes of identity and assimilation. After…
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Cultural Survival vs. Forced Assimilation: the renewed war on diversity
Ethnologue, published by SIL International, estimates that of the more than two million people who identify themselves as American Indians in the United States, only 361, 978 still speak one of the remaining 154 indigenous languages, and many of those are only spoken by the very old. This is about half the number of languages…
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Diversity may the hardest thing for a society to live with and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without. -Willaiam Sloane Coffin, Jr.
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Everyone Has a Story
We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone. -Yuhuda Berg
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