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Crossing Borders
By
The Observer
· Tuesday, April 9, 2013
For my French class "Formesd'inclusion et d'exclusion," forms of inclusion and exclusion, we were invited to attend a screening of the 2009 documentary "Crossing Borders." Although the film was in English, it addressed exactly the issues we have been discussing in class all semester: What defines identity and how do people with different identities relate to each other?
Crossing Borders
By
The Observer
· Tuesday, April 9, 2013
For my French class "Formesd'inclusion et d'exclusion," forms of inclusion and exclusion, we were invited to attend a screening of the 2009 documentary "Crossing Borders." Although the film was in English, it addressed exactly the issues we have been discussing in class all semester: What defines identity and how do people with different identities relate to each other?
Show Some Skin
By
The Observer
· Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The ever-increasing submissions to ND Confessions prove Notre Dame students are on the search for authenticity. ND Confessions, a Facebook page that allows people to anonymously submit their secrets, has posted over 500 confessions in the past two weeks and claims to have received over 20,000 confessions. Domers have secrets, and we want to share them. The catch: We just don't want anyone to know they are our secrets.
Amour review
By
The Observer
· Sunday, April 7, 2013
From prescription drugs to cultural fascination with sex, death tends to be something we avoid - you will pardon the phrase - like the plague. Tragedies or the demise of a loved one shock and unsettle routine self-assurance, but we quickly objectify such incidents as unpleasant abstractions. Death is always something that happens to other people, something that occurs in foreign deserts or newspaper headlines, something to be kept out of sight where the kids won't find it. Like the process of cleaning campground toilets or the popularity of Kardashian mammals on national television, death is uncomfortable to think about. And yet, as mausoleums from vases to the pyramids remind us, death remains a distinctly human fixation.
