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Lately I'm reading up on the apparent conflict between sociologists of health and illness on disability and "oppresive models" of disability. The former, sociologists of health and illness, present disability as a social deviance, and understand disability through this lense. However, they still understand people with disabilities as having impaired bodies that lead to oppression of disabled individuals as violating some social norm. Oppression exists...
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Well my media fast has ended, it's too tempting to watch tv when my house has people in it. I walk into the living room and my sister is watching television or something. I feel the lure sit down with her to watch, and talk. The lure is too much and it overpowers my created duty and therefore I find myself watching an episode or...
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Well its my official day off on this media fast. For those of you who dont follow my blog regularly I have been going on what I call a media fast. I am intentionally trying to stay away from television, internet and other sources of the contemporary media (ie. Magazines, news papers etc). Within each week, however, I do get a day off the fast....
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Ive decided to do a bit of a media/television fast. Recently Ive noticed that I have developed a more negative self concept that I think has some causal link to the media and the information that bombards us that we usually think we are desensitised towards. This sort of information has the intention of selling us stuff, or gaining our interest by presenting us directly...
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Why couldn't I sing something like this when I was in elementary school music class? Instead we were stuck with one tin soldier and other mundane classics. Cute video though. Almost insperational.

Wow today was one of those days where as soon as I step outside it starts to drizzle out. As the light rain drops hit the pavement, I think to myself hmmm I probably dont need a jacket. I then head out to my doctors appointment and since it is a hospital there was little parking. So, I managed to get a decent parking spot...
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I had a great idea for an intriguing documentary. At least for me it would be intriguing, but first some background. Recently I have been interested in the idea of ghosts, perhaps because of the recent rise in popularity of the footage of the Michael Jackson ghost phenomenon on youtube. While I dont think it was actually a ghost, the very idea of a sort...
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I've been playing the sims 3 for two days, sleep is for the weak! Music video of the day: Pilot Speed "Put the Phone Down". Next week i'll post something philosophical, I promise.

It is interesting to me how something that we describe as a type or what we prefer sexually can be an unquestionable or uncriticized vehicle for discrimination. For example we often describe our types, or turn ons in a particular way, if we dont vocalize these things we all seem to have particular cognitive ways of sorting out good potential mates or sexual partners based...
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Right, it feels like i've been studying forever for this final exam and I have not even gotten half way done. Although I did download a new album by Ida Maria...everyone should get this album. Immediately. I am a new fan.

Other than that I'm doing good, I don't know if i already wrote about this but i got a new supervisor for my honours...
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