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by Sopphe Nemese - 2007-03-16
It is difficult to imagine formal black tie affairs without formal music, and it is impossible to imagine formal music without the violin, a four-stringed instrument tuned in fifths and played with a ...
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by Kristen Gabriel - 2007-03-10
February marked the 200th anniversary of laws that disallowed human trafficking. In conjunction with this bicentennial the film Amazing Grace, based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberfo...
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by Tamar Mason - 2007-03-08
Contemporary prints refer to prints that have been made during our time. Contemporary prints are up-to-date and made during what we refer to as the modern age. Thus a print made by Van Gogh or by Dure...
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by Tamar Mason - 2007-03-08
The South African art world is relatively small and the market grapples with the nature of the economy of the country, which is a combination of the developed and developing world. Artists of the cali...
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by Lance Winslow - 2007-03-07
It is truly amazing the rise in Slum Tourism by world leaders, dignitaries and politicians. It seems everyone wishes to their picture taken with a little African Child. Of course how much of this slum...
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by Lance Winslow - 2007-03-07
Not long ago I did a comprehensive study on the Nairobi Slums reading about 30 research papers, 100s of articles and all the NGO and government website information on this subject. There are reams of ...
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by Lance Winslow - 2007-03-07
There is little debate over the serious humanitarian crisis of the Nairobi slums, as the living conditions are atrocious. There is raw sewage everywhere, garbage pilled up and no toilets, sewer system...
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by Bhaskar Banerjee - 2007-03-07
Wuthering Heights is so terrifying and powerful a novel that its final impress is one of tragedy. The concerted operation of its setting, characters and events releases an intensity that is undoubtedl...
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by Matthew Garden - 2007-03-06
The world we live in now, the world at the beginning of the 21st century, is in a panic. The fall of the twin towers has provided an excuse to fast-track the militarization of the global corporate emp...
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by Matthew Garden - 2007-03-06
It is impossible to give an opinion from a clean slate when discussing Tolstoy's War and Peace, so highly has it been placed on a pedestal by generations of critics, thinkers and writers. We have bee...
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by Jeffrey Bennett - 2007-03-05
"I need enough medical supplies and equipment to furnish a clinic," the missionary from Uganda pleaded. "Can you help?"The pastor pondered the request critically. Not because it was too much to ask, h...
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by Lance Winslow - 2007-03-05
The only way to insure that The Kibera Slum is completely taken care of is to bulldoze it down and then rebuild it with plumbing. To do this will mean it must be done is sections and those sections wi...
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by Lance Winslow - 2007-03-05
The largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya is called Kibera and has over 800,000 inhabitants. The roads or pathways are littered with animal waste, garbage and human waste. Although most of the children do no...
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by Lance Winslow - 2007-03-04
The challenges of the Nairobi slums are not going away. Sending in good money after bad will not solve any of the problems there. As the estimated population in these slums grows to well over 2 millio...
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by Lance Winslow - 2007-03-03
Many NGOs are having huge problems trying to feed all the people in need in Africa. Relief food deliveries are often hijacked and worse trying to evenly distribute the food is difficult as some people...
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by John - Paul Gillespie - 2007-03-02
We've all heard the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword," and maybe a time too many-how often does one stop to think what a phrase used casually might actually mean? Words lose their power over...
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by Will Kalif - 2007-02-23
There has been a long-standing debate about Medieval Knights. Were they chivalrous and gallant caretakers of their peasants? Or were they vicious and cruel thugs who ruled their people with an iron ha...
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by Hal Granum - 2007-02-23
Aleuts, or Unangan as they preferred to be known today, suffered severe hardships at the hands of early Russian fur traders. However, it was the Russian Orthodox Church that tried to offset this abus...
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by Joel Kay - 2007-02-23
A music video must have a look, and it must have a style. The actors in it should have a style. I call them actors because the singers and models in the video are in a setting. It may be a synthetic o...
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by Richard Scott - 2007-02-20
My friends and family often ask me why so many artists paint (as they say) "naked people". Some think that the nude is only pornography, while others just think that it's out-dated in the art world. M...
