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Disney Perpetuates Gender Stereotypes
by: Marcilla Lucero-Miner - printed on 09-25-2002
What is worrisome is the values those heroes, princesses and villains represent. Using DisneyÂ’s most famous animated motion picture, Cinderella (1950), as an example, the way in which Disney characters are continually cast in traditional gender roles becomes clear.
It's a Shame About Boz
Chapter three of five: setting the stage--workers fall ill and questions arise.
by: Jim McCandlish, J.D. - printed on 01-31-2001
Boz, as he’s known, was a man among men in the trades, a strapping 6' 4" millwright who loved his work. He’d joined the Local out of Pasco for the specific purpose of hiring on at the poison gas incinerator construction project near Umatilla. The cost projected at almost $600 million made it the largest employer that corner of northeastern Oregon had ever seen. The government was under an international treaty obligation to destroy its entire stockpile of war gases, 12% of which were stored at Umatilla.
Living a life of nonviolence
by: Karen Shea - printed on 02-28-2001
Before he was brutally assassinated, Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador said: “Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.”
It is in this spirit that I have dedicated myself to living a life of nonviolence.
Movies Galore!
by: Claude Pomerleau C.S.C. - printed on 02-06-2002
I don?t recall a Christmas/New Year cycle with so many entertaining and challenging movies, domestic and foreign. Vacations are usually twilight zones when it comes to movies. Not this year.
First, the political thriller "Lumumba." It only lasted for a few weeks in December, but it is showing this week at PCC?s Cascade Festival of African Films. It?s a moving political biography of the first Congolese leader after independence from Belgium in 1960.
"Just some banter about trees"
by: Meghan Molenda - printed on 02-06-2002
I sat down and introduced myself as an inquisitive mind wondering about the other side of the story. Mere human knowledge, although it was abundant, was not enough for me to form an unbiased, educated view. No matter how many facts you have on a subject, you can?t make an educated decision if you ignore a valuable position. I wanted to know about the world from the viewpoint of a tree, and human knowledge just wouldn?t cut it.
Minority Nations in UK Don’t Need Unity
by: Chris Costello - printed on 11-15-2000
The United Kingdom’s principle island of Britain is composed of England, Scotland and Wales. Scotland, with a population of 5 million, and Wales, with roughly 2.7 million inhabitants, are known as the UK’s minority nations. Meanwhile, the mass majority of the UK resides in England, nearly 50 million. With such discrepancies in population, one ponders whether these minority nations can fully express themselves within the UK.