Jan 15, 2008
In the first two chapters of “First They Killed My Father,” Loung Ung details a vivid account of what middle class life was like in Cambodia befor...
Jan 15, 2008
The idea of Ubantu in Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela’s “A human Being Died that Night,” is the practice of forgiveness without malice toward those that...
Jan 15, 2008
As she spent time exploring the mind of Eugene de Kock and trying to figure out if the man was worthy of forgiveness, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela found he...
Dec 7, 2007
Take me out to the ball game.As long as the ball in play is not a checkered black and white colored soccer ball.That seems to be the cry of the majori...
Dec 7, 2007
Baseball in America has been called the “national pastime.” The sport itself is more than 100 years old in this country. There have been many scan...
Dec 7, 2007
The model of gentrification that Foer brings forth in chapter four of “How Soccer explains the world,” may be seen as a microcosm of what globaliz...
Nov 7, 2007
In Loung Ung’s “First They Killed My Father”, Ung tries to make the reader understand the pain and misery that she and her family felt when they...
Nov 7, 2007
When I was growing up, I saw my fair share of Vietnam War movies. Back in the ’80s there was somewhat of a revival of interest in the war around the...
Nov 7, 2007
This Thanksgiving holiday turned out to be more dysfunctional than I am accustomed to. Usually it is a day when I get together with family members, wa...
Nov 7, 2007
As an American sports fan, for me there is nothing else than baseball and football (that’s football, not futball). When it comes to any other...
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