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Cheerleading Is Definitely a Sport
For the last 10 years, there has been a very scholarly debate on whether or not cheerleading is a sport. Well, being an expert on basically everything; I decided I should clear this whole thing up. |
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Kissing Or Marrying Cousins?
True story: my mother has friends that, by osmosis, are my friends also, who are kissing cousins. No, theyre not stereotypical American hillbillies or poor white trash or Dixie good ol backward wife-beating two-dimensional lower-class sharecroppers". Theyre the most intelligent and sweetest couple you ever want to meet. They went to college. Theyre upper-class. Theyre very demure and reserved, and they dont understand the stigma of marrying one's cousin. Incest is to have sexual relations with your brother or sister, father or mother, aunt or uncle, step-children or foster-children. That would be al-maharim (forbidden for marriage) and haraam (prohibited in Islam).
You see, they are Muslim. They live in Saudi Arabia. When I heard that they were first cousins, I was a bit uneasy. Was that the reason why their sixth and last child was retarded? Was that the reason why they looked so similar? After all, the judgment hadnt come back completely about incest
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The Growth Challenges of a Teenager
If only someone were to ask me how I feel and what I go through in my life! This is what I would say from my heart... If growing up was a person, it would have many faces. Some would be happy and sad and some would be pretty scary to look at. Is there an instruction manual that teens could use while growing up so that life would be a little easier? |
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Penny's Diary:Letting go of your child
As Penny talks to her son about all the why's in the world. She begans to realize that not only does she want to pull her hair out, she see's her son growing up and is afraid to let go of him. Her story and opinion she wrote in her diary to share. |
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Self-Abuse: The New-Age Anorexia
Something called the "New-Age Anorexia," self-abuse and mutilation has become the silent cry of a new generation of American teens. What is this perplexing practice, and what drives some teens to do it? |
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Teenage life: Make a Right, Not a Left!
Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you made different choices? If instead of going to that party 'everyone' was at, you stayed home and watched movies with your family like your mother wanted. If instead of drinking beer at that party... |
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