Research Paper Critical Reading/Writing 1110

Readers,

     Hello, and thank you for stumbling upon my blog, Shadow Light Press. My name is Max Page, a 3rd year student at Memorial University of Newfoundland. I study Business Admin. with an interdisciplinary minor in Philosophy. My time here in Newfoundland has been well spent with friends, professors, activists, politicians, students, and musicians (to name a few). This interest in my peers has recently provoked my appointment to the board of directors at our Memorial University Student Union for the 2012/2013 season. Here I sit as one of four 'Directors at Large.' It is our job as a director to represent the entirety of our student population (13000 strong). I am incredibly pleased with this opportunity to have first hand experience within our student union. I hope to uncover the potential of our union by investigating both the triumphs and the short-commings of our union in the 2012 fall season. 

This discourse will ultimately offer any student at MUN an inside look at where there union fees go. Furthermore it can promote and engage our students to see their union's potentiality. I intend to gather information through the bi-monthly board of directors meetings, interviews with the executive members of M.U.N.S.U, and direct participation through volunteering, contribution, and engagement. 

Max

Mission Statement

At Shadow Light Press it is our mission to report on topical affairs, with both truth and sincerity. We hope to report on a wide range of matters such as politics, society, wealth, the environment, philosophy, science, theology, family, individuality, and freedom (to name a few). This blog attempts to uproot one's potential biases stemming from empathy, faith, culture, family, money, ego and morality. Ultimately this blog will offer reports that contend with preexisting partisan media agendas.

To make things more clear, our organization is inspired by an ancient chinese philosophy of yin and yang, or in english, 'shadow and light.' The philosophy of yin and yang explicitly reveals the interconnectedness of opposites that are often detached, and then furthermore defended. These opposites provoke prejudice, racism, sexism, isolation and misunderstanding. These opposites, such as, night or day, republican or democrat, male or female, black or white, and young or old, have historically divided people. At Shadow Light Press our goal is to affirm both sides of every story. This method attempts to dignify, and acknowledge the entirety of the public, (no matter how misunderstood) and ultimately, to regard significance to both sides of every story. ( "Hey I never thought of it that way")

Max Page