Who Are We?

“What makes us who we are?”   Catherine G. Latterell questions her readers their own identity to think about our beliefs, values, and life goals. The first assumption she states is that Identity is what we are born with. From birth we are told what we are from a birth certificate from the race that we are, our parents, our sex and date of birth and as we grow into our toddler years that is when we start to learn about our own gender identity.   We view on how we are treated for example, when we were younger the girls wore dresses...

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Are We Who We Really Are?

“Is it who we really are? Or who we want to be, or should be?”    This is one of many questions Ms. Thandie Newton asked her audience in July 2011 on Embracing Otherness, Embracing Myself. She explains her journey, “the journey to that place of understanding and acceptance. The self’s struggle for authenticity and definition will never end unless it’s connected to its creator with awareness of the reality of oneness and the projection...

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Nine Year Old Boy Takes His Life For Being White

Racism is a two way street. Nine year old Aaron Dugmore was found hanged in his bedroom after he was ‘bullied for being white’ by an Asian gang at school. "They said Aaron was threatened with a plastic knife by one Asian pupil, who warned him: ‘Next time it will be a real one.’He was also allegedly told by another pupil that ‘all the white people should be dead’ and he was forced to hide from the bullies in the playground at lunchtime."...

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Mickey Ending Hand-Drawn Animation

  Snow White, The Little Mermaid, Dumbo, The Jungle Book, Pinocchio. Each are examples of classic Disney films that were each hand drawn frame by frame known as traditional animation or cel animation. Announced Wednesday, chief executive Bob Iger revealed that it’s shutting down any remaining 2D hand drawn feature animation facilities left and will only be committing to 3D rendered and animated films from now on. "To my knowledge we're...

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A Random Ball Pit and Two Complete Strangers

A random ball pit is set up in the middle of a city and this is what happens as people approach it.   &nbs...

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The Difference Between Extrovert and a Introvert

As I walk down a busy street to get to my destination I can not help but glance at people who are walking right past me. I can tell their human from their facial features, how the carry themselves as they walk past me. We all have the same features that make us human for example, having our bright eyes below our bushy eyebrows; they are almost identical on each side of our face. We are human so we must all be the same? No, every human on earth...

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My Personality

On September 7th, 2012, the Bayan Learning Community went through different activities. One activity was called “Wagon Wheel.” We were told to pair up in partners of two, each facing one another and other surrounding in a circle. The one person on the outer circle had to ask the person sitting on the outside of the circle question that was provided. When the questions were asked and time was up the person sitting in the inside of the circle had to move over two places to the left, leaving their old partner and taking the questionnaire with them....

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Exposing For The Public

NOT SAFE FOR WORK!   Logging into Facebook today a friends post caught my eye:   "Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art. Her best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting visitors to sit opposite her and make eye contact...

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What Do You Want In Life?

Diane Edwards had given a presentation on Harnessing the Power of Your Thoughts and Visualizations. She asked that one important, a main question one tends to ask at one point in their own life: What do You Want To Acheve in Your Life?. After asking the question she then gave us five minutes to think and write down what we desire or want more in our life. I did not hesitate as I started pushiing the pen against the lined...

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