The student groups plan and fundraise for months prior to the trip, and many times they must sacrifice their own break time from school to attend.
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What struck us is the idea that students are taking the initiative and making this lasting impact. Global Brigades is really a well-rounded organization thanks in large part to ambitious students with fields concentrating in medical outreach to water purification development even to assisting in local micro enterprise growth.
This trip had a mission, a mission we all had personal investment in, and I’m not speaking financially. If anything, the only apprehension I had was the fear of failure
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Part One: Backpod The Idea
This week we’ll get to know a member from the group Backpod. Michael Peters is one of three exceptionally talented artist to dedicate his creative life by using his artistic expression as a tool for the greater good.
The film is about two friends who figure out they have more interest in one another than they realize. Broken Social Scene plays a huge outdoor bash, and the characters are aiming to go
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Get Your Tickets Soon!
“Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing – what do these all have in common? These are just a few of the parts of being a member of the Wild and Wonderful White Family. The legendary family is as known for their wild, excessive criminal ways as they are for their famous mountain dancing members, including Jesco White, the star of director Julien Nitzberg’s cult classic documentary Dancing Outlaw.
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Knoxville Goth
Coming Soon from writer/director Jacob Boyd!
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Thank You Kenzie Cooke!
The human spirit can endure the realities of responsibility without losing the fun behind the profundity of newness. I think we all can do better, I believe Kenzie Cooke’s work suggests to us that its not inevitable but let us not forget how things used to be, how we once were as children, laughing, and running through the open fields. This week has been a reminder for me to continue to be consistant in doing the things I love to do, the dreams I believe in, and the individual path I choose to walk.
Its not every day an 18 yr old takes questions about life from someone who is 29. But this piece did that, and age only suggests one thing in this interview. We all have a desitny, we all choose the path, you can be 18, you can be 29, hell you can be 89. What you do today, will transition into what you do tomorrow. We all have to choose based on the relative nature of our own individual lives.
“I certainly don’t believe that the latter stages of life have to be the way adulthood was represented in Sunder. In fact, I hope that they are not. The ideas portrayed in Sunder represent, for me, one possible reality that many people fall into.”