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I believe there is a unity that can exist in a chaotic universe, and I believe that art and history can reflect this truth. When we study our different perspectives of the world we live in, we can often benefit, and live with a better understanding and love

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Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Being an ugly duckling: 5 of 12

If you are an ugly duckling, consider yourself in good company. You are not the first, and almost certainly not the last. Many famous ugly ducklings have preceded you. I will supply a list of some of the more significant ugly ducklings of the last century: 1.) Bert, from Sesame Street. Bert was not as cute as many of the oth...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Automobile accidents: 16 of 34

I was 9 years old and my mother was driving when I was involved in the worst car accident of my entire life. I walked away from it with a broken jaw. However, my jaw had actually already been broken a few weeks before the accident occurred. We were on our way to the hospital for my weekly checkup when my mother failed to obs...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Friendship: 7 of 14

There is a man who became friends with a hiccup. He gave it tenderness and care. When the hiccup was tired, the man would find the hiccup a pillow, and the man would cover the hiccup with a blanket. One night, the hiccup woke suddenly, shiverring, and breathing frantically. The hiccup had had a bad dream. It dreamt that it h...
Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism Hinduism: Characteristics and attributes of Balrama: 1 of 1

Trying to understand Hindu thought from top to bottom is like standing outside in the middle of a heavy storm and trying to balance raindrops in a spoon. Raindrops are single drops of water, but they lose their form very quickly, are hard to tell apart from each other, and they even evaporate within a few hours to soon becom...
Entertainment > Movies (Other) Movie humor: Why Indiana Jones' personal finances are better than Han Solo's: 1 of 1

Indiana Jones and Han Solo are certainly both renegades. However, in the midst of all of their swashbuckling adventures, they each have been quietly amassing fortunes for themselves. While Indiana Jones has demonstrated tireless concern over the years for the preservation of the relics and marvelous artifacts that he has sup...
Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History John Hinckley, Jr.: The man who tried to kill Ronald Reagan: 1 of 1

Have you ever tried to get a girl's attention? You do everything that you can think of just to get her to notice you, and if it wasn't meant to be, it's as if she hardly knows that you even exist. The only way that you can hope to stand a chance is if you come up with a clever plan. Well, if you happened to be a young actres...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Teachers sleeping with our children - a crisis in education: 3 of 3

Ex-middle school teacher Allena Ward has been sentenced for sexual misconduct with 5 of her students. Why are teachers such as Mrs. Ward violating students rights in this way, and what does it say about our United States school systems? 24 year-old Allena Ward, an ex-middle school teacher from Bell Street Middle School in Cl...