Like my use of alliteration in my title?
I could write a really long list of things I love about Brazil:
– Bossanova
– Capoeira
– Samba
– Caipirinha’s
– City of God
– Gisele Bundchen
–Havaiana flip flops
– Brazilian chocolate desserts
– The Brazilian bikini
– The Brazilian Wax
– Brazilian Barbeque
AND
Yesterday the President of Brazil Lula da Silva pledged to subsidize access to contraceptives […]

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What draws people to the things they like, their passions? Is it simply coincidence, a random kind of drawing to each individual, is it memories? Things that you may not even realize take a subconscious toll on your life, is it things that you’re good at, you’re attracted to something that you know. I think […]

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“God hates everyone, the greatest lie ever told” I somehow found a link to a website called, godhatesfags.com. I guess urging to see how ridiculous and hateful and horrible this world is, and get that deep wretched feeling in the pit and gut of my stomach, I clicked on it. One of the links is, […]

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I just saw two really great movies.
The Waitress:
A strong, yet hardened women living in a small town has an amazing talent and passion for making pies. She has an abusive emotionally and a little bit physically husband, and her hard life has hardened her, so does not help that she finds out she’s pregnant. This […]

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I love quizzes. When I was really super little and on vacation, I had a quiz book with probably hundreds of quizzes. Me loving them probably has to do with issues about who you are/being labeled/etc. but this time I am about to make up a quiz, that opposed to at the end having to […]

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I also posted this on the huffington post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maddie-lear/
This letter was written by three sixth grade students, two of my friends and myself, as a sixth grade, history class assignment, while learning about the buddha and his teachings. The assignment was to send a letter to someone who you think is not obeying the buddha’s […]

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It’s a slippery slope when it comes to your friends and what you believe in. It’s a slippery slope when it comes to anything that you put yourself into, (whether it’s poetry, art, etc.) and it’s a slippery slippery slope when you fall in love with someone/something. I know that I have obviously made mistakes, […]

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