oppression

Those were the big themes of the last day of my holiday. Given that it was a holiday, a moment away from the clients and class work (although, I confess I used that time to write and research stuff) I decided to go to the movies one of those days – a burn out prevention method, I told myself.  Read More »

In my Human Behavior in the Social Environment class (SOWK 233) we are discussing the issues of minorities in the Social Environment; how society views minorities and how minorities deal with society. Yesterday our professor took us outside and had the class stand in a huge circle.  Read More »

Born in America, I was taught from kindergarten to high school, through my teachers and the books we read in their classes, that America stand for liberty, freedom, human rights. A phrase that has come into general conversation, "the pursuit of happiness" was born with the will smith film "Pursuit of Happyness" that was extremely successful in the box office.  Read More »

Intellectual stimulants can come in the strangest ways, especially when it’s from a concert video uploaded on youtube. I’m a huge fan of Korean music, and one of my favourite Korean artists is Shinhwa (Myth), a 6-member boy band. Out of the hundreds of videos I watched of them, there was one that really sent my mind reeling.  Read More »

When going to the bathroom causes you to miss at least half of your AP Biology class, what do you do? What if the bathrooms are locked during lunch?  Read More »

The United States of America, or are we? Every where you go you can find information about this religious group, or that racial group, or some other society out there trying to prove why they are better than the others or on the flip-side, why they are worse off and deserve more recognition (usually a racial issue). Whatever happened to the country just being united and working together?  Read More »

This was written as a response to part of Naomi Wolf's book, "The End of America", which I highly recommend.  Read More »

Sometimes I get really tired hearing about the need to pay retributions...  Read More »