Opinion - The Cultivated Mind

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Better Than Expected

Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:39 AM EDT

I've been a longtime fan of the Harry Potter series since its debut in the US since it was the first series of books I've been interested in reading since the sixth grade.

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entertainment, harry-potter, warner-bros, j-k-rowling

Transformers: Best Film of the Summer

Thu Jul 5, 2007 6:10 AM EDT

I grew up playing with the Transformers toys more than I watched the cartoon and was a major fan of the Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons of the early days of Fox Kids back when domestic, American-made cartoons were worth watching, and it is my pleasure to say that the new T …

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entertainment, film, blockbuster, movies, transformers, michael-bay

Ending the War

Tue May 1, 2007 6:54 PM EDT

It is now the year 2007 and America has officially been involved in military operations within Iraq for longer than its involvement in World War II; the implications of the preceding statement can be quite staggering. U.S.

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bush, iraq, politics, war, george-w-bush, bush-administration, w, war-in-iraq

Videogame Music is the Place to Be

Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:44 PM EDT

The videogame market is the best place to become a commercial composer. The film industry is not only vastly difficult to break into, you don't get too much time to construct your score.

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music, arts, music-industry, videogame, composer, film-music, self-promotion, television-music

Asking SGA for Money

Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:39 AM EDT

When the Student Association of Social Workers (SASW) requested $200 from SGA Wednesday, March 21, it spurred quite a hefty debate between a few of the higher profile senators.

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politics, special-session, stephen-f-austin, sga, sfasu, student-government-association, paper-bill, pine-log