Film Review: Divergent 3stars
Divergent follows a pretty generic formula and it is a shame the director Neil Burger (Limitless) made the decision to leave out some of the darker parts of the book.
Author: The Daily Blog
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The New Epidemic: the rise of female drinking
“Hang out in the brightly lit rooms of AA, or in coffee shops, talking to dozens of women who have given up drinking, and this is the conclusion you come to: for most, booze is a loan shark, someone they trusted for a while, came to count on, before it turned ugly.”
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Deconstructing the media metanarrative
The mainstream media are good at letting us know their politics, because their preferences and positions haven’t shifted in decades. The media support big business, racist, stereotypical ideas that successfully helped disengage 800,000 eligible voters last time around.
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Combating the stigma around mental health
The wide spread social stigma and myths around people who have a mental health diagnosis is what we really, should be discussing
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“Please, be that guy.”
The thing is I have spent a greater part of my life campaigning for the rights of women and trying to think of ways we might end rape and violence against women. It has only occurred to me in the last year or so, the violence is never going to decrease or stop unless we seriously address how we are raising young men.
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But it’s just all in good fun, right?
My job entails making food and plating up and apparently listening to my head chef’s commentary as he reduces women who walk into the café, to parts of their bodies with his words.
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Alleviating poverty key to raising student achievement
Cunliffe’s state of the nation speech in Kelston was welcome relief to the nonsense of last week when the government decided to throw $359M at high-earning change and executive school principals.
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Visiting the doctor with Mum
Looking at her watch constantly and breathing that breath where you know she’s irritated at having to go over the information again, we talk for a good 45 minutes. Throughout the entire conversation she answers my questions by looking at my mother and only rarely glancing at me.
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Victory for Labour
Securing the majority of the 800,000 non-voters will be key to Labour’s chances for success next year.
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Conferencing equity from the sidelines
My paper looked at shifting the focus of university’s from recruiting Pasifika students to their institutions as mostly an activity of adding flavour, to a deliberate approach of engaging these communities as a means of facilitating their personal and familial aspirations.