… her home, studying madly for a upcoming high school exam. A teenage boy rushes down the fields of Brazil handling a soccer ball and his future. Another teenage boy in Rajasthan, dessert in Northwestern India is guided seven times around a sacred fire…

… than ever of the wealth gap among nations. The discussion about whether or not wealthy nations should share their wealth among poorer nations by providing such things as food and education is a very controversial one. So before giving my opinion,…

… of the Union Address" was very interesting. As he talked about his new space plans about NASA. As I got to thinking about his new plan, I found myself wondering what is out there in the universe? Should we really be spending so much money on space activi…

… is a former Russian communist, my gardener is Hispanic and my best friend is somewhere in between. As for me, I?m supposed to be an American, one that was born some ten thousand miles away in an undersized, under-populated, under-represented republic…

… the invasion of various diminishing forces. One of these forces, possibly the strongest, is the use of illegal drugs. My strongest 'pet peeve', a personal vexation that I consistently complain about, is the use of drugs, which society, agonizingly, attem…

… Masochism, a sexual disorder in which sexual arousal is derived from subjection to physical and emotional degradation. A type of paraphilia ,masochism is explained in psychoanalysis as a destructive attitude in which the individual turns inward…

… are stuck in time, the Amish are often misunderstood as a religious culture here in the United States. The Amish people are just one example of a fascinating religious community found in today's society. "Their lifestyle, based on religious beliefs,…

… was in 4-H while in high school and I knew a lot of home schoolers. In fact some of my good friends switched from public school to home schooling in the middle of their high school years. Some of my own opinions on disadvantages of home schooling inclu…

… the country was in a state that wouldn't have been ideal for Marx's concepts. Marx had predicted that the unhappy working class would overthrow the capitalist government, as they were the getting shorthanded. However, this wasn't the case in Russia,…

… Ukraine, former USSR, it was a cool night with high humidity levels. The employees of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant were going about their regular duties on their ordinary shifts. Little did they know, that within hours, their lives would be changed,…