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Facing Your Fears
What do you fear? It may be a common fear like spiders, public speaking, or heights. It may be something less tangible but no less real, like crowds or loneliness. In this video, the character fears crossing the street, and he has a good excuse for his fears. But how can we seek to overcome our fears, even when we seem to have valid excuses? How...
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The Curtis Long Story
A library isn't the place you'd expect to discover drama and romantic intrigue involving students and a professor but somehow that's the situation Curtis Long finds himself in. The story touches on themes of love and destiny: How far are we willing to go in order to pursue our dreams? Are we willing to leave the comfortable and predictable life that...
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8:59
Life Through Photos
Age eventually catches up to us all. Wednesday is the story of 70-year-old Roger as he goes about his life amidst the complexity of Los Angeles and throughout it all he photographs his every move. What the photographs mean says something about how we relate to others and to the world as we get older. What have you found to be most challenging and...
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Toughen Up
"I want you to toughen up. Be a man. 'Cause I ain't raised any girls. You understand?" 17-year-old Damien never realized that the only man he's ever looked up to might not be the best example of what it means to be a man. "Be the Man" dramatically explores a young man's coming of age in a harsh, sometimes cruel world. How can we better deal with...
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Are you Alone in the Crowd?
"Once bitten, twice shy." This short phrase encapsulates why some people make the difficult decision to be alone in life. After all the headaches and heartbreaks that a person has experienced in relationships, "Why bother?" they may think. It seems less painful to be alone. And it is, for a time. But eventually the pain of loneliness can be even...
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Helping the Homeless, Practicality Please
With the Olympics coming to town, one cannot help but be aware of the concern over the homeless population. It has been a topic front and center since we first learned that Vancouver would be holding the 2010 games. In 2006, CTV was already reporting that the homeless population in the city may have tripled, producing numbers of up to 3000 people...
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