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...students in attendance at the event. “I’m in front of you guys who attend a prestigious university and have the power to change the world. I would like to make a plea of all you here today,” Jo said, speaking through a translator. “If North Koreans aren’t refugees, then who is? Who else faces persecution from their government?” Jo continually emphasized the need for a more accurate understanding of her home country’s situation, the severity of which, she said...
...hotel. Students mostly attend classes at a local university. In this setup it is hard to get maximum exposure to another culture. Students tend to become friends with the people they associate with the most: their classmates and housemates. These are usually other Americans or foreigners who can speak English and are familiar with American norms. In effect, students create an American bubble in another country. They live, study, and socialize within a group of comparatively similar people...
...both layers and intentionality. And so the culture lost its focus. In truth though, the ideals of disco never truly went away, they simply remained dormant, assuming alternative aliases. There was simply too much uncharted territory, too much potential, not to keep exploring. So the style-that-dare-not-speak-its-name came to be known as house music, or simply dance music. Sampling and DJ culture immediately found refuge in early rap and hip-hop, and schism genres like dance-punk and techno emerged. From Prince’s “1999” and Madonna?...
...Oscar winner Sean Penn, is a man disturbed by the discrimination he experiences after coming out of the closet in New York City. Milk moves to San Francisco with his boyfriend, Scott Smith (James Franco). In California, the two become politically active, enlivening and inspiring the gay community to speak out against injustice. Throughout the film, Milk is shown making a recording, which he says should be played only if he were to be assassinated. On the recording he says, “I tried to break the dam of major prejudice in this country.” Although Milk...
...play is an inversion of Shakespeare’s while similarly dealing with existential crises: “Stoppard’s play both interprets and upends ‘Hamlet.’ It is ‘Hamlet’ inside out, so to speak, seen from the green room or the wrong end of a telescope.”Garber’s breadth of knowledge of the themes and characters in these plays can even make the readers feel as if they have met the playwright himself, although she reminds us that we mustn?...