Tag: social
group name: soc-conciousness
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June 14, 2006 06:07 AM EDT --
If you have been to Indonesia, you would probably remember people on the traffic lights come to your car window asking for contributions for building a mosque here and there. Or if you drive through . . . more
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May 07, 2006 02:56 PM EDT --
Sequestered by collective greed
neglected puddles of pain
forgotten people bleeding
from wounds they've yet to sustain
They cry out, why can't you see
we're hurting here below
we're sick, . . . more
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May 29, 2006 10:03 PM EDT --
Her friends all went to Dr. Weiss, so Cindy made an appointment to see him after missing her second period. She thought he was . . . more
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April 17, 2006 02:37 PM EDT --
Macy stood beside the door to blow her nose on the remnants of her tissue. There was no stopping the tears but she could at least save herself a bit of humiliation by not sniffing at her guest. Timing . . . more
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September 26, 2006 03:01 PM EDT --
From early on in our lives we begin to question our own existence and what it means to be human. This question is often answered by one's social environment and the ideologies that surround . . . more
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May 15, 2006 01:52 AM EDT --
Karen has a room on York,
a far cry from the mansion she lost on Winter.
Maybe it isn't far.
Three miles, give or take,
seen differently by car, bus, or foot.
It's far enough she can't . . . more
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April 10, 2006 04:38 PM EDT --
I understand the importance of honesty. Intelligent, self-respecting people speak and live the truth. Those negative comments I made about taking things seriously haunted me last night, when I realized . . . more
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December 04, 2006 10:36 AM EST --
I made a new friend the other day.
I had walked to the drugstore. I always walk, if I can avoid driving. I don't like to give my money to the oil companies and I can use the exercise. . . . more
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February 21, 2006 07:31 AM EST --
for C. Brian Maddox
The Caribbean palm just looked dead leaning against the squat green house.
The shadow it cast overwhelmed a crabgrass lawn thick with old newspapers.
I looked for the FOR RENT or . . . more
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April 17, 2006 04:45 PM EDT --
Carefully tend the garden,
protect her from the weather.
She's only out of season,
not gone away forever.
She amazed us with her beauty,
bloomed in vivid colors,
graced us the summer long,
standing . . . more
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May 19, 2006 05:04 PM EDT --
Most of us would probably agree that truth is delivering honest statements. Beyond that basic definition, I believe concurrence falls . . . more
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May 21, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
He stands on the corner,
holding up a sign;
"I will work for food,"
is the only design;
Busy people stop,
but look the other way;
"He is just a panhandler,
it's probably . . . more
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August 12, 2006 09:36 AM EDT --
Darcy was six years old when we met. She was a somewhat brash and difficult little girl who considered herself more adult than child. She had much rather be sitting and talking . . . more
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September 29, 2006 07:51 PM EDT --
This phrase is very useful when discussing issues involving topics like religion and culture. For those of you that are unaware, a cultural imperative is a belief or belief system that is unconsciously . . . more
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April 07, 2006 11:44 AM EDT --
for Isabel Cara Martin, with inspiration from Robert Browning
We are not a conquered people. We are not, and have never been a conquered people....We are however, today, a subjugated people. And this . . . more
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April 18, 2006 07:02 AM EDT --
Bruiser was a unique creature, born with half a mind
the son of Sheila skunk and Paul the porcupine.
With stinky dispositions and shortsighted hearts of their own
they expected he'd learn no different . . . more
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June 12, 2006 06:18 PM EDT --
Braxton's grin is as wide as the ocean, his blue eyes as brilliant as the morning sun after nine days of rain. Freckles dance all over his round, white face, and his hair, brighter than copper, . . . more
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April 24, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
I resist authority. Idealistically, by nature and most importantly, by conditioning. An authority figure seriously betrayed my trust and loyalty when I was very, very young. That authority figure ordered . . . more
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May 14, 2007 10:47 AM EDT --
I heard a story the other day of how Mahatma Ghandi picked up a toilet brush and started into scrubbing a bowl after hearing his wife say that she wouldn't do it because it was beneath her caste.
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April 10, 2006 08:52 AM EDT --
Two Sides To The Coin
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