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The True price of Religious Freedom Proposition 8 (Amending the California state constitution to make same sex marriage illegal) was touted as preserving Religious Freedom. Can anyone be truly free unless Everyone is free? |
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Fool’s Gold Famous athletes continue to be caught using performance enhancement drugs. Why do they do it? Should we even care? |
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Getting Ahead in the Freelancing World Whenever I meet young writers, it always amazes me how much they know. And while I’m mostly impressed, part of me is jealous because I only learned in my late 20s what they already know as sophomores in college.
I am sure there are others like me (of all ages) who do not know what college courses might help them in their writing careers or what they can do before they graduate to get ahead of the pack. Of course, there are many directions one can take to get a jump start on freelancing, but these are a few I recently discovered. |
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Roses Are Red . . . Hallmark's got new cards, For those times when you're stuck, For cancer, depression and rehab, Hey, WTF? |
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I dare you to do this! This week's offering asks us all who are we willing to be in a world that changes day to day, and are we capable of changes for the better, or the worse? |
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BLACK ON BLACK CRIME A DISGRACE TO FREEDOM What kind of life is there for blacks among blacks when people are lost in a maze of deception? They do not understand Martin Luther King, Jr. did not set them free to self-destruct. |
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It's Getting Hot in Here Desperate times call for desperate measures. Here are five things you can do right now to help stop global warming. |
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The Sounds of Freedom There's one sound that represents freedom in America more than anything else to me... |
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Joe is fine. Are you? - Meditate to Bust Stress Here I sit doing the one thing that is a major stressor,
procrastinating on writing my column for this week. Why did I wait till tonight
I have no clue? I had a whole four days to myself, ... |
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I Wished My Father Knew When I think about Father’s Day, I can’t help but to think of the only father I ever knew. He was a man so loved by the women and his family. He was highly respected by everyone. He had a natural charm that would make you want to be around him especially when he would speak. His voice would make you want to listen to every word he spoke. With that voice, he had intelligence and wisdom. But when you looked in his eyes, they always seem to be fighting back tears. |
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Barnes Storming: You Gonna Finish that Sentence? A young writer crosses over to the "dark" side of plagiarism for the fame and fortune. Lucky for him the path has been clearly marked by the recent foot traffic of others just as desperate for attention. |
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Hold on, I have a call coming in So, I walked into a men’s restroom during a conference recently and observed a guy standing at the urinal with his arm raised and wrapped over his head to hold his cell phone up to his ear. |
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Giant Google and its new toys - Google Desktop 2 Some time (years) ago Google was big. Just big, nothing else. Then it became the biggest and most used search engine in the world. I won't even talk about the profits. Google used to be a giant, however, it's growing bigger and bigger with every day. Just recently they have come out with a new product called Google Desktop 2. |
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AFTER After your nation can keep its head, when most other countries in our world are losing theirs, and blaming it on you, and yours. After your citizens get liberty, without taking anybody else’s; After your nation can be free, and not take freedom for granted,After your nation can give justice, as well as it accepts it; After your nation is being hated, and refuses to hate right back,
And yet refrains from strutting its stuff, or trash talking. |
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Earn Money Playing Slots...or not Yay, what a life would that be - sitting behind the fancy slot machine, hitting buttons, sipping Bud Light and constantly cashing out big bucks, or coins. Sure, we know that casinos (even online casinos, yes...) take their "edge" and earn hideous profits, but we don't think about it when we step into a local casino or log in to our favourite online casino. |
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Extreme adventurer and survival-expert: I can do that! There are many types of activities available during the winter. Snowshoes, Ice climbing, Snowmobile, dog sledge, Skiing, Snowboarding and Kite boarding or glacier walks to name some of the main outdoor sports that can be done by individuals or a selected group. |
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What are your daughters watching? Since the invention of the television American children have glued their eyes to images of men and women that they were programmed to aspire to be like. Each image constructed of societal rules, regulations, and norms that depicted a gendered role for both males and females. As societies views on women and the roles that they played expanded so have the female images that were represented by the animated screen. American girls have watched their female cartoon role models evolve from Betty Boop to Olive Oyl, from Olive Oyl to She-Ra and the Power Puff girls.
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Would you? Could You? Have You? There are a lot of ways to "deal with" an unwanted pregnancy. Roe V. Wade protects women's rights to use any and forms of "dealing with" unwanted pregnancies. |
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Who Is Alexander Downer? Recent revelations by the Washington Post of a United States plan to unseat the International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief Mohamed ElBaradei have thrown a new name into the ring with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer emerging as the American’s preferred candidate to challenge the incumbent for the job as director-general of the UN’s nuclear watchdog organization. |
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The Quarterback "Hut!" Greg called out twenty minutes before the first bell at Dixon High School. He stood in Coach Marconi’s office in the gym. A smile decorated his smooth, copper face. A blue sweater and gray corduroy slacks hung loosely on his tall frame. Greg’s right hand gripped a football. He pretended to fire perfect spirals to receivers as fans chanted his name. |
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Sports Fever A beefy catcher made me the offer while our softball team chugged $1 domestic beers at Jackhammer, a bar on Chicago’s far north side. It was mid-September 2003, and we were hanging out in the rear garden. The team went there after our Thursday-night games because the place offered cheap drinks and free pizza. |
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I love to Write Day! I Love To Write Day was celebrated last year on November 15th when 12,007
schools all across the country held special writing activities and events. |
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WRITING FOR FREE SHOULD WE OR SHOULDNT WE? Writing without pay is a touchy subject that has been discussed on numerous mailing lists to which I belong. More than once I have entered into a confrontation over this subject and been told by one author she would question the credibility of a writer who was writing for free. I'd like to address some of the issues that have been brought up on this subject.
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