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Hello there. I am an upcoming senior at a small, private liberal arts college in America. I take out about 20,000 in loans every year just to attend my school, despite my good grades and extracurriculars. I've particpated in two amazing internships thus far.

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Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Owning a gun: 2 of 42
I feel as though the debate on Gun legislation, like every other hot topic debate, gets very diluted. The public seems to have boiled down the argument into two very simplistic viewpoints. 1) Ban guns so people can't shoot other people or 2) People have a right to bear arms and need guns to protect themselves and/ or hunt. L... More..
Education > Educational Philosophy Is competition in school helpful or harmful to the students?: 5 of 95
The whole of human consciousness directly coincides with differentiation. To know what we are, we must first know what we are not. To know what "x" is, we must first know what "x" is not. Within the context of differentiating one thing from another, humans inherently make value judgments. "X" is not "y" because "x" has "z" c... More..
Politics, News & Issues > War in Iraq Why the War in Iraq is justified and how Americans should respond: 2 of 22
Most people who disprove of the war only do so because the media tells them they should, and reinforces that approach by waving fatality statistics in their face. The sad part is, most Americans think we went to war because Bush thought there were WMDs. That's a pretty skewed understanding. After Husain's defeat in the Persi... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Christianity (Other) The difference between being religious and being Christian: 18 of 127
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -Mahatma Gandhi It is becoming increasingly painful to be an educated Christian. The liberals want you to denounce the existance of God, and those to the right of the political biosphere require that the Bible is taken literally... verbati... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Theories of Spirituality Mind and body connection: Do we have a soul: 6 of 34
Dualism, similar to the account taken by Descartes, accurately accounts for the existence of the soul. What Descartes refers to as the mind, one can label as the soul, and there is no need to reduce human thought and action to strict materialism. The mind, according to Descartes, was a "thinking thing" (lat. res cogitans) an... More..
Education > College Life Should colleges punish marijuana-smokers more severely than underage drinkers on campus?: 5 of 11
This Question was not about what one thinks the law should be, it was about how schools should punish students relative to their offense. Any and all punishments should function through the current letter of the law. It is not the school administration's job to dictate law, only to enforce it. Drinking under age and smoking ... More..
Relationships & Family > Gay & Lesbian Issues The difference between the terms "gay" and "homosexual": 3 of 5
Language is a fluid, intentional thing. It means exactly and only what the speaker intends it to mean. How it is received is something else entirely. Though the speaker should be aware of how his/ her words effect others, the relative effect a word has on different people does not change, in any way, the initial and intended... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Is raising the minimum wage a good idea?: 24 of 25
Sure, raising the minimum wage means that lower income families will have more, tangible cash in their hands. However, the most important thing to note about cash is that it, unto itself, has no intrinsic value. A dollar bill is a symbol, it merely represents a portion of the nation's wealth. The nation's wealth is measured ... More..
Education > Education (Other) Should teens have sex education in schools?: 138 of 142
As much as we may want our children to abstain from sexual relations until they are truly ready, the biological make-up of mankind defies our will. No matter how much religion we expose them to, no matter how much we scare them with sexually transmitted diseases, and no matter how much we tell them to avoid sexual interactio... More..