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Movie Review: Life of Pi
Let me tell you a story about God. For the Islamic festival of Eid Al-Fitr, I received two free movie passes to Cineplex Odeon. This was around August, just before school started. I tacked the two...
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Read This Now: The Walking Dead and Why the VGAs Matter
The Walking Dead: The Game has become one of my favourite video games of all time. It is a phenomenal experience, even though I’ve never gotten into the comics, and only watched a few episodes from the...
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Apocalypse When?
I’ve survived through many apocalypses. How many exactly is hard to tell. Every couple years someone begins spouting how asteroids, aliens, or rogue planetsare going to be the doom of us all. And then...
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Top 10 Happenings of 2012
So the year is drawing to a close, the calendars are ready to turn over, and people around the world are refunding their portable generators and digging into their rations from the apocalypse that...
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Defining the Undefinable
“Say: “He, God, is One; the Eternal, Absolute. He begot none, nor was He begotten. And there is none like unto Him.” –The Qur’an, Chapter 112 (Purity). How do you define God? It’s a heavy question, no...
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Read This Now: Top 10 Terrible Khutbahs (And What I Learned From Them)
I’ve been to my fair share of these.To all my non-Muslim readers, a “khutbah” is basically a sermon given during Friday prayers. “ Every Friday morning, Muslims with a Y chromosome (and a bunch with...
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7 Tips for Grasping Time Management
Productivity boils down to a simple yet complex word: time. And here’s the honest truth: you cannot make time. We have 24 hours in a day, and that’s it. What you can do is allocate it. The key to...
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Read This Now: “Disney, Miyazaki, and Feminism: Why Western girls need...
For anyone with an interest in pop culture, this essay is an interesting examination of female roles in Disney films and anime. “Japan’s foremost creator/director of animation today is Hayao Miyazaki,...
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Reflections on Change: Technology
Change sucks. But it’s gotta happen. Sometimes change is a looming, ominous thunder cloud in the distance, slowly drawing towards you. Other times, change is a big, stupid beast that bursts into your...
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Movie Review: Pacific Rim
“It actually feels like a billion tons of steel rocket-punching a sky-scraper sized dinosaur.” Giant robots. Giant monsters. For a long time, cinema has kept these two apart. We’ve seen giant robots...
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