Word: intents
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It’s possible some of you have noticed signs you might be in need of a new browser. Perhaps every time you sit down in front of your computer, focused and intent on starting research for your ec paper (perhaps by conducting a game theory study on thefacebook.com), you find yourself stared in the face by a dozen pop-up windows advertising for ‘home surveillance’ cameras designed (if you trust the photos in the ads) to keep your house safe from the prying eyes and sticky fingers of scantily clad women. Or perhaps...
...motorcade. Once the cameras were off, Bush went into the audience and tracked Grabel down. "I appreciate your question," he told her, according to an aide. "And I hope you appreciate my answer, because with the political climate we live in, I know it was not your intent to play gotcha with the President of the United States. But this is where it ends up. Let me just assure you, I know that I haven't done everything right...
...That must mean big numbers: voting blocs, body counts. But numbers numb, allowing easy generalizations of the Other. Instead, read these images; they humanize the abstract. "The Army" is revealed as young folks far from home, and "Iraqis" as 24 million individuals, some grateful to these young folks, others intent on killing them. In pictures of an athlete, a candidate, orphan kids who find a reason to smile, there is no They--only people who, when a gifted photographer catches them in a moment of their lives, sometimes add up to We. What follows are snapshots of our collective soul...
Perhaps George’s intent with Hotel Rwanda is to stimulate audiences to turn towards the current genocide in Darfur where the U.S. may end up repeating the mistakes it made in Rwanda. How disappointing, then, that the film’s good intentions ultimately fall victim to its own underwhelming quality...
Perhaps George’s intent with Hotel Rwanda is to stimulate audiences to turn towards the current genocide in Darfur where the U.S. may end up repeating the mistakes it made in Rwanda. How disappointing, then, that the film’s good intentions ultimately fall victim to its own underwhelming quality...