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Cultural Determination: Simply a Race Issue?
I am a woman, who happens to be white. I possess my own personal cultural identity, but our society does not classify it as being “white.” I am hesitant to refer to culture as being either white or black because to stereotypically label it limits the depth of understanding the complex nature of culture in its entirety. Culture cannot simply be referred to as a race issue and I am consequent proof of that. Within our melting pot of a Nation, the personified ingredients have blended and one’s culture is no longer strictly determined by the color of their skin. As a grown woman, the forming of my own personal ideas, customs, and beliefs has had less to do with the color of my skin and more to do with my individual life realities, which have exposed me to a diversity of people and places. Within our society, the cultural aspects of a variety of races are expressed, but the prevailing issue here lies in the question: how much of culture is actually determined by race? If a white child is born and raised in the conditions which are usually misconceived as belonging to black culture, of which culture does the child belong? The lines have been blurred and other characteristics, such as class stature, geographic location, and social mentality are as much of a cultural determinate as race, if not more.
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Jun 19, 2006, 21:55:00
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What Gender Means For a Woman of Today
So here it is…another day into the night of a survivor, independent, super woman and all I feel like doing when I come home is to pick up something to eat (because I can't cook) and be told to be quiet and come to bed where I am forcefully made love to. The conquer becomes the conquest then falls soundly asleep and rests in order to take over the world by day only to surrender to it at night. Ah, the life of a strong and fulfilled woman in today's society. What bliss, we have the power and opportunity (that is, if we claim it) to conquer or forfeit accordingly to our very own personal taste. Although I wouldn't have it any other way, this daily transitioning of roles can be a bit overwhelming.
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Jun 19, 2006, 21:30:00
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Loose Change
TIMELINE for the documentary Loose Change (Click on View Website to view the movie!)
March 13th, 1962
Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,
presents a proposal to secretary of defense robert McNamara, Named Operation Northwoods.
The document proposed staging terrorist attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay, to provide a pretext for military intervention in Cuba.
December 1st, 1984
A remote-controlled Boeing 720 takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, and is crash landed by NASA for fuel research.
August, 1997
The cover of FEMA’s “Emergency Response to Terrorism” depicts the World Trade Center in crosshairs.
September, 2000
The Project for a New American Century, a neo-conservative think tank whose members include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, releases their report entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.”
In it, they declare that “the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.” (Page 50-51)
October 24th, 2000
The Pentagon conducts the first of two training exercises called MASCAL, which simulates a Boeing 757 crashing into the building.
Charles Burlingame, an ex-Navy F4 pilot who worked in the Pentagon, participates in this exercise before retiring to take a job at American Airlines, where, less than a year later, his Boeing 757 allegedly crashes into the building.
July 24th, 2001
Larry A. Silverstein, who already owned World Trade Center 7, signs a $3.2 billion dollar, 99-year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex, six weeks before 9-11.
Included in the lease is a $3.5 billion dollar insurance policy specifically covering acts of terrorism.
September 6th, 2001
3,150 put options are placed on United Airlines’ stock.
A put option is a bet that a stock will fall. That day, the put options were more than four times its daily average.
Bomb sniffing dogs are pulled from the World Trade Center, and security guards end two-weeks of 12 hour shifts.
September 7th, 2001
27,294 put options are placed on Boeing’s stock, more than five times the daily average.
September 10th, 2001
4,516 put options are placed on American Airlines, almost 11 times its daily average.
Newsweek reports that a number of top Pentagon brass cancel their flight plans for the next morning.
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a phone call warning him not to fly the next morning.
Pacifica Radio later reveals that this phone call came directly from National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice.
September 11th, 2001
The National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, VA, is preparing for a exercise in which a small corporate jet crashes into their building.
NORAD is in the middle of a number of military exercises.
The first, “Vigilant Guardian”, is described as “an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide”, and “an air defense exercise simulating an attack on the United States.”
The second, “Northern Vigilance”, moved fighter jets to Canada and Alaska to fight off an imaginary Russian fleet.
Three F-16s from Washington D.C.’s National Guard at Andrews Air Force Base, 15 miles from the Pentagon, are flown 180 nautical miles away for a training mission in North Carolina.
This left 14 fighter jets to protect the entire United States.
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Mar 24, 2006, 16:07:00
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Problem I: Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical?
Kierkegaard presented the cause of pain and suffering in the chapter The Unhappiest One, in one of his major works Either/Or. He also classified different types of unhappiness in Either/Or. There are three conditions of unhappiness revealed in the Text of The Unhappiest One. All conditions of unhappiness occur when the individual in sorrow is absent from himself/herself, as he writes, “So the unhappy one is absent...either when living in the past or living in the future.”
