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81) A Slave Narrative That Touched Many Hearts and Moved Many Souls Against Slavery:Douglas'
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
Born a slave Frederick Douglass emerged as one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War..
Douglass' best-known work is his first autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which was published in 1845.
Told in 125 pages, the story of Douglas's life is from early childhood until he escaped from bondage and changed his last name from Bailey to Doug...
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82) Frederick Douglas's Struggles to Attain Literacy and Breaking Free from Slavery
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
Frederick Douglass previously known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Hillsborough,in February of 1817, as it is commonly believed. The exact date of his birth is uncertain.
Much speculation surround Douglas's earliest years as much as his parentage. One was that...
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83) Cupid in the Capital: London's Online Dating Options
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
News and Society
'Plus partner': the common words that grace many a social invitation are enough to strike dread into even the most outgoing of people. If you're fed up with the single life then online dating may be just what's needed to inject a little zest into your lovelife and put the spring back into your step.
Instead of placing your lovelife in the hands of fate why not take action and make things happen yourself, by exploring the options online dating has to offer. The lack of time in busy lives mak...
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84) A Race Hanging By a Thread
Author:
Bob Miller
Category:
News and Society
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Israel prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Hezbollah commander Thursday, vowing to fight Israel as supporters showered them with rice.
"We swear by God ... to continue on your same path and not to retreat until we achieve the same stature that God bestowed on you," said Samir Kantar, who had been the longest-held Lebanese prisoner in Israel. End
I have never spoken a kind word about the Israelis in my life, but it...
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85) The Age of the Millennials - A Super-Hero Generation
Author:
Suzanne De Cornelia
Category:
News and Society
Al Gore said that with the ice caps melting and the seas rising we must become a generation of heroes to save the planet. Who ya gonna call?The Millennials! A Super Hero Generation:In discussing his upcoming new book 'Hot, Flat and Crowded' New York Times foreign policy columnist, Thomas Friedman, said we need a new green ideology and a new green president to mobilize liberals and conservatives, evangelicals and atheists, big business and environmentalists to pull us tog...
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86) Women With No Voice - A Testimony
Author:
Poran Poregbal
Category:
News and Society
Have you ever heard a woman hating her womanhood? I have. They must be around us and they might be able to express their feelings here in the western worlds we live in. In Iran, there are many women who hate their womanhood and they do not have a voice. They might have many reasons for their feelings, yet, they are unable to identify the hatred toward their own gender.I will try to be their voice now.Recently I met a lady who has newly immigrated to Canada. The conversation I...
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87) That Undesirable But Still Legendary Public Phone
Author:
Daniell Fedron
Category:
News and Society
Passing by a public-phone booth the other day, I stopped abruptly to contemplate someone depositing a few coins in the device. The person then dialed a series of numbers and proceeded to engage in a conversation. There were so many others walking by with Cell-phones, BlackBerries, Palms, Bluetooth headsets and what not. Yet this particular individual stood up in the crowd captivating my attention. "Wow! Those things still work? I guess I couldn't help myself, and my loud outburst demonstrate...
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88) Scotland's Changing Energy Sources
Author:
Daniel Collins
Category:
News and Society
It's hard to imagine living in a world where we don't have any electricity to power the many inventions we have made for ourselves. If you have ever been through a prolonged power cut you'll know just how troublesome it can be, and how unprepared we are for it.
But the truth is that we are placing a lot of strain on the network, and that is part of the reason why we should look to alternative forms of energy to meet our needs.
Scotland is of particular interest in this area, since it h...
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89) American Racism - Why Won't it Go Away?
Author:
Patty Bates-ballard
Category:
News and Society
America has been working for a long time to put racism behind us. Enter presidential candidate Barack Obama. Clearly, we still have a ways to go. Why do we still struggle with racism? The laws changed years ago, so why does progress lag? Why are most churches still so segregated? Why do famous (and not so famous) people continue to use insensitive language? Why do children of color graduate at lower rates than their European American counterparts?Why haven't we ever actually achieved...
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90) Hollinger's Postethnic Ideal and Culturism
Author:
John Press
Category:
News and Society
David Hollinger's Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism is one of the most famous books on diversity in academia today. Hollinger seeks to gently guide us away from the excesses of multiculturalism, without totally abandoning our modern understanding of cultural pluralism. He has some great insights, he paints a portrait of a culture I'd like to live in. But, unfortunately, Hollinger thinks cultural diversity is much less important than culturists do.
Rather than embracing mu...
