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Movies are NOT just for entertainment

I enjoy watching movies, but recently I have become aware that it’s more to movies than just being entertained by their magic.

I came across the movie “Instinct” starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr., I would have never thought of watching this movie before but I found this movie right in the middle of a very enlightening portion of this movie. Hopkins portrays an anthropologist in a prison for the criminally insane, and Gooding Jr. portrays a psychiatrist attempting to help… Continue

Added by Adisa on July 8, 2011 at 11:03pm — 4 Comments

Drapetomania

Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness described by physician Samual Cartwright that caused "black slaves" to feel captivity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

Added by Adisa on June 30, 2011 at 10:37am — 3 Comments

Introduction to Critical Thinking

http://www.arn.org/realscience/kog1asample/kog-ct-chem-1a-sample.pdf

Added by Adisa on June 21, 2011 at 2:39pm — 1 Comment

When Nations Gather By Sultan Abdul Latif

I recently read this book and I just had to share the following excerpt;

"The challenge today, for the spiritually enlightened, is to overcome barriers of race, culture, nationality, and religion and to come together with men and women of understanding, who are working to change the direction in which the world is heading."

What a beautiful world this could be...

Added by Adisa on June 8, 2011 at 11:18am — No Comments

Arrested Development by Dr. Na'im Akbar

"An example of a boy who is arrested in his development, is one who has paid more for his stereo system than he has paid for his book on his shelf. A boy is the adult who has more colored lights and party space than he has study space or work space in his home. You are a boy when you pay more for your liquor, than for your food. When your view of women is exclusively of someone to satisfy your various needs, then you are a boy. When you are preoccupied with someone to get back at, get over on… Continue

Added by Adisa on June 8, 2011 at 9:22am — 2 Comments