The first condition is the one disposed to remembering the past; this happy individual weeps for the past and has lost all sight of hope. The text expounds this condition of happiness in the example of a girl weeping over an unfaithful love. “...she loved him with all her soul, with all her heart, and all her mind — she can remember then, and sorrow.” This individual of mourning is the one whose existence resides in the past.
The second condition is the hoping individual. In the text he writes that the hoping individual is unhappy when the “...hoping individual would have a future which can have no reality for him...” Also, he writes that “hoping individuals always have a more gratifying disappointment,” and that “[t]he unhappy hoping individual was not able to be present to himself in his hope, similarly with the unhappy thinker.”
The third condition is the unhappiest one, who has both the vices of hope and memory of the past working to produce his despair. This is also an illustration of Abrahams "leap of faith" in the text Fear and Trembling, where we see that the paradox of faith presents a "teleological suspension of the ethical".
How does this relate to Islamic extremist? How does it compare to ethical or tragic hero? Are the writings of the great proto-existentialist thinker Søren Kierkegaard relevant to the current times?
We present the first problem from the early writings of Fear and Trembling which examines the faith of Abraham and duty to God's will.
Main Entry: tel·e·o·log·i·cal
Variant(s): also tel·e·o·log·ic
Function: adjective
: exhibiting or relating to design or purpose especially in nature
- tel·e·o·log·i·cal·ly adverb
Feb 4, 2006, 21:44:00
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New on ZowieWowie.com Special Edition
In the hot summer 1995, Rebecca, Georgia, now editor-in-Chief of ZowieWowie.com, David Webb, and his best friend and roommate set out to adapt this short story as a film short for college credit in their English 101 class at Middle Georgia College. They ended up both receiving an 'A' in place of one of their essay papers. The Screenplay was condensed and adapted by David Webb, and he also served as scripting coach. The actors and their parts were unrehearsed, and the whole film was shot in the time period of about a day and half. There were no retakes, except for post-production editing by David Webb after 10 years since it's original filming on a simple VHS camcorder.
The film was remastered, edited, and restored after a decade in the possession by David Webb as a second generation VHS copy.
David has a cameo as Hiram, the criminal partner of the Misfit. Mark Williams, the cinematographer and director, plays Red Sammy. Originally set to music of famous hollywood movies, the old musical score has been deleted, and a new score was added written and performed by David Webb. After a decade on the shelf, A Good Man Is Hard to Find is now being released by ZowieWowie Productions.
The adapted short story will be presented on ZowieWowie Special Edition Soon.
In the meaningwhile, read the orginal text by the famous writer esteemed in the literary cannon of classic southern literature, Flannery O'Connor.
Read A Good Man Is Hard to Find on ZW!se.
Aug 1, 2005, 00:32:00
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Sep 20, 2007, 11:18:00
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Good Passion
I would like to introduce to you an interview with a young
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female Muslim from Balikpapan, Indonesia. She is 20 years old coming from a democracy that is 88% Muslim with a population of 241,973,879 citizens. The exchange rate is one dollar for every 10,107 Indonesian Rupiah. An Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiyyah also continues to present a threat, after attacks against foreign interests in Bali in 2001 and 2005, and Jakarta in 2003. ZowieWowie interviewed this young woman to reveal her perception of the world today. Her name is Widya Puteri and she has given us permission to show her picture with the veil from her homeland.
Feb 5, 2006, 03:50:00
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The Typist Manifesto
Typism is a literary movement based on the idea that what the literary world needs is precisely what Truman Capote despised: more spontaneity; less pretense and overweening artifice; less brain-ear writing and more heart-crotch writing. Typism is open to anybody who would like to see unfashionable concepts like clarity, integrity, and courage brought back to literary fiction. It is open to anybody who hates the disconnected, twee, lameness and sameness of so much literary fiction, as well as the current fashionable cynicism running rampant among literary hipsters and their sycophantic toadies.
Jan 20, 2006, 17:04:00
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Virus Philosopher: Recycling Mein Kampf
This controversial article will be an attempt to use virus philosophy with ideas from another famous and very dangerous viral thinker, Adolf Hitler.
We examine adolf hitler much like historians have with Karl Marx. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is
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most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." Historians and students alike study Marx to understand the components of Capitalism as a "good" thing.
Hitler writes in Mein Kampf:
“...same is true of disease of national bodies. If they do not take the form of catastrophe, man slowly begins to get accustomed to them at length, though it may take some time, perishes all the more certainly of them…this will be all the more difficult, the longer the toxins remain in the national body and the more they become an ingredient of it which is taken for granted. For it is easily possible that after a certain time unquestionably harmful poisons will be regarded as an ingredient of one’s own nation or at best be tolerated as a necessary evil, so that a search for the alien virus is no longer regarded as necessary.” -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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Article originally published Nov. 29, 2003
Jan 1, 2006, 14:00:00
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ZowieWowie.com Special Edition Grand Opening!