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91) Freedom - An India Style
Author:
Arun K
Category:
News and Society
It is high time for us to realize what we understand by the word Freedom. It appears that what we understand is that, doing what we want, when we want, and how we want is freedom. The one point to understand is that, such freedom can only exist in the jungle, as, freedom in a civilization has a different interpretation. No civilized man can be free in this manner, as this style of freedom is apt to destroy the civilization, as we see in the example of India today.Once we claim to be c...
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92) Are We National?
Author:
Arun K
Category:
News and Society
When we talk of being national, we mean to measure our love for our country. Let us peep into ourselves and find out whether we really love our country. Each state that makes up the country, has its own and old culture. This is why the people of each State owe allegiance to their State before they owe anything to the country. Doing this, they seem to forget that, the state that they call theirs, belongs to India and has no significance of its own. Each integral state, they forget is an part...
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93) Unemployment Rates Have Steadily Risen From July 07 to July 08!
Author:
John Fagan Jr.
Category:
News and Society
Unemployment rates are rising at a very fast rate.The US Unemployment Rate shows us the percentage of people that are considered to be unemployed. The Unemployment rate is the most popular way to give a snapshot of United States labor conditions. The Federal Reserve is always under very high pressure to try to keep unemployment under control. High unemployment rates generally put high pressure on the interest rates. There are several reasons that Unemployment affects the economy, firs...
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94) India's Foreign Policy Predicament
Author:
Sam George
Category:
News and Society
Would being cozy with new found friends alienate trusted allies? A tough nut to crack. This is exactly the dilemma which the UPA government at the center faces today. As the PM and the Left remain adamant on their versions of the Indo - U.S. nuke deal this question assumes greater significance. One thing is clearly evident; the U.S. is awed by the double digit (one can say inflated numbers) growth figures, military might and influence of China in South - East Asia and wants to counter it by...
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95) Is Sex All That Matters?
Author:
Viola Morgan
Category:
News and Society
"What more could have been said?" I wondered, left with a feeling of content, after reading Joyce Garity's essay "Is Sex All That Matters?" Able to identify with her on most of her viewpoints of the world in which we live in today, I felt some of the weight being lifted from off my shoulders; relieved that I'm not the only human in this world looking upon magazine and TV ads, with half-naked models posing as sex exploits, as a brainwashing on people's minds.We are influenced by our so...
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96) When is it Time to Wash Your Jeans?
Author:
Daniel Collins
Category:
News and Society
So you've had the same jeans on for, well you can't quite remember, and yet you may still have plans on going to the pub or club with them on. While it's not a question on most people's minds on an average day it's still an important one: just how often should you wash your jeans? The answer lies in your personality traits; have a look below and see where you (or someone you know) fit in.
The 'devil may care' type - This type of person really couldn't care less when he last washed his jeans....
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97) Blogs About Military
Author:
Liza C
Category:
News and Society
The American military doesn't only leads the world, they also rules the Internet in terms of quantity. Hundreds to thousands of blogs devoted to U.S troops, owned and maintained by service personnel themselves are the clear evidences of their dominance in the Internet.These military oriented blogs are often related to the experiences of a U.S troop member as well as of husbands and wives who are patiently waiting for their spouses. Other blogs are kept by parents who are freely expres...
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98) Tacoma WA - Whale Watching on Your Lunch Break
Author:
Brett Tousley
Category:
News and Society
Took a little time out the other day to cruise around 5 mile drive in Pt Defiance and see if I could spot the gray whale that's been hanging around lately. I got the call from my brother that he had spotted one while on the ferry to Vashon Island over a month ago. Apparently the living is good for the whale as he/she was still in the area.I stopped on the bluff overlooking Pt Defiance looking out towards Dalco Point, and sure enough the whale made an appearance. Unfortunately the w...
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99) Are You Ready To Find A Partner Online?
Author:
Victoria Cochrane
Category:
News and Society
There is no doubt that we lead busier lives now than we used to. Our jobs seem to take up more of our time and there isn't quite the community spirit to get us out and about all the time like we used to do before.
Many of us get home from work and find that all we have the energy to do is to hop online and catch up with emails and surf a few websites before we crash into bed for the night, exhausted. It's no wonder then that so many of us are looking to the internet to pep up...
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100) I Am Not My Brother's Keeper
Author:
Joel Turtel
Category:
News and Society
Maybe three percent of the adult population become addicted gamblers. Yet private gambling is illegal in most cities and states, except for government gambling schemes called lotteries. Less than ten percent of the adult population has a drug-addiction problem they can't control. Yet all drugs are illegal for all adults in this country. Only a small number of men are sex addicts who can't stop themselves from going to prostitutes. Yet prostitution, the combination of sex and free enterprise...
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