Archive for April 6, 2010

‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ Reflection

Posted on April 6, 2010, 12:38 pm | 1,213 views

Each time I reflect upon this film, the same image enters my mind: Bruno putting on the striped “pajamas” and entering into Shmuel’s world, a world that is abnormal to Bruno but normal for Shmuel. What defines normal? According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, normal is “conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern” (NORMAL, [...]

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He likes dogs more, so what?

Posted on April 6, 2010, 10:15 am | 844 views

One of the adolescents in our dog program said the other day that he now loves dogs. Just like that. That might not seem like much of a stretch for a court adjudicated youth in a 12 week dog program, but to him a youth whose life revolved around getting high– it was. He has [...]

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