To enhance ZowieWowie.com we have put up a new part of the site that will be known as ZowieWowie.com Special Edition. This is a website portal that will allow users to log in, join part of a community, and as memebers they will have the option to contribute by submitting their own articles that will be approved by our editors for publishing. The front end of ZowieWowie.com will still be managed and written by our staff writers and editors that will mirror our offical publication that is here. In additon to the front end message board that will be used for discussion of the feature articles on the this part of the site, there will also be another ZowieWowie.com Special Edition message board relating to the news, articles, and post on this new portion of the site.
Stop by and play our fun flash games at ZowieWowie Special Edition portal!
We understand that at ZowieWowie.com, while top in its publication industry, is nothing without its readers. It is time that we start interacting with our readership and loyal fan base by allowing everyone to participate.
We encourage you to register to become part of the ZowieWowie.com community.
Stay tuned for more to come with the new improved ZowieWowie.com.
May 31, 2005, 02:41:00
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Who is Staff Writer, Darren Serwinek?
by Darren Serwinek, Staff Writer
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Hello, My Name is Darren Serwinek and of course you are the reader. Perhaps when you look at the accompanying photo, which portrays my stout countenance, you might say to yourself. What an odd looking fellow, what could this convergence of fatty flesh and parchment skin possibly write that would interest me? Well, let me assure you that the old axiom don’t judge a book by it cover holds true to many things, even with regards to myself.
Perhaps my credentials and history may add a little spice to the some what bland personage that you see. I first got my real exposure to journalist writing back in late 1999, December 1999 to be exact, I was 19 and fresh from the oven that is Moscow State university.
I had graduated magnum cum laude from my class, afterward I had been hired as a junior writer to Moscow’s highly regarded Informatsiya Novisti. It was not long after that I had received my first assignment to Chechnya. Imagine my surprise as I found out that I, a fresh faced youth, would be going to Chechnya to report on the ongoing insurrection there. It would be an assignment that would scar me for the rest of my life. I had been attached to the 75th Zhukov division of Praise, specifically with the 2nd Zampolit Company (under heavy supervision by the Defense ministry). My reportings there included the initial fighting in the Terek valley, the capture of Gudeirmes and finally ending with the capture of Groznyy in late February 2000. The memories still haunt me of that occasion, the destitute woman and children moaning as their homes burned, the pitiful sights of starving vagrants scavenging for scraps of food in the streets. Thankfully, after my assignment had ended, I had been reassigned to a much less stressful post serving as my paper’s Washington correspondent. Though, unfortunately my responsibilities were short lived. I was released shortly afterward, thanks in part to the scathing expose that I had written on Presidential hopeful Alan Key’s shady dealings with the American Gay and Lesbian Alliance during his campaign. Though, such a set back did not completely derail my career. Before stepping onboard with zowiewowie.com, I had the distinct pleasure of following such legendary bands as “Cinderella” and “Silver chair”, on their Forgettable Memorable 2002 tour, and writing of their exploits. Also, I help to co-author the wildly unpopular, “Cook Book of terror: The Illi Armin Chronicles.”
Now I have spoken enough about my history, it is my sincere hope that you will come to enjoy my many musings and factotum articles, as much as I will enjoy writing them.
May 27, 2005, 15:59:00
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Who is the Managing Editor of ZowieWowie.com, Matt Kessler?
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Matt Kessler at the ZowieWowie.com HQ Megacenter
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My name is Matt kessler, I am 20 Years old, and I am a recent graduate of Princeton University with a degree in journalism. When I graduated last May I really wanted to find a respectable and high paying job working for an internet magazine. So After months of traveling the world and visiting places like Syria, Mozambique, Manchester, and Hong Kong. I decided that I should return home, send a few resumes out and watch the cash come rolling in. I turned down a job at Maxim, Rolling stone, and Time Magazine, until finally I recieved the job offer I was looking for...ZowieWowie.com. Im looking forward to bringing you loyal visitors of the site the most entertaining and useful information imaginable.
I love you all with all my heart and I know the feeling is mutual.
Apr 29, 2005, 13:17:00
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Revenge or Justice: Interview with young man of Lebanon
I would like to introduce you Middle Eastern young man who holds views like many of his kind in the region, believing in a Jewish conspiracy, and holding anti-semantic sentiment. Along with an equal hatred of America, Omar views are pervasive among people like Basil (who could speak very little English and plenty of hatred). Their views are not unlike a patriotic American who vehemently holds on to his or her ideas. You can’t shake them off their beliefs because they are ingrained values they view everything else as an opponent or alien. They are polar opposites and they both seem to fuel the same thing: physical aggression. When I speak of these people, I speak of the common denominator of the general American and the general Muslim (the general population base). Omar, 23, and from Lebanon is only a convenience sample from this population. {-Read More-}
Jun 27, 2004, 05:07:00
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