There is a perfectly valid reason why this piece did not come out earlier. I needed to wait for YouTube videos to turn up so I could watch it from my computer, because at the time when Taking Back Sunday were doing their Manila concert, I almost didn’t see anything.
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While the struggle for freedom and equality is a resonating theme in Suzanne Collins’s post-apocalyptic dystopian future , some of her readers have used their own freedom of speech to criticize the colored casting of District 4 tributes Rue and Thresh, as well as other key characters in the book. Thresh an...
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Nothing else quite tickles our inner child and brings to mind words like “epic” or “awesome” than the idea of fictional characters from separate worlds coming together to do battle or to join forces against a bigger threat (or both, usually in that order).
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It's not easy becoming a woman. Hollywood might frame the blossoming of a girl into womanhood in a cheesy montage to the tune of 80's power-pop. In the real world, to become a woman is to recognize where the demands of God, the State, and Society end so that you, as a woman, can begin.
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About a month ago, Facebook news feeds displayed a thumbnail linking to a video with the title Kony 2012 , a film made by U.S.-based advocacy group Invisible Children (IC). Reactions from all over the world piled up quickly—opinions like “let's change the world,” “you need to watch this,” or “Let's ge...
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