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Race and Racism – Some Concepts Defined
Despite adamant claims to the contrary, racism continues to plague many peoples around the world. The first step toward resolving issues of racial intolerance and prejudice is to develop an understanding of the underlying concepts and their labels.
This (rather long) article touches on the following topics:
• Stereotypes, Race, and Racism
• Culture and Cultural Imperialism
• Nationalism and National Imaginary
I hope you find this article helpful.
article tags: race, racism
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The Current Status of World Hunger
Where does starvation exist in the world today? What are some of the causes of world hunger? Are citizens of developed countries donating monetarily to the ongoing relief efforts? In this article I will address these questions with the hope that by creating an understanding of the current world hunger situation, morally conscious individuals will do their part in contributing to the eradication of this unseen suffering.
article tags: world, hunger, starvation, food, organizations
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The Importance of Stories
Long before the advent of a written history, the elders of ancient civilisations used stories to teach the new generation. The lessons might have related to the values of the society, their particular version of how they came to be, their purpose on the earth, or methods of obtaining food or a spouse.
The most well known of the ancient stories were the civilisation’s particular version of how Earth came into existence and how they came to be here on earth.
article tags: history, story, fable, fairy tale, moral
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When a Soldier Kills
Did you know that many soldiers in World War II had difficulty killing the enemy even when their own lives were threatened? This article discusses how the military has changed its training to prepare soldiers to kill, and the emotional effects after the conflict.
article tags: soldiers, army, military, money, online, surveys, paid email, make money online, murder, kill
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We Live In A System Of Beliefs
The following article about beliefs is just an expression of my thoughts. It is certainly not definitive.
In my opinion, we live our life on the basis of beliefs. We, literally live in a huge belief system. So seamlessly integrated (into our world) are some beliefs that most people assume that they are natural and accepted them without questioning.
article tags: ascension, healing, spiritual path, enlightenment, self-realisation
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Choice Theory
You have listened to me for a year now talking about Choice Theory but I know I’ve never really explained what Choice Theory is. Choice Theory is actually an explanation of all human behavior developed by Dr. William Glasser.
There are basically five components of this theory—the basic human needs, the quality world, the perceived world, the comparing place and total behavior.
article tags: choice theory, quality world, glasser, control, relationships, behavior, human needs
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Auschwitz Death Camp, Lesson Learned?
Auschwitz was the most notorious of the Nazi labor camps in WWII. There, a man or woman could expect at any moment to be sent to the gas chambers, used for medical experiments or given a phenol injection to the heart which would cause death in 15 seconds. If lucky, they would instead be used for exhaustive labor under the most grueling conditions.
A selection committee decided who was fit for labor and who would be used for medical experiments or exterminated.
article tags: chinese, communist, party, auschwitz, labor, camp, death, nazi, gong, germany, embassy elie, wiesel, wiesenthal, justice, jews, poland, suffering, persecution, chambers, gas, phenol, survivor, falun
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Traits and Characteristics of a Serial Killer - Part One
Serial killers grow up into people who kill other human beings as a source of pleasure. The reason for this is not completely understood, but is believed to be caused by neurological damage and psychological defects that lower reaction to emotional stimuli.
article tags: serial killers, serial killer
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Eulogy For A Good Book: PowerPoint and the Two Reasons You Need to Understand it
Good bye Moby Dick! Farewell Crime and Punishment! Adios National Geographic and Readers Digest!
PowerPoint and the generation of the 7th Millennium rules.
If you're a "Baby Boomer", PowerPoint will likely not appeal to you. Perhaps you will even feel it is evil. But I'll give you two good reasons you ought to understand and appreciate PowerPoint.
article tags: powerpoint, powerpoint presentation, delivering information, decline in reading, power point
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The Roman Family
The father in the Roman family (paterfamilias) exercised absolute and lifelong power over all other family members (patria potestas): his wife, children, and slaves. If the father's father was alive - then he was the supreme authority in the household. Fathers were even allowed to execute their grown sons for serious offenses like treason.
Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth gods and the paterfamilias was its priest.
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The “Stag Line”: A Cape Breton Dance Hall etiquette (part of Cape Breton Social Culture)
The “Stag Line”, a male high school dance etiquette, was certainly indigenous to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia Canada.
Remember those Cape Breton school dances in the 1960s?
The community hall or gymnasium would be dimly lighted by a few flood lights. Whether the music was delivered by a jukebox, a DJ or live band, the use of a color organ and strobe light was prevalent – you had to have colored lights pulsing to the beat of the music.
article tags: stag, dance etiquette, cape breton, stag line, social dance etiquette, 1960 dance, adolescent dating, fonz
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The Difference Between A Constructive Life And A Destructive Life
You have the choice how to live your life. It could be a constructive life or a destructive life.
article tags: constructive life, destructive life
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NGOs - The Self-Appointed Altruists
Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics, do-gooders, and professional altruists.
Always self-appointed, they answer to no constituency.
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A pre-cursor to Paint Ball? - Lee Hawker – a 1960s Cape Breton Adolescent Hide-'n-Seek Game
There are segments of sociology, found perhaps only on Cape Breton Island, that need to be recorded, if not studied. The game of “Lee Hawkers” is such a segment; a common summer night cry of “1-2-3 Lee Hawkers” heard from the woods surrounding the New Waterford neighbourhood of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. This game of modified hide-and-seek involving two teams was part of teen years in the mid-1960s.
article tags: teen game, cape breton game, cape breton culture, lee hawkers, hide and seek, 1960 team game, adolescent dating, teen dating, paint ball, cape breton socialogy