Global Citizen
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Washington DC, DC, United States |
| Introduction | We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.-BARACK OBAMA 'Hell are other people'- Jean-Paul Sartre It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde |
| Interests | World Politics, Democratic Theory, Human Rights, Current Affairs, Foreign Languages, Literature and cultures, Social Democracy, Gender Egalitarianism, Non Partisanship, Reading books books and more books, studying while travelling the world, journalism, history, the Environment, Environmental Politics, Global Citizenship, Humans and the stories they tell, Unitarian Universalism |
| Favorite Movies | Philadelphia, American History X, Brokeback Mountain, Little Children, The Constant Gardner, Juno, Taxi Driver, Little Miss Sunshine, Monsters Ball, Good Morning Vietnam, Million Dollar Baby, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Deer Hunter, Sophie's Choice, Capote, Forest Gump, The Aviator, Gangs of New York, Elizabeth, DreamGirls, The Pianist, Good Will Hunting, Places in the Heart, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Life is Beautiful, Schindler's List, My Left Foot, Shakespeare in Love, Out of Africa, La Vie en Rose, Morning Glory, On Golden Pond, The Accused, The Shawshank Redemption, The Color Purple, Dead Man Walking, The Bridges of Madison Country, The English Patient, Kite Runner, Annie Hall |
| Favorite Music | Currently listening to Leona Lewis, Coldplay, Radiohead, Madonna, George Michael, Alicia Keys |
| Favorite Books | Recent favourites, Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, A thousand splendid Suns, Ian Mcewan's The Atonement and Amsterdam, Foucault's Society must be defended, Jospeh Stiglitz Making Globalization Work, Vandana Shiva's Earth Democracy, Al Gore's The Assault on Reason, Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence, Ivor Chipkin's Do South African's exist, Benazir Bhutto's Reconciling Islam and Democracy and Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope, Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian, Goethe's Faust, Muhammed Yunus: Creating the world wihout Poverty, Hannah Arendt, Eichman in Jerusalem, Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth. David Mendell's Obama, From Promise to Power, Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love |