Gordon Parks

Two words best describe Gordon Park’s life…groundbreakingand inspirational.

Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine. In the 1950s, Parks worked as a consultant on various Hollywood productions and later directed a series of documentaries commissioned by National Educational Television on black ghetto life. Beginning…

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lORD OF THE FLIES

Jack loses his sense of identity in that he slowly becomes more and more savage. It starts simply enough with his hesitation at killing the first pig they see on the island, but later morphs into a kind of paranoia that he cannot maintain any sort of importance or control on the island without proving himself capable of hunting pigs. Used to being a leader, he is completely thrown off when he is not voted chief, and as he instills more and more fear into the other boys,… Continue

I. GATHAS AND PRAYERS

Gatha is a Sanskrit term meaning "verse" or "hymn". In Buddhist literature it is used to designate the versified portion of the sutras. Chinese scholars have adopted this word for their Versified

compositions, which are known as chieh, an abbreviation of chieh-t'o, or as chieh-sang,

which is the combination of the Sanskrit and the Chinese. The gathas

collected here are not exclusively those of the Zen sect;…

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ABORTION DEBATE





The current `debate’



Conservative religious and political leaders are at it again, trying to restrict women’s access to abortion in this country.



Since its re-election in October 2004, the Coalition federal government, with right-wing Christian support, has steadily campaigned to make abortion a contentious issue. Health minister Tony Abbott is publicly campaigning for an end to Medicare rebates for terminations, and Christopher Pyne,… Continue