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I'm a junior Political Science major at Middle Tennessee State University. I grew up in new york, mostly in Brighton Beach Brooklyn, but in 2003 my family decided to move to Nashville, TN! I was in the middle of highschool at that time, and it was a crazy culture shock, but now I've grown to at least enjoy the South for what it is...
Soooo there's a lot to say about me but: I'm in love with politics, literature, music and traveling. I just spent a semester in England and for Christmas break i stayed for almost a month in Paris with a close friend that I made in that English University....I write poetry and perform it at open mics, ask me and i can show you some of my stuff! i study hard and play hard as well. i like to drink at the pubs, but im also cool with a bottle of vodka under a bridge. I love dancing at the clubs. i used to act and my original major when i went into school was stage craft. i am a certified theater spotlight operator and ive worked in many independent theatres in nashville, tn.I'm now involved a lot in doing original research and writing papers on Terrorism and US/UK Counter-Terrorism Policy with one of my professors over the summers, and during the year I work with Habitat for Humanity doing advocacy for people in low-income and sub-standard housing.I drive a lot on the weekends, if im not all over Nashville, I might be in Mephis or Chattanooga or somewhere in between. But brooklyn is heart and soul, i love it there, i try to come back and see all my friends every few months! i look forward to moving back there in the future... holla
QOUTES:
"The words “insane†and “insane person†and “lunatic†shall include every idiot, lunatic, and insane person." - excerpt out of some US Statute dealing with Terrorism
“All I can say is that I hope we can survive long enough in order to become a layer in rock. They’ll look and say, that’s a human.†– Geology Dude, Science Channel
"We once knew nature as chaos, a threatening realm of indefinite danger, and we walled our cities against it. Now the roles are reversed: culture threatens the planet, and the wilderness that is left is found in tiny pockets surrounded by fence and farm." - from "Domr Brief Speculations on The Popularity of Entropy as Methaphor" by Eric Zencey in Volume 271of the North American Review (1986)
"The good taught you false shores and false securities; you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good." - from 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra', Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress." - from 'The Plague', Albert Camus
"Like flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are scrificed to beauty and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity." - from 'A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman', Mary Wollonstonecraft
"Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal dainty tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold blooded and the sins of the warm hearted in different scales. Better the occasional fault that lives in a spirit of charity, then the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"George W. Bush, by contrast, turned to a frontal assault based on the use of America's unequaled military power. Even before 9/11, the Bush administration had unveilied its unilateral approach to the world. It withdrew from important international treaties, including those seeking to ban antiballistic missile weapons, control the emission of greenhouse gases, and create a court to try prepetrators of the most heinous war crimes. Bush also proclaimed openly his adherence to a doctrine of preventitive war. The United States said it was a New Rome, beyond good and evil and unrestrained by the established conventions of the international community. In its spring 2003 attack on Iraq, it affirmed that it no longer need (or cared about) international legitimacy, that it had become a power answerable only to itself, and that internal forces of militarism were dictating foriegn policy. These policies produced international isolation and a global loss of confidence in the American foriegn policy establishment. Two and a half years into the Bush administration, most of our allies had left us, our military was overstrected, and no nation on earth doubted our willingness to employ military power to solve any and all problems." - from 'The Sorrows of Empire', Chalmers Johnson
"The strongest guard is placed at a gateway to nothing, maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged." - from 'Tender is the Night', F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves." - from the essay 'When We Dead Awaken', Adrienne Rich
"These crazy Saints stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics -- or quietly, like suicides; and the "God" that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone." - from the essay 'In Search of Our Mother's Gardens', Alice Walker
"The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - From the mouth of former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
“Her disbelief in his self-dissatisfaction delighted him, and unconsciously he tried to draw her into giving utterance to the grounds of her disbelief.†- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
"Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers?" - Martin Luther King Jr., from "Letter from a Birmigham Jail"
"No one has insight into all the ideals. No one should presume to judge them off-hand. The pretension to dogmatize about them in each other is the root of most human injustices and cruelties, and the trait in human character most likely to make the angels weep." - William James, from "What Makes a Life Significant"
"We have unquestionably a great cloud-bank of ancestral blindness weighing down upon us, only transiently riven here and there by fitful revelations of the truth. It is vain to hope for this state of things to alter much. Our inner secrets must remain for the most part impenetrable by others, for beings as essentially practical as we are necessarily short of sight. But, if we cannot gain much positive insight into one another, cannot we at least use our sense of our own blindness to make us more cautious in going over the dark places? Cannot we escape some of those hideous ancestral intolerances; and cruelties, and positive reversals of the truth?" - William James, from "What Makes a Life Significant"
"Blood mingled with fire dripped from the top of her head, her flesh melted from her bones like teardrops of resin as your poison gnawed invisibly." - Euripides, from the play "Medea"
"Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from his acceptance speach for the Nobel Prize for Literature
"A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible..." - I forget...
