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In this clearly written undergraduate textbook, Stephen Laumakis explains the origin and development of Buddhist ideas and concepts, focusing on …
There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in …
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I think it caught the army off guard with that strategy, of refusing to acknowledge their authority. And in the chaos of trying to apprehend the people as they left, they stabbed a young girl -- Waneek Horn-Miller -- in the chest with a bayonet. The famous picture that was snapped from that day, of Waneek crying out after being stabbed by a soldier while trying to protect her four-year-old sister, Kaniehtiio, changed the narrative further.
— When the Pine Needles Fall by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (Page 68)
There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in …
The Pines remain a very magical and spiritual part of the environment that I live in and grew up in. That connection to land is just something that you feel inside. And to know that it's being threatened because someone just wants to expand a golf course was frustrating-- that's what was proposed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you know? What was even more insulting is that the developers were going to dig up our family members, our ancestors in our cemetery, to do it! That was just too much. It was an affront to us as Kanienʼkehá:ka. Our community of Kanehsatà:ke has been fighting these kinds of incursions on our lands for three hundred years now.
— When the Pine Needles Fall by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (Page 9)
I came here off the back of that CBS interview, but was surprised to see how the book went. It's really three quite separate essays, held together by a common theme of the stories we tell ourselves, and how important writing and story telling are. The third essay has obviously attracted the most attention and, while it's definitely thought-provoking, I think it really suffers from being too short -- perhaps it should have been a book on its own? One of the principal points of the essay is that we really need more Palestinian voices in the media. The stories we're told matter as they construct our reality.
Journalists claim to be hearing "both sides" as though a binary opposition had been set down by some disinterested god. But it is the journalists themselves who are playing god -- it is the journalists who decide which sides are legitimate and which are not, which views shall be considered and which pushed out of the frame. And this power is an extension of the power of other curators of the culture -- network execs, producers, publishers -- whose core job is deciding which stories get told and which do not.
— The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Page 120)
"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others," writes Edward Said. That its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.
— The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Page 115)
Einst war Shizuka Satomi ein Star, heute ist sie die gefragteste Geigenlehrerin der Welt. Wer …
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I've decided I'm just going to 'cheat' and skip all the sections involving Evan. I don't have the emotional fortitude at the moment (or, maybe, ever) to deal with watching the way he treats Katrina :(
Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the …
In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the …
There have been many things written about Canada’s violent siege of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke in the summer of 1990, but …
But I think many of us who are teachers and professors have forgotten that the syllabus serves the student, and all around us are teachers, administrators, and columnists who seem to believe that material should be hard for the sake of it and that education itself is best when rendered not in wonder but in force.
— The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Page 73)
Interesting set of essays on the relationship between Canada and Palestine, both in terms of foreign policy but also the experience of Palestinian-Canadians. Particularly liked the chapter on the different Palestinian organizations in Ottawa.
