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		<title>Pen &#8211; my illustrious friend- you are mightier in the end</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot can happen in a decade. Before September 11 and the War on Terror, “opening in an atmosphere of hope” the Birmingham-based but truly international group Writers Without Borders was formed, co-founded by the late Dr Roi Kwabena. The &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/pen-my-illustrious-friend-you-are-mightier-in-the-end/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=789&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are you going to do with your life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: All human beings by nature desire to know. Since I resigned my childhood fixation with being an &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=780&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David vs Goliath continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It began- or rather it ended- with a phone call. Taken at work, a representative from the travel insurance company I used for a trip to South Africa in January called to inform me that a cheque they had sent &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/david-vs-goliath-continues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=776&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little to the left&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/a-little-to-the-left-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this the beginning of the end for Great Britain? The Keyboard warriors over at The Guardian seem to think so. The go-to news resource for the theoretical left-wingers has been working overtime since their long-time enemy The Conservative Party &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/a-little-to-the-left-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=631&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the beginning of the end?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps a little unjustly, I do judge a workplace on the strength of their kitchen supplies. In the world of temporary employment with non existent company-employee loyalty, any given jobs’ fringe benefits -and occasional fridge benefits- are often the only &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=633&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yeah, but IS IT ART?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is surprising and disheartening to see how such a topic as contemporary art could illicit such emotionally charged responses within media reporting or informal conversation- or how these two outlets of opinion would converge in synchronicity in the past &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/yeah-but-is-it-art-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=595&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open your mouth and say&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something struck me as a little nonsensical about requesting an analytical piece of writing intended to reflect not only the process but the outcome of four pieces of group work created for our 122 MC Media and Cultural Fields module. &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/open-your-mouth-and-say/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=563&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wherever you are, you&#8217;re there</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When alone in the lounge room I have been known to watch documentaries about Australian personalities or history; I smile at cultural references that are for once not alien to me but my enjoyment is typically derived from their familiarity &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/wherever-you-are-youre-there/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=635&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep quiet and carry on&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain has a culture that is built on an entrenched social hierarchy -often romantically described with euphemisms like courtesy, manners or etiquette they are mostly used as a way of reminding regular people just where they stand in the scheme &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/keep-quiet-and-carry-on/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=553&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art for artists sake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 19:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the work of Mona Hatoum, a Palestinian artist who through her video work Measures of Distance which I recently viewed, transported me back to a rather disappointing finale to an otherwise upwardly mobile artistic journey through high school. &#8230; <a href="http://nadiabaird.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/art-for-artists-sake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nadiabaird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9734951&amp;post=502&amp;subd=nadiabaird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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