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The Seams in the Fabric

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My upbringing was religious but I taught myself to say interfaith. Up to age 16, my lingual was patchwork tribal flag embroidered in the shades of unnecessary secrets. Each utensil for a life map or activity was the potential for creating a secret.  From ages18 to 26, my lingual was revisiting and calling the eras as they were. My upbringing was traditional but I reimagined contemporary.

This Immigrant Speaks

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I grew up in Nashville’s immigrant culture, practicing what is called dual-engagement. This meant constructing a perception of American culture that was acceptable in the family living room and in a more hidden way, finding what I would later call my own culture.  Ethics was easier for incoming changes and perceived advancing of American value endorsement. Accepting food where a direct relation could not be observed or created proved to be more difficult than it should have been.  I learned to consider myself to be a simple structure first and then a complex person afterwards. It was only a decade or so later from my upbringing that I accepted that a person can be as complex as newness will allow.  I was not gifted at mixing with what I called foreign even while on foreign soil. The compensation for this inability still affects me today. I compensated by embarking in cultural practices at every opportunity, translating otherw...

Education as Reform

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Learning is early enough in human nature for all people to see education as an investment, an area of personal ownership. However, when a deviation from inclusive methods is practiced, the foundation shifts to create the conversation for a new consciousness. It is very important for early human development successes and the old way of thinking to be flexible of reception of outside, outlying, or peripheral communities. Maintaining a pace with the changing times has come to mean more than reaching out but also disowning contrary norms and making diversity a commonplace concept.

The Hidden Nashville

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Nashville is uniquely-situated because the diverse communities present are not bordered or in conflict. In some ways,  Nashville is an isle. Independence is both corporate and familial, both personal and communal. In other ways, Nashville is landlocked. The borders are confining but to a degree. Those entering these communities with interest to partake, learn, and/or change a history of separation have the joy of a fresh start. The benefits of sharing in the community  values, rediscovering yourself, or starting a process of healing the lower-class but trendy way, are so vast that you would think you found a paradise. As a new face in the community, I know that I must embrace a patriotic feel for the arts, the food, the music, and ways of life. It is most helpful if one approaches the area with the most open mind. Of course, this area includes North and East Nashville, Antioch, and Nashville proper. Embracing change is furthered by the acceptance of the skills, lessons, and ...

Natural Selection - The Soul

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Personhood so defined composes of the willful construct, an establishment for the duality of contractual obligation and universal permissibility, sensory creativity, and the aforesight.  The body of the matter, for the betterment of ethics, is applicable to those deviations that require volatile reinforcement in order to exert effort that is peculiar to higher living. Spiritedness is a description of the combined rejuvenative efforts of the carnal being in collaboration with the decreptive junction. The soul is not uniform in description. However, a consequence of conservatism in practice is the elevation of equilateral intellect when comparable to common knowledge. To say that the Soul is higher when learning is complementary is to negate the tendency of reform to provide subsidized normatives for the popular-minded. Therefore, in order for the inclusive sciences to develop unopposed to extra-strategic planning to alter the scenic inequality, the Soul must be consid...