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Action: Cover the Night to End Slavery (KONY 2012 Pt. 2)

Posted April 18, 2012 By Elisa

What is KONY 2012 again? Did you see the viral video by INVISIBLE CHILDREN a month or so ago? Many of us did. Over a hundred million of us did. A lot of people who watched this video had never heard of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) before, let alone the horrifying brand of slavery [… Read More]

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Revolution: The Hunger Games

Posted April 1, 2012 By Elisa

The Hunger Games Have you ever been to an opening night movie? I’ve been floating through life, a virgin to this experience until the Hunger Games came out a week ago.  I had some qualms; I love to sleep and am paranoid when afraid I won’t get enough rest. I didn’t want to be forever [… Read More]

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A Current Event: The Movie Star, the Nuba Mountains, and a Genocide

Posted March 19, 2012 By Elisa

Thanks to George Clooney and Enough Project, another situation in Africa (besides Joseph Kony) is being highlighted. Actually, it probably wouldn’t be getting attention, except Clooney and some others got themselves arrested, protesting outside of the Sudanese Embassy. Way to get attention, Mr. Celebrity. You all remember Sudan’s Darfur, right? You know, there were a [… Read More]

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For the Love of Controversy: The Kony 2012 Campaign

Posted March 10, 2012 By Elisa

On Wednesday morning I woke up to a world which was talking about Joseph Kony. My husband and I sat there, refreshing the Invisible Children’s Facebook page to see the number of likes go up by the second. I am always bitter that stupid things trend on twitter like #thingsnottodoaftereatingtacos or names of obscure celebrates [… Read More]

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Christians vs. Poverty: A Review of 58: The Film and its Movement

Posted October 21, 2011 By Elisa

The Documentary on Poverty: Step #1 is to get to it Have you ever been in a tornado warning zone? I didn’t experience this much until I moved to the East Coast. The last time I was in a tornado warning I had assumed sirens would go off if there was a problem. After all, [… Read More]

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Documentaries: Growing Our Awareness in 2011

Posted October 7, 2011 By Elisa

There are some GREAT documentaries and movies being played all around the United States- RIGHT NOW! These give a better understanding on what is going on in the world around us. I haven’t seen all of these, yet, but as I get reviews on them I will post them. Don’t miss out on them- check [… Read More]

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Movie Review: Machine Gun Preacher

Posted September 27, 2011 By Elisa

This guest post was written by a friend of mine, Amy, who is one of the main bloggers and founders of a great young adult book review site, The Reading Teen and its partner website, Parental Book Reviews. Besides reading and writing, Amy has some other great skills too. Mainly, that she can make an [… Read More]

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Islam Vs. Americanism: French Halal Food Feeding Terrorism and Fears?

Posted January 7, 2011 By Elisa

I guess what it comes down to, is that I really believe loving Muslims, showing Jesus to them, is more sustainable than getting worked about about halal.

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Label Me: A Housewife, A World Changer, and the Organization L2F Needs Network

Posted September 17, 2010 By Elisa

I am part of an organization, L2F Needs Network. Actually, a best friend (the director of L2F) and I spend the majority of our non-essential-household-taking-care-of-time (there has got to be a better way to say that) running L2F. . . It’s like we are Robin Hood, but we don’t have to steal from the rich. Which is good, because I would probably have some moral qualms about that.

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Qur’an Burning: America’s Response to the Spread of Islam

Posted September 10, 2010 By Elisa

Burning hairspray is cool. Burning bras- that was cool in the 60′s. Burning books? Um, didn’t we learn in American English from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 that book burning is the end of society as we know it? But burning one fifth of the world’s population’s holy book!? Dude, we don’t burn cows as a public outcry against Hindus! We only burn cows if we like our steak very very well done! But that is a whole different thing.

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