Prof. Amy Darnell

Instructor, Speech Communication * Visual and Performance Studies

A Day of Silence

As they ask on their website, “What are you going to do to end the silence?”
http://dayofsilence.org/content/truth.html 

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Spring 2008 Final Exams

Final Exams will occur during the specified times listed for each course. Rearranging exam times requires approval from the VPAA.
COMM 495– Monday 5/5/08 12:00- 2:00 p.m.
COMM 110A– Tuesday 5/6/08 10:00- 12:00 a.m.
COMM 324– Tuesday 5/6/08 12:30-2:30 p.m.
COMM 110B– Wednesday 5/7/08 8-10 a.m.

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Can you really outlaw skinny?

FRANCE MAY OUTLAW INCITING EXTREME THINNESS

 
By DEVORAH LAUTER, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 40 minutes ago
The French parliament’s lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.
The National Assembly approved the […]

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Then…

And now…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7347856.stm

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 1929- April 4, 1968

“They said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.  Come now therefore, and let us slay him…and we shall see what will become of his dreams.”  Genesis 37:19-20 KJV

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Dreams deferred

Today, in my independent cinema class, we watched Hoop Dreams, the uplifting yet heart-wrenching tale of Arthur Agee and William Gates. As one student talked about the expectations and assumptions that exist for so many in my classto go to college, the reality is that the experiences of Arthur and William are all too […]

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