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The Prayers: The appeal of the spirit and why it’s made
July 30, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic I was raised in a household that practiced Serbian Orthodox Christianity. I learned the Lord’s Prayer in the language, went to church for Easter and Christmas, and celebrated our patron saint day. Despite not considering myself a religious person, I still go to church for those occasions, and I still consider my religion to be Serbian Orthodox. Yet there is one thing that I can never bring myself to do: pray. Perhaps it’s because I don’t believe in a god or gods, or perhaps it’s my personality. To me, prayer has always had implications of giving up…
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Sexy Librarian: What bestsellers like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey say about women and sexuality
July 23, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic Let me get one thing straight: I have never read nor seen Twilight. At the height of its popularity, I picked up the first book to see what the hype was about. Twelve pages were all I…
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Gentrification: The Changing Demographic of the Downtown Eastside
July 1, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic “Hey, do you like Earl’s?” asks a man with a ragged and unkempt appearance, offering me a $25 gift card to Earl’s that he had gotten while panhandling: he tells me how he had gone to an…
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Intern-al Relations
July 1, 2012By Jeff Lagerquist TORONTO (CUP) - Internships can put some real world experience on your resume and even land you a job, but some employers see them as an opportunity to get cheap labour. With students desperate to build their…
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Ballin’: A Look into the Appeal of Sports
June 5, 2012By Munatsi Mavhima Avid sports fanatics – or anyone who just enjoys large crowds, food, booze, and nonsensical screams of joy and anguish—will have their plates full in June and July: this summer offers some of the finest sporting action…
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The Twin Flowers: Eco-terrorism and the extremist approach to environmentalism
June 4, 2012By Ljudmila Petrovic ECO-TERRORISM (from UrbanDictionary) Eco-terrorism is a crime committed to save nature. The crime must have the characteristics of terrorism as defined by the FBI Terrorism that actually seems to have a reasonable backing. Done to make the…
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